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  13      <h1><% $basename %> release notes</h1>
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  15      <p>This release was compiled on <% $time %>.</p>
  16  
  17      <h2>3.0-rc1</h2>
  18  
  19      <p>Changes since 3.0-Beta:</p>
  20  
  21      <ul>
  22        <li>
  23          <b>New plugins</b>
  24          <ul>
  25            <li>
  26              ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common
  27              operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.)
  28            </li>
  29            <li>
  30              CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes)
  31            </li>
  32            <li>
  33              FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file,
  34              not only the content within &lt;body&gt;.)
  35            </li>
  36          </ul>
  37        </li>
  38        <li>
  39          <b>Changes in the SpellChecker plugin</b>
  40          <ul>
  41            <li>
  42              Many bugfixes: now it works ;-)  Fully Unicode-safe.
  43            </li>
  44            <li>
  45              Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of
  46              suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps
  47              in cases where you have, for instance, the word “HTMLArea�
  48              in 10 places all over the document; the list of
  49              suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be
  50              included <em>once</em>.
  51            </li>
  52            <li>
  53              User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
  54              remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
  55              window will be scrolled to it.
  56            </li>
  57            <li>
  58              Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
  59            </li>
  60            <li>
  61              Added a "Info" button which reports information about the
  62              document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker:
  63              total number of words, total number of mispelled words,
  64              number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc.  More
  65              can be easily added.  <span class="fixme">FIXME: this part
  66              is not yet internationalized.</span>
  67            </li>
  68            <li>
  69              The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of
  70              HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse
  71              “tag-soup� HTML.  It needs valid code.  Usually HTMLArea
  72              generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail
  73              and the spell checker will report a gross error message.
  74              This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the
  75              spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make
  76              HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in
  77              other places ;-)
  78            </li>
  79          </ul>
  80        </li>
  81        <li>
  82          <b>Changes in the core editor</b>
  83          <ul>
  84            <li>
  85              Easier to setup: you only need to load
  86              <tt>htmlarea.js</tt>; other scripts will be loaded
  87              automatically.  <a href="reference.html">Documentation</a>
  88              and <a href="examples/">examples</a> updated.
  89            </li>
  90            <li>
  91              Better plugin support (they register information about
  92              themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
  93              the editor, etc.)
  94            </li>
  95            <li>
  96              New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
  97            </li>
  98            <li>
  99              Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap
 100              on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by
 101              pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up
 102              soon)
 103            </li>
 104            <li>
 105              Image preview in "insert image" dialog.  Also allows
 106              modification of current image, if selected.
 107            </li>
 108            <li>
 109              New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title
 110              specification, allows editing links.
 111            </li>
 112            <li>
 113              Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or
 114              right-to-left).
 115            </li>
 116            <li>
 117              Lots of bug fixes!  ... and more, I guess ;-) an
 118              automatically generated <a href="ChangeLog">change log</a>
 119              is now available.
 120            </li>
 121          </ul>
 122        </li>
 123      </ul>
 124  
 125      <p>I don't have the power to go through the <a
 126  href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug
 127  system</a> at SourceForge
 128      now.  Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update
 129      their status, some other time.  If you reported bugs there and now
 130      find them to be fixed, please let me know.</p>
 131  
 132      <h2>3.0-Beta</h2>
 133  
 134      <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p>
 135  
 136      <ul>
 137  
 138        <li>Performance improvements.</li>
 139  
 140        <li>Many bugs fixed.</li>
 141  
 142        <li>Plugin infrastructure.</li>
 143  
 144        <li>TableOperations plugin.</li>
 145  
 146        <li>SpellChecker plugin.</li>
 147  
 148        <li>Status bar.</li>
 149  
 150        <li>API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the
 151          toolbar.</li>
 152  
 153        <li>Toolbar can contain text labels.</li>
 154  
 155        <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li>
 156  
 157      </ul>
 158  <%doc>
 159      <h2>Rationale for Beta</h2>
 160  
 161      <p>Why was this released as "Beta"?  The code is quite stable and it
 162      didn't deserve a "Beta" qualification.  However, there are some things
 163      left to do for the real 3.0 version.  These things will not affect the
 164      API to work with HTMLArea, in other words, you can install the Beta
 165      right now and then install the final release without modifying your
 166      code.  That's if you don't modify HTMLArea itself.  ;-)</p>
 167  
 168      <h2>To-Do before 3.0 final</h2>
 169  
 170      <ol>
 171  
 172        <li>We should use a single popup interface.  Currently there are two:
 173        dialog.js and popupwin.js; dialog.js emulates modal dialogs, which
 174        sucks when you want to open "select-color" from another popup and not
 175        from the editor itself.  Very buggy in IE.  We should probably use only
 176        modeless dialogs (that is, popupwin.js).</li>
 177  
 178        <li>Internationalization for the SpellChecker plugin.</li>
 179  
 180        <li>Internationalization for the TableOperations plugin.</li>
 181  
 182        <li>People who sent translations are invited to re-iterate through
 183          their work and make it up-to-date with lang/en.js which is the main
 184          lang file for HTMLArea-3.0.  Some things have changed but not all
 185          translations are updated.</li>
 186  
 187        <li><strong>Documentation</strong>.</li>
 188  
 189      </ol>
 190  </%doc>
 191      <hr />
 192      <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
 193  <!-- Created: Sun Aug  3 16:55:08 EEST 2003 -->
 194  <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Wed Mar 31 19:18:26 EEST 2004 <!-- hhmts end -->
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 198  
 199  <%ARGS>
 200    $project => 'HTMLArea'
 201    $version => '3.0'
 202    $release => 'rc1'
 203    $basename => 'HTMLArea-3.0-rc1'
 204  </%ARGS>
 205  
 206  <%INIT>;
 207  use POSIX qw(strftime);
 208  my $time = strftime '%b %e, %Y [%H:%M] GMT', gmtime;
 209  </%INIT>