WordPress 3.6: Distraction-Free Writing improvements

Distraction-Free Writing (DFW) made its debut in WordPress 3.2. It’s good, but it has some problems:

  • It’s hard to discover. A tiny button that doesn’t stand out from other buttons.
  • The transition is a bit jarring. Your content goes away, you land on another screen, and your content reappears. It feels like there is a cost to switching.
  • It isn’t as fully-featured as it should be. If it isn’t capable of easily (and by that I, I mean without keyboard shortcuts) doing the majority of the formatting people need to do while writing, people are going to be disinclined to use it.
  • It could use some polish. Some of the interactions are janky, and it’s not very responsive to large screens. There are strange issues that happen when you get to the end of a line or do a line break near the bottom of the editor. The Esc key doesn’t work when in TinyMCE. Lots of little stuff like that.

What I need is someone with CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. skills and JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. competency to take on a bunch of little improvement projects for DFW. If you have those skills and care about making a beautiful and functional distraction-free writing experience for WordPress, speak up!

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