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572 new free templates for BlueGriffon!

BlueGriffon — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:06:00 +0100

I just added 572 new free HTML+CSS templates to the One-Click Templates add-on for BlueGriffon, for a current total of 1030 available templates !

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BlueGriffon — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:56:00 +0100

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One-click Templates add-on to BlueGriffon released

BlueGriffon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:06:00 +0100

If you don't have the technical knowledge - or the time and energy - to write your own HTML+CSS+JavaScript document template and would like to get a superbly formatted document in one click and start immediately typing in BlueGriffon, this add-on is made for you.

It downloads from our site a list of free online templates that we maintain and will of course expand over time. At the time of the release of version 1.0 of this add-on, 458 free templates are available through this add-on ! No doubt you'll find one matching your wishes or needs in the list.

You can see a preview of each template (if one is available), a live demo of each template (if one is available) and install in a single click a template in your filesystem. You can also easily and instantly search through the available templates.

One-click Template-based documents in BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0100

You have no HTML+CSS knowlege or just not the will and energy to create a new document template yourself today? This add-on will be for you : create a document based on existing online free templates in one single click and start typing!

See the embedded video below for more details.

W3C, Rutgers University

BlueGriffon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:05:00 +0100

Two things:

the World Wide Web Consortium is considering "adoption" of BlueGriffon for internal use. But since the W3C uses HTTP PUT, WebDav and CVS to publish their documents, they needed an add-on to PUT their documents on w3.org. I wrote that add-on in a few hours and donated a perpetual site license for that add-on to all W3C staff. Let me know if you're interested. The add-on allows to PUT a document and all local linked resources (stylesheets, replaced elements; will deal with imported stylesheets and webfonts in a next version); it rewrites the URIs for these resources as needed to make sure the published version renders ok.
BlueGriffon is now taught at Rutgers University !!! Woooohooo !

BlueGriffon 1.4 User's Manual

BlueGriffon — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:22:00 +0100

The missing Users's Manual for BlueGriffon... We finally have a one and it's available there !

BlueGriffon 1.4 in Hungarian

BlueGriffon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:08:00 +0100

I am extremely happy to report that thanks to Gabor Kelemen, we now have a Hungarian language pack for BlueGriffon 1.4. First L10N contribution to this project, not a single bug, not a single issue, 100% completion. Wow. Thanks a lot Gabor !

To install the hungarian language pack (or any of BlueGriffon 1.4 language packs):

right-click on this link to download and save the package on your local disk
in BlueGriffon, select Tools > Add-ons to open the Add-ons manager
click on the Languages tab
use the wheel button at the top of the window to "Install from file" the package you downloaded at step 1
click OK after the delay and restart BlueGriffon
open the Preferences panel
switch to the Advanced tab
select "Use installed locale"
select "hu (Hungarian)"
click on the "Use language" button

BlueGriffon 1.4 released

BlueGriffon — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:39:00 +0100

I just released v1.4 of BlueGriffon, our wysiwyg content editor for the Web. There are major changes between 1.3.1 and this version and you'll find everything listed on BlueGriffon download page. /* Enjoy */

Preview of BlueGriffon 1.4

BlueGriffon — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:39:00 +0100

A preview of forthcoming BlueGriffon 1.4 is now available. We still miss some localization strings for 1.4 and if you think you can help, please take a look at this page.

Here's the changelog for 1.4 from 1.3.1, the important items show a disc instead of an empty circle:

hidden preference bluegriffon.defaults.forceLF to force saving documents into Unix mode (carriage returns are one LF). To enable that, open the Preferences, select the Advanced panel and open the configuration editor. Right-click in the main area and select New > Boolean. Enter the name of the new preference and set it to true. To revert to the original platform-dependant behaviour, reset the property or turn it to false. UI for this will be added for v1.5.
switching to MAR files for updates
Tip of the Day (the tips themselves are not ready yet)
use standard descriptors for ltr and rtl; b=287
automatic detection of changes in external files linked into documents edited by BlueGriffon; b=325
wrong mimetypes switching to source view
get rid of duplicate anchors in Link Insertion dialog
force reload stylesheets if they were edited
no check if ID already given in CSS Properties panel; b=194
Invalid class or ID in the CSS Properties panel freezes the app; b=167
Table properties dialog controls can show NaN; b=336
CSS Colors were always added as rgb() Values; b=97
Don't remove empty divs switching back from source to wysiwyg view; b=261
CodeMirror now used for all source views instead of Ace
Script Editor was always displayed in en-US
Insert > Stylesheets moved to Panels > Stylesheets.
Panels > Stylesheets now offers to edit embedded and local stylesheets through CodeMirror
folding and XML parsing error visibility added to Source View
folding and JS syntax error added to Script Editor (uses Reflect)
folding added to Stylesheets Editor
new table cells should not get vertical-align:top; b=314
class and aria role does not apply correctly to multiple td/th selection; b=329
don't use the width attribute on tables in html5; b=313
Format menu partially horked; b=312
cannot select/copy/paste select elements; b=331
Removing last class leaves an empty class attribute; b=320
impossible to create an attributeless hr element; b=322
a lot of minor fixes

Progress 20111223

BlueGriffon — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:35:00 +0100

no check if ID already given in CSS Properties panel; b=194
Invalid class or ID in the CSS Properties panel freezes the app; b=167
Table properties dialog controls can show NaN; b=336
CSS Colors are always added as rgb() Values; b=97
Don't remove empty divs switching back from source to wysiwyg view; b=261
CodeMirror now used for all source views instead of Ace
Script Editor was always displayed in en-US
Insert > Stylesheets moved to Panels > Stylesheets.
Panels > Stylesheets now offers to edit embedded and local stylesheets through CodeMirror
folding and XML parsing error visibility added to Source View
folding and JS syntax error added to Script Editor (uses Reflect)
folding added to Stylesheets Editor
a lot of minor fixes

Known issues:

when a stylesheet local to the hard disk is edited through Panels > Stylesheets, the Wysiwyg view is not updated yet; working on it.

Progress 20111215

BlueGriffon — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:43:00 +0100

new table cells should not get vertical-align:top; b=314
class and aria role does not apply correctly to multiple td/th selection; b=329
don't use the width attribute on tables in html5; b=313
Format menu partially horked; b=312
cannot select/copy/paste select elements; b=331
Removing last class leaves an empty class attribute; b=320
impossible to create an attributeless hr element; b=322

BlueGriffon updates, changes ahead

BlueGriffon — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:46:00 +0100

If everything goes well, BlueGriffon will use Mozilla's update system based on mar files starting with forthcoming version 1.4. I am currently ironing our release process for that but it already works in the test environments.

An add-on for BlueGriffon localizers

BlueGriffon — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:02:00 +0100

This article is for the people who help us localizing BlueGriffon. I have a Firefox add-on made for you : L10N Checker. It can take two directories, for instance the en-US locale dir and the zh-TW locale dir and compare all dtd and properties file inside. It reports missing files on both ends, duplicate entries. It can report if a BOM marker is present in a file and if an entity is unchanged between the reference file and your localization, potentially indicating you still have some thing to translate.

Yes, I know Mozilla has tools like compare-locales and such. But these are commandline-based and I wanted something simpler giving the same results for the BlueGriffon L10N community.

After installation in Firefox >=5, you'll find the L10N Check men entry under the Tools menu.

CSS Animations in BlueGriffon #2

BlueGriffon — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:16:00 +0100

I am making fast progress on my CSS 3 Animations Editor add-on for BlueGriffon. As I said, it will probably be the most powerful Animations editor on the market, allowing you to edit Animations wherever they come from. You can see a screenshot of what's currently on my screen, an early prototype. Don't focus too much on the UI, it's subject to major changes.

BlueGriffon nominated for 2011 Windows Forest Awards in Japan

BlueGriffon — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:59:00 +0100

Windows Forest, an important Japanese web magazine, just notified me BlueGriffon is nominated for the 2011 Windows Forest Awards ! If you're based in Japan, like BlueGriffon and want to express your support, please vote here !

CSS Animations in BlueGriffon

BlueGriffon — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:16:00 +0100

I recently blogged a few thoughts about editing CSS Animations on my personal blog. I also started implementing these thoughts in a new add-on for BlueGriffon. As far as I know, there is no editor for Animations on the market able at this time to edit all CSS Animations, whatever the way they were created. My add-on will allow that, and just like our CSS Editor, will generate prefixed (-moz-, -webkit-, -ms-, -o- when they release it) Animations for all rendering engines. Stay tuned

BlueGriffon 1.3.1

BlueGriffon — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:30:00 +0100

The text-align buttons of the format toolbar in v1.3 were horked, and that was a big enough regression to make me release a fix as soon as possible. Version 1.3.1 is available immediately from the usual page. Many thanks to Charles Cooke and Pascal Myrta for the heads up.

BlueGriffon 1.3, Mobile Viewer add-on

BlueGriffon — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:47:00 +0100

I just released BlueGriffon 1.3 (OS X, Windows, Linux) and the Mobile Viewer add-on for BlueGriffon.

Progress 20111118

BlueGriffon — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:59:00 +0100

BlueGriffon v1.3 will have a much nicer structure bar, something I have always wanted to do but never had time for in the past. Of course, it also works fine in right-to-left environments like Hebrew, Arabic or Farsi.

Progress 2011115

BlueGriffon — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:20:00 +0100

finally fixed the ooooold bug that plagued Netscape, Mozilla, Nvu and KompoZer and still plagues BlueGriffon and Seamonkey: more and more white lines inserted in the source view. Yay ! Will ship with v1.3. Patch (bug 97278, wow a <100k one) sent to Ehsan and Kaze.
bug fixed in JSCSSP that could make the parser choke on some CSS combinators
updated list of prefixed properties
wysiwyg/source buttons were not localized on windows and linux
Shortcut editing window has now persisting position, a tree splitted was inserted in the Shortcuts preference panel
Paste was largely horked in source view, triggering a large feedback from users. This is now fixed; b=291
PkgInfo changes on Mac; b=209
changes to make forthcoming Mobile Preview add-on happy
Customizable keyboard shortcuts; b=288
raise Prefs window if already visible but not on top
small fixes in HTML 5 Element insertion
pref to disable line wrapping (esp. for Asian languages); b=173
OS X dock integration not preserved across sessions; b= 272
remove useless xmlns declaration when copying content's markup; b=275

Mobile Preview add-on will ship with v1.3