We are happy to announce the beta release of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition!

This version is a functional equivalent of PHP Edition v.2.0.5 plus it adds design-time support for Visual Studio 2005 (including Web Developer Express).

SPAW Editor .NET Edition v.2.0.5 beta is available for immediate download through our download page.

Main features of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition are:

- completely redesigned and rewritten modular architecture
- tabbed multi-document interface
- floating/shared toolbars
- resizable editing area
- context menu
- file manager plugin
- support for Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, Opera 9 and Safari 3 browsers
- XHTML rendering
- design time support for Visual Studio 2005
- and many more

This release is marked beta because it hasn’t been tested by wide user base and there are still some things to do in secondary areas but where it matters it is pretty much complete.

Known issues:

- Documentation is incomplete;
- Pages can only be added through code;
- Defaults shown in VS2005 designer are hard-coded and wont match modified spaw2.config settings;
- Modifying of File Manage directories at run-time will be streamlined before the final release;
- Some configuration properties can only be set through config file or accessing Editor.Configuration object directly;
- Plugins and themes not ported, yet.

System requirements:

- ASP .NET version 2.0 or higher;
- Visual Studio 2005/Visual Web Developer 2005 Express edition for design-time support.

We have also created a dedicated forum for .NET Edition v.2

Your feedback is very valuable!

Commercial License Pricing:

Since announcement of development of .NET Edition we were selling Enterprise licenses for only 100 EURO. This is a discount of 60%! This price will stay for one more week only and will go up on Monday, October 8, 2007.

So, if you were planning to purchase a commercial license, don’t miss your chance to do this with the highest discount in SPAW’s history!

Visit our purchase page for details and purchase links.

Finally PayPal stopped discriminating our country (Lithuania) meaning that starting now we can accept donations.

We’ve added a PayPal donation button to our site. So if you’re one of those good people who actually care about future of free software use it to drop us some bone.

Thank you! Your support is highly appreciated!

It’s about time to give you a progress report on development of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition and I’m happy to report that it was rendered via ASP .NET for the first time today:

There are still quite a few important things to do: dialogs (especially File Manager), wrapping it all nicely in .NET control, etc. but the most important core development/porting is complete.

Hopefully we’ll be able to release a usable beta in several weeks. And among other things this also means that you have that much time (couple of weeks) to secure the enterprise license at a ridiculous price of 100 euros (normal price is 250).

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We are starting development of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET edition. First public release is expected by the end of summer/early autumn 2007.

In the mean time you can pre-order v.2 with a huge discount of 60% for the enterprise license. You will get unlimited license for v.1 + free upgrade to v.2 when it’s released + free upgrades to all 2.x releases. And finally you will support the development of .NET Edition v.2!

And now some technical information…

v.2 unlike v.1 will be developed as custom control targeted at .NET framework 2.0/3.0. We will make a reasonable effort to make it .NET 1.x compatible, but no promises at this point. Design time support for Visual Studio 2005 will be included.

Functionally .NET Edition will be identical (+/- some platform specific features) to the PHP Edition. Once stable .NET version is released both versions will be developed/updated simultanously. So, if you are wondering what would it be able to do, check out PHP Edition demo.

We’ve started a special thread for all things related to v.2 .NET edition so, in case you have any thoughts on the matter we would really like to hear them.

Your support and feedback are highly appreciated!

We have just released version 2.0.5 of SPAW Editor PHP Edition. This is a “wide” release of version 2.0.5 beta which introduced Safari 3 support a couple of weeks ago.

In addition to new features in 2.0.5 beta this release fixes a bug in dialogs with RTL languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. In case you’re already using v.2.0.5 beta and don’t use RTL languages, there’s no need to upgrade.

v.2.0.5 is availabe for immediate download through our download page.

Here is a complete list of changes in versions 2.0.5 beta and 2.0.5:

• FEATURE ADDED: support for Safari 3 browser on OS X and Windows
• BUGFIX: absolute URLs were not stripped in XHTML module
• BUGFIX: XHTML rendering: only the first instance of & in href and src attributes was converted to &
• BUGFIX: text direction wasn’t set in dialogs when using RTL languages like Hebrew and Arabic