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Rommel
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Posted: May 08 2013 at 5:06pm |
Hi,
I just discovered Open Element and I was very impressed with all the features it offers. Also I would like to thank the author for his generosity for offering it free. I am still in the process in unraveling the features of this wonderful application/software so I will be visiting this forum often. My questions: 1. How old is this product? Is it stable for productivity use? 2. Does it support CSS relative positioning or will this feature be available in the near future? 3. Open Element is a bit slow in my computer, I am using Windows XP, Pentium 4, 3.0 Gigaherts with 1GB or ram. are my resources lacking? I mean what are the system and hardware requirements for Open Element? I'm looking forward to the development of this application as it is very promising indeed. More power to the author!
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Dmit OE
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Hi, and
thank you very much for your post. |
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Rommel
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Dmit, Thank you for quick reply. Testing Open Element, it made me felt like creating webpages/websites is very easy due to its drag and drop WYSIWYG nature. But I'm more excited in your plans on database/data management for OE. I do sometimes insert dynamic content like blog, news article, online photo gallery using PHP scripts which I embedded on ordinary php pages that is why I firmly believe that RELATIVE CSS POSITIONING of elements is very valuable. I am grateful that you have an open mind on this possible feature which I hope will be available in the coming versions of OE. Please consider it. Regarding performance, I am using the latest version (1.34). I am still in the process in testing the program. What I am experiencing is that there are some delay issues in the responsiveness of the program like for example in dragging some elements on the canvas/working. I will let you know about it, I am not sure if it is a hardware issue or small memory/ram resource. More power to the OE team, Cheers, Rommel
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Dmit OE
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For CSS positioning available already, you can try:
1) Element Multi-line Text (you can copy-paste html-formatted text, ex from a browser or MsWord, though some of the tags are "filtered out"). 2) Container "Group of elements" - set the property Positioning to "Relative", and experiment with Style->Personnalization of elements you put inside it (when something does not work as expected, don't hesitate to add "!important" to a css property). It should not be very practical but it may be suitable for some specific tasks. Have a good day D |
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Chris OE
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Thank you very much for your message! We're very excited about the development of the software. The future holds great things for openElement. You'll want to stick around!
I think Dmit answered most of your questions, but here's a brief summary. 1) oE has been in development for a few 2 years, but this is the big English release.
2) As D said, relative positioning is available in "Group of Elements." Go to the Properties tab on the right-hand-side and change Positioning to Relative. Feel free to share your experience with this feature. 3) oE may run slower than normal if the website you're working on has very complex pages. If it's running slow out of the box, try reinstalling the latest version. If it's still slow, it may be the hardware. Thanks again for your great comments. If you like the software, you can help us get the word out by sharing out website on social media, or by leaving a review on one of the big download sites like download.com. And don't forget to keep using the forum for any questions or if you want to share tip with others! We're very grassroots around here! Every little bit helps. |
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Rommel
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Chris,
Hi. Yes i'll be staying here for sure. I have checked the french forum and have seen some of the sites created by the users... very impressive. OE is young yet shows tremendous potential. On the relative positioning issue, it would very useful if every element can be set to relative positioning instead of absolute only. As OE is moving to the direction of Databases integration and management, this feature or capability will be very useful. I have downloaded the latest version (1.35) and it seems to be running fine on my system than the previous one. I'll be posting some suggestions soon regarding this beautiful program. Cheers, Rommel
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