CKEditor 4

2.0 RC1

  • ASP support is now available (including the File Manager connector).
  • PHP support is now available (including the File Manager connector).
  • [SF Feature-1063217] The new advanced Style command is available in the toolbar: full preview, context sensitive, style definitions are loaded from a XML file (see documentation for more instructions).
  • The Font Format, Font Name and Font Size toolbar command now show a preview of the available options.
  • The new Find and Replace features has been introduced.
  • A new Plug-in system has been developed. Now it is quite easy to customize the editor to your needs. (Take a look at the html/sample06.html file).
  • The editor now handles HTML entities in the right way (XHTML support must be set to "true"). It handles all entities defined in the W3C XHTML DTD file.
  • A new "_docs" folder has been introduced for the documentation. It is not yet complete, but I hope the community will help us to fill it better.
  • It is now possible (even if it is not recommended by the W3C) to force the use of simple ampersands (&) on attributes (like the links href) instead of its entity &. Just set FCKConfig.ForceSimpleAmpersand = true in the configuration file.
  • [SF Feature-1026866] The "EditorAreaCSS" configuration option has been introduced. In this way you can set the CSS to use in the editor (editable area).
  • The editing area is not anymore clipped if the toolbar is too large and exceeds the window width.
  • [SF BUG-1064902] [SF BUG-1033933] The editor interface is now completely localizable. The version ships with 19 languages including: Arabic, Bosnian, Catalan, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Croatian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin) and Swedish.
  • [SF BUG-1027858] Firefox 1.0 PR introduced a bug that made the editor stop working on it. A workaround has been developed to fix the problem.
  • There was a positioning problem over IE with the color panel. It has been corrected.
  • [SF BUG-1049842] [SF BUG-1033832] [SF BUG-1028623] [SF BUG-1026610] [SF BUG-1064498] The combo commands in the toolbar were not opening in the right way. It has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1053399] [SF BUG-965318] [SF BUG-1018296] The toolbar buttons icons were not showing on some IE and Firefox/Mac installations. It has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1054621] Color pickers are now working with the "office2003" and "silver" skins.
  • [SF BUG-1054108] IE doesn’t recognize the "'" entity for apostrophes, so a workaround has been developed to replace it with "'" (its numeric entity representation).
  • [SF BUG-983434] [SF BUG-983398] [SF BUG-1028103] [SF BUG-1072496] The problem with elements with name "submit" inside the editor's form has been solved.
  • [SF BUG-1018743] The problem with Gecko when collapsing the toolbar while in source mode has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1065268] [SF BUG-1034354] The XHTML processor now doesn’t use the minimized tag syntax (like <br/>) for empty elements that are not marked as EMPTY in the W3C XHTML DTD specifications.
  • [SF BUG-1029654] [SF BUG-1046500] Due to a bug on Gecko there was a problem when creating links. It has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1065973] [SF BUG-999792] The editor now handles relative URLs in IE. In effect IE transform all relative URLs to absolute links, pointing to the site the editor is running. So now the editor removes the protocol and host part of the link if it matches the running server.
  • [SF BUG-1071824] The color dialog box bug has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1052856] [SF BUG-1046493] [SF BUG-1023530] [SF BUG-1025978] The editor now doesn’t throw an error if no selection was made and the create link command is used.
  • [SF BUG-1036756] The XHTML processor has been reviewed.
  • [SF BUG-1029101] The Paste from Word feature is working correctly.
  • [SF BUG-1034623] There is an IE bug when setting the editor value to "<p><hr></p>". A workaround has been developed.
  • [SF BUG-1052695] There are some rendering differences between Netscape and Mozilla. (Actually that is a bug on both browsers). A workaround has been developed to solve it.
  • [SF BUG-1050394] The editor doesn’t throw errors when hidden.
  • [SF BUG-1066321] Scrollbars should not appear on dialog boxes (at least for the Image and Link ones).
  • [SF BUG-1046490] Dialogs now are forced to show on foreground over Mac.
  • [SF BUG-1073955] A small bug in the image dialog window has been corrected.
  • [SF BUG-1049534] The Resources Browser window is now working well over Gecko browsers.
  • [SF BUG-1036675] The Resources Browser window now displays the server error on bad installations.

2.0 Beta 2

  • There is a new configuration - "GeckoUseSPAN" - that can be used to tell Gecko browsers to use <SPAN style...> or <B>, <I> and <U> for the bold, italic and underline commands.
  • [SF Feature-1002622] New Text Color andBackground Color commands have been added to the editor.
  • On Gecko browsers, a message is shown when,because ofsecurity settings,the useris not able tocut, copy or paste data from the clipboard using the toolbar buttons or the context menu.
  • The new "Paste as Plain Text " command has been introduced.
  • The new "Paste from Word " command has been introduced.
  • A new configuration named"StartupFocus" can be used to tell the editor to get the focus when the page is loaded.
  • All Java integration files has been moved to a new separated package.
  • [SF BUG-1016781] Table operations are now working when right click inside a table. The following commands has been introduced: Insert Row, Delete Row, Insert Column, Delete Column, Insert Cell and Delete Cells .
  • [SF BUG-965067] [SF BUG-1010379] [SF BUG-977713] XHTML support was not working with FireFox, blocking the editor when submitting data. It has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1007547] [SF BUG-974595]The "FCKLang not defined" error when loading has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-1021028] If the editor doesn't have the focus, some commands were been executed outside the editor in the place where the focus is. It has been fixed.
  • [SF BUG-981191] We are now using <!--- ---> for ColdFusion comments.

2.0 Beta 1

This is the first beta of the 2.x series. It brings a lot of new and important things. Beta versions will be released until all features available on version 1.x will be introduced in the 2.0.

Note: As it is a beta, it is not yet completely developed. Future versions can bring new features that can break backward compatibility with this version.
  • Gecko browsers (Mozilla and Netscape) support.
  • Quick startup response times.
  • Complete XHTML 1.0 support.
  • Advanced link dialog box:
    • Target selection.
    • Popup configurator.
    • E-Mail link.
    • Anchor selector.
  • New File Manager.
  • New dialog box system, with tabbed dialogs support.
  • New context menus with icons.
  • New toolbar with "expand/collapse" feature.
  • Skins support.
  • Right to left languages support.

1.6

  • Context Menu support for form elements.*
  • New "Selection Field" command with advanced dialog box for options definitions.*
  • New "Image Button" command is available.*
  • [SF Feature-936196] Many form elements bugs has been fixed and many improvements has been done.*
  • New Java Integration Module. There is a complete Java API and Tag Library implementations. Take a look at the _jsp directory. Thanks to Simone Chiaretta and Hao Jiang.
  • The Word Spell Checker can be used. To be able to run it, your browser security configuration "Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe" must be set to "Enable" or "Prompt". And easier and more secure way to do that is to add your site in the list of trusted sites. IeSpell can still be used. Take a look at the fck_config.js file for some configuration options. Thanks to EdwardRF.
  • [SF Feature-748807] [SF Feature-801030] [SF Feature-880684] New "Anchor" command, including context menu support. Thanks to G.Meijer.
  • Special characters are replaced with their decimal HTML entities when the XHMTL support is enabled (only over IE5.5+).
  • New Office 2003 Style toolbar icons are available. Just uncomment the config.ToolbarImagesPath key in the fck_config.js file. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij. Attention: the default toolbar items have been moved to the "images/toolbar/default" directory.
  • [SF Patch-934566] Double click support for Images, Tables, Links, Anchors and all Form elements. Thanks to Top Man.
  • New "New Page" command to start a typing from scratch. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • New "Replace" command. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • New "Advanced Font Style" command. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • [SF Feature-738193] New "Save" command. It can be used to simulate a save action, but in fact it just submits the form where the editor is placed in. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • New "Universal Keyboard" command. This 22 charsets are available: Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Diacritical, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Includes a keystroke listener to type Arabic on none Arabic OS or machine. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • [SF Patch-935358] New "Preview" command. Context menu option is included and can be deactivated throw the config.ShowPreviewContextMenu configuration. Thanks to Ben Ramsey.
  • New "Table Auto Format" context menu command. Hack a little the fck_config.js and the fck_editorarea.css files. Thanks to Alexandros Lezos.
  • New "Bulleted List Properties " context menu to define its type and class. Thanks to Alexandros Lezos.
  • The image dialog box has been a redesigned . Thanks to Mark Fierling.
  • Images now always have the "alt" attribute set, even when it's value is empty. Thanks to Andreas Barnet.
  • [SF Patch-942250] You can set on fck_config.js to automatically clean Word pasting operations without a user confirmation.
  • Forms element dialogs and other localization pending labels has been updated.
  • A new Lithuanian language file is available. Thanks to Tauras Paliulis.
  • A new Hebrew language file is available. Thanks to Ophir Radnitz.
  • A new Serbian language file is available. Thanks to Zoran Subic.
  • Danish language file updates. Thanks to Flemming Jensen.
  • Catalan language file updates. Thanks to Jordi Cerdan.
  • [SF Patch-936514] [SF BUG-918716] [SF BUG-931037] [SF BUG-865864] [SF BUG-915410] [SF BUG-918716] Some languages files were not saved on UTF-8 format causing some javascript errors on loading the editor or making "undefined" to show on editor labels. This problem was solved.
  • Updates on the testsubmit.php file. Thanks to Geat and Gabriel Schillaci
  • [SF BUG-924620] There was a problem when setting a name to an editor instance when the name is used by another tag. For example when using "description" as the name in a page with the <META name="description"> tag.
  • [SF BUG-935018] The "buletted" typo has been corrected.
  • [SF BUG-902122] Wrong css and js file references have been corrected.
  • [SF BUG-918942] All dialog boxes now accept Enter and Escape keys as Ok and Cancel buttons.

* This version has been partially sponsored by Genuitec, LLC.

1.5

  • [SF Feature-913777] New Form Commands are now available! Special thanks to G.Meijer.
  • Print Command is now available!
  • [SF BUG-743546] The XHTML content duplication problem has been solved . Thanks to Paul Hutchison.
  • [SF BUG-875853] The image dialog box now gives precedence for width and height values set as styles. In this way a user can change the size of the image directly inside the editor and the changes will be reflected in the dialog box.
  • [SF Feature-788368] The sample file upload manager for ASPX now uses guids for the file name generation. In this way a support XML file is not needed anymore.
  • It's possible now to programmatically change the Base Path of the editor if it's installed in a directory different of "/FCKeditor/". Something like this:
    oFCKeditor.BasePath = '/FCKeditor/' ;
    Take a look at the _test directory for samples.
  • There was a little bug in the TAB feature that moved the insertion point if there were any object (images, tables) in the content. It has been fixed.
  • The problem with accented and international characters on the PHP test page was solved.
  • A new Chinese (Taiwan) language file is available. Thanks to Nil.
  • A new Slovenian language file is available. Thanks to Pavel Rotar.
  • A new Catalan language file is available. Thanks to Jordi Cerdan.
  • A new Arabic language file is available. Thanks to Abdul-Aziz A. Al-Oraij.
  • Small corrections on the Norwegian language file.
  • A Java version for the test results (testsubmit.jsp) is now available. Thanks to Pritpal Dhaliwal.
  • When using Javascript to create a editor instance it's possible now to easily get the editor's value calling oFCKeditor.GetValue() (eg.). Better Javascript API interfaces will be available on version 2.0.
  • If XHTML is enabled the editor cleans the HTML before showing it on the Source View, so the exact result can be viewed by the user. This option can be activated setting config.EnableSourceXHTML = true in the fck_config.js file.
  • The JS integration object now escapes all configuration settings, in this way a user can use reserved chars on it. For example:
    oFCKeditor.Config["ImageBrowserURL"] = '/imgs/browse.asp?filter=abc*.jpg&userid=1';
  • A minimal browse server sample is now available in ASP. Thanks to Andreas Barnet.
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