Ephox EditLive! ActiveX SDK 4.0 Release Notes

Build 4.0.0.20

Released on 18 April, 2005.

This document summarizes the changes in this release of Ephox EditLive! ActiveX SDK 4.0.

EditLive! 4.0 Gold release
Version number 4.0.0.20
18 April, 2005
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New Features

  • New: Interface Translations in the following languages:
    • Arabic
    • Dutch
    • French (France)
    • German
    • Portuguese
    • Simplified Chinese
    • Spanish (Spain)
  • New: UTF8 support
  • New: Forms Editing
  • New: Find Next action
  • New: Paste Special dialog
  • New: Absolute Positioning support
  • Improved: Insert Image dialog now utilises in-dialog image lists for browsing and quick preview
  • Improved: 508 compliance now includes FTP File Manager mode
  • Improved: Ability to set Row Height

Bugs and Fixes

  • Improved: Better reporting of errors when utilising FTP modes.
  • Fixed: Selecting text with the keyboard in HTML view did not update the toolbars.
  • Fixed: Custom Font Colors were not applying correctly.
  • Fixed: EditLive was using "center" instead of "middle" for the table cell valign attribute.
  • Fixed: Content copied from ELJ did not paste correctly into ELW.
  • Fixed: Copying and pasting an image within ELW would corrupt the image URL.
  • Fixed: Pasting content containing flash objects would cause EditLive! to crash.
  • Fixed: About dialog not showing correct information.
  • Fixed: Page Properties was incorrectly disabled in some cases.
  • Fixed: Image address calculation errors when using a HTTPS webroot.
  • Fixed: Remove Style goes into an infinite loop if there are no spans or classes in the current element.
  • Improved: MS Word Smart Tags are now removed instead of ignored.
  • Style classes (eg h1.ClassName) were not added to the list or properly recognised during editing.
  • Fixed: Spell check was updating the highlighted word if the user pressed cancel.
  • Fixed: Problems with Uploading Images in FTP mode from a form submit() function.
  • Fixed: Filter properties now remember their state when EditLive! is running as a component.
  • Other minor fixes and enhancements
EditLive! 3.5 Gold release
Version number 3.5.0.109
11 October, 2004
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New Features

  • New: The EditLive! interface is now Section 508 complaint (excluding FTP File Manager mode)
  • New: Support for inline styles applied with Span tags
  • New: Remove Style command to remove the current span tag
  • New: Remove Formatting command now removes all parent span tags
  • New: Table Selector when you click on the "Insert Table" Toolbar Button, for visual creation of tables
  • New: HTML View no longer has a size limitation
  • New: Syntax highlighting in HTML view
  • Improved: HTML view now uses the same style right-click menu as in Design mode
  • New: Find dialog has been replaced with a Find & replace dialog
  • New Insert Page Break command.
    • Page Breaks are inserted as DIV tags with a style of "PageBreak" so they can be visually rendered using a stylesheet
  • New: LoadStyleSheetWithMedia method to specify the media type when loading a stylesheet.
    • This can be used to specify a visual style for Page Breaks that doesn't appear when printing
  • New: Margin settings in the Page Properties dialog
  • New: Print Preview command
  • New: Paste as Text command
  • New: Strikethrough formatting command
  • New: Justify alignment command
  • New: Change Case formatting command
  • New: Users can now copy an image from an external browser and paste it into EditLive!.  Previously this would result in a broken image if the source document used relative links.
  • New: DisableCustomization property that allows the developer to prevent the user from customising the ELW interface
  • New: ValidHTML property, returns the state of the HTML Filter (false if the user received an "invalid HTML" error)
  • Improved: InsertHTMLAtCursor will now work in HTML view

Bugs and Fixes

  • Fixed: EditLive! flickered every time it was given focus
  • Fixed: Removed toolbar items were added back onto the toolbars when a "Reset" action was performed
  • Fixed: setBodyAttribute caused EditLive! to crash
  • Fixed: Copy & Paste Formatting crashed when the source text had a size not recognised by EditLive!
  • Fixed: EditLive! registered keyboard shortcuts for the entire browser window
  • Fixed: Inserting a HR added width and size attributes by default
  • Fixed: FilterOutputXML was corrupting lists
  • Improved: Removed MabryObj.dll as it was no longer needed
  • Improved: Halved the number of undo events generated by Insert Row Below and Insert Column to the Right
  • Fixed: Import Word Document will no longer trigger the "Open Read-Only" dialog when using Word 2000
  • Fixed: FTPFileManager pane not repainting correctly after clicking inside EditLive!
  • Fixed: HTTP Image Upload failed to recognise response code 407 (Proxy Authentication) and did not request login details
  • Fixed: Problems with parsing tags that did not have balanced attribute quotes
  • Fixed: When using WebDAV spaces in the filename would show up as "%20"
  • Fixed: Insert Symbol did nothing when the Font drop-down was removed
  • Fixed: Editor Mode button was not disabled if EditorMode was set to WYSIWYG or TEXT
  • Improved: Decreased the time to show a list of FTP images by around 60%
  • Fixed: Some flash content was not detected correctly, resulting in lockups
  • Fixed: Error inserting images with accented characters in the filename
  • Fixed: Menus that were left empty after removing all their items still appeared on the menubar
  • Fixed: Complete failure from errors during initialisation.  EditLive! now reports which component failed and attempts to continue loading
  • Fixed: getSource() was returning a full document in certain circumstances
  • Fixed: Server-side FTP images were forced to be relative no matter what the user specified
  • Fixed: Occasional crashes when pressing ctrl+c in HTML view
  • Fixed: Add Toolbar Item was failing silently in some cases
  • Fixed: Crash when attempting to load 0 byte files via FTP
  • Fixed: LoadURL was corrupting characters such as smart quotes
  • Fixed: RemoveTags was not working in some cases, such as complicated HTML pasted from word
  • Improved: More detailed debug logs are now created when saving documents
  • Improved: Debug logging for adding toolbar buttons