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3.0-rc1

Changes since 3.0-Beta:

ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file, not only the content within <body>.)
Better plugin support (they register information about themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for the editor, etc.)
New about box ;-)
Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up soon)
Image preview in "insert image" dialog. Also allows modification of current image, if selected.
New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title specification, allows editing links.
Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or right-to-left).
Full CVS ChangeLog is now automatically generated from the CVS logs.
Lots of bug fixes!

I don't have the power to go through the bug system at SourceForge now. Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update their status, some other time. If you reported bugs there and now find them to be fixed, please let me know.

3.0-Beta

Changes since 3.0-Alpha:

Performance improvements.
Many bugs fixed.
Plugin infrastructure.
TableOperations plugin.
SpellChecker plugin.
Status bar.
API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the toolbar.
Toolbar can contain text labels.
Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.

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Rationale for Beta

Why was this released as "Beta"? The code is quite stable and it didn't deserve a "Beta" qualification. However, there are some things left to do for the real 3.0 version. These things will not affect the API to work with HTMLArea, in other words, you can install the Beta right now and then install the final release without modifying your code. That's if you don't modify HTMLArea itself. ;-)

To-Do before 3.0 final

We should use a single popup interface. Currently there are two: dialog.js and popupwin.js; dialog.js emulates modal dialogs, which sucks when you want to open "select-color" from another popup and not from the editor itself. Very buggy in IE. We should probably use only modeless dialogs (that is, popupwin.js).
Internationalization for the SpellChecker plugin.
Internationalization for the TableOperations plugin.
People who sent translations are invited to re-iterate through their work and make it up-to-date with lang/en.js which is the main lang file for HTMLArea-3.0. Some things have changed but not all translations are updated.
Documentation.

Mihai Bazon

Last modified: Wed Jan 28 12:53:03 EET 2004 <%ARGS> $project => 'HTMLArea' $version => '3.0' $release => 'rc1' $basename => 'HTMLArea-3.0-rc1' <%INIT>; use POSIX qw(strftime); my $time = strftime '%b %e, %Y [%H:%M] GMT', gmtime;