CKEditor 4

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.

1.4

  • ATTENTION: For PHP users: The editor was changed and now uses htmlspecialchars instead of htmlentities when handling the initial value. It should works well, but please make some tests before upgrading definitively. If there is any problem just uncomment the line in the fckeditor.php file (and send me a message!).
  • The editor is now integrated with ieSpell (http://www.iespell.com) for Spell Checking. You can configure the download URL in then fck_config.js file. Thanks to Sanjay Sharma. (ieSpell is free for personal use but must be paid for commercial use).
  • Table and table cell dialogs has been changed. Now you can select the class you want to be applied. Thanks to Alexander Lezos.
  • [SF Feature-865378]A new upload support is available for ASP. It uses the /UserImages/ folder in the root of the web site as the files container and a counter controlled by the upload.cnt file. Both must have write permissions set to the IUSR_xxx user. Thanks to Trax and Juanjo.
  • [SF Patch-798128] The user (programmer) can now define a custom separator for the list items of a combo in the toolbar. Thanks to Wulff D. Heiss.
  • [SF Feature-741963][SF Feature-878941][SF Patch-869389] A minimal support for a "fake" TAB is now available, even if HTML has no support for TAB. Now when the user presses the TAB key a configurable number of spaces (&nbsp;) is added. Take a look at config.TabSpaces on the fck_config.js file. No action is performed if it is set to zero. The default value is 4. Thanks to Phil Hassey.
  • [SF BUG-782779][SF BUG-790939] The problem with big images has been corrected. Thanks to Raver.
  • [SF BUG-862975] Now the editor does nothing if no image is selected in the image dialog box and the OK button is hit.
  • [SF BUG-851609] The problem with ASP and null values has been solved.
  • Norwegean language pack. Thanks to Martin Kronstad.
  • Hungarian language pack. Thanks to Balázs Szabó.
  • Bosnian language pack. Thanks to Trax.
  • Japanese language pack. Thanks to Kato Yuichiro.
  • Updates on the Polish language pack. Thanks to Norbert Neubauer.
  • The Chinese (Taiwan) (zh-tw) has been removed from the package because it's corrupt. I'm sorry. I hope someone could send me a good version soon.

1.3.1

  • It's now possible to configure the editor the insert a <BR> tag instead of <P> when the user presses the <Enter> key. Take a look at the fck_config.js configuration file for the "UseBROnCarriageReturn" key. This option is disabled by default.
  • Icelandic language pack. Thanks to Andri Óskarsson.
  • [SF BUG-853374] On IE 5.0 there was a little error introduced with version 1.3 on initialization. It was corrected.
  • [SF BUG-853372] On IE 5.0 there was a little error introduced with version 1.3 when setting the focus in the editor. It was corrected.
  • Minor errors on the language file for english has been corrected. Thanks to Anders Madsen.
  • Minor errors on the language file for danish has been corrected. Thanks to Martin Johansen.
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