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First of all, this is awesome. Great idea, can't believe it hasn't been around till now, and will definitely be using it.

The only thing I could change here is the "x" icon when expanded. Someone mentioned here that they would be unnerved hitting an "x" button with a lot of text - this is definitely valid, I felt the same thing when trying it out. A simple change to an "exit full screen" icon (like this http://findicons.com/files/icons/1667/iconic/32/fullscreen_e...), would solve the problem nicely : )



+1

"X"s are frightening. You might just give it some tooltip text.


Nice! Thanks for the nice suggestion.


I will second it. I would also move it on the bottom right, as I didn't look at it except with my peripheral vision and thought it was an X/close button. When instructions said to click it, I went from "why would I click the close button" to "oh, it's actually a fullscreen button" before I clicked it. I never would have discovered it.


Also, the "expand" button overlaps with the h-scroll bar when it's displayed.

http://i.imgur.com/4mwx7ty.png

Awesome project nevertheless.


This is a very nice implementation.

I did something similar myself django-writingfield[1], but it is Django specific.

I much prefer your UI and the switching of dark text/light background is really slick.

[1]: http://django-writingfield.obscuremetaphor.co.uk/


If I remember rightly, Github has something just like this for its pull request description textarea. :)

It is a very nice UI control.


Good point, I'd suggest using a green checkmark instead (which basically means "OK" instead of the X's "Cancel").




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