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     <title>HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes</title>      <title>HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes</title>
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     <h1>HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes</h1>      <h1>HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes</h1>
   
     <p>This release was compiled on Aug 11, 2003 [21:30] GMT.</p>      <p>This release was compiled on Mar  1, 2004 [19:37] GMT.</p>
   
       <h2>3.0-rc1</h2>
   
       <p>Changes since 3.0-Beta:</p>
   
       <ul>
         <li>
           <b>New plugins</b>
           <ul>
             <li>
               ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common
               operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
             </li>
             <li>
               CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
             </li>
             <li>
               FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file,
               not only the content within &lt;body&gt;.)
             </li>
           </ul>
         </li>
         <li>
           <b>Changes in the SpellChecker plugin</b>
           <ul>
             <li>
               Many bugfixes: now it works ;-)  Fully Unicode-safe.
             </li>
             <li>
               Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of
               suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps
               in cases where you have, for instance, the word “HTMLArea”
               in 10 places all over the document; the list of
               suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be
               included <em>once</em>.
             </li>
             <li>
               User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
               remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
               window will be scrolled to it.
             </li>
             <li>
               Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
             </li>
             <li>
               Added a "Info" button which reports information about the
               document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker:
               total number of words, total number of mispelled words,
               number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc.  More
               can be easily added.  <span class="fixme">FIXME: this part
               is not yet internationalized.</span>
             </li>
             <li>
               The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of
               HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse
               “tag-soup” HTML.  It needs valid code.  Usually HTMLArea
               generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail
               and the spell checker will report a gross error message.
               This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the
               spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make
               HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in
               other places ;-)
             </li>
           </ul>
         </li>
         <li>
           <b>Changes in the core editor</b>
           <ul>
             <li>
               Easier to setup: you only need to load
               <tt>htmlarea.js</tt>; other scripts will be loaded
               automatically.  <a href="reference.html">Documentation</a>
               and <a href="examples/">examples</a> updated.
             </li>
             <li>
               Better plugin support (they register information about
               themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
               the editor, etc.)
             </li>
             <li>
               New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
             </li>
             <li>
               Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap
               on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by
               pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up
               soon)
             </li>
             <li>
               Image preview in "insert image" dialog.  Also allows
               modification of current image, if selected.
             </li>
             <li>
               New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title
               specification, allows editing links.
             </li>
             <li>
               Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or
               right-to-left).
             </li>
             <li>
               Lots of bug fixes!  ... and more, I guess ;-) an
               automatically generated <a href="ChangeLog">change log</a>
               is now available.
             </li>
           </ul>
         </li>
       </ul>
   
       <p>I don't have the power to go through the <a
   href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
   system</a> at SourceForge
       now.  Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update
       their status, some other time.  If you reported bugs there and now
       find them to be fixed, please let me know.</p>
   
       <h2>3.0-Beta</h2>
   
     <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p>      <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p>
   
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       <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li>        <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li>
   
     </ul>      </ul>
   
     <h2>Rationale for Beta</h2>  
   
     <p>Why was this released as "Beta"?  The code is quite stable and it  
     didn't deserve a "Beta" qualification.  However, there are some things  
     left to do for the real 3.0 version.  These things will not affect the  
     API to work with HTMLArea, in other words, you can install the Beta  
     right now and then install the final release without modifying your  
     code.  That's if you don't modify HTMLArea itself.  ;-)</p>  
   
     <h2>To-Do before 3.0 final</h2>  
   
     <ol>  
   
       <li>We should use a single popup interface.  Currently there are two:  
       dialog.js and popupwin.js; dialog.js emulates modal dialogs, which  
       sucks when you want to open "select-color" from another popup and not  
       from the editor itself.  Very buggy in IE.  We should probably use only  
       modeless dialogs (that is, popupwin.js).</li>  
   
       <li>Internationalization for the SpellChecker plugin.</li>  
   
       <li>Internationalization for the TableOperations plugin.</li>  
   
       <li>People who sent translations are invited to re-iterate through  
         their work and make it up-to-date with lang/en.js which is the main  
         lang file for HTMLArea-3.0.  Some things have changed but not all  
         translations are updated.</li>  
   
       <li><strong>Documentation</strong>.</li>  
   
     </ol>  
   
   
     <hr />      <hr />
     <address><a href="http://students.infoiasi.ro/~mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>      <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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