I think the hardest thing about this would be the HTML/Theme Editing.
I think Tumblr should open-source the theme rendering component and allow it to run independently (for making themes offline), although that's on a different page :)
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Features:
- HTML / Theme editing
- 'Mega Editor' with a contextual action bar
- Push notifications
- Ability to reblog from one of your own blogs to another from the stream
- Add tutorials / tips for the various (awesome) long-press features
Little things:
The quick reblog icon has a strange white border, but only on the right side; maybe consider making the dividers between list items less stressed / blend in more; the ask / mail option in the overflow on a profile has an icon, nothing else does; in notifications if someone has followed one of your blogs and you click your blog's profile picture, you are taken to the new follower's profile, not the blog's.
Questions:
What was the thinking behind the different transitions between screens?
That could be good, but I doubt Tumblr would want to open it up.
What'd be needed? APIs to allow for reading the theme, writing the theme, reading theme attributes and writing them, pages, title, description, custom CSS block, and the 'Advanced' toggles?
Nope, just the ability to render the templates. That logic could be opened.
Then you could have a micro-tumblr setup which allows you to preview themes on your machine using fake (or real using an API, which would just dump the data required to render a page) data. Instead of having to be connected and limited to the front page preview, it would good :)
Oh, that simple! So you'd just need to be able to create fake data for {Title}, {TimeAgo}, {Body}, etc so the templates would actually look realistic?
Yeah, with the possibility to download it from a real blog as well.
It would mean you could work on a new design covering all of the pages like /post/123/hello-world without pushing it live all of the time
Now, that would be nice!
Graham Macphee added Bryan Irace.
Yup. It would awesome too if you could package up everything in a folder (css, js, images etc) and then do something magic like:
tumblrthemeutil upload
And it uploads everything to the Tumblr theme garden with the static files being pushed up too!
There's a lot of good info in here, I wonder if this Branch would get more visibility if it had a name like "How can we automate and facilitate offline Tumblr theme deployment?" Also, you should invite John Bunting, our API lead.
Bryan, I don't think I can change the name but I did add the API lead person :)
Why don't you make a new Branch for this, Joe? I think quite a few people might like to see it!
