BlueGriffonTM

The next-generation Web Editor
based on the rendering engine of Firefox

22Mar 2011

Firefox 4 and BlueGriffon 1.0

16:05 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment

I am glad to report that now Firefox 4 is live, BlueGriffon is based on FIREFOX_4_0_RELEASE tag. It's probably the first Mozilla-based third-party application to do so :-)

BlueGriffon is now approaching at fast speed 1.0PR. The number of bugs of my radar is shrinking every day and only remains a bit of work on two add-ons that must be ready for 1.0 (ProjectManager and CSS Pro Editor). Stay tuned !

22Mar 2011

Help needed for BlueGriffon on Mac OS X

10:29 - By BlueGriffon - Thinking at loud - one comment

I am hitting a strange issue on Mac OS X: the OS X "Special Characters..." menu entry in the Edit menu is not always present in BlueGriffon:

  • launching BlueGriffon with the en-US locale, it's often present; not always. If it's not, opening the Keyboard Viewer and unchecking/rechecking "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar" oftens helps
  • using another locale, the menu entry in Edit is never available and the little trick above does not help...

I'm lost here. Does anyone have a clue about what's going on? That would help a lot, thanks !

Note: Windows and Linux users have an extra XUL dialog for special characters...

17Mar 2011

BlueGriffon and OS X close button

13:31 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 2 comments

OS X users of BlueGriffon really wanted this: the close button in the main window's titlebar should contain a black dot when a document is modified and needs saving. Done (revision 590). Yay !!! FWIW, the corresponding bmo bug was filed by hsivonen almost ten years ago...

black dot in OS X titlebar's close button

Nota bene: special thanks to smfr, an old friend of the tree...

09Mar 2011

Progress 20110309

18:57 - By BlueGriffon - Progress

  • table properties were horked for nested tables; b=125
  • Insert > Table does not always insert a table; b=126

05Mar 2011

Progress 20110305

18:28 - By BlueGriffon - Progress

  • preserve selection when switching from the Wysiwyg View to the Source View ! YAY !!!
  • show all predefined Ace themes in the Preferences window
  • new View > View Source > Theme menu allowing to select the theme for the current Source View
  • switching locale through the Preferences Panel could trigger an exception

03Mar 2011

Progress 20110303

12:59 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 2 comments

  • switched to Ace
  • changing Source View's theme in Preferences does not require any more to restart the app
  • new choice in Preferences panel to use the OS locale; b=111

02Mar 2011

From Bespin to Ace

11:29 - By BlueGriffon - Progress

BlueGriffon's trunk just moved (rev. 570) from Bespin to Ace for its source view ! I still have to fix the Theme preference in the Preferences Panel, but so far so good !

15Feb 2011

Selector Builder

02:03 - By BlueGriffon - Progress

Currently working on the Stylesheet editor (far more powerful than the current CSS Properties panel), I have resurrected my old CSS Selector Builder from 2005 and turned it into an add-on for Firefox. Works with both Firefox 3.x and 4.x. You can download it from here (save the file to your disk and from Firefox use the File > Open menu). It adds a new menu entry to the Tools menu.

A more modern, nicer and better version of it will be included into the Stylesheet editor...

11Feb 2011

BlueGriffon 0.9 "Cape Town"

09:20 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - 8 comments

OS Version
Languages Links
Mac OS X 10.5 32bits English
French
Simplified Chinese
Portuguese (Portugal)		 download dmg
Mac OS X 10.6 64bits download dmg
Windows XP, 7
download installer
download ZIP
Linux Ubuntu 10.04 32bits download installer
download tar.bz2
download deb
Linux Ubuntu 10.10 64bits download installer
download tar.bz2




MD5 CHECKSUMS
  • sections of the CSS Properties panel can now be toggled through a click on the title too
  • fixed a crasher in the DOM Explorer panel
  • panels' alignment button added to panels' titlebar on Mac OS X and Windows (sorry Linux users, floating panels don't work well on Linux...)
  • inserting a named anchor was deleting the selection
  • persistent menubar on Mac OS X when the last main window is closed ; dock menu adapted
  • changing UI's language does not exit without prompt any more if a document is modified
  • link insertion dialog used to always report file://... links are relative
  • L10N fixes
  • pt-PT locale
  • more work on the command line handler
  • much better panels' alignment algo
  • word-wrap CSS property was horked in the CSS Properties panel
  • context menu's appearance was horked on windows classic theme
  • goto link in context menu
  • reflect DOM Explorer's selected element into wysiwyg vie
  • don't allow Undo in source view to remove initial source
  • default 300x600 size for dom explorer and css properties panels
  • rulers were adding to the style attribute instead of using a txn
  • fix for the editor factory error in Bespin
  • editable DOM Explorer
  • context menu in DOM Explorer
  • build architecture for L10N
  • zh-CN locale
  • html5 element insertion menu
  • support for img's longdesc attribute
  • make Textarea Insertion and Button Insertion dialogs play nicely with selection
  • accelerators for bold/italic/underline/code
  • unescape filenames in SaveAs dialog
  • copying links was not copying href !
  • don't open table properties dialog when selection is not collapsed on double-click
  • 'rem' and 'ch' units in CSS Properties panel
  • hide structurebar in sourceview
  • Copy HTML markup for the selection or a selected element in structurebar
  • tabs position was not working on win/lin
  • findbar in both wysiwyg and source views
  • better theme for wysiwyg/source buttons on win and lin
  • spell checking (support for dictionnaries, etc.) in context menu
  • editor was horked if parser error in XHTML source view
  • about:config in prefs and buildconfig in about
  • parsing gradients chokes when vert position appears before horiz position
  • Page Properties dialog
  • allow user to position tabs in tabeditor through a new pref
  • reflect natural ratio changes for images in css properties panel
  • Repeating gradients, webkit- and gecko-style
  • Help menu
  • Table options in main contextual menu

07Feb 2011

pt-PT locale

10:34 - By BlueGriffon - Community

I am glad to report that thanks to a contribution from mrfyda, portuguese locale is now enabled by default in daily builds of BlueGriffon !

30Jan 2011

Short break

21:14 - By BlueGriffon - Community

For those of you who sent us email (bugs, feedback, etc.) about BlueGriffon or recently filed a bug on bugzilla.bluegriffon.org, please be patient, we will probably not be able to answer/comment before the 4th or 5th of feb. Thanks.

29Jan 2011

RPM for Fedora >= 13

02:08 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - one comment

Remi Collet had made available a Fedora >= 13 RPM for BlueGriffon 0.9RC1 !

28Jan 2011

BlueGriffon 0.9RC1

13:26 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - 6 comments

OS
 Version
Languages
 Links
Mac OS X
 10.5
 32bits
 English
French
Simplified Chinese
 download dmg
Mac OS X 10.6
 64bits
 English
French
Simplified Chinese		 download dmg
Windows
 XP, 7
 32bits
 English
French
Simplified Chinese		 download installer
download ZIP
Linux
 Ubuntu 10.04
 32bits
 English
French
Simplified Chinese		 download installer
download tar.bz2
download deb
Linux Ubuntu 10.10
 64bits
 English
French
Simplified Chinese		 download installer
download tar.bz2




MD5 CHECKSUMS
  • context menu's appearance was horked on windows classic theme
  • goto link in context menu
  • reflect DOM Explorer's selected element into wysiwyg vie
  • don't allow Undo in source view to remove initial source
  • default 300x600 size for dom explorer and css properties panels
  • rulers were adding to the style attribute instead of using a txn
  • fix for the editor factory error in Bespin
  • editable DOM Explorer
  • context menu in DOM Explorer
  • build architecture for L10N
  • zh-CN locale
  • html5 element insertion menu
  • support for img's longdesc attribute
  • make Textarea Insertion and Button Insertion dialogs play nicely with selection
  • accelerators for bold/italic/underline/code
  • unescape filenames in SaveAs dialog
  • copying links was not copying href !
  • don't open table properties dialog when selection is not collapsed on double-click
  • 'rem' and 'ch' units in CSS Properties panel
  • hide structurebar in sourceview
  • Copy HTML markup for the selection or a selected element in structurebar
  • tabs position was not working on win/lin
  • findbar in both wysiwyg and source views
  • better theme for wysiwyg/source buttons on win and lin
  • spell checking (support for dictionnaries, etc.) in context menu
  • editor was horked if parser error in XHTML source view
  • about:config in prefs and buildconfig in about
  • parsing gradients chokes when vert position appears before horiz position
  • Page Properties dialog
  • allow user to position tabs in tabeditor through a new pref
  • reflect natural ratio changes for images in css properties panel
  • Repeating gradients, webkit- and gecko-style
  • Help menu
  • Table options in main contextual menu

27Jan 2011

Simplified Chinese

17:13 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - one comment

If everything goes well, Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale will be added to daily builds of BlueGriffon tomorrow ! Stay tuned.

26Jan 2011

Progress 20110126

22:53 - By BlueGriffon - Progress

26Jan 2011

A call to localizers

12:03 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements - one comment

As promised, it's now time to start localizing BlueGriffon. I've just set up everything we need to include selected locales into BlueGriffon bundles. If you want to translate BlueGriffon into your own language, here are the steps to follow:

  1. get yourself an account at http://bugzilla.bluegriffon.org
  2. File a bug titled "XX-XX locale" where XX-XX is the requested locale (for instance pt-BR) in product BlueGriffon, component Localization
  3. Assign the bug to yourself and Cc me (daniel AT glazman ORG)
  4. get a copy of the BlueGriffon L10N repository
    svn checkout http://sources.disruptive-innovations.com/bluegriffon-l10n/trunk bluegriffon-locales
  5. then type the following commands:
    cd bluegriffon-locales
    cp -R en-US XX-XX
    for i in en-US/*.mn; do sed -e "s/en-US/XX-XX/g" $i > XX-XX/`basename $i`; done
    cd XX-XX
    find . -name \*.svn -exec rm -fr {} \;
  6. translate all the strings in all *.dtd and *.properties files in your XX-XX directory; MANDATORY: please use UTF-8 encoding for the files !
  7. add your new directory to svn: svn add XX-XX
  8. do NOT add your new locale to Makefile.in, I'll do that myself if your locale is stable enough to be enabled by default.
  9. make a patch, for instance typing svn diff XX-XX > /tmp/XX-XX.patch
  10. attach that patch to the bug and ask me to review it (daniel AT glazman ORG) in the bug
  11. you'll get write access to the repository after a positive review.
  12. please subscribe to http://groups.google.com/group/bluegriffon/ , changes in L10N will be announced there starting today

24Jan 2011

Progress 20110124

19:01 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment

  • Insert > HTML 5 Element
  • Copy HTML for Selection
  • support for the longdesc attribute on img element
  • context menu in DOM Explorer (not finalized)
  • accelerators for strong/em/underline/code
  • unescape filenames in SaveAs dialog
  • major copying links did not copy href
  • don't open table properties dialog when selection is not collapsed on double-click
  • 'rem' and 'ch' units in CSS Properties panel
  • hide structurebar in sourceview
  • tabs position were not working on win/lin
  • L10N for Preferences menu item

15Jan 2011

Netexplorateur Forum

09:26 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements

I am glad to report BlueGriffon was selected in the Netexplorateur 2011 Top 100 innovations of 2010 !

13Jan 2011

Progress 20110113

16:33 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 2 comments

  • findbar modified to allow Search and Replace in both source and wysiwyg views
  • better localized menu items in the Edit menu
  • better theme for wysiwyg/source buttons on win and lin
  • spell checking on the whole document
  • editor was horked in case of parser error in XHTML source view
  • about:config in Prefs and about:buildconfig in About
  • parsing gradients was choking if vert position appearing before horiz position
  • Page Properties dialog
  • allow user to position tabs in tabeditor through a pref
  • reflect natural ratio changes for images
  • Repeating gradients, webkit- and gecko-style
  • Help menu
  • table options in main contextual menu
  • Table menu in main menubar
  • output new webkit gradients
  • better command line handler allowing 'open with'
  • get rid of WebKit-based styles in Bespin
  • disable the Source button until Skywriter/Bespin is fully init'd
  • Unicode Char Insertion dialog for windows and linux
  • real-time spell checking

12Jan 2011

New builds

22:40 - By BlueGriffon - Fresh Meat - one comment

New builds of BlueGriffon all platforms are now available here.

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