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| <td class="label">Version:</td><td>3.0</td> |
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| <td class="label">Release:</td><td>rc1 (<a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>)</td> |
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| <td class="label bline">Compiled at:</td><td class="bline">Mar 1, 2004 [19:37] GMT</td> |
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| <td class="label">SourceForge page:</td><td><a href="http://sf.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">http://sf.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/</a></td> |
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| <h1>HTMLArea -- the free<br/>customizable online editor</h1> |
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| <p> |
| HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your |
| browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet |
| Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any |
| platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers. |
| </p> |
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| <p> |
| HTMLArea is copyright <a |
| href="http://interactivetools.com">InteractiveTools.com</a> and <a |
| href="http://dynarch.com">Dynarch.com</a> and it is |
| released under a BSD-style license. HTMLArea is created and developed |
| upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 developed by |
| <a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a> for |
| InteractiveTools. It contains code sponsored by third-party companies as well. |
| Please see our About Box for details about who sponsored what plugins. |
| </p> |
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| <h2>Online demos</h2> |
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| <ul> |
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| <li><a href="examples/core.html">HTMLArea standard</a> -- contains the core |
| editor.</li> |
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| <li><a href="examples/table-operations.html">HTMLArea + tables</a> -- |
| loads the <tt>TableOperations</tt> plugin which provides some extra |
| editing features for tables.</li> |
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| <li><a href="examples/spell-checker.html">HTMLArea + spell checher</a> |
| -- loads the <tt>SpellChecker</tt> plugin which provides what its |
| name says: a spell checker. This one requires additional support on |
| the server-side.</li> |
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| <li><a href="examples/full-page.html">HTMLArea Full HTML Editor</a> -- |
| loads the <tt>FullPage</tt> plugin which allows you to edit a full |
| HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...> and some |
| other options.</li> |
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| <li><a href="examples/context-menu.html">HTMLArea with Context |
| Menu</a> -- this plugin provides a nice and useful context menu.</li> |
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| <li><a href="examples/fully-loaded.html">HTMLArea fully loaded</a> -- |
| all of the above. ;-)</li> |
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| </ul> |
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| <h2>Installation</h2> |
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| <p> |
| Installation is (or should be) easy. You need to unpack the ZIP file |
| in a directory accessible through your webserver. Supposing you |
| unpack in your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> and your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> is |
| <tt>/var/www/html</tt> as in a standard RedHat installation, you need |
| to acomplish the following steps: (the example is for a Unix-like |
| operating system) |
| </p> |
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| <pre style="margin-left: 2em" |
| > |
| cd /var/www/html |
| unzip /path/to/archive/HTMLArea-3.0-rc1.zip |
| mv HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 htmlarea |
| find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; |
| find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; |
| find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;</pre> |
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| <p> |
| <strong>Notes.</strong> You may chose to symlink "htmlarea" to "HTMLArea-3.0-rc1", in which case your server needs to be configured to |
| "<tt>FollowSymLinks</tt>". You need to make sure that *.cgi files are |
| interpreted as CGI scripts. If you want to use the SpellChecker |
| plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed (I |
| recommend 5.8.0) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available |
| from CPAN. More info in "<a |
| href="plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html">plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html</a>". |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>About how to setup your pages to use the editor, please read the |
| [outdated yet generally valid] <a |
| href="reference.html">documentation</a>.</p> |
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| <h2>Status and links</h2> |
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| <p>HTMLArea has reached version 3.0. As of this version, it |
| supports:</p> |
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| <ul> |
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| <li>Customizable toolbar</li> |
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| <li>Easy internationalization</li> |
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| <li>Plugin-based infrastructure</li> |
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| <li>Delivers W3-compliant HTML (with few exceptions)</li> |
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| <li>Has a subset of Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts</li> |
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| <li>Full-screen editor</li> |
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| <li>Advanced table operations (by external plugin |
| "TableOperations")</li> |
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| <li>Spell checker (by external plugin "SpellChecker")</li> |
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| <li>probably more... ;-)</li> |
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| </ul> |
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| <p>We have a <a |
| href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">project page</a> |
| at <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge.net</a>. There you can |
| also find out <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69750">how |
| to retrieve the code from CVS</a>, or you can <a |
| href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/itools-htmlarea">browse |
| the CVS online</a>. We also have a <a |
| href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug |
| system</a>, a <a |
| href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525658&group_id=69750&func=browse">patch |
| tracking system</a> and a <a |
| href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525659&group_id=69750&func=browse">feature |
| request page</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>We invite you to say everything you want about HTMLArea <a |
| href="http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=14;">on the |
| forums</a> at InteractiveTools.com. There you should also find the |
| latest news.</p> |
| |
| <p>Sometimes I post news about the latest developments on <a |
| href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">my personal homepage</a>.</p> |
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| <h2>"It doesn't work, what's wrong?"</h2> |
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| <p>If it doesn't work, you have several options:</p> |
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| <ul> |
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| <li>Post a message to the forum. Describe your problem in as much |
| detail as possible. Include errors you might find in the JavaScript |
| console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though |
| they're most of the times useless).</li> |
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| <li>If you're positive that you discovered a bug in HTMLArea then feel |
| free to fill a bug report in our bug system. If you have the time you |
| should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be |
| fixed already in the CVS ;-) If you're positive that a similar bug was |
| not yet reported, do fill a bug report and please include as much |
| detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript |
| console, etc.</li> |
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| <li>If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it on the |
| features request and someone will hopefully take care of it.</li> |
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| </ul> |
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| <p>You can <a href="mailto:mishoo@infoiasi.ro">contact me directly</a> |
| <em>only</em> if you want to pay me for implementing custom features to |
| HTMLArea. If you want to sponsor these features (that is, allow them to |
| get back into the public HTMLArea distribution) I'll be cheaper. ;-)</p> |
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| <hr /> |
| <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address> |
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