HTMLArea-3.0-RC3 release notes
    This release was compiled on Jan , 2005 [23:43] GMT.
    Changes since 3.0-RC2b:
    
      - Restored broken images and re-committed ALL images back to CVS in binary mode.
      
- Added error with instructions for when HTMLArea.init() isn't called first.
      
- Fixed examples to call HTMLArea.init() first:
      
        - 2-areas.html
        
- character_map.html
        
- css.html
        
- dynamic_css.html
        
- list-type.html
        
- remove-font-tags.html
      
 
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Changes since 3.0-Beta:
    
      - 
        New plugins
        
          - 
            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>.)
          
 
- 
        Changes in the SpellChecker plugin
        
          - 
            Many bugfixes: now it works ;-)  Fully Unicode-safe.
          
- 
            Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of
            suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps
            in cases where you have, for instance, the word “HTMLArea”
            in 10 places all over the document; the list of
            suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be
            included once.
          
- 
            User interface improvements: the highlighted word will
            remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the
            window will be scrolled to it.
          
- 
            Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-)
          
- 
            Added a "Info" button which reports information about the
            document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker:
            total number of words, total number of mispelled words,
            number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc.  More
            can be easily added.  FIXME: this part
            is not yet internationalized.
          
- 
            The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of
            HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse
            “tag-soup” HTML.  It needs valid code.  Usually HTMLArea
            generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail
            and the spell checker will report a gross error message.
            This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the
            spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make
            HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in
            other places ;-)
          
 
- 
        Changes in the core editor
        
          - 
            Easier to setup: you only need to load
            htmlarea.js; other scripts will be loaded
            automatically.  Documentation
            and examples updated.
          
- 
            Better plugin support (they register information about
            themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for
            the editor, etc.)
          
- 
            New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-)
          
- 
            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).
          
- 
            Lots of bug fixes!  ... and more, I guess ;-) an
            automatically generated change log
            is now available.
          
 
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.
    Mihai Bazon
 Last modified: Wed Mar 31 19:18:26 EEST 2004