--- loncom/html/htmlarea/Attic/release-notes.html 2004/02/18 08:07:15 1.1
+++ loncom/html/htmlarea/Attic/release-notes.html 2004/06/01 23:46:10 1.2
@@ -1,15 +1,134 @@
-
+
- HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes
+ HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes
+
- HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes
+ HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes
- This release was compiled on Aug 11, 2003 [21:30] GMT.
+ This release was compiled on Mar 1, 2004 [19:37] GMT.
+ 3.0-rc1
+
+ Changes since 3.0-Beta:
+
+
+ -
+ New plugins
+
+ -
+ ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common
+ operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
+
+ -
+ CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
+
+ -
+ FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file,
+ not only the content within <body>.)
+
+
+
+ -
+ Changes in the SpellChecker plugin
+
+ -
+ Many bugfixes: now it works ;-) Fully Unicode-safe.
+
+ -
+ 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 once.
+
+ -
+ User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
+ remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
+ window will be scrolled to it.
+
+ -
+ Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
+
+ -
+ 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. FIXME: this part
+ is not yet internationalized.
+
+ -
+ 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 ;-)
+
+
+
+ -
+ Changes in the core editor
+
+ -
+ Easier to setup: you only need to load
+ htmlarea.js; other scripts will be loaded
+ automatically. Documentation
+ and examples updated.
+
+ -
+ Better plugin support (they register information about
+ themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
+ the editor, etc.)
+
+ -
+ New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
+
+ -
+ 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)
+
+ -
+ Image preview in "insert image" dialog. Also allows
+ modification of current image, if selected.
+
+ -
+ New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title
+ specification, allows editing links.
+
+ -
+ Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or
+ right-to-left).
+
+ -
+ Lots of bug fixes! ... and more, I guess ;-) an
+ automatically generated change log
+ is now available.
+
+
+
+
+
+ I don't have the power to go through the bug
+system 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.
+
+ 3.0-Beta
Changes since 3.0-Alpha:
@@ -35,46 +154,10 @@
Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.
-
- Rationale for Beta
-
- 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. ;-)
-
- To-Do before 3.0 final
-
-
-
- - 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).
-
- - Internationalization for the SpellChecker plugin.
-
- - Internationalization for the TableOperations plugin.
-
- - 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.
-
- - Documentation.
-
-
-
-
- Mihai Bazon
+ Mihai Bazon
-
-Last modified on Sun Aug 10 19:31:39 2003
-
+ Last modified: Sun Feb 1 13:16:10 EET 2004