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Guido Wesdorp
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Kupu 1.1 released
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The Kupu developer team is proud to announce the 1.1 release of Kupu.
This release provides a number of new features as well as a lot of bugfixes.
What is Kupu?
-------------
Kupu is a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that works on both Mozilla and
Internet Explorer based browsers. It allows editing a web-page from the
application serving it rather then in a seperate application.
Key features are extensibility and clean code, but it tries to also
provide a good user experience by using a different approach for certain
standard things, for instance it's 'document-centric' rather then
'data-centric', meaning that (in the default setup) one edits a full
page rather than part of a form (note that it *can* be used as a
'textarea replacement' as well) and it uses PUT request (also optional)
whenever possible to give the user the impression he's working in a
'real' application rather then on some web page.
Kupu is released under a BSD-style license.
What's new?
-----------
Changes from 1.1b2-1.1:
* Added a new SourceEdit tool, replacing the old function (thanks to
Damian Gajda).
* Added 'definition list' support to the core distribution
(template).
* Moved the 'drawers' out of the core distribution since they're not
bugfree when used from the filesystem.
Highlights from 1.0.3-1.1:
* Added a new Selection object that provides a high-level cross-browser
API for working with selections.
* Added a templating system for the HTML files. This makes producing
HTML a bit harder but allows you to change a feature in one place
for all the HTML files (so no copy/pasting of HTML is required
anymore).
* Added a unit test suite (ecmaunit, see http://kupu.oscom.org for
more details) and some unit tests.
* A new feature called 'drawers' has landed. Drawers are some form of
in-page windows that provide functionality as the 'toolboxes' do
(so adding images and links, for instance), they provide an
alternative for situations where there's little real-estate. Some
special drawers got written ('library drawers') that use XSLT to
transform XML from the server to content (works on any server that
can produce XML).
* Added support for Silva, Silva 1.0 will ship with Kupu 1.1.
* Added Plone support.
* Buttons are now stateful, meaning they look different when the
cursor is inside an element they control (so when inside a bold
piece of text, the button looks 'pressed in').
* There are now access keys defined for all the buttons in the
toolbar.
* A *lot* of bugfixes... Especially IE 5.5 has had some extra
attention. We don't expect all bugs are gone now, but stability has
improved a lot since the 1.0.3 release (and a lot more even since
1.0).
Where can I find it?
--------------------
You can download the release here:
http://kupu.oscom.org/download/kupu11.html
Thanks to:
----------
We would like to thank the people from Infrae, ETH and Oscom, and Holger
Krekel, Damian Gajda, Jan Smith, Felicia Wong for the logo, Eric
Casteleijn for the name and Torvald de Boskat for ethical support.
We hope you enjoy Kupu
----------------------
For questions, remarks or information, check the homepage for a list of
possible channels to get in touch. We have an IRC channel on
irc.freenode.net (#kupu), a mailinglist and an issue tracker, and we're
very prepared to help you out. Additional developers are always welcome.
Cheers,
Guido Wesdorp, the Kupu team
Kupu 1.1 released
=================
The Kupu developer team is proud to announce the 1.1 release of Kupu.
This release provides a number of new features as well as a lot of bugfixes.
What is Kupu?
-------------
Kupu is a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that works on both Mozilla and
Internet Explorer based browsers. It allows editing a web-page from the
application serving it rather then in a seperate application.
Key features are extensibility and clean code, but it tries to also
provide a good user experience by using a different approach for certain
standard things, for instance it's 'document-centric' rather then
'data-centric', meaning that (in the default setup) one edits a full
page rather than part of a form (note that it *can* be used as a
'textarea replacement' as well) and it uses PUT request (also optional)
whenever possible to give the user the impression he's working in a
'real' application rather then on some web page.
Kupu is released under a BSD-style license.
What's new?
-----------
Changes from 1.1b2-1.1:
* Added a new SourceEdit tool, replacing the old function (thanks to
Damian Gajda).
* Added 'definition list' support to the core distribution
(template).
* Moved the 'drawers' out of the core distribution since they're not
bugfree when used from the filesystem.
Highlights from 1.0.3-1.1:
* Added a new Selection object that provides a high-level cross-browser
API for working with selections.
* Added a templating system for the HTML files. This makes producing
HTML a bit harder but allows you to change a feature in one place
for all the HTML files (so no copy/pasting of HTML is required
anymore).
* Added a unit test suite (ecmaunit, see http://kupu.oscom.org for
more details) and some unit tests.
* A new feature called 'drawers' has landed. Drawers are some form of
in-page windows that provide functionality as the 'toolboxes' do
(so adding images and links, for instance), they provide an
alternative for situations where there's little real-estate. Some
special drawers got written ('library drawers') that use XSLT to
transform XML from the server to content (works on any server that
can produce XML).
* Added support for Silva, Silva 1.0 will ship with Kupu 1.1.
* Added Plone support.
* Buttons are now stateful, meaning they look different when the
cursor is inside an element they control (so when inside a bold
piece of text, the button looks 'pressed in').
* There are now access keys defined for all the buttons in the
toolbar.
* A *lot* of bugfixes... Especially IE 5.5 has had some extra
attention. We don't expect all bugs are gone now, but stability has
improved a lot since the 1.0.3 release (and a lot more even since
1.0).
Where can I find it?
--------------------
You can download the release here:
http://kupu.oscom.org/download/kupu11.html
Thanks to:
----------
We would like to thank the people from Infrae, ETH and Oscom, and Holger
Krekel, Damian Gajda, Jan Smith, Felicia Wong for the logo, Eric
Casteleijn for the name and Torvald de Boskat for ethical support.
We hope you enjoy Kupu
----------------------
For questions, remarks or information, check the homepage for a list of
possible channels to get in touch. We have an IRC channel on
irc.freenode.net (#kupu), a mailinglist and an issue tracker, and we're
very prepared to help you out. Additional developers are always welcome.
Cheers,
Guido Wesdorp, the Kupu team