Version History

• Version 2.5
• Version 2.3
• Version 2.2
• Version 2.1.1
• Version 2.1
• Version 2.0
• Version 1.9
• Version 1.8
• Version 1.7
• Version 1.6.1
• Version 1.6
• Version 1.5.2
• Version 1.5.1
• Version 1.5

Verion 2.5

• All new interface including new toolbar icons, redesigned editor window and new document window
• Combined Attribute Editor, HTML Entities, Language Extensions and Page Previews (OS X 10.2 or later) into one window
• Side by side page previews in OS X 10.2 or later using Apple's webkit technology
• Preview web pages using Apache and Mac OS X's Personal Web Sharing
  • Preview PHP and other server side code
  • WebDesign can automatically move your web site to your Sites folder for you
• New markers feature allows you to jump to certain sections of your document based on specified search criteria
• Open a selected include file in WebDesign for quick editing
• Preview web pages, images and movies from the Site Manager before opening them
• Create To-Do lists and specific notes for individual web sites
• Recent web sites list in SIte Manager to quickly jump to different web sites
• Selecting text and pressing Tab increases the indent, pressing shift-tab decreases the indent
• Random tip menu
• Easily change the document type from a menu in the editor window
• Specify page character sets and language codes in the new document window
• Integrated HTML Help for all HTML 4.0 tags

• Uploading an entire web site would occasionally stall with a 425 error when an FTP server required a passive connection
• Redraw problems when pasting text with syntax coloring disabled
• Uploading a web page after downloading it from the built in FTP client would sometimes cause the last few lines to be cut off
• Redraw issues in OS 9 would leave a black rectangle in the editor window after using the attribute editor
• Fixed scroll wheel issues in editor window
• Services now work correctly again in OS X

Verion 2.3

• Improved Spell Checker
  • Can scan and correct documents much quicker
  • Check only the current selection, from the insertion character, or the entire document
  • Ignore words in all caps
• Undo/Redo contextual menu items in editor
• Common regular expression syntax in find window
• You can now either drag an item from the toolbar or simply click it to open the specified wizard
• You can now select the creator application of documents saved in WebDesign
• Speed improvements in the main editor when auto-indent is enabled
• Faster undo and redo

• Pasting text from other applications using different fonts or font sizes can cause refresh problems in the text editor
• Font wizard would only output </font>
• When Uploading an FTP folder it may timeout and not be able to reconnect
• replace all in a folder would sometimes cause webdesign to crash if no other window was opened as well as in other circumstances
• Condensed text is now the same height as the height of the line even if the text size is increased
• Improved stability in the FTP Client
• Plug-in icons in Tools Window would sometimes look corrupted
• The arrow in the attribute editor would not list the appropriate attributes when clicked
• Spell checker would sometimes cause webdesign to crash when fixing spelling
• Fixed problems with downloading a web site from a URL
• Pasting text would not properly update the syntax highlighting of the pasted text
• Fixed refresh problems with plug-ins
• Pasting text in attribute editor would also paste the text in the main text editor

Verion 2.2

• Improved built in preview feature
• Improved plug-in architecture
  • New plug-in controls and a new about window for plug-ins
• Support for PageSpinner plug-ins as Language Extensions in WebDesign
• A 'Set Modified' contextual menu in the Site Manager
• 'Update Include' contextual menu in Site Manager
• Multiple uploads of files and folders in the FTP client when dropping files or folders into it
• Second progress bar in upload folder window shows how much time is remaining for the upload to finish

• WebDesign would not correctly replace Windows line breaks when opening files
• Uploading a web site will not go through the entire site structure if there were no files added
• CMM in file browser may not have worked when multiple files were selected
• Save button became enabled in FTP Client when it shouldn't then crashes when pressing it
• Condensed text is now the same height as the height of the line even if the text size is increased
• Improved stability in the FTP Client
• Plug-in icons in Tools Window would sometimes look curropted

Verion 2.1.1

• HTML Tools can now be applied to the selection only
• Find in folders and update includes would add all the files searched to the recent menu items
• File includes would be duplicated if opening documents saved for OSs other than Macintosh
• Stability and other minor improvements

Version 2.1

• Open any menu item allows you to open any file in WebDesign
• CSS editor mode allows you to more easily work with CSS files including CSS syntax coloring
• Preview in... Changed to Open In... and allows you to add any application to the menu list. This allows you to open the current document in any selected application to edit or preview it
• Open In... applications now use Command 1 through 9 for the first 9 applications listed
• Better and faster conversion of IS0-Latin-1 entities as you type or when converting the whole document. It no supports extended entities
• Execute line or selection menu item or when pressing command-return in the editor will run the text in shell
• Execute entire document as shell script
• Launch terminal menu item
• Included text and condensed text will now be previewed correctly
• Unsaved documents will preview correctly with images and relative links if the document has been initially saved
• Better performance when working with large files
• Attribute editor now provides the ability to enter any value for attributes that can usually only contain specific values (i.e. 'align' attribute)
• Line breaks default to unix on mac os x
• HTML Entities window is now a floating window and mouse scrollwheel now works correctly
• Find all matches list and syntax errors list now supports mouse scrollwheel
• Keyword files are no longer case sensitive
• CSS plugin can now has output options menu so you can ouput syntax in lowercase or as XHTML
• Site Manager
  • Ability to delete folders
  • Better copy routines retains file extensions
  • Moving a file/folder to a destination folder that contains an item with the same name now provides an option to replace the file
  • File information in file list is updated correctly after modifying a document
  • Updates files more reliably when moving/copying files
  • .site files correctly open in WebDesign when double clicked in the Finder. The web site will be listed in the site manager
  • Contextual Menu to get file info,reveal file in finder, duplicate file and move file to trash

• Images would get curropted when uploading through the FTP client
• Web pages get uploaded in text mode correctly through the FTP client
• Sending Apple Events to the Finder would not work in Mac OS 9 (i.e. Opening manual, revealing file in finder etc...)
• Find all matches list and syntax errors reports the correct line value when text is soft wrapped
• Find all matches list and syntax errors updates the line numbers when revealing text in the document
• Cursor position correctly shows the correct line when text is wrapped
• Insert->embbed media would not open the embed wizard
• Syntax errors in CSS and server side includes language extensions fixed
• Frameset examples now use proper frameset DTD
• Occurances is spelt wrong when replacing all text
• Scrollwheel works correctly with entities window
• Opening Windows or Unix files works correctly
• Correctly sets the soft wrap width when changing it in the document settings dialog
• Recent searches will condense themselves if too long in the recent searches menu in the find dialog
• Crash when dismissing the recover lost files message
• Invisible Unix files wont show up in stationery or keywords menu anymore
• Converting to XHTML inserts the correct DTD

Version 2.0

• Convert styled text to HTML, XHTML or CSS automatically
• Import styled text documents including simple text files or RTF documents and convert them to HTML, XHTML or CSS
• Multi-file search and replace in a folder or entire web site
• Multi-file search and replace in all open documents
• Regular Expression find and replace features
• Full support for JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets and Server Side Includes through language extensions
• Auto-recover unsaved documents on crash
• Example code including HTML, CSS, Server Side Includes and more as well as web page templates
• Increase/decrease indent
• Ability to specify the location of the back up folder and a new menu item to reveal the back up folder in the Finder
• Paste Styled Text menu item allows you to convert styled text to HTML, XHTML or CSS when pasting from another application
• Support for Mac OS X services
• Contextual menu in editor to cut, copy and paste text
• Holding option while showing the File menu allows you to Close All and Save All opened documents

• WebDesign relied on external files for basic operations
• Converting to XHTML would not produce the correct results if there was a space before or after the '=' character
• Syntax checker reported a syntax error when encountering <br />
• Removing all comments would also remove included files
• Pasted text would incorrectly paste styled text into the editor
• Replace all would miss some occurrences of the search text
• Attribute Contextual menu would insert the selected attribute after the trailing / in XHTML mode
• Attribute Contextual menu required that the tag already contain the insertion point before showing the CMM with the correct attributes
• Attribute editor would replace white colors with an invalid color code
• Attribute editor could not correctly display color properties who used the color name instead of the hex value
• Showing line numbers would not number the last line if it did not contain any characters
• Using a scrollwheel would scroll the text past the bounds of the document

Version 1.9

• Site Manager
  • Upload entire web site directories to your FTP server
  • Rename files and folders within the Site Manager
  • Resizable columns in the Site Manager window
  • Move and copy files via drag drop within the Site Manager
  • Ability to open any document in WebDesign or select another application to open the file in
  • Site Manager now displays file size and modification dates for the listed files
  • Open multiple files at once
  • Delete multiple files at once

• FTP Browser
  • Ability to upload entire folders
  • Larger file listing display
  • Now shows file size and modification date in FTP listing
  • Supports drag and drop from the Finder and from the Site Manager
  • FTP browser can now be kept opened while working on documents
  • Redesigned interface

• Link window and anchor window use the highlighted text as the text used for the link or anchor
• Resizable columns in the Attribute Editor
• Under OS X, recent menu items now displays the unix path
• Windows now remember their last positions and sizes when they are closed and re-opened

• Scrollbar got caught off when showing the cursor position and resizing the window
• Recently opened documents menu would occasionally not update correctly
• HTML/XHTML wizards used spaces instead of tabs for formatting
• Auto Indent would insert double the amount of spaces and tabs when hitting return at the beginning of a line

Version 1.8

• Support for Mac OS X 10.2
• Support for PHP Language
  Webdesign now supports php syntax coloring when working with php documents or when setting the editor to PHP mode.
• WebDesign Includes
  WebDesign Includes allow you to include files within your webpages allowing the ability to edit one document which can update an entire site. An update Includes in a file, folder and site automatically updates all your includes for you.
• Automatic conversion of HTML entities
  WebDesign can now automatically convert HTML entities to the entity name, decimal or hexadecimal value while typing. It also allows conversions of your entire document to ISO-Latin-1 or ISO-8859-1 and back.
• Improved syntax coloring
  Color all HTML tags or PHP syntax as well as the keywords from a selected keywords file
• Improved support for XHTML
  Option to insert all tags from the Style and Insert menu in lowercase. This option is always used when working with XHTML documents
• Command-R now previews your document in the first added web browser
• Added New Blank HTML Document menu item which opens a new window containing the skeleton of an HTML document
• Option to auto-save documents when previewing in a selected web browser
• Opened documents will have their document type set based on their extensions (HTML, XHTML, PHP or Text mode). This is customizable in the preferences window
• If a document is modified outside of WebDesign you are now asked if you want to re-open the file or disregard the changes
• Redesigned preferences window
• File browser changed to Site Manager

• Auto Indent would not indent the next line when the previous line was wrapped
• Windows and Unix line breaks were not correctly converted on open
• Statistics window did not correctly count the amount of words
• Frameset tag was not recognized as an HTML tag
• Name attribute in FRAME tag was not recognized
• Recent menu items would be disabled if there were no items in the Recent menu items folder in the WebDesign Preferences folder
• Document window would not open in the correct location when the Tools Window was not in the upper left hand corner
• Replace all in a selection would replace more than it was supposed to or less than it was supposed to depending on the length of the find string and the replace string
• Find all and Replace all now start at the current selection if neither start at top or in selection is enabled
• Find all would not report any matches if only one match was found
• Some plugins would not generate the correct code
• Style sheet plugin now generates the correct code for the 'Rel' tag
• Site Manager would cause WebDesign to crash in certain situations
• Site Manager would sometimes not show any file icons
• Changing the editor settings in the Document Settings Window would sometimes resize the text field to wide for the window

Version 1.7

• Line numbers
• Improved built in preview feature. Now uses Apple's HTMLRenderingLib
• Open Web Site menu item allows you to select your web site folder and have your pages listed in WebDesign's file browser
• A 'Replace and Find Next' menu item
• Slightly redesigned Tools Window

• Find Again and Replace Next menu items would not find any matches
• Shift-deleting a comment would stop at the first '<'
• Code inserted by a plugin could not be undone
• A document window had to be opened to download a file from an FTP server from the Recent Items menu
• Page setup menu item now uses Command-Shift-P
• Tools Window would be reopened if it was closed and a new document window was opened
• The search string in the Find window would be cleared when searching for text that was previously added to the Recent searches menu
• WebDesign would sometimes crash when saving files in OS 9
• File browser would not recognize a file after it was saved
• Crash when dropping an image onto the image map maker window
• Document window is brought to the front when the Save Changes dialog appears
• Saving a file downloaded from an FTP server would add the path to the temporary file in the recent items menu

Version 1.6.1

• Improved interface
• Improved scroll wheel support
• Attributes listed in the attribute editor can now be reordered
• Opening files is now faster

• Same files could be opened multiple times
• Previewing saved documents would just bring the preview application to the front but not open the file in it
• Shortcuts could not be dropped in document window
• Using the Open URL command would always report a connection dropped error
• Webdesign would crash when displaying a sheet that had to be temporarily move the window to display the sheet in some cases
• Syntax checker will not display an error for tags that have an asterisks (*) as a value and require a numeric value

Version 1.6

• Customizable browser list
• Custom syntax checking
• Support for tabs (note: tabs and show invisible can not be used together)
• Toolbar button support
• Ability to set default window dimensions for the document window
• Warning when running WebDesign from a locked volume
• Attribute and value options in the Atrribute Editor are now saved when the window is closed and between launches
• File browser now correctly displays files without creator/type codes but with only extensions
• Option to allow dropping HTML wizards outside the BODY tags

• Path in document window displays correctly with long file names
• FTP Client
  • Connecting to a server after disconnecting is now more reliable
  • Disconnect from a server after previously disconnecting from another server now works correctly
• Undoing/redoing would change the font/font size in some cases
• Image window will now respect the global settings for using relative/absolute paths
• Passive mode would not be used even if it was set in the preferences when using the recent menu items and saving to ftp without the ftp browser
• Saved documents are now stored in the recent items list
• Should fix random crashes
• Files could not be deleted in the file browser
• Attribute editor would add a value to attributes that don't have a value

Version 1.5.2

• Fixed random crashes on OS 9 and below
• Fixed a saving problem on OS 9 and below
• Does not remove file comments when saving
• Fixed COMMAND-H not hiding the toolbar or tools window on OS X

Version 1.5.1

• Redesigned New Document dialog
• Attribute editor will update your document after editing a single attribute value
• Up/Down arrows now work in attribute editor
• Windows now respect the Dock when opening in OS X

• Name of purchaser will appear in the about window once again
• Previewing documents in web browsers now works correctly in OS 9 and below

Version 1.5

New Features

• Improved attribute editor.
Offers the ability to edit all attributes including CSS attributes and javascript attributes. It also provides the ability to select colors for attributes who require a color value, a popupmenu lists all possible values for certain attributes and the ability to tab back and forth between attribute values has been implemented.
• Improved syntax checker
• The new syntax checker can scan your documents much quicker than that of previous versions. It also provides additional error checking and looks for proper format of attribute values.
• Improved Mac OS X support
Live resizing, scrollwheel support and sheets provides a better Mac OS X look and feel. Long file name support adds to WebDesign's increasing support for Mac OS X.
• Interface Enhancements
A redesigned toolbar, tools pallet and preferences gives WebDesign a cleaner and more efficient interface than ever before. Minor tweaks to many of the dialog windows adds to WebDesign's ease of use and style.
• Choose between relative and absolute paths
A global preference allows you to chose between absolute and relative paths when choosing files or folders. A great time saver when working with HTML files.

Bug Fixes

• Multiple instances of the same WebDesign application would be opened when double clicked multiple times in the Finder
• Windows menu now lists windows in the order they were opened
• Some built in wizards generated incorrect code