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4: <title>HTMLArea -- the free, customizable online editor</title>
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7: html, body { font-family: georgia,"times new roman",serif; background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
8: .label { text-align: right; padding-right: 0.3em; }
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17: <td class="label">Version:</td><td>3.0</td>
18: </tr>
19: <tr>
1.2 ! www 20: <td class="label">Release:</td><td>rc1 (<a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>)</td>
1.1 www 21: </tr>
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1.2 ! www 23: <td class="label bline">Compiled at:</td><td class="bline">Mar 1, 2004 [19:37] GMT</td>
1.1 www 24: </tr>
25: <tr>
26: <td class="label">SourceForge page:</td><td><a href="http://sf.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">http://sf.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/</a></td>
27: </table>
28: </div>
29: <h1>HTMLArea -- the free<br/>customizable online editor</h1>
30:
31: <p>
32: HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your
33: browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet
34: Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any
35: platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers.
36: </p>
37:
38: <p>
39: HTMLArea is copyright <a
1.2 ! www 40: href="http://interactivetools.com">InteractiveTools.com</a> and <a
! 41: href="http://dynarch.com">Dynarch.com</a> and it is
1.1 www 42: released under a BSD-style license. HTMLArea is created and developed
43: upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 developed by
1.2 ! www 44: <a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a> for
! 45: InteractiveTools. It contains code sponsored by third-party companies as well.
! 46: Please see our About Box for details about who sponsored what plugins.
1.1 www 47: </p>
48:
49: <h2>Online demos</h2>
50:
51: <ul>
52:
1.2 ! www 53: <li><a href="examples/core.html">HTMLArea standard</a> -- contains the core
1.1 www 54: editor.</li>
55:
1.2 ! www 56: <li><a href="examples/table-operations.html">HTMLArea + tables</a> --
! 57: loads the <tt>TableOperations</tt> plugin which provides some extra
! 58: editing features for tables.</li>
! 59:
! 60: <li><a href="examples/spell-checker.html">HTMLArea + spell checher</a>
! 61: -- loads the <tt>SpellChecker</tt> plugin which provides what its
! 62: name says: a spell checker. This one requires additional support on
! 63: the server-side.</li>
! 64:
! 65: <li><a href="examples/full-page.html">HTMLArea Full HTML Editor</a> --
! 66: loads the <tt>FullPage</tt> plugin which allows you to edit a full
! 67: HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...> and some
! 68: other options.</li>
1.1 www 69:
1.2 ! www 70: <li><a href="examples/context-menu.html">HTMLArea with Context
! 71: Menu</a> -- this plugin provides a nice and useful context menu.</li>
! 72:
! 73: <li><a href="examples/fully-loaded.html">HTMLArea fully loaded</a> --
! 74: all of the above. ;-)</li>
1.1 www 75:
76: </ul>
77:
78: <h2>Installation</h2>
79:
80: <p>
81: Installation is (or should be) easy. You need to unpack the ZIP file
82: in a directory accessible through your webserver. Supposing you
83: unpack in your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> and your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> is
84: <tt>/var/www/html</tt> as in a standard RedHat installation, you need
85: to acomplish the following steps: (the example is for a Unix-like
86: operating system)
87: </p>
88:
89: <pre style="margin-left: 2em"
90: >
91: cd /var/www/html
1.2 ! www 92: unzip /path/to/archive/HTMLArea-3.0-rc1.zip
! 93: mv HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 htmlarea
1.1 www 94: find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
95: find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
96: find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;</pre>
97:
98: <p>
1.2 ! www 99: <strong>Notes.</strong> You may chose to symlink "htmlarea" to "HTMLArea-3.0-rc1", in which case your server needs to be configured to
1.1 www 100: "<tt>FollowSymLinks</tt>". You need to make sure that *.cgi files are
101: interpreted as CGI scripts. If you want to use the SpellChecker
102: plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed (I
103: recommend 5.8.0) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available
104: from CPAN. More info in "<a
105: href="plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html">plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html</a>".
106: </p>
107:
108: <p>About how to setup your pages to use the editor, please read the
109: [outdated yet generally valid] <a
110: href="reference.html">documentation</a>.</p>
111:
112: <h2>Status and links</h2>
113:
114: <p>HTMLArea has reached version 3.0. As of this version, it
115: supports:</p>
116:
117: <ul>
118:
119: <li>Customizable toolbar</li>
120:
121: <li>Easy internationalization</li>
122:
123: <li>Plugin-based infrastructure</li>
124:
125: <li>Delivers W3-compliant HTML (with few exceptions)</li>
126:
127: <li>Has a subset of Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts</li>
128:
129: <li>Full-screen editor</li>
130:
131: <li>Advanced table operations (by external plugin
132: "TableOperations")</li>
133:
134: <li>Spell checker (by external plugin "SpellChecker")</li>
135:
136: <li>probably more... ;-)</li>
137:
138: </ul>
139:
140: <p>We have a <a
141: href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">project page</a>
142: at <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge.net</a>. There you can
143: also find out <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69750">how
144: to retrieve the code from CVS</a>, or you can <a
145: href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/itools-htmlarea">browse
146: the CVS online</a>. We also have a <a
147: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
148: system</a>, a <a
149: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525658&group_id=69750&func=browse">patch
150: tracking system</a> and a <a
151: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525659&group_id=69750&func=browse">feature
152: request page</a>.</p>
153:
154: <p>We invite you to say everything you want about HTMLArea <a
155: href="http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=14;">on the
156: forums</a> at InteractiveTools.com. There you should also find the
157: latest news.</p>
158:
159: <p>Sometimes I post news about the latest developments on <a
1.2 ! www 160: href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">my personal homepage</a>.</p>
1.1 www 161:
162: <h2>"It doesn't work, what's wrong?"</h2>
163:
164: <p>If it doesn't work, you have several options:</p>
165:
166: <ul>
167:
168: <li>Post a message to the forum. Describe your problem in as much
169: detail as possible. Include errors you might find in the JavaScript
170: console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though
171: they're most of the times useless).</li>
172:
173: <li>If you're positive that you discovered a bug in HTMLArea then feel
174: free to fill a bug report in our bug system. If you have the time you
175: should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be
176: fixed already in the CVS ;-) If you're positive that a similar bug was
177: not yet reported, do fill a bug report and please include as much
178: detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript
179: console, etc.</li>
180:
181: <li>If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it on the
182: features request and someone will hopefully take care of it.</li>
183:
184: </ul>
185:
186: <p>You can <a href="mailto:mishoo@infoiasi.ro">contact me directly</a>
187: <em>only</em> if you want to pay me for implementing custom features to
188: HTMLArea. If you want to sponsor these features (that is, allow them to
189: get back into the public HTMLArea distribution) I'll be cheaper. ;-)</p>
190:
191: <hr />
1.2 ! www 192: <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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