Saarbrücken Today RealObjects, pioneer in Java-based content authoring, announced the release date for their newly-enhanced edit-on product line-up. As of this December, RealObjects will present freshly updated versions of their edit-on software as follows:

edit-on Pro 3.0 The brand new RealObjects WYSIWYG XHTML/XML Java applet editor, offers extended capabilities which will provide business users with enhanced editing power and a wide range of exciting new features. more

edit-on Pro 2.1 Our popular and reliable WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML editor will continue to be available as the more compact Java editor applet. more

edit-on JavaBean SDK The SDK will provide the same XHTML/XML editing functionality as the new edit-on Pro 3.0. It will empower Java developers to develop AWT- and Swing- based applications. The SDK will be offcially released in May 2003. more

Note to our valued customers: With the official release of our new and improved line of edit-on products, edit-on Pro 2.1, the popular and reliable RealObjects WYSIWYG HTML / XHTML editor will continue to be available as the more compact Java editor applet. The new edit-on Pro 3.0 will provide enhanced features to websites and web applications and edit-on Pro 2.1 customers with a valid 1 Year Maintenance and Upgrade Subscription are entitled to upgrade to the new edit-on-Pro 3.0 free of charge. For more information and upgrade possibilities, please review the edit-on Pro Java Applet Pricelist.

What's new in edit-on Pro 3.0?

• Support of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Creation and editing of style sheets, API for import/export of styles and style sheets.
• Support for multiple and read-only style sheets.
• Support for read-only elements and read-only areas, editing of template-based documents.
• Custom XML tags. Define your own tags using XML.
• Native XHTML data format.
• Filtering of imported or pasted HTML-Code via TIDY from W3C (on client or server) or through a custom client- or server-side implementation.
• Support of ALIGN attribute, e.g. text will flow around images.
• Redo/Undo and Search/Replace functions.
• Copy/Paste of rich text format from Microsoft Word, Excel (tables) and IE - only when using the SUN JRE 1.4.1 on Windows platform. This feature can be enabled/disabled using a parameter.
• LiveConnect emulation for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Now you can use the JavaScript API even under Mac OS.
• Possibility to constrain the color dialog, definition of custom color palette and color mapping.
• Support for <span>, <div>, <sup>, <sub>.
• Changing spell checker at runtime, adding user specific words to the spell checker dictionary at the server at runtime.
• Flexible mapping of Java VM fonts, style sheet font names and font menu names.
• Editor which can "pop out" of browser in a separate, resizable window. Improves the ability to edit larger documents.
• New, smaller status bar (only 1 line), which reduces the required screen "real estate".