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FOSDEM 2009

FOSDEM 2009: Linux, Mozilla, MySQL et plus encore

9ème rassemblement des développeurs de logiciel libre et open source à Bruxelles le 7-8 février 2009.

Le 7 et 8 février, plus de cinq mille développeurs de logiciel libre et open source se rassemblent à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, sur le campus Solbosch, pour la neuvième conférence FOSDEM annuelle. Les conférenciers principaux de cette année sont Mark Surman (directeur exécutif de la Mozilla Foundation), BDale Garbee (secrétaire de projet Debian), et Leslie Hawthorn (Google Summer of Code).

FOSDEM 2009

WYMeditor 0.5 beta 1 released, Google Chrome compatible

WYMeditor 0.5 beta 1 has been released!

This release brings new features and fixes bugs.

New features:

Better Safari and Opera support
Google Chrome support
New skins
New translations
Table summary support
Resizable plugin, using jQuery UI
Editing direction option (left-to-right, right-to-left)
New example pages
New insert() command

Bugs, improvements:

Bugs have been fixed in the XHTML parser, API, events handlers, ...
Remaining string and array helpers have been moved to WYMeditor.Helper
A new test suite, based on the jQuery Test Suite, has been added
The documentation has been improved

As always, please refer to the Trac website for more information.

Due to SourceForge issues, we're moving the download page to the main WYMeditor website. Please contact me in case of any problems downloading the file.

Many thanks to all our donors and contributors who made this release possible!

WYMeditor 0.5 alpha 1 released, Safari compatible

WYMeditor 0.5 alpha 1 has been released!

This new version brings major new features:

Safari compatibility
New skin system, easier to customize
WYMeditor namespace, no more global variables
Automatic loading of language and skin files

As always, any help and feedback is welcome at the Trac, the mailing-list, or by dropping me a line at jf.hovinne at wymeditor dotorg.

Thanks to contributors, especially to Scott Lewis for his help on the Safari implementation.

Download WYMeditor

WYMeditor for Safari

We finally found some time today to work on the WYMeditor Safari implementation, with Safari 3.1.1 for Windows under Ubuntu + Wine (sic).

The new Webkit support for designMode is a huge step forward compared to previous versions - main 'standard' features work out of the box, without the need of tricky hacks like before.

So most of WYMeditor commands have been ported to Safari: strong, em, lists, links, images, tables, containers, classes, ... and even nested lists! It's not perfect of course - bugs remain - but it's already quite usable (well, I hope there won't be too much issues with the Mac version).

For those interested, a nightly build is available. Please be aware that this is alpha software. Some example pages aren't up-to-date.

Thanks to Scott Lewis for his help on this.

New softwares using WYMeditor

I'm glad to announce new softwares that have chosen WYMeditor for their online editing:

SkyBlueCanvas, a lightweight xml-based CMS, written in PHP by Scott Lewis (major WYMeditor contributor);
TypeRoom, a free website editing tool that allows you to edit a website in seconds;
And a soon to be released GPL e-commerce project...

I'd recommend testing SkyBlueCanvas (SBC), which is now GPLed and is the result of 3 years of development by Scott Lewis.
This CMS is well-designed and really easy to use, though still in alpha.
For the moment SBC uses WYMeditor 0.2, but there are plans to integrate the latest WYMeditor codebase, with the long-awaited Safari compatibility. Yeah.

You may know TypeRoom, which allows you to remotely edit a website in minutes. TypeRoom uses a highly customized version of WYMeditor, and it's pretty impressive.
TypeRoom is available in two versions, a Lite one, which is free, and a Professional one. Screencasts are available (Lite, Pro).

FOSDEM 2008

The eighth FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.

Taking place in the beautiful city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognized as "The best Free Software and Open Source events in Europe".

I'm (of course) going to FOSDEM (again) this year, on Sunday 24 February.

FYI, a LinkedIn group has been created for those who will attend the event.

There's also a FOSDEM channel on fidzu available for your enjoyment.

And last but not least, Emakina, the company I work for, is an official FOSDEM sponsor, and is hiring...

WYMeditor news

I've been very busy these last months, and unfortunately I had no time to blog, nor work on WYMeditor.
Things are finally getting back to normal, though I must admit I currently don't have so much time for the project...

Anyway, we have started to refactor WYMeditor's code, cleaning up the global object, moving classes to the WYMeditor namespace, and so on. No new feature, but I think the code is getting better and easier to maintain.
Next step: use NaturalDocs for the code documentation.

As a preview for the next features - true WYSIWYM editing, better event handling - a prototype written by Volker Mische (one year ago !) is available.
Volker has already implemented the Selection API for Gecko browsers.
This SAPI, and a better event handling, are required for a true WYSIWYM behaviour.

As always, any help is welcome. Please feel free to send a patch for current open issues, or drop me a mail (jf.hovinne at wymeditor dot org) if you have any suggestion - thanks!

And PS: sorry for the late news!

WYMeditor 0.4 released

WYMeditor 0.4 stable has been released!

This release includes Bermi Ferrer's powerful XHTML and CSS parsers, and fixes some outstanding bugs.

For your convenience, jQuery 1.1.4 has been included in the package, as well as getting started examples, which should work out of the box.

Thanks to all the contributors who made this release possible.

Enjoy!

Download WYMeditor 0.4

Related feeds widget

This a widget example, using the jQuery jFeed and wordStats plugins, to display a list of articles related to the current document.

wordStats computes the top keywords
jFeed asks Google Blogsearch for related articles (matching the top keywords), using a server side proxy
jQuery displays the results

JavaScript code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.wordstats.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.wordstats.en.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.jfeed.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

$(function() {
   
   var count = 3;
   $.wordStats.computeTopWords(count); //compute the 3 first top words
   
   //create the query
   var query = '';
   for(var i = 0; i < count && i < $.wordStats.topWords.length; i++) {
       query += $.wordStats.topWords[i].substring(1) + ' ';
   }
   query = query.substring(0, query.length - 1);
   $('#related').html('Querying blogs for: "' + query + '" ...');
   
   //load and parse the feed
   jQuery.getFeed({
       url: 'proxy.php?query=' + query,
       success: function(feed) {
           var html = "<h2>Related articles</h2><ul>";
           for(var i = 0; i < feed.items.length; i++) {
           
               html += '<li><h3 class="feeditemtitle">'
                       + '<a href="' + feed.items[i].link + '">'
                       + feed.items[i].title + '</a></h3>'
                       + '<p class="feeditemdescription">'
                       + feed.items[i].description + '</p>';
               }
           
           html += '</ul>';
           $('#related').html(html);
       }
   });
});

</script>

jQuery wordStats plugin

The jQuery wordStats plugin tries to determine what a page is about by computing the density of its keywords.
It uses a simple algorithm which adds a variable weight for each keyword occurence, depending on its 'position' in the document.
Although this computation model is quite simple, I get good results with all sorts of documents.
There's of course a system to exclude 'stop words' (frequent pronouns, prepositions, adverbs and so on).

Example: computing top keywords of a Wikipedia article.

Usage:

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.wordstats.js"></script> <!-- core code -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.wordstats.en.js"></script> <!-- English stop words -->
<script type="text/javascript">

       $(function() {

           var count = 3;            
           $.wordStats.computeTopWords(count);

           //$.wordStats.topWords[0] returns the most frequent keyword
           //$.wordStats.topWords[1] the second, and so on

           $.wordStats.clear(); //release memory

           //compute top keywords of the element with id="content"
           $.wordStats.computeTopWords(count, $('#content'));

});

</script>

Download:

Dual licensed under MIT/GPL.