Thanks to our forum user mtxd a potential security issue has been identified in SPAW Editor PHP Edition v.2. We have released a hotfix 2.0.8.1 release which addresses the issue.

Users of previous versions can download a simple 1 file hotfix only release. It is compatible with all 2.0.x versions. We strongly recommend you to apply this hotfix to all your SPAW v.2 installations.

After some minor testing we can conclude that SPAW Editor seems to work pretty fine for the most part with newly released Google Chrome browser.

The browser is currently detected and handled as it was Safari since it includes the matching substring in it’s USER_AGENT value:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

We will be making necessary changes in the future in case there’s a need to support Chrome individually, but for now it seems to be quite usable as it is.

Make sure you are running SPAW Editor v.2.0.5 or newer if you care about Chrome support.

We’ve released version 2.0.8 of SPAW Editor (both PHP and ASP .NET editions). This release adds an option to start editor in read-only mode + a couple bug fixes.

Change log:

• FEATURE ADDED: read-only version of the editor
• BUGFIX: when inserting anchor on an empty content in Firefox inner document URL was inserted into editing area
• BUGFIX: paragraph value Normal wasn’t working in Firefox. Replaced with <p> config file

As always download is available via our download page.

We’ve been notified about problems with posting to our forums that started late last week.

The source of the problems was incorrect mail server configuration that was somehow restored at our server. The problem should be fixed now.

Thanks to all who notified us about the issue!

We were notified of the issue with Safari 3 detection code in .NET edition which resulted in run-time error everytime someone using Safari 3 visits your page with SPAW. We issued a fix for it back in April but with all the server troubles forgot to update the download page and post to the blog about it.

Better later than never. Download the hotfix release from SPAW Editor’s download page.

You only need to overwrite Bin\Solmetra.Spaw.dll in your 2.0.7 installations.

Version 2.0.7 of both ASP.NET and PHP editions of SPAW Editor has been released.

The main focus of this release was reworking of the style application algorithm combining good parts of the ways this was done in SPAW 1.x and SPAW 2 and getting rid of the bad. Other bugs were fixed, workarounds implemented and new features added.

Numerous language files were updated and fixed by the community. Thanks!

Version 2.0.7 is available for immediate download through our download page.

Here’s a complete change log:

1. FEATURE ADDED: when inserting a hyperlink and nothing is selected, hyperlink title is used for linked text (if title is not set href url is used)
2. CHANGE: reworked CSS class application algorithm: now if nothing is selected CSS class is set on the parent tag of the current cursor position, plus style changes are applied to the same span tag rather than creating a new one
3. CHANGE: font name and font sizes are now applied with custom code rather than browser features allowing for wider variety of valid settings
4. CHANGE: JavaScript API: refactored style setting methods: moved style setting to editor methods applyStyleToSelection and removeStyleFrom, so they could be called from various other methods (like font settings, etc.)
5. BUGFIX/WORKAROUND: empty paragraphs were multiplying in IE when DOM tree or HTML had paragraph inside of a paragraph
6. BUGFIX/WORKAROUND: when content started with script or style tag it was removed under IE
7. BUGFIX: there were PHP notices in dialogs when session wasn’t used to store config data
8. BUGFIX: inner contents of style tag was stripped under IE
9. BUGFIX: insertHtmlAtSelection method wasn’t working correctly in IE when “control” (image, etc.) was selected
10. BUGFIX: SpawFm plugin: fixed automatic uploaded file/created directory selection
11. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: Romanian (Lari Corifeanu)
12. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Turkish (Sitki Ozkurt)
13. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: core and SpawFM: Celtic (Alan Davies)
14. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Slovak (Martin Svec)
15. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Slovak (Martin Svec)
16. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Italian (fabrix)

It was late 2002 when we decided to turn our internal WYSIWYG editor control into an open-source project. So we’ve spent some time reworking what was initially developed for our internal use only into a publicly appealing product.

On April 3, 2003 we’ve created a project at Sourceforge.net, moved our codebase there and released the first public version of SPAW Editor. The rest is history.

Here we are 5 years and 42 releases later with a completely rewritten SPAW Editor v.2.

We would like to thank all of you who helped us make SPAW what it is today, either by pointing out bugs, suggesting useful features or supporting the project financially by purchasing commercial licenses. THANK YOU!

There’s not much we can do for you except releasing new and improved versions of SPAW (and the next one is coming really soon). What we can do is give a substantial discount to those who were thinking of purchasing a commercial license.

So, if you are interested in commercial license for SPAW Editor head straight to our purchase page, select a license that suits you and enter SPAWIS5 promotion code while ordering to get a 50% discount on any commercial SPAW Editor license. And make sure that you do this before the end of April, 2008.

We are extremely happy to announce that, after several months of planning, couple more months of coding and another couple of beta-testing and bug fixing, stable version of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition has been finally released!

We have released all of our plugins ported for ASP.NET Edition a couple of days ago and we are releasing additional themes simultaneously with this release.

Download links:

• SPAW Editor v.2.0.6 .NET Edition
• Plugins
• Themes (skins)

About SPAW Editor v.2

For those unfamiliar with SPAW Editor - it’s a web based WYSYWYG HTML editor control for ASP .NET and PHP. Here’s a list of major features of SPAW Editor v.2:

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

Change Log

Here’s a list of changes in this release from previous v.2.0.6 Release Candidate release:

• BUGFIX: Exception was generated during saving of state when editor with single page was invisible
• BUGFIX: substitute images for flash content were missing
• BUGFIX: Theme class was attempting to use default CSS style when actually default CSS class was defined in theme config
• BUGFIX: Toolbar class was attempting to use custom CSS style when actually custom CSS class was defined in theme config
• DOCUMENTATION ADDED: Plugin Developer’s Guide
• DOCUMENTATION UPDATED: updated integrator’s guide

We have finished porting all of our plugins for SPAW Editor v.2 to ASP.NET and just released them. You can download them through our Extend page.

Have a Happy New Year!

During these winter holidays you have a rare opportunity to purchase commercial SPAW Editor licenses with massive discount of 28%. To get the discount just use the coupon code year2008 in the coupon code field in the purchase form.

The offer is valid until January 1, 2008. Applicable to all currently available editions of SPAW Editor. Buy now!