In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer was confused why an XPath looking for a closest ancestor kept returning the document node! Let’s check the code. We are looking […]
Fonto: Why & How: My XPath is acting up?! Read More »
Remote collaboration is evolving—and Fonto is here to help. Comments and Change suggestions eliminate the need to coordinate in-person discussions and provide collaborators with better insights. With the upcoming Fonto 8.0 release, we have made the collaboration experience more seamless by providing in-context Balloons for today’s remote world. What was the problem we needed to
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In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week we are covering Stencils. Stencils are one of the oldest APIs in Fonto. While they are very powerful, they can be very unwieldy. In
Fonto Why & How: My button is disabled?! Attributes in operations Read More »
Together with everything else that is spice and nice in Fonto 8, our latest SDK will include TypeScript support and a lot more code intelligence than before. In terms of stability, velocity and developer quality of life this is our biggest update ever! Even if you don’t want to use TypeScript, the new update instantly
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In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer configured an element as an object, created an edit flow using a popover, but it never seemed to update in the view!
Navigating extensive documentation can be agonizing with a massive amount of sections. Authors don’t have time to read everything they see word by word to find what is applicable for them. Thus, scannability to quickly locate relevant content, to begin editing within seconds, is an essential factor to usability within the Fonto Editor. So what
Making navigation more intuitive within Fonto Read More »
With pride and joy, we’ll be shipping the upcoming release as Fonto 8.0! We’re looking at a release at the end of March 2022, matching the release cadence we always had. Fonto 8.0 will ship with exciting new features for both end-users and partners alike. For end-users, there will be significant improvements to the usability
Fonto 8.0 is coming! Read More »
This is a technical blog post meant for developers This blog post introduces XQuery template tags, describes how we are upgrading our configuration to use them and where they are headed. This post hopes to inspire you to refactor XPaths in your editor to start benefiting from XQuery Template Tags as early as you can.
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Whether it is the strings of Christmas lights, the strings right next to elements containing them, or the strings that can be used in our XPath and XQuery implementation. At Fonto we’re all about it this holiday season. We’re constantly improving the user interface of our products. We’ve improved accessibility for our users by improving
Release 7.17: I got a String for you Read More »
According to the 2020 Future of Documents report by Forrester: the future of work will include documents, but authoring and delivery will change. At Fonto, we’ve noticed that this change has accelerated over the past year. Cloud authoring and collaboration Today’s content platforms are mostly built around the paradigm of files and folders. Our partners
Creation of parliamentary financial papers Read More »
