I LOVE Live Preview. Thanks Matt !!

July 27, 2005 12:02 PM

I LOVE Live Preview. Thanks Matt !!

It's always been so hard to imagine what your post is going to look like when you use bold, italics or worst of all with links. I think this will really improve posting readability factor.

On preview, didn't realize it wasn't in MetaTalk too. But I'm being greedy. It's wonderful to have in MeFi and AskME.

(Sorry if this is a repeat. My MetaTalk search timed out.)
posted by marsha56 to Feature Requests at 12:02 PM (16 comments total)

On preview, didn't realize it wasn't in MetaTalk too.

What do you mean? I'm using it right now.
posted by Pollomacho at 12:10 PM on July 27, 2005

You're soaking in it.
posted by TimeFactor at 12:21 PM on July 27, 2005

It's only for comments, not for posts.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:39 PM on July 27, 2005

It's pretty cool, but Mefi's version of HTML is pretty hobbled, so viewing the source isn't especially pivotal - why don't you do like GMail and others do, and have rich text input with Midas/MSHTML?
posted by abcde at 1:08 PM on July 27, 2005

abcde writes "why don't you do like GMail and others do, and have rich text input with Midas/MSHTML?"

Give them a finger and they will quickly ask for the attached hand...
posted by nkyad at 1:20 PM on July 27, 2005

Barring the possibility that the hand has been cut off to prove a point, of course.
posted by cortex at 1:56 PM on July 27, 2005

Yeah it is great, although some credit should go to the guy who wrote it...dunno who exactly.
posted by fire&wings at 2:15 PM on July 27, 2005

If only there was somewhere we could look that up...
posted by soyjoy at 2:36 PM on July 27, 2005

It'd be nice if the Preview button was disabled by default and enabled when you started writing your comment, the same way as the Post Comment button works.
posted by kirkaracha at 3:35 PM on July 27, 2005

What do you mean? I'm using it right now.

You're soaking in it.

It's only for comments, not for posts.

Duh !!!!!! Sorry for not paying more attention. Of course you're all right.
posted by marsha56 at 4:58 PM on July 27, 2005

Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom! From the mandatory 'preview' that is. I can now just skip the live preview and go straight to clicking the enticing "post" button. I cannot resist it. Now all the stupid crap that I used to type, maybe preview, and never see again is getting posted as comments.
posted by sfenders at 7:50 PM on July 27, 2005

You're alright too, marsha56.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:15 PM on July 27, 2005

I'd like to echo the praise. It's a totally badass feature - way ahead of most sites, and with the addition of the good old "preview" button I find it absolutely perfect. I hope it saves some bandwidth on all those previews, Matt!
posted by scarabic at 10:15 PM on July 27, 2005

i like it ... and it means that i only have to load the page once to post ... which gives that bastard jrun only half the opportunities to eat my words
posted by pyramid termite at 10:31 PM on July 27, 2005

I think it's sexy. What's it doing on Friday? swoons
posted by dabitch at 12:59 AM on July 28, 2005

Yeah, I'm loving it. Good stuff indeed. Makes me want to type in italics and bold just to see it show up in the preview box as I type it.
posted by dazed_one at 7:21 AM on July 28, 2005