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    | 4 |     <title>HTMLArea -- the free, customizable online editor</title>
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    | 5 | 
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    | 6 |     <style type="text/css">
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    | 7 |       html, body { font-family: georgia,"times new roman",serif; background-color: #fff; color: #000; }
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    | 8 |       .label { text-align: right; padding-right: 0.3em; }
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    | 9 |       .bline { border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; }
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    | 10 |     </style>
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    | 11 |   </head>
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    | 13 |   <body>
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    | 14 |     <div style="float: right; border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #eee; padding: 3px; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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    | 15 |       <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
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    | 16 |         <tr>
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    | 17 |           <td class="label">Version:</td><td>3.0</td>
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    | 18 |         </tr>
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    | 19 |         <tr>
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    | 20 |           <td class="label">Release:</td><td>rc1 (<a href="release-notes.html">release notes</a>)</td>
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    | 21 |         </tr>
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    | 22 |         <tr>
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    | 23 |           <td class="label bline">Compiled at:</td><td class="bline">Mar  1, 2004 [19:37] GMT</td>
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    | 24 |         </tr>
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    | 25 |         <tr>
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    | 26 |           <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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    | 27 |       </table>
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    | 28 |     </div>
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    | 29 |     <h1>HTMLArea -- the free<br/>customizable online editor</h1>
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    | 30 | 
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    | 31 |     <p>
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    | 32 |       HTMLArea is a free, customizable online editor.  It works inside your
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    | 33 |       browser.  It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet
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    | 34 |       Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any
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    | 35 |       platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers.
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    | 36 |     </p>
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    | 37 | 
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    | 38 |     <p>
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    | 39 |       HTMLArea is copyright <a
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    | 40 |       href="http://interactivetools.com">InteractiveTools.com</a> and <a
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    | 41 |       href="http://dynarch.com">Dynarch.com</a> and it is
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    | 42 |       released under a BSD-style license.  HTMLArea is created and developed
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    | 43 |       upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com.  Version 3.0 developed by
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    | 44 |       <a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a> for
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    | 45 |       InteractiveTools.  It contains code sponsored by third-party companies as well.
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    | 46 |       Please see our About Box for details about who sponsored what plugins.
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    | 47 |     </p>
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    | 48 | 
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    | 49 |     <h2>Online demos</h2>
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    | 50 | 
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    | 51 |     <ul>
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    | 53 |       <li><a href="examples/core.html">HTMLArea standard</a> -- contains the core
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    | 54 |         editor.</li>
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    | 55 | 
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    | 56 |       <li><a href="examples/table-operations.html">HTMLArea + tables</a> --
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    | 57 |         loads the <tt>TableOperations</tt> plugin which provides some extra
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    | 58 |         editing features for tables.</li>
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    | 59 | 
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    | 60 |       <li><a href="examples/spell-checker.html">HTMLArea + spell checher</a>
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    | 61 |         -- loads the <tt>SpellChecker</tt> plugin which provides what its
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    | 62 |         name says: a spell checker.  This one requires additional support on
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    | 63 |         the server-side.</li>
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    | 64 | 
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    | 65 |       <li><a href="examples/full-page.html">HTMLArea Full HTML Editor</a> --
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    | 66 |         loads the <tt>FullPage</tt> plugin which allows you to edit a full
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    | 67 |         HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...> and some
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    | 68 |         other options.</li>
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    | 69 | 
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    | 70 |       <li><a href="examples/context-menu.html">HTMLArea with Context
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    | 71 |           Menu</a> -- this plugin provides a nice and useful context menu.</li>
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    | 72 | 
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    | 73 |       <li><a href="examples/fully-loaded.html">HTMLArea fully loaded</a> --
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    | 74 |         all of the above. ;-)</li>
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    | 75 | 
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    | 76 |     </ul>
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    | 78 |     <h2>Installation</h2>
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    | 80 |     <p>
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    | 81 |       Installation is (or should be) easy.  You need to unpack the ZIP file
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    | 82 |       in a directory accessible through your webserver.  Supposing you
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    | 83 |       unpack in your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> and your <tt>DocumentRoot</tt> is
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    | 84 |       <tt>/var/www/html</tt> as in a standard RedHat installation, you need
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    | 85 |       to acomplish the following steps: (the example is for a Unix-like
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    | 86 |       operating system)
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    | 87 |     </p>
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    | 89 |     <pre style="margin-left: 2em"
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    | 91 | cd /var/www/html
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    | 92 | unzip /path/to/archive/HTMLArea-3.0-rc1.zip
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    | 93 | mv HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 htmlarea
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    | 94 | find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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    | 95 | find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
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    | 96 | find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;</pre>
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    | 97 | 
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    | 98 |     <p>
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    | 99 |       <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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    | 100 |       "<tt>FollowSymLinks</tt>".  You need to make sure that *.cgi files are
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    | 101 |       interpreted as CGI scripts.  If you want to use the SpellChecker
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    | 102 |       plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed (I
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    | 103 |       recommend 5.8.0) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available
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    | 104 |       from CPAN.  More info in "<a
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    | 105 |       href="plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html">plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html</a>".
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    | 106 |     </p>
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    | 107 | 
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    | 108 |     <p>About how to setup your pages to use the editor, please read the
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    | 109 |       [outdated yet generally valid] <a
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    | 110 |         href="reference.html">documentation</a>.</p>
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    | 111 | 
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    | 112 |     <h2>Status and links</h2>
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    | 114 |     <p>HTMLArea has reached version 3.0.  As of this version, it
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    | 115 |       supports:</p>
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    | 116 | 
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    | 117 |     <ul>
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    | 118 | 
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    | 119 |       <li>Customizable toolbar</li>
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    | 120 | 
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    | 121 |       <li>Easy internationalization</li>
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    | 122 | 
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    | 123 |       <li>Plugin-based infrastructure</li>
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    | 124 | 
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    | 125 |       <li>Delivers W3-compliant HTML (with few exceptions)</li>
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    | 126 | 
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    | 127 |       <li>Has a subset of Microsoft Word's keyboard shortcuts</li>
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    | 128 | 
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    | 129 |       <li>Full-screen editor</li>
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    | 130 | 
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    | 131 |       <li>Advanced table operations (by external plugin
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    | 132 |         "TableOperations")</li>
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    | 133 | 
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    | 134 |       <li>Spell checker (by external plugin "SpellChecker")</li>
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    | 135 | 
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    | 136 |       <li>probably more... ;-)</li>
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    | 138 |     </ul>
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    | 139 | 
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    | 140 |     <p>We have a <a
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    | 141 |     href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/itools-htmlarea/">project page</a>
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    | 142 |     at <a href="http://sourceforge.net">SourceForge.net</a>.  There you can
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    | 143 |     also find out <a href="http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=69750">how
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    | 144 |     to retrieve the code from CVS</a>, or you can <a
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    | 145 |     href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/itools-htmlarea">browse
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    | 146 |     the CVS online</a>.  We also have a <a
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    | 147 |     href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
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    | 148 |     system</a>, a <a
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    | 149 |     href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525658&group_id=69750&func=browse">patch
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    | 150 |     tracking system</a> and a <a
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    | 151 |     href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525659&group_id=69750&func=browse">feature
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    | 152 |     request page</a>.</p>
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    | 154 |     <p>We invite you to say everything you want about HTMLArea <a
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    | 155 |     href="http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=14;">on the
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    | 156 |     forums</a> at InteractiveTools.com.  There you should also find the
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    | 157 |     latest news.</p>
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    | 158 | 
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    | 159 |     <p>Sometimes I post news about the latest developments on <a
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    | 160 |     href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">my personal homepage</a>.</p>
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    | 162 |     <h2>"It doesn't work, what's wrong?"</h2>
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    | 164 |     <p>If it doesn't work, you have several options:</p>
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    | 166 |     <ul>
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    | 168 |       <li>Post a message to the forum.  Describe your problem in as much
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    | 169 |       detail as possible.  Include errors you might find in the JavaScript
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    | 170 |       console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though
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    | 171 |       they're most of the times useless).</li>
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    | 173 |       <li>If you're positive that you discovered a bug in HTMLArea then feel
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    | 174 |       free to fill a bug report in our bug system.  If you have the time you
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    | 175 |       should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be
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    | 176 |       fixed already in the CVS ;-) If you're positive that a similar bug was
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    | 177 |       not yet reported, do fill a bug report and please include as much
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    | 178 |       detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript
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    | 179 |       console, etc.</li>
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    | 180 | 
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    | 181 |       <li>If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it on the
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    | 182 |       features request and someone will hopefully take care of it.</li>
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    | 184 |     </ul>
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    | 186 |     <p>You can <a href="mailto:mishoo@infoiasi.ro">contact me directly</a>
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    | 187 |     <em>only</em> if you want to pay me for implementing custom features to
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    | 188 |     HTMLArea.  If you want to sponsor these features (that is, allow them to
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    | 189 |     get back into the public HTMLArea distribution) I'll be cheaper. ;-)</p>
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    | 191 |     <hr />
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    | 192 |     <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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    | 193 | <!-- Created: Sun Aug  3 14:11:26 EEST 2003 -->
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    | 194 | <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Wed Jan 28 11:54:47 EET 2004 <!-- hhmts end -->
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