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2: <html>
3: <head>
4: <title>HTMLArea -- the free, customizable online editor</title>
5:
6: <style type="text/css">
7: html, body { font-family: georgia,"times new roman",serif; background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
8: .label { text-align: right; padding-right: 0.3em; }
9: .bline { border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; }
10: </style>
11: </head>
12:
13: <body>
14: <div style="float: right; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
15: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
16: <tr>
17: <td class="label">Version:</td><td>3.0</td>
18: </tr>
19: <tr>
20: <td class="label">Release:</td><td>beta (<a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>)</td>
21: </tr>
22: <tr>
23: <td class="label bline">Compiled at:</td><td class="bline">Aug 11, 2003 [21:30] GMT</td>
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
40: href="http://interactivetools.com">InteractiveTools.com</a> and
41: released under a BSD-style license. HTMLArea is created and developed
42: upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 developed by
43: <a href="http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a> for
44: InteractiveTools. It contains code sponsored by other companies as
45: well.
46: </p>
47:
48: <h2>Online demos</h2>
49:
50: <ul>
51:
52: <li><a href="example.html">HTMLArea standard</a> -- contains the core
53: editor.</li>
54:
55: <li><a href="example-table-operations.html">HTMLArea + tables</a> --
56: loads the <tt>TableOperations</tt> plugin, sponsored by <a
57: href="http://bloki.com">Zapatec Inc.</a></li>
58:
59: <li><a href="example-spell-checker.html">HTMLArea + spell checher</a>
60: -- loads the <tt>SpellChecker</tt> plugin, sponsored by <a
61: href="http://americanbible.org">American Bible Society</a>.</li>
62:
63: <li><a href="example-fully-loaded.html">HTMLArea fully loaded</a> ;-)</li>
64:
65: </ul>
66:
67: <h2>Installation</h2>
68:
69: <p>
70: Installation is (or should be) easy. You need to unpack the ZIP file
71: in a directory accessible through your webserver. Supposing you
72: unpack in your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> and your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> is
73: <tt>/var/www/html</tt> as in a standard RedHat installation, you need
74: to acomplish the following steps: (the example is for a Unix-like
75: operating system)
76: </p>
77:
78: <pre style="margin-left: 2em"
79: >
80: cd /var/www/html
81: unzip /path/to/archive/HTMLArea-3.0-beta.zip
82: mv HTMLArea-3.0-beta htmlarea
83: find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
84: find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
85: find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;</pre>
86:
87: <p>
88: <strong>Notes.</strong> You may chose to symlink "htmlarea" to "HTMLArea-3.0-beta", in which case your server needs to be configured to
89: "<tt>FollowSymLinks</tt>". You need to make sure that *.cgi files are
90: interpreted as CGI scripts. If you want to use the SpellChecker
91: plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed (I
92: recommend 5.8.0) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available
93: from CPAN. More info in "<a
94: href="plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html">plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html</a>".
95: </p>
96:
97: <p>About how to setup your pages to use the editor, please read the
98: [outdated yet generally valid] <a
99: href="reference.html">documentation</a>.</p>
100:
101: <h2>Status and links</h2>
102:
103: <p>HTMLArea has reached version 3.0. As of this version, it
104: supports:</p>
105:
106: <ul>
107:
108: <li>Customizable toolbar</li>
109:
110: <li>Easy internationalization</li>
111:
112: <li>Plugin-based infrastructure</li>
113:
114: <li>Delivers W3-compliant HTML (with few exceptions)</li>
115:
116: <li>Has a subset of Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts</li>
117:
118: <li>Full-screen editor</li>
119:
120: <li>Advanced table operations (by external plugin
121: "TableOperations")</li>
122:
123: <li>Spell checker (by external plugin "SpellChecker")</li>
124:
125: <li>probably more... ;-)</li>
126:
127: </ul>
128:
129: <p>We have a <a
130: href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">project page</a>
131: at <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge.net</a>. There you can
132: also find out <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69750">how
133: to retrieve the code from CVS</a>, or you can <a
134: href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/itools-htmlarea">browse
135: the CVS online</a>. We also have a <a
136: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
137: system</a>, a <a
138: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525658&group_id=69750&func=browse">patch
139: tracking system</a> and a <a
140: href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525659&group_id=69750&func=browse">feature
141: request page</a>.</p>
142:
143: <p>We invite you to say everything you want about HTMLArea <a
144: href="http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=14;">on the
145: forums</a> at InteractiveTools.com. There you should also find the
146: latest news.</p>
147:
148: <p>Sometimes I post news about the latest developments on <a
149: href="http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo/">my personal homepage</a>.</p>
150:
151: <h2>"It doesn't work, what's wrong?"</h2>
152:
153: <p>If it doesn't work, you have several options:</p>
154:
155: <ul>
156:
157: <li>Post a message to the forum. Describe your problem in as much
158: detail as possible. Include errors you might find in the JavaScript
159: console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though
160: they're most of the times useless).</li>
161:
162: <li>If you're positive that you discovered a bug in HTMLArea then feel
163: free to fill a bug report in our bug system. If you have the time you
164: should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be
165: fixed already in the CVS ;-) If you're positive that a similar bug was
166: not yet reported, do fill a bug report and please include as much
167: detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript
168: console, etc.</li>
169:
170: <li>If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it on the
171: features request and someone will hopefully take care of it.</li>
172:
173: </ul>
174:
175: <p>You can <a href="mailto:mishoo@infoiasi.ro">contact me directly</a>
176: <em>only</em> if you want to pay me for implementing custom features to
177: HTMLArea. If you want to sponsor these features (that is, allow them to
178: get back into the public HTMLArea distribution) I'll be cheaper. ;-)</p>
179:
180: <hr />
181: <address><a href="http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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