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        | 4 |  |  |     <title>HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes</title>
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        | 12 |  |  |     <h1>HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes</h1>
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        | 13 |  |  | 
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        | 14 |  |  |     <p>This release was compiled on Mar  1, 2004 [19:37] GMT.</p>
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        | 16 |  |  |     <h2>3.0-rc1</h2>
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        | 17 |  |  | 
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        | 18 |  |  |     <p>Changes since 3.0-Beta:</p>
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        | 20 |  |  |     <ul>
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        | 21 |  |  |       <li>
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        | 22 |  |  |         <b>New plugins</b>
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        | 23 |  |  |         <ul>
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        | 24 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 25 |  |  |             ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common
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        | 26 |  |  |             operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
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        | 27 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 28 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 29 |  |  |             CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
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        | 30 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 31 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 32 |  |  |             FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file,
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        | 33 |  |  |             not only the content within <body>.)
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        | 34 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 35 |  |  |         </ul>
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        | 36 |  |  |       </li>
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        | 37 |  |  |       <li>
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        | 38 |  |  |         <b>Changes in the SpellChecker plugin</b>
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        | 39 |  |  |         <ul>
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        | 40 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 41 |  |  |             Many bugfixes: now it works ;-)  Fully Unicode-safe.
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        | 42 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 43 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 44 |  |  |             Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of
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        | 45 |  |  |             suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps
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        | 46 |  |  |             in cases where you have, for instance, the word “HTMLArea”
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        | 47 |  |  |             in 10 places all over the document; the list of
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        | 48 |  |  |             suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be
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        | 49 |  |  |             included <em>once</em>.
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        | 50 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 51 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 52 |  |  |             User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
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        | 53 |  |  |             remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
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        | 54 |  |  |             window will be scrolled to it.
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        | 55 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 56 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 57 |  |  |             Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
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        | 58 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 59 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 60 |  |  |             Added a "Info" button which reports information about the
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        | 61 |  |  |             document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker:
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        | 62 |  |  |             total number of words, total number of mispelled words,
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        | 63 |  |  |             number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc.  More
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        | 64 |  |  |             can be easily added.  <span class="fixme">FIXME: this part
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        | 65 |  |  |             is not yet internationalized.</span>
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        | 66 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 67 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 68 |  |  |             The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of
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        | 69 |  |  |             HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse
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        | 70 |  |  |             “tag-soup” HTML.  It needs valid code.  Usually HTMLArea
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        | 71 |  |  |             generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail
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        | 72 |  |  |             and the spell checker will report a gross error message.
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        | 73 |  |  |             This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the
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        | 74 |  |  |             spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make
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        | 75 |  |  |             HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in
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        | 76 |  |  |             other places ;-)
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        | 77 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 78 |  |  |         </ul>
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        | 79 |  |  |       </li>
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        | 80 |  |  |       <li>
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        | 81 |  |  |         <b>Changes in the core editor</b>
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        | 82 |  |  |         <ul>
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        | 83 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 84 |  |  |             Easier to setup: you only need to load
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        | 85 |  |  |             <tt>htmlarea.js</tt>; other scripts will be loaded
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        | 86 |  |  |             automatically.  <a href="reference.html">Documentation</a>
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        | 87 |  |  |             and <a href="examples/">examples</a> updated.
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        | 88 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 89 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 90 |  |  |             Better plugin support (they register information about
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        | 91 |  |  |             themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
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        | 92 |  |  |             the editor, etc.)
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        | 93 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 94 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 95 |  |  |             New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
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        | 96 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 97 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 98 |  |  |             Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap
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        | 99 |  |  |             on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by
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        | 100 |  |  |             pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up
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        | 101 |  |  |             soon)
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        | 102 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 103 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 104 |  |  |             Image preview in "insert image" dialog.  Also allows
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        | 105 |  |  |             modification of current image, if selected.
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        | 106 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 107 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 108 |  |  |             New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title
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        | 109 |  |  |             specification, allows editing links.
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        | 110 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 111 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 112 |  |  |             Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or
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        | 113 |  |  |             right-to-left).
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        | 114 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 115 |  |  |           <li>
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        | 116 |  |  |             Lots of bug fixes!  ... and more, I guess ;-) an
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        | 117 |  |  |             automatically generated <a href="ChangeLog">change log</a>
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        | 118 |  |  |             is now available.
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        | 119 |  |  |           </li>
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        | 120 |  |  |         </ul>
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        | 121 |  |  |       </li>
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        | 122 |  |  |     </ul>
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        | 124 |  |  |     <p>I don't have the power to go through the <a
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        | 125 |  |  | href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
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        | 126 |  |  | system</a> at SourceForge
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        | 127 |  |  |     now.  Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update
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        | 128 |  |  |     their status, some other time.  If you reported bugs there and now
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        | 129 |  |  |     find them to be fixed, please let me know.</p>
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        | 131 |  |  |     <h2>3.0-Beta</h2>
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        | 133 |  |  |     <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p>
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        | 135 |  |  |     <ul>
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        | 137 |  |  |       <li>Performance improvements.</li>
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        | 138 |  |  | 
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        | 139 |  |  |       <li>Many bugs fixed.</li>
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        | 141 |  |  |       <li>Plugin infrastructure.</li>
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        | 143 |  |  |       <li>TableOperations plugin.</li>
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        | 145 |  |  |       <li>SpellChecker plugin.</li>
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        | 147 |  |  |       <li>Status bar.</li>
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        | 149 |  |  |       <li>API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the
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        | 150 |  |  |         toolbar.</li>
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        | 152 |  |  |       <li>Toolbar can contain text labels.</li>
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        | 154 |  |  |       <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li>
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        | 156 |  |  |     </ul>
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        | 157 |  |  |     <hr />
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        | 158 |  |  |     <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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        | 159 |  |  | <!-- Created: Sun Aug  3 16:55:08 EEST 2003 -->
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        | 160 |  |  | <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Sun Feb  1 13:16:10 EET 2004 <!-- hhmts end -->
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