History of SimplyHTML

April 27, 2003

Stage 11 published with find and replace support.

February 15, 2003

Stage 10 published adding a HTML editor with syntax highlighting and some enhancements in the plug-in architecture.

December 29, 2002

Release 2 of stage 9 published. This release is a major update with enhancements to the way SimplyHTML handles HTML content. Release 2 focuses on a clearer distinction between HTML 3.2 and HTML 4. It lets the user choose the HTML version SimplyHTML should use through the options dialog. Changes were made to the style sheet handling and the plug-in architecture too.

December 13, 2002

Stage 9 published featuring creation and manipulation of links and link anchors. Refines working with paragraph styles and named styles by supporting tag types and multiple styles for given tags in certain controls. Refines cut and paste for nested paragraph tags. Compensates different display of font sizes between Java and Web Browsers. Table rendering was enhanced. Selected dialogs have a button for context sensitive help on the respective dialog. A new section user interface has been added to the tutorial for this purpose. The application 'remembers' the directories of the file that was last opened and saved.

November 8, 2002

Stage 8 published implementing paragraph and named style manipulation. SimplyHTML is enabled for Java Web Start as well and can be started with a single mouse click now from SimplyHTML's homepage at https://www.lightdev.com.

October 20, 2002

Stage 7 published implementing image insertion and manipulation. Fixed a serious bug in class AbstractPlugin.

October 4, 2002

Stage 6 published implementing list formatting.

September 19, 2002

Stage 5 published implementing a plug-in architecture and enhanced handling of resource bundles for dynamic menu creation. Along with the plug-in facility, user settings are implemented to be persistently stored. An AttributeMapper compensates some discrepancies between Java and HTML.

August 15, 2002

Stage 4 published featuring table manipulation

July 11, 2002

Stage 3 published featuring font manipulation and dynamic tool bar creation.

June 29, 2002

Stage 2 published. Features resource bundles, multiple language support, cut and paste, drag and drop, both including HTML styles and dynamic menu creation.

June 21, 2002

First full release of stage 1 published. Includes initial build of the tutorial, API docs, source codes, executable JAR file and a PDF version of the tutorial.

June 16, 2002

published pre-release 1 of stage 1 (source codes and javadoc compilation). Wow, eight weeks went by and still no first release finished. Let's at least share what we have so far. Because the tutorial takes more time to write than the application itself and although the tutorial is almost done, this pre-release comes without the tutorial.

April 2002

start of the SimplyHTML project.