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    <h1>HTMLArea-3.0-rc1 release notes</h1>
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    <p>This release was compiled on Mar  1, 2004 [19:37] GMT.</p>
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    <h2>3.0-rc1</h2>
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    <p>Changes since 3.0-Beta:</p>
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        <b>New plugins</b>
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            ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common
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            operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
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            CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
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            FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file,
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            not only the content within &lt;body&gt;.)
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        <b>Changes in the SpellChecker plugin</b>
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            Many bugfixes: now it works ;-)  Fully Unicode-safe.
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            Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of
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            suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps
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            in cases where you have, for instance, the word “HTMLArea”
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            in 10 places all over the document; the list of
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            suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be
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            included <em>once</em>.
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            User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
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            remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
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            window will be scrolled to it.
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            Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
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            Added a "Info" button which reports information about the
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            document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker:
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            total number of words, total number of mispelled words,
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            number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc.  More
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            can be easily added.  <span class="fixme">FIXME: this part
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            is not yet internationalized.</span>
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            The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of
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            HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse
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            “tag-soup” HTML.  It needs valid code.  Usually HTMLArea
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            generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail
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            and the spell checker will report a gross error message.
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            This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the
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            spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make
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            HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in
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            other places ;-)
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        <b>Changes in the core editor</b>
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            Easier to setup: you only need to load
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            <tt>htmlarea.js</tt>; other scripts will be loaded
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            automatically.  <a href="reference.html">Documentation</a>
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            and <a href="examples/">examples</a> updated.
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            Better plugin support (they register information about
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            themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
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            the editor, etc.)
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            New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
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            Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap
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            on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by
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            pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up
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            soon)
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            Image preview in "insert image" dialog.  Also allows
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            modification of current image, if selected.
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            New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title
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            specification, allows editing links.
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            Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or
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            right-to-left).
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            Lots of bug fixes!  ... and more, I guess ;-) an
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            automatically generated <a href="ChangeLog">change log</a>
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            is now available.
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    <p>I don't have the power to go through the <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
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system</a> at SourceForge
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    now.  Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update
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    their status, some other time.  If you reported bugs there and now
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    find them to be fixed, please let me know.</p>
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    <h2>3.0-Beta</h2>
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    <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p>
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      <li>Performance improvements.</li>
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      <li>Many bugs fixed.</li>
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      <li>Plugin infrastructure.</li>
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      <li>TableOperations plugin.</li>
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      <li>SpellChecker plugin.</li>
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      <li>Status bar.</li>
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      <li>API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the
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      <li>Toolbar can contain text labels.</li>
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      <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li>
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    <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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