Yes, we released our new TinyMCE website design, fitting the forum and all examples into the design and menu system. Design is made by Arcsin.se, very nice work, a pleasure to work with.

But, he doesn’t design logos, so we launched a contest with 99Designs.com where the winner will get 1000 USD for the design, we already have a few very interesting designs there, and if you are a designer, go check it out! We where thinking of picking out the best suggestions and make a post in our forum to get some feedback from our community, we will see.

There is also a chance that the winner will be making the design for our businesscards and possibly T-shirts.

We also released a new version of the MCFileManager and MCImageManager, fixing some minor bugs, and a TinyMCE release should follow shortly.

Sure is a lot going on now!

There is a lot of buzz going on now about the new Google Chrome browser, and a lot of different testing of its performance against other browsers.

We take performance very seriously, thousands of ppl use TinyMCE every day, it is important that it works smooth on the browsers, not just loading performance, but also the performance of all the stuff that’s going on under the hood when you work with the editor.

So, the tests we have seen online so far have been very wide spread, showing insane performance improvements, but what are they testing? Is there any real-world implications of these performance tests?

TinyMCE uses DOM operations a lot, we have our own test bed, and these are the tests we are running.

• Serializer – This tests the cleanup functionality, a lot of DOM operations.
• Style parser/serializer – Tests a lot of string and array handling.
• URI – Tests a lot of regexp performance, converting URLs back and forth.

And these are the results.

The performance is measured in milliseconds, lower is of course better.

Summary

We could not install MSIE 8 beta on the same machine as MSIE 7, so no tests for that right now. The testing machine is a Windows Vista 64-bit, 4GB ram, 2.66gz Dual Core. Tests where performed with nothing other than the testing browser running.

Safari comes out on top of performance, with Firefox close behind, however we did not see any improvements when enabling the new JIT compiler in Firefox 3.1 Nightly build.

Results vary a bit up and down, but you can perform these tests yourself at this location.

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/js/tinymce/performance.html

These tests try a lot of different things at the same time, using the TinyMCE API, the performance improvements that the browser developers have been bragging about does not seem to be there, at least not in the areas interesting for most developers (DOM operations).

What the hell… this WordPress installation got completely nuked with spam the last few weeks, even tho comments require moderation, it’s still hundreds of posts to go through.

I have removed the option to post comments here, and I had to actually remove the physical file from the harddrive cause even if you disable comments in the wordpress system, anyone can still post?!

And no the Akismet thingy did not work properly, it actually totally deleted every comment we had EXCEPT for the spam.

In my opinion, Internet is broken, when most of the data zipping around the wires all over the world is spam, the battle is lost. We got spam in our email (we get around 100-200 spam, per email account, per day), we have spam on our TinyMCE forum, on this developer blog, in the guestbook, on Sourceforge, on the Wiki, you name the service, its there. Our mail is ok though, about 1 each month comes through the spam filter there.

Must be some really sad ppl making all this crap up.

All of a sudden, a fee (and license) for actually sending 1 email doesn’t sound so bad, something has to be done.

Edit: We re-enabled comments, with some modifications.