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| <h1><% $basename %> release notes</h1> |
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| <p>This release was compiled on <% $time %>.</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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| <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 <body>.) |
| </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> |
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| <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p> |
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| <ul> |
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| <li>Performance improvements.</li> |
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| <li>Many bugs fixed.</li> |
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| <li>Plugin infrastructure.</li> |
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| <li>TableOperations plugin.</li> |
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| <li>SpellChecker plugin.</li> |
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| <li>Status bar.</li> |
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| <li>API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the |
| toolbar.</li> |
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| <li>Toolbar can contain text labels.</li> |
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| <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li> |
| |
| </ul> |
| <%doc> |
| <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> |
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| <ol> |
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| <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> |
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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 |
| 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> |
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| <li><strong>Documentation</strong>.</li> |
| |
| </ol> |
| </%doc> |
| <hr /> |
| <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address> |
| <!-- Created: Sun Aug 3 16:55:08 EEST 2003 --> |
| <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Sun Feb 1 13:16:10 EET 2004 <!-- hhmts end --> |
| <!-- doc-lang: English --> |
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| <%ARGS> |
| $project => 'HTMLArea' |
| $version => '3.0' |
| $release => 'rc1' |
| $basename => 'HTMLArea-3.0-rc1' |
| </%ARGS> |
| |
| <%INIT>; |
| use POSIX qw(strftime); |
| my $time = strftime '%b %e, %Y [%H:%M] GMT', gmtime; |
| </%INIT> |
