We have released a beta version of SPAW Editor PHP Edition with Safari 3 support. Default Safari 2 installations have sort of retarded support for required functionality (users had to upgrade to nightly builds of WebKit for it to work normally) so we decided to show normal textareas to Safari2 users rather than semi-working WYSIWYG.

This release is marked BETA for 2 reasons:

1. Obviously it’s a first release with Safari support and we are not 100% sure this will work as expected for everyone. But aside from some small changes in shared code all other browsers should behave the same way (with 2 bugs fixed and hopefully none added) as 2.0.4.1. So, you can install this beta on your production sites if you don’t care about Safari
2. I’m going on a 2 week semi-vacation/family business this weekend and I didn’t want to make a “wide” release and leave (in case something goes wrong). This blog is the only place where 2.0.5 is announced and I wont update download links on the main site until I come back.

Ok. Enough talking and let’s get back to business. Grab 2.0.5 beta directly from sourceforge.net. Your feedback either here or in the forums is highly appreciated (especially if you are a Safari user)

P.S.: I’ll be in Germany for the next week or two. So, in case you live in Heidelberg/Mannheim area and would like to grab a beer or something drop me a line at alan@solmetra.lt (keep in mind that I don’t speak German)

We have just published a plugin which hooks up to the paste event in Internet Explorer and (depending on cofiguration) cleans content of the clipboard before pasting it into editing area. It uses the same cleanup function as “Clean HTML” button in the core.

Note that it works in Internet Explorer only (other browsers don’t have events for paste) and requires SPAW Editor version 2.0.4 or higher.

You can download the plugin by clicking here.

P.S.: Development of this plugin was sponsored by Erik Hes of www.hestec.nl. Thanks, Erik!

As you can see on the screenshot we already have a version of SPAW Editor PHP Edition v.2 working on Safari 3 on Mac OS X (and Windows too).

We are going to test it for a couple more days and, if no serious issues come up (knocks on wood), release it as a beta next week.

If anyone knows exact Safari or WebKit build number when “normal” support for required functionality was implemented, please, let us know. At this point we’ve set it to work on Safari with build number higher than 500. Standard Safari 2 installation found on OS X 10.4.x Tiger doesn’t fully work so we decided to render simple textareas in it rather than provide half-working WYSIWYG as some of the competitors did.

Apple has released a public beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. This brings us one more step closer to SPAW Editor working in Safari.

As reported earlier there was quite an ugly bug in XHTML rendering engine in version 2.0.4 where closing quotes on src and href attributes were missing. So we’ve made a quick bugfix release which solves that bug. Both full version and upgrade (which is only one javascript file) are available for download through our download page.

We are sorry for inconvinience and would like to thank user vwessel who discovered the bug and reported it in our forum

User vwessel has  reported a major bug in version 2.0.4 in our forums. We will be releasing a fixed version on Monday, June 11. Until then we suggest that you don’t upgrade to 2.0.4 or manually apply a quick fix described in a/m thread.

We are terribly sorry for inconvinience.

We have just released version 2.0.4 of SPAW Editor PHP Edition.

This release fixes some outstanding issues like undo/redo functionality in IE, CSS classes for table cells, plus many more. It also adds and updates a couple of language files for both core and Spaw File Manager plugin. A couple of new features were added too.

2.0.4 is available for immediate download through our download page.

Now we plan to take a closer look at Safari support which we can do thanks to Oliver Georgi - the creator of phpwcms - open source content management system.

Here’s a complete change log for version 2.0.4:

1. FEATURE ADDED: SpawFm plugin: added settings (”forbid_extensions”, ”forbid_extensions_strict”) to disallow uploading insecure files;
2. FEATURE ADDED: added “page_body” to event subsystem to add events to page’s body object
3. BUGFIX (workaround): SPAW’s status bar functionality was causing problems with undo/redo functions under IE. Status bar functionality (as least important of the two) is now disabled under IE until we find a complete solution
4. BUGFIX: css classes for table cells dialog were not loaded
5. BUGFIX: shape and coords attributes were lost in area tag under IE
6. BUGFIX: dialog window resize was incorrect on some smaller display resolutions with IE7
7. BUGFIX: only first instances of &, < and > in a single text node where properly encoded
8. BUGFIX: SpawFm plugin: fixed files filtering by selected filetype
9. FIX: when using toolbar buttons in Firefox focus wasn’t returned back to editing area so that you can type further without clicking inside the editing area first
10. FIX: & in href and src attributes is now replaced with &amp;
11. FIX: added rows and cols attributes on textarea
12. FIX: added ALT attribute on resizing grip
13. FIX: converted all attribute names to lowercase on toolbar buttons
14. FIX: added empty alt attribute to toolbar images
15. FIX: alt attribute is always added to img tag in image properties dialog
16. FIX: added empty ALT attribute to image tag on quick image insert
17. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: French (mehdi cherifi)
18. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Italian
19. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: German (Alexander Schmutz)
20. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Czech (Kristian Vrhel)
21. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Brazilian Portuguese (Alessandro Gambin da Silva)
22. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Czech (Kristian Vrhel)
23. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Hungarian (Szentgyörgyi J?nos)
24. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Spanish (Ing. Martin Perez)
25. DOCS: added note about session_start to integrators guide

We have analyzed our data and decided to introduce some minor changes in commercial licensing scheme. Starting from June 7, 2007 licensing scheme changes as follows:

1. we have removed “single server” license since it wasn’t popular and caused confusion
2. we have added volume discounts for “single site” licenses but increased the price of a single license to justify management and processing expenses for small amounts

We understand that these changes could be a surprise for some of you, so we created discount coupon codes for those who were planning to purchase a/m licenses:

1. to get 34% discount on single site licenses enter coupon code “706site” (without quotes) in the purchase form
2. to get 51 EURO discount on enterprise license enter coupon code “706ent” (without quotes) in the purchase form

Coupons are valid until the end of June, 2007. So, don’t miss this opportunity.

Purchase links are available through our “purchase” page

The manual for using SPAW Editor v.2 in WordPress 2, which I accidentally deleted while cleaning spam in our forums, has been restored. Thanks to Stefan, web designer from Germany, now you can use SPAW with the most popular blogging engine in the world.

Hooray! And thanks to Stefan!

You can find the tutorial here. And hopefully I wont delete it again

Thanks to our friend Oliver Georgi - the creator of phpwcms - open source content management system we are proud owners of this beautiful PowerMac G3 and now we can start working on Safari friendly version of SPAW Editor.

Oliver kindly paid all associated expenses. So, those of you who wanted to donate to this cause back when we were trying to raise money for Mac purchase, can share our gratitude to Oliver and donate to future development of his fine CMS.