tags, they just want the editor to work as they would expect. Additionaly, those features of AreaEdit that require backend support such as Imagemanager, Linker and SpellChecker are implemented in PHP. While this does not preclude others from developing those backends in other languages (hooks are available), we are not likely to that development here unless we have a paying client funding the effort. If your audience is primarly composed of developers or those familar with HTML, you may wish to take a look at Xinha. Please see the CREDITS file. AreaEdit is released under the same terms as HTMLAREA. For license information please see the accompanying LICENSE.txt file. It is also available on the web at: http://www.formvista.com/otherprojects/areaedit/license.html For questions, suggestions and bug reports please use the formVista discussion forums at: http://www.formvista.com/forum.html --------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIREMENTS: AreaEdit works in MSIE 5.5 or later and all modern Gecko based browsers. If you want to run the examples or are going to use any plugins that require server backend support you will need a properly configured webserver that supports PHP. In addition you will need a command line PHP interpreter in order to run the command line Configure.php script. (Configure.php generates the backends/backend_conf.php file). The AreaEdit codebase is developed under Linux and has only been tested on that platform. It should work under Windows as well. If try to run it under Windows and have any problems please report them to us. --------------------------------------------------------------- AreaEdit used to be known as the Xinha unified backend branch. The main difference between it and standard Xinha is that all client to server communications are routed through a single backend script (backends/backend.php). This design allows the component to work within the formVista framework in addition to standalone. JavaDoc style headers have been added to all methods in addition to extensive debugging trace messages. A number of scripts have been being added to make the codebase more manageable. These scripts require Perl and PHP. See the README_DEVELOPERS.txt for more information about working with the codebase. For more information see: INSTALL.txt README_DEVELOPERS.txt index.html docs/index.html http://www.formvista.com/otherprojects/areaedit.html -------------------------------------------------------------- On the Subject of
vs.
tags on Enter:
By default Gecko based browsers insert a
tag when ENTER is
pressed. By contrast, MSIE wraps text correctly in
tags. As a result, both the generated HTML and the user experience are different under the two browser. In MSIE, ENTER behaves like a double enter when
tags have their default style. The "correct" solution is to have both browsers use
tags and then modify the look from stylesheets. EnterParagraphs is a plugin that valiently attempts to correctly generate wrapped
tags in FireFox. Unfortunately, even after countless hours of work it's still largely very very broken. For the time being, AreaEdit uses the default browser behavior on ENTER. Under FireFox, EnterParagraphs intercepts CNTRL-ENTER and does it's thing. (see areaedit/plugins/EnterParagraphs/enter-paragraphs.js line 940). Once we can get EnterParagraphs working in all cases correctly we'll change the behavior back to onENTER.