New toolbar, AJAX saving, and other fixes for the post editor

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Blogger in draft have released a few enhancements to the new post editor, fixed some bugs, created a new one or two, and left a handful of things to fix later.





New Stuff

• AJAX save.
  We’re still not saving posts automatically, but now the “Save Now”
  button will keep the post editor open, and Ctrl-S works as a shortcut for
  saving. (Internet Explorer users: use Ctrl-Shift-S to save.)


• New toolbar. This
  toolbar looks better, loads more quickly, and has undo and redo buttons. By
  popular demand, the full justification button has returned. We’ve also added a
  strike through button and improved the color palettes.
  
  
• Vertical
  resizing. You can now change the height of the post editor by dragging
  the resize handle in the lower right (near the labels field). The size is
  saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.

Fixed Bugs

• <div>s in Edit HTML are now better-preserved in Compose mode. This
  should fix most post summary hacks. If your hack uses
  
  <span> tags, please switch to using
  
  <div>s.


• Lists created in Compose mode can now have new items added to them after
  switching to Edit HTML and back.


• Line breaking is no longer lost when editing a post in the old editor that
  was first written in the new editor.


• Nested block-level elements no longer create odd blank lines.


• Non-breaking spaces now consistently appear as
  
  &nbsp; in Edit HTML mode.

New Bugs

(that we know about)

• The publish and save buttons wrap oddly on Mac browsers.

Major Remaining Bugs (that we know about)

• The Font Size menu has 4 sizes instead of 5, and “normal” looks small.


• Paragraph tags are lost when switching from Edit HTML to Compose.


• The Blockquote button still behaves oddly, especially in Internet
  Explorer.


• The URL an image links to cannot be changed without using Edit HTML mode.


• Images inserted with this editor do not pick up border styles from the
  blog template.


• Inserting a new link with the link dialog loses your place in the post.

Find anything else? See:How to report HTML bugs with the new post editor

Things Left To Add

• Toolbar in Edit HTML mode
• Autosave
• Spellcheck
• Video upload
• FTP image upload
• Bi-directional text input and Indic transliteration
  
• and a handful
  of smaller things too numerous to include here

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