Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
Rob, no particular order but others can vote for any as they like.

Acorn#:

  1. Replace NavBar graphics with graphic button with font for button text. Keep text as text.
  2. Replace NavBar graphic with CSS shape.
  3. Replace NavBar with CSS3 solution instead.
  4. Add/allow a class of 'layername' to all elements that changes according to the Layer the object is on; possibly selected through Utilities > Names.
  5. Publish Variants to subfolders based on the name of the Variant. In other words, separate the lumping of all Variants into one page HTML file.
  6. Reflect the Page & Layer gallery object name in the Names gallery.
  7. In a Supersite, allow different stretch images as background, based on the page in focus.
  8. Ditto, reflect the correct address for the page in focus.
  9. Retain image filenames as filename="..." in the Names gallery; augment with any transformations or scaling but keep the hard-thought out name.
  10. Allow EXIF information to appear in a drop down for Pop-up Title and Alt and Web Animation Title.
  11. Sort out the fault when adding a Name to text.
  12. Include 'htmlblocktext' as a value in Names.
  13. Render text with a Line width properly. Easy with CSS; do not change the text to an image.
  14. c.f., shadows. Note, while a Line width does not render, its shadow equivalent does.
  15. Lazy-loading for IE9- images. Lazy-loading in general.
  16. A table solution that is screen reader aligned and based on HTML tables.
  17. Usable table export to MS Word.
  18. Correct Preview rendering of pages with a '%' (RFC 3986).
  19. Proper ease-in and ease-out of web animations.
  20. Update failed Widgets: QR Code, WebRSS; general widget review. Publish Widget API.
  21. Reinstatement of Xara Slideshow Widget into v12.
  22. eBook publishing.
  23. Add text along Smart Lines.
  24. Generation of concordance list to allow built-in searching.
  25. General improvements to slideshows to allow editable text; again not images.
  26. Promised CSV data import for tables.
  27. Locking Pages from being published.
  28. Printable output from a website page.
  29. Correct text alignments for justified text vs. SPANs. The WYSIWYG dilemma.
  30. Ditto HTML issues when embedding into Text Inside shapes.


Acorn
Thank you for your list, there were certainly a number of points there that I hadn't considered before:

1) This kinda was planned for 16.1 but we ran into into problems which will be fixed possibly after 16.1 release.
2) Can certainly suggest this as part of the NavBar redesign.
3) As above
4) Can you give me an example of how this would be used?
5) We have a couple of solutions to improve the handling of mobile variants, although I don't think splitting them into separate files with redirects is planned. We're also looking into possibly being fully RWD with smart layouts in the future that may do away with the whole variant concept, although this is early in its development
6) Could suggest this
7) as above
8) as above
9) I believe it's planned as part of the SEO work to keep filenames on export, will certainly push for it anyway.
10) Could suggest
11) Which fault is this?
12) Could suggest, although we generally discourage use of this name generally due to the fact we can't then guarantee the accurate positioning of text. I will try however to push for a cleanup of code so there aren't so many span tags, especially with fully justified.
13) Can suggest. I saw a lot of examples use webkit extensions so I guess the concern is cross-browser compatibility.
14) Can suggest.
15) As above
16) Tables are still heavily in the development works. There's a number of improvements that are going to come shortly but still loads more to do. Exporting tables to HTML is a wish-list item but not sure on it's possibility.
17) similar to above
18) Can you give me an example of what you mean? I've seen some users have '&' and '.' in page names which causes problems but not sure how you would resolve that other than through either a warning or letting them know what will happen.
19) Is on the consideration list
20) Widgets do need generally improving, it's just one of those things that we need sometime to spend time on and it's hard to find anyone with time.
21) They won't reinstate the slideshow widget in V12 I can tell you now. I can suggest it but pretty sure that would get shot down (as generally anything that involves earlier versions)
22) Can you elaborate on what you mean by ebook publishing? Like supporting .epub format?
23) Some early designs are coming in 16.1 with more on the way.
24) Do you mean something similar to the table of contents but for every word used?
25) Slideshow improvements is certainly on the list, still debating how to go about it.
26) Should be coming soon
27) Can suggest it.
28) This is something that was suggested before but generally we decided against it as printing from Web is hard to properly do, and is not a problem unique to Xara websites.
29) See 12
30) As above

Thanks
Rob