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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During the autumn of 2020, Great Place to Work extensively surveyed the Fonto team on five key values: credibility, respect, fairness, pride and camaraderie. Based on the outcomes of this survey, Fonto is now officially a ‘Great Place to Work’! Fonto scored above the benchmark on each of the key values. Employees are proud to
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Anyone involved in creating and managing documents understands how quickly things can turn chaotic when multiple contributors and stakeholders are involved. Unfortunately, many businesses still operate the same way they did a decade ago: emailing Word files and PDFs across teams to collect input and approvals. These archaic ways of working no longer cut it, according
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How to scalably support tens of thousands of pages of technical documentation related to complex hardware and software setups? Yordan Ugrinov, Content Operations and Engineering manager, talks about the current state of structured content authoring at VMware. VMware is known for its cloud platform solutions and services. These solutions rely on well-documented instructions, which are
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This release we’ve been tackling some big projects that are going to greatly benefit both our internal workflow as well as our clients’. For starters, we’ve been working on our very own diff engine, which will replace the current engine in Fonto Document History. This new and improved diff engine makes comparing revisions a lot
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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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A poorly performing application is pretty much always something which upsets users. And they should be; why would they need to wait for an application to finish processing? Writing high performances software is hard: it takes time, skill, discipline, and careful craftsmanship. Whether you’re writing a database application or a microservice that implements some algorithm,
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If you think it’s hard to explain something like TikTok to your 94-year-old grandmother, try explaining the subject of ‘structured content’ to your friends. It’s a struggle for all of us at Fonto. So here’s another try to shed some light on the likes of structured content and the way we make it possible for
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You could just use copy and paste, but wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier to drag content from one place to another? That’s exactly what we thought, so we made it happen. On top of that, we’re introducing many new awesome features, such as a notification center, a button for applying change proposals, and
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Normally you are used to a lighthearted introduction from us. This time we would like to express our hope that everyone is and will stay safe. Despite everything, we still wanted to inform you that this latest release is thoroughly tested and approved… by a team working from home. Fonto Editor New quick navigation This
