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| 4 | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> |
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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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| 10 | |
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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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| 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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