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