I'm very glad you've decided to continue to develop this module from the 5.x version. It seems to me to have huge implications for increased usability when entering content for the end user. I really like the concept of a user being able to edit content inline, just by double clicking it or hitting an edit button, without any page refreshes. It seems to be the most logical thing for a non tech-savvy user, the ability to edit content directly on the page.

Having a popup is also useful, but ideally I'd love to see everything happen inline. What are your thoughts?

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I'm not going to reintroduce in-place handling directly into activeedit, because I want to reduce the complexity of the module, primarily so that other developers could easily work with it. I agree that in place has its merits. It could be reintroduced by an in_place.module equivalent to popups. Such a module could possibly draw on some of the code I wrote for activeedit 5.x.

Another approach would be to write a module fully based on the jEditable jQuery plugin. Such an approach would look nothing like activeedit, but would have definite merits.

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philbar commented

+1

In-place editing makes things simpler...not more complex.

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youkho commented

+1 it would improve the user experience on a website

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chrismoylan commented

One issue I foresee with inline editing is that if you have lots of buttons enabled on your WYSIWYG editor and you try to edit a small block, the editor might take up the whole space. I agree that it's a great idea and improves usability tremendously, but I anticipate bloated WYSIWYG editors posing problems.

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discursives commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Closed because "won't fix" was referenced. Checkout Modal Frame API for popups.