1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> |
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5 | <title><% $basename %> release notes</title> |
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6 | <style> |
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7 | .fixme { color: red; } |
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8 | </style> |
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9 | </head> |
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11 | <body> |
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12 | |
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13 | <h1><% $basename %> release notes</h1> |
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14 | |
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15 | <p>This release was compiled on <% $time %>.</p> |
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16 | |
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17 | <h2>3.0-rc1</h2> |
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18 | |
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19 | <p>Changes since 3.0-Beta:</p> |
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20 | |
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21 | <ul> |
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22 | <li> |
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23 | <b>New plugins</b> |
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24 | <ul> |
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25 | <li> |
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26 | ContextMenu plugin (provides a nice context menu with common |
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27 | operations, including table ops, link ops, etc.) |
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28 | </li> |
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29 | <li> |
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30 | CSS plugin (provides an easy way to insert/change CSS classes) |
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31 | </li> |
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32 | <li> |
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33 | FullPage plugin (allows HTMLArea to edit a whole HTML file, |
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34 | not only the content within <body>.) |
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35 | </li> |
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36 | </ul> |
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37 | </li> |
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38 | <li> |
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39 | <b>Changes in the SpellChecker plugin</b> |
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40 | <ul> |
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41 | <li> |
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42 | Many bugfixes: now it works ;-) Fully Unicode-safe. |
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43 | </li> |
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44 | <li> |
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45 | Speed and bandwidth optimization: reports the list of |
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46 | suggestions only once for each mispelled word; this helps |
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47 | in cases where you have, for instance, the word âHTMLAreaâ |
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48 | in 10 places all over the document; the list of |
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49 | suggestions for it--which is kind of huge--will only be |
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50 | included <em>once</em>. |
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51 | </li> |
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52 | <li> |
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53 | User interface improvements: the highlighted word will |
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54 | remain in view; in cases where it's normally outside, the |
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55 | window will be scrolled to it. |
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56 | </li> |
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57 | <li> |
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58 | Added a "Revert" button for those that change their minds ;-) |
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59 | </li> |
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60 | <li> |
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61 | Added a "Info" button which reports information about the |
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62 | document, retrieved by the server-side spell checker: |
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63 | total number of words, total number of mispelled words, |
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64 | number of suggestions made, spell check time, etc. More |
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65 | can be easily added. <span class="fixme">FIXME: this part |
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66 | is not yet internationalized.</span> |
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67 | </li> |
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68 | <li> |
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69 | The server-side spell checker now uses XML::DOM instead of |
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70 | HTML::Parser, which means that it will be unable to parse |
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71 | âtag-soupâ HTML. It needs valid code. Usually HTMLArea |
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72 | generates valid code, but on rare occasions it might fail |
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73 | and the spell checker will report a gross error message. |
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74 | This gonna have to be fixed, but instead of making the |
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75 | spell checker accept invalid HTML I prefer to make |
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76 | HTMLArea generate valid code, so changes are to be done in |
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77 | other places ;-) |
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78 | </li> |
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79 | </ul> |
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80 | </li> |
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81 | <li> |
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82 | <b>Changes in the core editor</b> |
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83 | <ul> |
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84 | <li> |
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85 | Easier to setup: you only need to load |
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86 | <tt>htmlarea.js</tt>; other scripts will be loaded |
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87 | automatically. <a href="reference.html">Documentation</a> |
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88 | and <a href="examples/">examples</a> updated. |
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89 | </li> |
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90 | <li> |
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91 | Better plugin support (they register information about |
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92 | themselves with the editor; can register event handlers for |
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93 | the editor, etc.) |
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94 | </li> |
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95 | <li> |
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96 | New about box; check it out, it's cool ;-) |
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97 | </li> |
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98 | <li> |
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99 | Word cleaner (can be enabled to automatically kill Word crap |
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100 | on paste (see Config.killWordOnPaste); otherwise accessible by |
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101 | pressing CTRL-0 in the editor; a toolbar button will come up |
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102 | soon) |
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103 | </li> |
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104 | <li> |
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105 | Image preview in "insert image" dialog. Also allows |
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106 | modification of current image, if selected. |
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107 | </li> |
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108 | <li> |
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109 | New "insert link" dialog, allows target and title |
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110 | specification, allows editing links. |
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111 | </li> |
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112 | <li> |
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113 | Implemented support for text direction (left-to-right or |
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114 | right-to-left). |
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115 | </li> |
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116 | <li> |
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117 | Lots of bug fixes! ... and more, I guess ;-) an |
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118 | automatically generated <a href="ChangeLog">change log</a> |
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119 | is now available. |
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120 | </li> |
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121 | </ul> |
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122 | </li> |
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123 | </ul> |
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124 | |
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125 | <p>I don't have the power to go through the <a |
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126 | href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=525656&group_id=69750&func=browse">bug |
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127 | system</a> at SourceForge |
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128 | now. Some of the bugs reported there may be fixed; I'll update |
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129 | their status, some other time. If you reported bugs there and now |
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130 | find them to be fixed, please let me know.</p> |
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131 | |
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132 | <h2>3.0-Beta</h2> |
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133 | |
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134 | <p>Changes since 3.0-Alpha:</p> |
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135 | |
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136 | <ul> |
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137 | |
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138 | <li>Performance improvements.</li> |
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139 | |
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140 | <li>Many bugs fixed.</li> |
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141 | |
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142 | <li>Plugin infrastructure.</li> |
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143 | |
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144 | <li>TableOperations plugin.</li> |
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145 | |
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146 | <li>SpellChecker plugin.</li> |
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147 | |
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148 | <li>Status bar.</li> |
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149 | |
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150 | <li>API for registering custom buttons and drop-down boxes in the |
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151 | toolbar.</li> |
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152 | |
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153 | <li>Toolbar can contain text labels.</li> |
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154 | |
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155 | <li>Cut, copy, paste, undo, redo buttons.</li> |
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156 | |
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157 | </ul> |
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158 | <%doc> |
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159 | <h2>Rationale for Beta</h2> |
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160 | |
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161 | <p>Why was this released as "Beta"? The code is quite stable and it |
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162 | didn't deserve a "Beta" qualification. However, there are some things |
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163 | left to do for the real 3.0 version. These things will not affect the |
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164 | API to work with HTMLArea, in other words, you can install the Beta |
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165 | right now and then install the final release without modifying your |
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166 | code. That's if you don't modify HTMLArea itself. ;-)</p> |
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167 | |
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168 | <h2>To-Do before 3.0 final</h2> |
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169 | |
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170 | <ol> |
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171 | |
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172 | <li>We should use a single popup interface. Currently there are two: |
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173 | dialog.js and popupwin.js; dialog.js emulates modal dialogs, which |
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174 | sucks when you want to open "select-color" from another popup and not |
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175 | from the editor itself. Very buggy in IE. We should probably use only |
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176 | modeless dialogs (that is, popupwin.js).</li> |
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177 | |
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178 | <li>Internationalization for the SpellChecker plugin.</li> |
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179 | |
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180 | <li>Internationalization for the TableOperations plugin.</li> |
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181 | |
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182 | <li>People who sent translations are invited to re-iterate through |
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183 | their work and make it up-to-date with lang/en.js which is the main |
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184 | lang file for HTMLArea-3.0. Some things have changed but not all |
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185 | translations are updated.</li> |
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186 | |
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187 | <li><strong>Documentation</strong>.</li> |
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188 | |
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189 | </ol> |
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190 | </%doc> |
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191 | <hr /> |
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192 | <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address> |
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193 | <!-- Created: Sun Aug 3 16:55:08 EEST 2003 --> |
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194 | <!-- hhmts start --> Last modified: Wed Mar 31 19:18:26 EEST 2004 <!-- hhmts end --> |
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195 | <!-- doc-lang: English --> |
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196 | </body> |
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197 | </html> |
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198 | |
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199 | <%ARGS> |
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200 | $project => 'HTMLArea' |
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201 | $version => '3.0' |
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202 | $release => 'rc1' |
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203 | $basename => 'HTMLArea-3.0-rc1' |
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204 | </%ARGS> |
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205 | |
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206 | <%INIT>; |
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207 | use POSIX qw(strftime); |
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208 | my $time = strftime '%b %e, %Y [%H:%M] GMT', gmtime; |
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209 | </%INIT> |
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