📅 News and updates: October 18, 2016

[Reinmar]

(The previous post: News and Updates: October 4, 2016)

First of all, we released Iteration 3 – Third Developer Preview which features the list and link features.

After that, we began working on iteration 4.

So far, we have made good progress with a couple of things:

• The first piece of the autoformat feature landed on master. You can now create headings and lists by simply typing Markdown-like formatting:

  

• We began working on the fake selection feature in the engine. It will allow for implementing widgets.

• A lot of selection-related tickets were closed:

  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/401
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/259
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/399
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/590
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/589
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/603
  • https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5-engine/issues/462

• The editor now correctly handles whitespaces:

  • Insignificant ones (e.g. around blocks) are removed when loading data.
  • The model contains normalised spaces. In the DOM, subsequent spaces must be rendered as '     ', but in the document model we keep normal spaces. The renderer takes care of the conversion, so the developer does not have to worry about them when changing the model.

• We introduced the FocusTracker utility for managing focus state across the application.

• The compiler now exports a simple entry point.

• View models were merged into the view classes as a step towards simplifying the UI library.

• We checked the RTL text support in the editor and everything worked fine.