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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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    | 19 | 
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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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