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 partner is confused because the callback for their MutationHook is called a lot! This one came in from the support board. Summarized, a […]
Fonto Why & How: My hooks are too spammy?! Read More »
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 their operation became disabled after they added a step to it! A developer is creating the following: whenever a
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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 behaves like that in the first place. This week, a support question came in asking us how to react to changes in the XML. The question came in through our support board, and
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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 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 »
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 »
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!
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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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
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Fonto has a very useful API that can run an XPath query and notify the users when the results of that query may change. It does this without computing the query eagerly, meaning that the results may actually be the same, but just retrieved in a different way. This can be extremely useful when one
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