2005-12-31 IMPORTANT: AreaEdit 0.4.5 has been released. This version FINALLY fixes the infamous MSIE Operation Aborted error we were seeing on some installs. Please be aware to accomodate this, there have been a few minor changes to the way AreaEdit needs to be called from the page. Please see the RELEASE_NOTES.txt in the distribution for more information.

2005-12-26: AreaEdit 0.4.4 has been released and fixes the FireFox 1.5 issue.

2005-08-18 IMPORTANT: AreaEdit 0.4.3 has been released that fixes a major security hole. All previous versions of AreaEdit are affected. This is a recommended upgrade for all users.

---

 
AreaEdit is a formVista compatible fork of the rapidly developing Xinha project. It is the code that is generated by the formVista FVML <htmleditor> tag during rendering.

Xinha itself is a fork of the original HTMLArea component created by Mihai Bazon and sponsored by Interactivetools. AreaEdit maintains the original HTMLArea (modified BSD) license and is free to use.

While it is designed to work within formVista without modification, AreaEdit does not requre formVista. It is a fully functional editor component supporting a number of plugins and can as easily be used as a standalone editor component for any PHP web application.

The primary difference between AreaEdit and Xinha is one of focus. The Xinha project aims to be a rapidly developing feature-filled editor with many plugins.

By contrast, AreaEdit takes a slower minimalists approach. It aims first and foremost to be functional and maintainable. The feature set we are focusing on is targeted squarely at the serious non-technical business user. Business users don't care about the nuances of HTML <br> and <p> tags, they just want the editor to work as they would expect.

If your audience is primarly composed to developers or those familar with HTML, you should take a look at Xinha.

AreaEdit is known to work with MSIE 5.5 or later and any modern Gecko based browsers. (FireFox, Mozilla).

You can sample an online demo.

The license governing AreaEdit can be found here.

To download: areaedit_0.4.5.tar.gz.

If you have any questions, comments or patches please post to the formVista discussion forum.