📅 News and updates: October 4, 2016

[Reinmar]

(The previous post: News and Updates: September 12, 2016)

During the last two weeks we were focused on finalising iteration 3. It brings two new important features:

• Links feature, which landed on master two weeks ago. We spent the last two weeks polishing its UX.

  

• Lists feature, which landed on master a week ago. This is the most complex CKEditor 5 feature so far, and we are very happy with the results. Thanks to the fact that we decided to represent lists in the data model as a flat structure of listItems (instead of HTML-like nested ul > li > ul > ...) we got automatic integration with other features like the Enter or Delete keys and the headings feature. The normalised data model also meant that some tricky topics (like merging subsequent lists when e.g. a paragraph separating them is deleted) were already handled in all possible scenarios. This is a huge step forward comparing to CKEditor 4, because we do not have to code specific behaviour for every scenario.

  The lists feature is already available for use and we plan to close nested lists support in the next iteration. It is mostly ready, but we did not manage to stabilise it in iteration 3.

  

Other than that we worked on various bug fixes and improvements which concluded iteration 3. This means we will release CKEditor 5 v0.3.0 in a couple of days.

The team is currently switching to the next iteration. We will post details about its scope soon.