We were notified of the issue with Safari 3 detection code in .NET edition which resulted in run-time error everytime someone using Safari 3 visits your page with SPAW. We issued a fix for it back in April but with all the server troubles forgot to update the download page and post to the blog about it.

Better later than never. Download the hotfix release from SPAW Editor’s download page.

You only need to overwrite Bin\Solmetra.Spaw.dll in your 2.0.7 installations.

As some of you have probably noticed, our site(s) weren’t functioning properly for about a week in mid April and some of you experienced problems taking advantage of our 50% discount promotion.

So, to compensate for the downtime we decided to extend the promotion for one more week. You can use the promotion code SPAWIS5 until May 7, 2008 and get 50% off any SPAW Editor purchase.

Links are available at our Purchase page

Update: hopefully the issues have been resolved

We are experiencing technical difficulties with our server handling solmetra.com/spaweditor.com website. The site will be restored as soon as we determine the cause of the problem and resolve it.

You can still download SPAW Editor files through sourceforge.net

Sorry for the inconvenience.

We will extend the 50% discount promotion to compensate for the downtime. For now you can purchase the commercial licenses by following these links:

• PHP Edition
• ASP.NET Edition

50% discount promotion code is “SPAWIS5″ (without quotes).

Version 2.0.7 of both ASP.NET and PHP editions of SPAW Editor has been released.

The main focus of this release was reworking of the style application algorithm combining good parts of the ways this was done in SPAW 1.x and SPAW 2 and getting rid of the bad. Other bugs were fixed, workarounds implemented and new features added.

Numerous language files were updated and fixed by the community. Thanks!

Version 2.0.7 is available for immediate download through our download page.

Here’s a complete change log:

1. FEATURE ADDED: when inserting a hyperlink and nothing is selected, hyperlink title is used for linked text (if title is not set href url is used)
2. CHANGE: reworked CSS class application algorithm: now if nothing is selected CSS class is set on the parent tag of the current cursor position, plus style changes are applied to the same span tag rather than creating a new one
3. CHANGE: font name and font sizes are now applied with custom code rather than browser features allowing for wider variety of valid settings
4. CHANGE: JavaScript API: refactored style setting methods: moved style setting to editor methods applyStyleToSelection and removeStyleFrom, so they could be called from various other methods (like font settings, etc.)
5. BUGFIX/WORKAROUND: empty paragraphs were multiplying in IE when DOM tree or HTML had paragraph inside of a paragraph
6. BUGFIX/WORKAROUND: when content started with script or style tag it was removed under IE
7. BUGFIX: there were PHP notices in dialogs when session wasn’t used to store config data
8. BUGFIX: inner contents of style tag was stripped under IE
9. BUGFIX: insertHtmlAtSelection method wasn’t working correctly in IE when “control” (image, etc.) was selected
10. BUGFIX: SpawFm plugin: fixed automatic uploaded file/created directory selection
11. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: Romanian (Lari Corifeanu)
12. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Turkish (Sitki Ozkurt)
13. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: core and SpawFM: Celtic (Alan Davies)
14. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Slovak (Martin Svec)
15. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Slovak (Martin Svec)
16. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Italian (fabrix)

It was late 2002 when we decided to turn our internal WYSIWYG editor control into an open-source project. So we’ve spent some time reworking what was initially developed for our internal use only into a publicly appealing product.

On April 3, 2003 we’ve created a project at Sourceforge.net, moved our codebase there and released the first public version of SPAW Editor. The rest is history.

Here we are 5 years and 42 releases later with a completely rewritten SPAW Editor v.2.

We would like to thank all of you who helped us make SPAW what it is today, either by pointing out bugs, suggesting useful features or supporting the project financially by purchasing commercial licenses. THANK YOU!

There’s not much we can do for you except releasing new and improved versions of SPAW (and the next one is coming really soon). What we can do is give a substantial discount to those who were thinking of purchasing a commercial license.

So, if you are interested in commercial license for SPAW Editor head straight to our purchase page, select a license that suits you and enter SPAWIS5 promotion code while ordering to get a 50% discount on any commercial SPAW Editor license. And make sure that you do this before the end of April, 2008.

Recently I’ve been working on a product called “ASP.NET Controls for amCharts“. For those who don’t know - amCharts is the best interactive web charting software available and ASP.NET Controls for amCharts make it easier to generate and customize the charts from ASP.NET/Visual Studio.

Today we have finally released version 1.0 of the controls.

Download ASP.NET controls for amCharts.

We are extremely happy to announce that, after several months of planning, couple more months of coding and another couple of beta-testing and bug fixing, stable version of SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition has been finally released!

We have released all of our plugins ported for ASP.NET Edition a couple of days ago and we are releasing additional themes simultaneously with this release.

Download links:

• SPAW Editor v.2.0.6 .NET Edition
• Plugins
• Themes (skins)

About SPAW Editor v.2

For those unfamiliar with SPAW Editor - it’s a web based WYSYWYG HTML editor control for ASP .NET and PHP. Here’s a list of major features of SPAW Editor v.2:

• modular architecture
• tabbed multi-document interface
• floating/shared toolbars
• resizable editing area
• context menu
• file manager plugin
• support for Internet Explorer, Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape, Opera 9 and Safari 3 browsers
• XHTML rendering
• design time support for Visual Studio 2005
• and many more

Change Log

Here’s a list of changes in this release from previous v.2.0.6 Release Candidate release:

• BUGFIX: Exception was generated during saving of state when editor with single page was invisible
• BUGFIX: substitute images for flash content were missing
• BUGFIX: Theme class was attempting to use default CSS style when actually default CSS class was defined in theme config
• BUGFIX: Toolbar class was attempting to use custom CSS style when actually custom CSS class was defined in theme config
• DOCUMENTATION ADDED: Plugin Developer’s Guide
• DOCUMENTATION UPDATED: updated integrator’s guide

We have finished porting all of our plugins for SPAW Editor v.2 to ASP.NET and just released them. You can download them through our Extend page.

Have a Happy New Year!

During these winter holidays you have a rare opportunity to purchase commercial SPAW Editor licenses with massive discount of 28%. To get the discount just use the coupon code year2008 in the coupon code field in the purchase form.

The offer is valid until January 1, 2008. Applicable to all currently available editions of SPAW Editor. Buy now!

We have just released SPAW Editor v.2.0.6. This is the first simultaneous release of both PHP and .NET editions. Though .NET edition still has RC (release candidate) moniker due to unfinished documentation, not ported themes and plugins and other minor side issues. But generally both editions are now totally equivalent in terms of features and user experience.

Globally this release adds CSS class setting in image properties dialog and quick links in hyperlink dialog. It also fixes a long standing bug when invalid HTML was causing content to multiply under IE each time you resubmit it (or switch to HTML). Lots of smaller bugs were fixed too and several language files were added and updated.

You can get the latest release through our download page.

Here are complete changelogs…

PHP Edition:

1. FEATURE ADDED: Quick links in hyperlink dialog
2. FEATURE ADDED: CSS class in image properties dialog
3. BUGFIX: fixed (hopefully) long-standing bug with content doubling under IE in some invalid HTML cases
4. BUGFIX: calls to getPageHtml were destroying DOM tree
5. BUGFIX: in some cases <br /> was multiplying empty lines in source code under Firefox
6. BUGFIX: html mode textareas where set to zero width when switching between tabs
7. BUGFIX: spaces between tags were completely removed
8. BUGFIX: inputName variable name was mistyped in editor.class.php
9. BUGFIX: SpawFm plugin: fixed uploaded image height checking
10. BUGFIX: SpawFm plugin: fixed failing files listing when current directory has a single quote in it’s nam
11. CHANGE: SpawFm plugin: files/directories list sorting changed from sort() to  natcasesort()
12. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: German (Martina Greiner)
13. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Bulgarian (Stoyan Dimitrov)
14. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: French
15. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Czech (Radek Uhlir)
16. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Finnish (Teemu Joensuu)
17. LANGUAGE FILE UPDATED: Arabic (Mohammed Ahmed)
18. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Bulgarian (Stoyan Dimitrov)
19. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: SpawFM: Arabic (Mohammed Ahmed)
20. LANGUAGE FILE ADDED: Spaw FM: Finish (Teemu Joensuu)

.NET Edition:

1. FEATURE ADDED: CSS class in image properties dialog
2. FEATURE ADDED: added SpawFMConfiguration class to streamline access to File Manager configuration
3. FEATURE ADDED: pages (documents/tabs) could be added through designer/markup
4. BUGFIX: substitute toolbars were not used
5. BUGFIX: there were errors when maintainScrollPositionOnPostback=”true” was set globally in Web.Config file
6. BUGFIX: Floating/shared toolbars didn’t work as expected when several SPAWs were inside naming container (like master pages etc.). They still have to be inside single parent to set controlling toolbar through ToolbarFromID property. ToolbarFrom could be assigned from code to overcome this limitation.
7. BUGFIX: it is now possible to use application root-relative paths (~/) in file manager configuration
8. BUGFIX: it is now possible to use application root-relative paths (~/) to specify stylesheet
9. BUGFIX: .NET framework was trying to apply themes to spaw.js.aspx file and failed in websites using application wide themes
10. FIX: made Text property bindable (can’t find a reason why can’t set bind expression through “Edit Bindings” dialog)
11. BUGFIX: fixed (hopefully) long-standing bug with content doubling under IE in some invalid HTML cases
12. BUGFIX: calls to getPageHtml were destroying DOM tree
13. BUGFIX: in some cases <br /> was multiplying empty lines in source code under Firefox
14. BUGFIX: html mode textareas where set to zero width when switching between tabs
15. BUGFIX: spaces between tags were completely removed
16. BUGFIX: inputName variable name was mistyped in editor.class.php