HTML-Kit Build 250 - 258

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Improved anchor plugin with support for mailto, ftp, http and news type links. [v1.0]
"W3C CSS Validator" plugin to run the current document through the W3C CSS Validation service and to display the results in the "Messages Window" and in a browser window to make it easier to use the online service with local documents. Also added plugins for WDG's HTML and CSS validators. [v1.0]
Ability to open more than one file at a time by using the "File | Open..." menu option and holding the CTRL key while selecting multiple files. [v1.0]
Released HTML-Kit Plugins Generator 1.0 for plugins developers. It can generate source code for HTML-Kit plugins in C/C++ and HKScript. [v1.0]
Online help for HTML, CSS and JavaScript tags, attributes, keywords, methods, events and objects using W3C, Netscape and Microsoft references, with the ability to easily add other references. Place the cursor on an HTML tag and press the F1 key for a demonstration. HTML-Kit can also lookup help for tag sensitive HTML attributes. For example, the width attribute for the IMG tag and the width attribute for the TABLE tag will display two specific help pages. [v1.0]
Integrated the 2-Jul-1999 version of HTML Tidy. HTML Tidy plugin speed improvements. Added support for BGSOUND, MARQUEE, EMBED and NOEMBED tags. [v1.0]
New "Tags" menu with options for quickly inserting start/end tags, moving to the next and previous tags, deleting content inside a tag to left/right of the cursor position and automatically adding end tags. Type "<newtag>" and press CTRL+/ keys to see a demonstration of the last feature. [v1.0]
Improved style sheets plugin to easily enter: '<selector> { | }' and 'style="<property>: |"' [v1.0]
"Task Bar" listing names and the modified status of open files to easily switch between multiple documents. [v1.0]
HTML-Kit can now remember open/save path names between sessions. [v1.0]
Two default file type filters for HTML files -- one for saving files as .htm and another for the .html extension. Also added a filter for HKScript (*.hks) files. [v1.0]
"TextTools" plugin in the "Tools" tab to make it easier to perform following functions: change letter case, merge lines with an optional space at the end, strip HTML tags optionally including new lines, convert HTML tags to character data, escape quotes, convert a block of lines to list items/table cells/table rows, and more. [v1.0]
Added mouse wheel support to the "Actions Bar" to quickly scroll through plugins and tabs (hold down the CTRL key while scrolling the wheel). [v1.0]
"File | Page Setup..." feature to configure paper size, margins, orientation, etc. when printing. [v1.0]
Ability to select a HTML tag (<...> block) by pressing CTRL+T. "Edit | Delete | Delete Tag" menu item to quickly delete the current tag. [v1.0]
Support for <? ?>, <% %> and <script ...> style PHP code blocks in the syntax highlighter and the actions bar. [v1.0]
An option to remove icons from the main menu can be found under "Edit | Preferences... | Misc." [v1.0]
The new "Active Preview" resizable window can automatically preview the current document while it is being edited. Open a document and press "Ctrl+F8" for a demonstration. The refresh frequency can be changed by going to "Edit | Preferences... | Browser." [v1.0]
The message pointer can now be optionally set to appear below a given number of lines from the top of the editor window. Holding down the SHIFT key will temporarily disable this feature and allow the message pointer to move around the editor. [v1.0]
A duplicate of the current document can be made by selecting "Window | Open in New Window" from the main menu. To open only a portion of the current document, select the desired portion before calling this function. [v1.0]
Added the ability to easily place the HTML-Kit shortcut on the Desktop, in the Start Menu and in the Quick Launch area. Files can be opened by dragging and dropping on the HTML-Kit icon in the Quick Launch area after configuring "Edit | Preferences... | Misc. | Associate File Types / Setup Shortcuts..." [v1.0]
Updated program icons with Adam Rosser's much improved HTML-Kit and CSS Style Sheet icons. [v1.0]
Released HTML-Kit Plugins Generator 1.1 and HKP API 1.0.6 for plugin developers. Plugins compiled using Borland products may now contain underscores (no need to use the -u switch). [v1.0]
Added support for JScript language elements not found in JavaScript. [v1.0]
PHP support: Language-level syntax highlighting for PHP code and F1 online help for PHP statements, constants and functions. HTML Tidy updated to preserve PHP code blocks. Added php, pht, phtml and php3 to the list of document extensions that will be automatically syntax highlighted. Current HTML-Kit users will have to run the "Reset Settings" utility for this change to take effect. [v1.0]
Improved the "Comments" plugin with menu items for inserting IE 5 conditional comments. Corrected the "HTML Document" plugin's "Frameset" code. [v1.0]
PHP feature preview pre-release for PHP users. [v1.0]
Fixed "File | Save As..." problem introduced in build 252, where the user was prompted multiple times to save the same file. [v1.0]
Added support for Internet Explorer 5's conditional HTML comments:


<![if ! IE 5]> ... <![endif]>
[v1.0]
Added the ability to automatically check for new HTML-Kit versions on startup. This feature is disabled by default, select "Edit | Preferences... | Misc." from the main menu to enable it. [v1.0]
Added a new file filter for HTML-Kit keyword help files. [v1.0]
Improved VBScript support with language-level syntax highlighting for VBScript code blocks. Also added F1 online help for VBScript statements, constants, functions, methods, objects and properties. [v1.0]

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HTML-Kit Build 250 - 258