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 »
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 »
Forget everything you know about table selections in Fonto. This release introduces a sparkling new way of making cell selections. And while at it, we’ve also made various improvements to the focus and selection behavior as a whole in Fonto. Although we’ve been dedicating the majority of our time to prepare for the upcoming releases,
Release 7.16: Hip to be square Read More »
Xopus has been on the XML editor market for years. Xopus was the first WYSIWYG XML editor that worked directly from the browser. In 2020 though, SDL (RWS today) decided to stop the development and support of Xopus, and to replace it with Fonto Editor in its Tridion Docs solution. In this article, we describe
Migrating from Xopus to Fonto Editor Read More »
This week, Fonto has been certified for both ISO 9001 and ISO 27001. Thom Lejewaan, IQMS coordinator of Fonto, tells us about the certification. Integrated Quality Management Fonto considers Quality Management (ISO 9001) and Information Security (ISO 27001) as two inseparable aspects of its management system. Security is one of the most important aspects of
Combined ISO 9001 and 27001 certification for Fonto Read More »
When standards reach the ‘draft for review and public comment’ stage they are made available to the public. Back in the days, the mailman was involved in this process. Then the fax machine took over and at the start of this century, the web provided new opportunities, changing the public comment process for good. Web-based
Use case: Fonto Review for Standards Developing Organizations Read More »
It’s finally here! After tirelessly working on our new documentation portal, we’re very excited to announce that its website has launched. The new website contains all the articles from before, except it’s much faster, more structured, easier to search and quicker to navigate. Click here to visit. We’ve also showered our Outline with love this
Release 7.13: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Read More »
This blogpost is part of a series on improving the performance of implementations of the Fonto editor. In our experience, XPath is often one of the biggest bottlenecks for the editor’s performance. This is logical if you look at most modern Fonto APIs: SX configuration, mutation hooks and even custom sidebars use a lot of
Optimize your XPaths for better performance Read More »
