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Really nice. Great to see someone putting attention into WYSIWYG rather than yet _another_ Markdown editor. And it supports keyboard shortcuts too (cmd-B, cmd-I etc.)!

Only suggestion I'd make is to speed up the transition when the palette moves around, or maybe replace it with a fast fade in/out - the animation gets in the way.

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Would you say that it is the animation itself (the bubble moving from its previous position) or the duration of the animation?

Thanks for your feedback!

I would say that is the animation itself, intead following me around from the previous point, i would like that just appear below me with a shorter duration, also the style seems a little bit dated.

Yeah, looking at it now it seems iOS < 5.

What do you think about no gradients and no transparency? Something flat-ish?

The transparency is fine maybe a 0.8 in the alpha channel would do the job, the color is there but the gradient is too harsh, the border line is just there with not purpose and lastly the bubble take so long to hide after i am finish with it that annoys me. Other than that is a great project, i will give a shot to the source code later. Cheers

I removed the gradient, the border and the transparency. It's looking better now. I'll now make some experiments with shortening the animation time.

The main issue is that the bar moves location. It's really jarring. It would be better if it just sprouted above the text I was editing, instead of flying in to position.

Other than that, great job, impressive work.

Agree, the animation is distracting. I'd rather that the bar fade-in (quickly) in place. Otherwise, this is awesome, and I'm going to use it.

I'll work on the animation then.

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, I think the animation as "move-from-previous-place" is a mistake, in that I don't think it matches our mental model (or my mental model) - I don't think of the toolbar as something that remains tied to the place I was previously editing after I stop editing there.

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