GWD Evaporating Text on While Saving Text Edits Work Around.

GWD has had a problem with evaporating text since the original release October 2013 and has been reported by us several times since Nov 2103.  Simply give it a try. Build a container enter a bunch of text click outside the container, save the page, click back in the container and edit some text and insert a new paragrgh and click outside the container just as you would before saving the page and some of the previously existing text will have disappeared. It's a problem on every HTML 5 page and not isolated to any one page then click outside the container and you will see some text disappear it is usually the text usually but it's not always the text immediately above the added text.  If you notice the text disappear before you save you can undo and recover the lost text but with each attempt to save the page some text will disappear. Previous work arounds (http://wp.me/4d8yf)  no longer work with the newest release.

Having said this we discovered that entering a blank line or two above the inserted text or the text that evaporated then click outside the container box will evaporate the blank inserted line and leave the edit in tact. We have found in some cases we had to enter a blank line above each and every line in the text container before clicking outside the container box then we can come back into the container box and delete the inserted blank lines and click outside the container with a savable version. 

Also we notice a second cursor upon clicking inside the container which sits resident at the top left corner of the container. it is separate from the cursor used to edit the text. It seams to have no effect on the problem as clicking on it several times will merge the two cursors into one but again it doesn't remove the evaporating text problem.

On the example attached we had to create 3 separate text container boxes and we still had problems when we attempted to edit the freshly created center text container. http://chefleez.com/Classes.html 

What is GWD's plans to fix this problem and when and if there is a plan to make components functional in HTML 5 pages?

Warning, Don't use Google Wed Designer, GWD HTML 5 software program.

We've used GWD since Nov 2013. The editing then was problematic with work arounds that worked. Recent upgrades have made it near impossible to edit existing HTML 5 pages. Don't use this software it will frustrate you till you go to something else just as we are doing. Piece of #*! s/w! It takes hours to edit  a single text box and is still failing as in with every save attempt a different set text in the container simply evaporates.. it just simply disappears, Select all, copy and paste into new container fails to paste all copied text, OUR ADVICE IS JUST DON"T BOTHER WITH THIS PROGRAM if you want editable HTML 5 web pages. It's quite simply gotten worse with each upgrade!

GWD does not function when both Schema.org code and Sharaholic code are present!

I've had no feedback on this subject from GWD.  Is it GWD's position that Schema.org and Google'w webmaster tools structured data markup are not website important and thus this report of GWD loss of functionality when marked up and including Shareaholic nav bar in GWD code results in a saved GWD HTML website that will not either 1) open and freezes GWD program or 2) sometimes will open the GWD page but freezes the program and will not provide a view of the page? 

 

Adding shareaholic nav bar to your GWD pages without Google webmaster data markup results in a HTML page that will not show the Shareaholic nav bar adding the Google webmaster data markup without a sharaholic nav bar functions just fine. 

 

I would call this a bug! What would you call it?

 

The work around is time consuming and requires maintaining two files for each page one without the mark up and the second page including the data mark up and requires maintaining and updating the unmarked up page and redoing the mark up with with each edit of the unmarked up page and posting the marked up code directly to your site host provider. 

 

What is Google Webmaster tools Data Markup you ask? Well it is a WYSIWYG addressing the simplest of Structured Data Mark up as provided by Schema.org.  Google Webmaster Data Markup makes this relatively easy as a point and markup then create code and copy it and paste it into your host or GWD HTML page. This extra code is supposed to improve search engines in understanding what each of your website pages are about. 

 

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