[Eclass-users] EClass.Builder and HTML Editing

[Kevin O. <ke...@tu...>]

Hi all,

Unless there is a major objection from the community, from the next  
release of EClass.Builder, the built-in HTML Editor will be disabled.  
This is a result of a large number of new bugs appearing when I  
upgraded to a recent version of Mozilla. These bugs effectively break  
the HTML editing functions. I have spent the last week and a half  
trying to work out issues with the upgrade, but the editing issues  
remain and I'm afraid I do not want to continue spending more and  
more time on this. At the same time, I cannot continue to let our  
Mozilla installation lag far behind as it will contain many security  
fixes as well as improved page rendering (on the browser side, at  
least).

So from now on, when you double-click on an HTML page to edit it, it  
will open the editor you've specified in your HTML editor  
preferences. Now that specifying an HTML editor is more important,  
I'm considering working on a startup wizard for new users which will  
walk them through the process of specifying programs, try and auto- 
detect existing ones, etc.

Some good news is that there is now a free program called Nvu, based  
off the old Mozilla Composer program, nearing a 1.0 release. It runs  
on Windows, Linux and Mac. You can download it from:

http://www.nvu.com

In any case, I hope to have a public 2.5.5 release in the near  
future, i.e. the next couple weeks. Thanks for your understanding in  
this matter.

Kevin