Beta Release Version 0.9.284

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Our fourth public beta build release (version 0.9.284) is now available for download. This build has most of the defects that were submitted during the last beta period fixed as well as the following enhancements and features:

  • Designer
    • You can now select multiple paragraphs and press the bullet button to get multiple bullets.
    • Added a toolbar button for the <blockquote> (the indent button still inserts a <blockquote> tag).
    • Toolbar buttons to insert html tags such as <H1>, <H2>, <code> etc. Read more.
  • XHTML Editor - lot of enhancements on this editor. See this post for more details.
    • The current row and column position is now displayed in the status bar.
    • Find and Replace functionality.
    • Paste as XHTML.
    • Toolbar button implementations for bold, italic and underline text formatting.
    • XHTML schema and CSS valid code completion and call tips.
    • XHTML validation.
    • Clean up and W3C Tidy.
  • Templates
    • Javascript in the Preview page is now disabled.
    • Added BaseHref support when downloading Blog Templates.
  • Publishing
    • You now have the option to remove newlines when publishing your posts. For those of you who use Blogger.com and have enabled their "Convert Line Breaks" option should check the "Remove Newlines" check box. This check box is available in the Account and Blog preferences UI. This option removes newlines (so that Blogger will not convert those to additional <br/> tags). Newlines in <pre> and <javascript> tags are not removed to observe the xml:space="preserve" option.
    • XML namespace prefixes (e.g. xml:space="preserve") are removed during publishing. This is mainly to avoid support some WordPress plug-ins that are not XML aware.
    • XML-RPC based file uploads for WP now also send the file MIME content-type. The content-type is needed by WordPress 2.5 to display thumbnails in its Media Library. Thanks to Kirk M. to reporting this defect (among others) and allowing us to use a test server hosted on his machine.
  • Raven To Go (Portable Version) - When you drag and drop (or link to) image or files from the host machine's hard drive, these resources will be copied to the portable thumb drive when you save your post. Note that this process may take a few seconds (for moderate size resources) since the files need to be copied to a slower device (e.g thumb drive).
  • Application UI
    • You can now delete only the local copy of a blog post without deleting it from the server.
    • Raven now remembers if the main app window was maximized, so it will start up maximized if it was maximized when it was shut down.
    • Added "Collapse All" button to the Account Navigator - this button will collapse all of the nodes in the tree.
    • Account Navigator now remembers which node was selected when Raven was closed.
    • Pressing the "Dashboard" button in the Account Navigator will now deselect any node that was previously selected.
    • Partial translation language bundles for Spanish (es_MX, about 60% done) and Chinese (zh_CN, about 25% done). Many thanks to Fëaluin (es_MX) and MaoMen (zh_CN) for getting the translations started. We also want to mention that Marcos Silva was one of the early testers to start on a Portuguese (Brazilian) translation, but unfortunately, most of the work he did was lost due to a defect in out translator tool.
  • Framework - major changes to underlying background task support:
    • Improved synchronization to avoid errors, stack traces.
    • Background Task window should now update properly in all cases.
    • Standard Perspective views have been changed to better handle concurrency (better thread synchronization)
    • Added a section in the Main Application Window's status bar to indicate the current background task activity.
    • Canceling bg tasks should work better now.

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