Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/htmlarea/release-notes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/htmlarea/release-notes.html,v diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/htmlarea/release-notes.html 4 Mar 2004 18:32:10 -0000 1.1 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/htmlarea/release-notes.html 30 Jan 2005 16:13:26 -0000 1.2 @@ -1,82 +1,182 @@ - - - - HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes - - - - -

HTMLArea-3.0-beta release notes

- -

This release was compiled on Aug 11, 2003 [21:30] GMT.

- - -

Changes since 3.0-Alpha:

- -

Performance improvements.
Many bugs fixed.
Plugin infrastructure.
TableOperations plugin.
SpellChecker plugin.
Status bar.
API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the - toolbar.
Toolbar can contain text labels.
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

- - -Last modified on Sun Aug 10 19:31:39 2003 - - - - - - + + + + + HTMLArea-3.0-RC3 release notes + + + + + +

HTMLArea-3.0-RC3 release notes

+ +

This release was compiled on Jan , 2005 [23:43] GMT.

+ +

Changes since 3.0-RC2b:

+ +

Restored broken images and re-committed ALL images back to CVS in binary mode. +
Added error with instructions for when HTMLArea.init() isn't called first. +
Fixed examples to call HTMLArea.init() first: +
- 2-areas.html +
- character_map.html +
- css.html +
- dynamic_css.html +
- list-type.html +
- remove-font-tags.html +
+
+

+ + +

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:

+ +

Performance improvements.
Many bugs fixed.
Plugin infrastructure.
TableOperations plugin.
SpellChecker plugin.
Status bar.
API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the + toolbar.
Toolbar can contain text labels.
Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.

Mihai Bazon

+ + Last modified: Wed Mar 31 19:18:26 EEST 2004 + + + + +