BlueGriffon^TM

If you create a new document in BlueGriffon, it creates a new nsHTMLEditor and a new iframe with a Bespin/Skywriter instance. If the latter is not  fully instantiated yet when you click on the "Source" button, it triggers a JS error and the source view becomes unreachable. I'm working on it, stay tuned.

BlueGriffon 0.9 will have realtime spellchecking and multi-dictionaries, thanks to InlineSpellChecker.jsm... The code is already checked in, svn revision 462. For those who build BlueGriffon themselves and wish to try the fr-FR dictionary, you can find it here. Install it as an extension/add-on.

Note for those who need another dictionary: grab a dictionary from addons.mozilla.org. Unzip the xpi and edit the install.rdf file to add the following section:

<em:targetApplication>
  <Description>
    <!-- BlueGriffon -->
    <em:id>bluegriffon@disruptive-innovations.com</em:id>
    <em:minVersion>0.8</em:minVersion>
    <em:maxVersion>1.0</em:maxVersion>
  </Description>
</em:targetApplication>

Rezip the whole thing and install it through BlueGriffon's Extensions manager. The spellchecker is in the contextual menu of the editor. You can toggle it on/off through the Preferences panel.

You'll find new builds here. We're approaching 0.8.

Changelog:

• network/proxy settings in preferences
• Format menu
• ID dropdown
• relative URLs in background-image (CSS properties panel)
• View > All Tags mode
• bug fixes
• dialog changes needed for the fortcoming Project Manager

• NEW: id dropdown added
• NEW: the background-image section in the CSS Properties panel was not accepting relative URLs
• FIXED: class dropdown works again, now editable
• FIXED: documents modified were not visible enough on win/lin
• FIXED: linear and radial gradients were horked
• FIXED: the Remove Tag menu entry in the structure bar was broken
• FIXED: charset issues in the fr-FR localization
• IN PROGRESS: started working on the flexbox wizard

The first daily builds with UI for FontSquirrel fonts and Google Font Directory fonts are now online. See the Insert > WebFonts menu.

• Mac OS X universal build (32/64 bits for OS 10.5 and 10.6)
• Windows 32bits (installer), built on WinXP ; execute to install
  • warning, install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable package if you hit an "application configuration is incorrect" error launching BlueGriffon after install ; please add a comment to this blog entry if it does not work, thanks.
• Windows 32 bits (zip archive), built on XP ; same warning as above applies
• Linux 32bits (installer), built on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ; execute to install
• Linux 64bits (installer), built on Ubuntu 10.10 ; execute to install

Changelog:

• CSS properties panel was freezing the app trying to append data to a locally linked stylesheet that is not writable
• UI for the Google Fonts Directory
• UI for FontSquirrel fonts
• CSS properties panel was sometimes behaving badly in case of an empty stylesheet

Know issues:

• the document must be saved before linking it to FontSquirrel fonts ; that's needed to be able to use relative URLs. At this time, if you create a new document and save it, you need to close the document and reopen it to be able to link to FontSquirrel fonts and see immediately the result. If you don't close and reopen, the document will still be ok if you use the fonts but they won't render until you close and reopen. Working on it...

Nota bene: many thanks to Ethan Dunham for his super simple FontSquirrel API !

• "Restart" buttons in the Extensions dialog now prompts the user if edited documents are not saved
• localisation fr-FR bientôt disponible !!!
  
• windows installer

It's not fully ready yet but it's already acceptable. Some prefixed properties' implementation differ from Gecko to WebKit so I need to implement a few filters. But see by yourself the current result...

In short: silent, yes; inactive; no I attended W3C Technical Plenary Meeting in Lyon last week after a few days of vacation and that's why this blog remained silent. I am hours away from 0.6, just finishing the implementation of the CSS Media Queries in the new Stylesheets dialog. It's already possible to create a media query using a simple UI and the last hours are dedicated to the modification of an existing query. Since the CSS Object Model has no parser for Media Queries, I need to extend my own JSCSSP parser, living as a JS module inside BlueGriffon. Stay tuned!

• done: support for all html5 form elements now added
• fixed: make FindLastEditableStylesheet deal with the stylesheets' media list
• fixed: SVG Edit was horked
• "Get add-ons" button added to statusbar

• support for <form> and the twenty-three HTML5 <input> elements; other form sub-elements pending
• parsers errors in source view for XHTML1 and XHTML5 were not detected switching back to normal view and could lead to a totally horked UI; this is now fixed
• HTML dialect now shown as tooltip on each tab