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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.

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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.

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).

More on the third project later ;)

BTW, this is not an April fools joke.

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!