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Quanta Plus 3 Picks Up Steam, 3.0 PR2 Released

Posted by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @10:50
from the help-me-I-can't-stop-adding-features dept.
The Quanta Plus development team is currently churning out more code than at any time in its history. So to keep you in the loop, the Quanta Plus site has been revamped, we've put up some new screenshots and implemented new site features such as a publicly accessible developer todo list. So what's new with Quanta? Well, we've released 3.0 PR2, so you're encouraged to check it out for yourself! You'll find auto-completion for HTML and tag attributes, PHP built-in function auto-completion, a revised document structure tree that recurses PHP structures and embedded HTML, and more. One exciting bit of work in progress is the ability to set different DTDs as well as offer tagging functionality in the form of pseudo DTDs to script languages. There are other fixes and enhancements and more on the way. We're also appealing to the community to help us flesh out the templates as well as other tagging and scripting languages. You only need to be a web developer to help here. Check out the full story (page2, page3, page4, page5) in our News and Articles section. Exciting things are happening.

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another KDE killer app
by Navindra Umanee on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @10:56

Thanks guys, for your work on GPL Quanta. Who said KDE didn't have killer apps? :-)

For those of you who didn't notice, there's now a donation link on the Quanta page.

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Re: another KDE killer app by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @11:02

Great!
by Anonymous on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @11:13

I downloaded Quanta a few days ago and it works just great!

Excellent work!

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PR2A on the way in a few hours...
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @11:28

Hi all. If anyone experiences a problem starting Quanta after the install that starts with a message saying "A toolbar with the same name already exists. Please rename the loaded toolbar." and ends with a crash a fix is on the way. This is caused because you have on old quantaui.rc which contains the standard toolbars. If you are adventurous you can go edit them out (or possibly delete and reinstall) or you can wait probably less than 8-12 hours for a patch and a new PR2A release to be posted. In addition to the fix which is in CVS we are looking to apply several other fixes which speed Quanta up, reduce the huge number of files for PHP function auto-completion and fix the sort order in the trees without slowing it down. We thought we would just get everything at once.

Our 3.0 final may be delayed by a week or so to be sure we bang on it a little more. ;-)

I wanted to thank our developers and especially Andras Mantia and Robert Nickel for their extra efforts helping me get this release out the door. Also thanks all those of you who have sent us appreciative emails (not that I need more email ;-)) and espcially those who have contributed code and financial donations. I'm not only very proud of our team and the program but I think we have some very classy users too. You guys rock!

Okay, back to work for me.

Eric Laffoon
Quanta Plus project manager

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Re: PR2A on the way in a few hours... by Andras Mantia on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @11:41
Re: PR2A on the way in a few hours... by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @12:14
Re: PR2A on the way in a few hours... by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @14:21

thanx
by gunnar on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @13:44

quanta is my php-editor of choice. very nice one.
keep up the good work!

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Awesome!
by Brad on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @16:36

I downloaded it this morning! I have been using Quanta for my web work for
sometime now and I am glad to see it continue to be developed!

You guys ROCK!

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Get rid of the splash-screen!
by Roland on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @17:34

The only gripe I have about Quanta is the splash-screen, which is quite annoying when you restore a session on which Quanta gets restored.

Otherwise it's a really great application already.

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Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Wrenkin on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @17:49

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @18:59

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Wrenkin on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @21:00

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @22:38

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Ingo Klöcker on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @02:56

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Andras Mantia on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @03:26
Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @04:05

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Wrenkin on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @12:56

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @14:45

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Christoph on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @15:22

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @15:46

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Christoph on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @14:11

Re: Get rid of the splash-screen! by Andras Mantia on Tuesday 10/Sep/2002, @23:47

quanta + kafka?
by dc on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @06:05

Is there any plans to integrate any of the ideas of the stagnant/dead Kafka (kdenonbeta/kafka) project?

I'd be awesome if Quanta had a WYSIWYG mode too.

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Re: quanta + kafka? by Andras Mantia on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @08:57
Re: quanta + kafka? by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @12:25

How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-)
by Adam Treat on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @13:27

Just floating the question to see if any of the current Quanta developers would be interested in extensions for Mono's ASP.Net when it's ready. Any takers?

Cheers,

Adam

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Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-) by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @14:56

Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-) by Adam Treat on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @15:25

Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-) by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @16:29

Re: How about some support for Mono's ASP.NET? :-) by Adam Treat on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @15:15

getting WYSIWYG right
by Andreas von Brexberg on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @17:53

I'm no programmer, so I don't know how hard it is to adapt konqueror's layout engine for rendering pages in Quanta in WYSIWYG mode. It seems to me that konqueror has a very good idea about the structure of the page it lays out (It needs to, since it fulfills quite a large part of DOM/XHTML specs.) For editing the source directly, all I really want is syntax highlighting. Everything else is not very important. However, for WYSIWYG mode, my wishes are more complicated to fulfill.
I have to admit that my assumption on what HTML- WYSIWYG should look like is very much based on Macromedia Dreamweaver. That's because DW works *extremely* well, is professional, and very intuitive. I'm sorry to say that as much as I'd love to move my PC to 100% Linux, I simply can't, as long as there is nothing that comes even close to Dreamweaver.

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Re: getting WYSIWYG right by Eric Laffoon on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @19:38

I agree with Eric
by Chris Spencer on Wednesday 11/Sep/2002, @23:24

Personally, I would prefer that Quanta Developers put off adding a WYSIWYG editor as long as possible. Eric is right, there are things of higher priority. I would rather they find and fix all the bugs, and then go on adding features on the hand coding end than focus on the WYSIWYG area. Secondly, as someone stated, it IS a hack job, and in most cases, even the best WYSIWYG editor makes pages slower than hand written ones. For those that try to compare Quanta to Macromedia Dreamweaver - well you show your ignorance on the topic of HTML editors, because if anything, Quanta would be closer to Macromedia Homesite - another "real" HTML editor and not a WYSIWYG one. People should understand that they are 2, distinctly different types of HTML editors, and comparing the 2 would be like comparing C++ to Delphi...

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Re: I agree with Eric by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @02:16

Re: I agree with Eric by Chris Spencer on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @04:24

quanta & previewing
by me on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @02:41

hi!

I have an honest question: I can't imagine creating a website in Quanta, for the simple reason that I couldn't preview it in Internet Explorer at the same time.

Do you guys just don't check/care how it looks in ie, do you have multiple computers (and one just for pressing F5) or what?

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Re: quanta & previewing by Andras Mantia on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @03:32
Re: quanta & previewing by Julien Olivier on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @05:33

Re: quanta & previewing by me on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @12:03

Re: quanta & previewing by Eric Laffoon on Thursday 12/Sep/2002, @14:43
Re: quanta & previewing by Julien Olivier on Friday 13/Sep/2002, @00:22

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