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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
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<title>HTMLArea -- the free, customizable online editor</title>
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<style type="text/css">
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html, body { font-family: georgia,"times new roman",serif; background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
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.label { text-align: right; padding-right: 0.3em; }
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.bline { border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; }
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</style>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div style="float: right; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
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<tr>
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<td class="label">Version:</td><td>3.0</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td class="label">Release:</td><td>rc1 (<a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>)</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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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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</table>
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</div>
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<h1>HTMLArea -- the free<br/>customizable online editor</h1>
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<p>
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HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your
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browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet
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Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any
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platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers.
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<p>
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HTMLArea is copyright <a
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href="http://interactivetools.com">InteractiveTools.com</a> and <a
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href="http://dynarch.com">Dynarch.com</a> and it is
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released under a BSD-style license. HTMLArea is created and developed
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upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 developed by
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<a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a> for
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InteractiveTools. It contains code sponsored by third-party companies as well.
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Please see our About Box for details about who sponsored what plugins.
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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
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editor.</li>
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<li><a href="examples/table-operations.html">HTMLArea + tables</a> --
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loads the <tt>TableOperations</tt> plugin which provides some extra
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editing features for tables.</li>
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<li><a href="examples/spell-checker.html">HTMLArea + spell checher</a>
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-- loads the <tt>SpellChecker</tt> plugin which provides what its
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name says: a spell checker. This one requires additional support on
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the server-side.</li>
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<li><a href="examples/full-page.html">HTMLArea Full HTML Editor</a> --
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loads the <tt>FullPage</tt> plugin which allows you to edit a full
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HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...> and some
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other options.</li>
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<li><a href="examples/context-menu.html">HTMLArea with Context
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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> --
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all of the above. ;-)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Installation</h2>
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Installation is (or should be) easy. You need to unpack the ZIP file
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in a directory accessible through your webserver. Supposing you
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unpack in your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> and your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> is
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<tt>/var/www/html</tt> as in a standard RedHat installation, you need
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to acomplish the following steps: (the example is for a Unix-like
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operating system)
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<pre style="margin-left: 2em"
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>
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cd /var/www/html
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unzip /path/to/archive/HTMLArea-3.0-rc1.zip
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mv HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 htmlarea
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find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;</pre>
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<p>
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<strong>Notes.</strong> You may chose to symlink "htmlarea" to "HTMLArea-3.0-rc1", in which case your server needs to be configured to
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"<tt>FollowSymLinks</tt>". You need to make sure that *.cgi files are
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interpreted as CGI scripts. If you want to use the SpellChecker
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plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed (I
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recommend 5.8.0) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available
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from CPAN. More info in "<a
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href="plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html">plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html</a>".
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</p>
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<p>About how to setup your pages to use the editor, please read the
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[outdated yet generally valid] <a
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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
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supports:</p>
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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
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"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
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href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">project page</a>
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at <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge.net</a>. There you can
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also find out <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69750">how
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to retrieve the code from CVS</a>, or you can <a
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href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/itools-htmlarea">browse
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the CVS online</a>. We also have a <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
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system</a>, a <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525658&group_id=69750&func=browse">patch
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tracking system</a> and a <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525659&group_id=69750&func=browse">feature
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request page</a>.</p>
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<p>We invite you to say everything you want about HTMLArea <a
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href="http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=14;">on the
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forums</a> at InteractiveTools.com. There you should also find the
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latest news.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I post news about the latest developments on <a
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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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<li>Post a message to the forum. Describe your problem in as much
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detail as possible. Include errors you might find in the JavaScript
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console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though
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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
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free to fill a bug report in our bug system. If you have the time you
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should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be
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fixed already in the CVS ;-) If you're positive that a similar bug was
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not yet reported, do fill a bug report and please include as much
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detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript
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console, etc.</li>
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<li>If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it on the
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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>
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<em>only</em> if you want to pay me for implementing custom features to
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HTMLArea. If you want to sponsor these features (that is, allow them to
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get back into the public HTMLArea distribution) I'll be cheaper. ;-)</p>
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<hr />
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<address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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<!-- Created: Sun Aug 3 14:11:26 EEST 2003 -->
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<!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Wed Jan 28 11:54:47 EET 2004 <!-- hhmts end -->
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