RapidWeaver Version History

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Version 4.0 - May 29th 2008

Application Updates

Brand New User Interface.
New open file format (RWSW).
Pretty URL's (i.e. Cruftless links).
Easy theme management:

Folder support.
New Hi-Resolution Theme Previews.
Theme Searching.

WebClip icon support.
One-click Publishing.
Google Analytics Support.
RapidWeaver News Centre.
Picture Taker Support.
Styled Text Editing Toolbar.
4 Completely new themes.
Custom Link Attributes in the Add Page Sheet.
Improved and expanded Plugin Architecture.
Site logo now has width and height attributes set in the source.
Publishing can now be cancelled.
Numerous other fixes and enhancements.

Version 3.6.7 - April 4th 2008

Application Updates

Fixes an issue with 3.6.6 that rendered Blog Tags unusable on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)

Version 3.6.6 - April 1st 2008

Application Updates

Significantly enhanced export speeds.
Resolved minor SFTP issues on Intel Macs.
Site Logo is now correctly referenced when using the 'Relative to Site URL' consolidation settings
Preliminary Support for the Simplified Chinese localisation.

QuickTime Page Updates

Fixed possible crash when using a lot of QuickTime movie pages.
Fixed issue where certain movies would not display in Preview.

Blog Updates

Improved Movable Type importing.

Version 3.6.5 - November 19th 2007

Application Updates

Fixed up various issues affecting users on Leopard

Version 3.6.4 - October 23rd 2007

Application Updates

Now Leopard compatible

Version 3.6.3 - September 19th 2007

Application Updates

Greatly improved memory usage when exporting websites
Fixed an isssue with using the bold and colour attributes on a string
Fixed some issues with the main view displaying icorrectly
Various other fixes and enhancements
Various Theme Fixes

Photo Album Updates

Option-Double Clicking on photos now opens the files

Version 3.6.3 Public Beta - August 14th 2007

Application Updates

Added SFTP public key authentication to Publishing window
"Uses Master Style for Theme" is now supported in the "Apply to All…" pages feature.
Advanced options tab added in Preferences window
Image Normalisation option added to help with large sites
Added an option to allow developers to watch all theme files
Quicktime movie handling is now much more stable
Snippets text field is now resizable
Cancelling an export involving a Blog page now works much faster
Blog page no longer emit summaries twice for tag, category and date archive pages
Fixed an error on export that occurs when trying to export links (such as a Podcast) to a Blog page
Fixed an issue whereby the "Replace Page" feature would simple add a new page
Fixed an instability during (or after) exporting a Photo Album page
Fixed a possible crash when creating a new document or opening a document
Fixed an issue where Aperture support would somtimes crash RapidWeaver
iFrame page now correctly marks the page as changed if the page's width or height is changed
Moved "Clear Publishing Cache" option to Site menu
Various Theme Fixes

Version 3.6.2 - August 2nd 2007

Application Updates

iMedia Browser now supports Aperture
iPhone theme added
Preview/Edit mode now animates when switching to code view
Sidebar now supports add/remove link feature
Sidebar now supports image manipulation via the Image Inspector
Master Styles can now be set and managed from the Page Inspector
Apply to all pages option no longer renames all pages index.html
Snippets now saved correctly
The link panel now supports linking to photos in user-created photo albums
The link panel now supports linking to tags and categories
Long plugin descriptions now render correctly
Preference window now uses the unified look
Scroll arrows now work in the Header/CSS/JavaScript/Prefix tab text fields
Show/Hide Snippets menu item now sets itself correctly
Show/Hide iMedia Browser menu item now sets itself correctly
Get info button now toggles Page Inspector
Adding/removing Quicktime movies no longer result in a crash
Theme colour tags no longer cause exceptions when exporting
Editing of fields in media inspector now marks page as changed
Fixed up some issues with colour tags not being applied to certain pages
.Mac publishing now uses Smart Publishing again
Base URL is now checked for .mac address if publishing via FTP
Various Theme rendering issues fixed
Various other fixes and enhancements

Blog Updates

Users can now specify a custom RSS link for site such as Feedburner
Now has an option to make the sidbar a php include (Reduces upload time!)
Users can now customze separator between Comments and Trackbacks
Now generates the correct file names in the RSS feed
Theme developers can now style comments and trackbak links
Various other minor fixes

Contact Form Updates

Now works correctly when info strings are empty

iFrame Updates

Now displays the correct page in Preview when the document is first loaded

Movie Album Updates

Generating thumbnails for movies that have a greater height than width now works properly

Photo Album Updates

Fixed an issue with the flickr RSS feed support for Flash Slideshows
Images are now rotated correctly, if they have been edited in Preview.app
"Select All" and "Select None" buttons now only affect the current selection
Fixed sizing issue where images were sometimes 1pixel to large
Now converts unicode characters correctly

Version 3.6.1 - June 5th 2007

Application Updates

Blog tag pages now list out all entries with the same tag
Fixed up some publishing issues
Colours styles should now be applied to all pages
Double-clicking theme styles in finder now installs them correctly
All themes now support the new user header tag
Various other minor fixes

Version 3.6.0 - May 24th 2007

Application Updates

Style support added to themes
Added support for lists
Snippets feature added
6 completely new themes added
Publishing now shows more detail while uploading
Pages can now be dragged and dropped between documents
Added option to protect e-mail address in footer
Rel tag now supported when adding a link
Now supports JS page encoding
Added “Paste and Match Style” to edit menu
Added "Visit Published Website" menu item
Added a feature to enable code to be placed in the header
Custom page extensions, such as “php” are now carried over to sub pages
Duplicating a page now also duplicates the page’s attributes, including the sidebar
Missing pages are now displayed with a missing page icon, instead of being removed from the Hierarchy
Code view now reports PHP syntax errors
Dock Menu now supports open and new file commands
Updated preferences window
Applying shadows and borders to images quality improved
Images are now much smaller as they no longer have a colour profile embeded
Non 72dpi images are now scaled correctly
The site logo is now used only once per site
Text views with lots of content are now much, much faster
Publishing and Export no longer use excessive amounts of memory
Implemented a crash reporter, handy if something bad happens!
Many, many other minor fixes and enhancements

Includes localization for the following languages

English
French
German
Japanese

Blog Updates

Added Tag support for posts
Archive posts by Year option added
Support for Multiple categories added
The title of the post is now linked to it's permalink page
Added support for inline comments on permalink pages using haloscan
A title can now be set for categories. e.g. "Filed in:"
Images added in the sidebar of the blog now display correctly in the archives
Scrollwheel now works in the Main entry field
Sidebar arrows now work in the Summary field
Custom iTunes tag fields no longer remain inactive
Now uses SEO frendly browser titles on permalink pages
Moved RSS link to the header so the page should now validate strict, even without using Tidy
Fixed a bug whereby the blog plugin would sometimes crash RapidWeaver when loading a document
Archived by date pages now use better file names, e.g mar-01-2007.html
Fixed issue with non localized versions of RW displaying null as the date
Many other minor fixes

Contact Form Updates

Name is now included in the Email header
Now uses styled text fields for the sent and received messages
Added a footer text area

Photo Album Updates

Now supports EXIF data
Completely new Flash Slideshow with Audio, Ken Burns Effect and much more
Added a square thumbnail option for tidier gallery pages
Images are now much smaller as they no longer have a colour profile embeded
No longer uses excessive memory
Fixed a bug whereby white lines were sometimes visible along the top of images

Version 3.5.1 - November 24th 2006

Application Updates

Added "Revert to Saved" menu command
Added a "Title" field to the link dialog box
Height and Width fields now work in Media Inspector
Height and Width attributes are now always added to user imported images
iMedia Framework now resides in the Frameworks folder, instead of the plugins folder
Added HTML and Styled sidebar checkboxes for "Apply to All" option
Aqualicious theme includes new theme variation options
Alert box OK/Cancel buttons are now localizable
Duplicating a theme will now display the correct name. (Updates all localized display names)
Fixed an issue whereby RapidWeaver would crash if the theme inspector was left open when closing a document
Many other minor fixes

Includes localization for the following languages

English
French
German
Italian
Japanese

Blog Updates

Added an option to import all entries from a Movable Type based blog
Added an option to toggle text to smiley conversion
Fixed localization issues for the "Archive" option in the Setup sheet
Adding podcasts to a blog that shares a folder with other pages now generates the correct xml file
Editing the title of a blog now works in the list view

Contact Form Updates

Attachments now appear correctly in online services such as GMail
Sessions are now declared correctly, users should no longer see the "Undefined Index" warning
New form elements now appear localized instead of displaying as "Untitled x"

Photo Album Updates

Localization should no longer break old save files

Version 3.5 - September 7th 2006

Application Updates

Flipping and adding a drop shadow to an image no longer adds a black line to one side of the image
Setting all folder names to "/" no longer causes 3rd level and deeper nested menus to not appear
No longer removes doc-type for transitional pages
Output options in Site Setup is now localizable
No longer removes doc-type for transitional pages
Page encoding is now localizable
utf-8 is now the default page encoding
The quick-start guide is now visible on case-sensitve systems
Many other minor issues fixed

Includes localization for the following languages:

English
French
Japanese

Blog Updates:

Fixed an issue with %20 being displayed in the creator tag of rss feeds
Deleting a blog category no longer shifts the position of the current categories
Added dotmac.info to the default list of ping sites
Added pingomatic.com to the default list of ping sites
Body tag is is no longer declared twice for archive, category and perm-link pages

Contact Form Updates:

Check Box and Attachment form elements are now closed correctly
Adding quote marks to form sub options no longer breaks the form
Now works under Mac OS X 10.3.9

Photo Album Updates:

Photo Album is now localizable
Individual photo pages now inherit the correct encoding

Version 3.5 Public Beta 3 - August 2nd 2006

Application Updates:

Added "Show Theme Inspector" to theme area contextual menu
Code view now wraps code, and no longer cuts off the last few characters
Code view now shows errors and warnings
Fill background colour now works in Media Inspector
Image size and dpi are now handled correctly
Now prompts to save changes when using "Publish Site..." from the File menu
Javascript code entered into the Page inspector is no longer commented out
Now uses "command +" to make fonts bigger (i.e. no need to hold down the shift key)
Media Inspector now handles pdf's correctly, i.e. As links, not images
Removing a Quicktime movie from a styled text page no longer crashes RapidWeaver
Now applies correct encoding to pages, UTF-8, ISO Latin, etc...
Fixed some issues whereby RapidWeaver would crash when loading a saved document
Command-4 now opens and closes the iMedia Browser
Will now correctly prompt user to save old rwp files into new rw3 format

Blog Updates:

Fixed localization bug whereby dates would appear as null/null/null
Now emits closing div tag for the blog-rss-feeds class even if the RSS Link Name is empty
Added m4b and ogg as valid podcast types
iTunes custom tags field is now enabled
Simleys can now be styled independently using the style ".blog-image-smiley"
Category heading links now appear on permalink and archive pages

Contact Form Updates:

Sub options can now be reordered via drag and drop
Now publishes extra files to the correct location when using custom folder names
If one of the form elements was not set to "required" users would be re-directed to a blank page
Unicode characters no longer break the contact form
No longer sends e-mails as attachments
Now escape double-quotes ("), single-quotes (') and backslashes (\) to prevent these characters from breaking the php script

Photo Album Updates:

Image size and dpi are now handled correctly
Custom javascript and css code now has the relevant tags around it on single photo pages

Version 3.5 Public Beta 2 - July 5th 2006

Application Updates:

Added iMedia Browser.
Added public key authentication for SFTP
Linking to a blog post using the link panel now results in a correct link
Text undo is no longer global
Slogan and copyright fields now get substituted correctly
SFTP now works on Intel based Macs
Improved error handling when publishing
10.3 allows you to save a file with a .rwp file extension
Switching between pages in code view now works correctly
Image compression settings are no longer ignored
Updating sites via SFTP now works correctly
Fixed crash on save issue
Image compression settings are no longer ignored
Many other minor issues fixed

Theme Updates:

Many compatibility fixes and improvements
Added support for new blog CSS styles

Blog Updates:

Fixed error whereby the users would sometimes get an error when editing old blog posts
Ping should now function correctly
Permalinks in archive and category pages now appear
Additional CSS styes added to help with styling

Photo Album Updates:

Image compression settings are no longer ignored

Contact Form Updates:

User-email address should now display correctly in received e-mails

Version 3.5 Public Beta 1 - June 2nd 2006

Application Updates:

Universal Binary. (Will now run natively under Mac's with Intel processors)
Improved interface
Updated Theme viewer
SFTP support added
Image Inspector can now added drop shadows and borders to images
Link panel can now link directly to photos (from albums), blog entries and podcasts
Added "Open Last Document" option to Preferences
Copy+Paste, Drag+Drop and Undo with attributed strings now work
Typing in sidebar updates more intelligently. (waits for gap in typing)
Added a field for placing code at the very top of the document. (i.e. php sessions)
Image tags now have width and height attributes
Installing plugins now works more intelligently
When deleting existing site in .Mac publishing, all pages are now marked as changed so they all get re-published
Added check box to toggle between original code and tidied code
Save files are now much smaller. (Can be up to 70%)
Option to disable update checking in Preferences
Many other bug fixes and improvements

Includes localization for the following languages:

English
French (Partial)
German (Partial)

Theme Updates:

7 New Professionally Designed Themes added
Added support for Unordered lists (ul, li, etc...)
Theme support for mobile phones added
Improved print style sheets
Various browser compatibility issues fixed

Blog Updates

Archive and Category pages now use main site theme
Added support for perma links
Added support for Read More link
Issues fixed involving draft posts
Added Blog option to only create rss entries for posts on the front page
Added iTunes custom fields checkbox to the Blog Podcast sheet (was only on the main Setup sheet)
iTunes keywords can now contain commas e.g. 1,2,3 (previously whinged about international characters)
Ping support added
Category links in the sidebar now show number of posts. (Optional)
Changed main Setup sheet button from save to OK for consistency
Cleaned up bugs with the advanced podcast settings not being displayed properly/crashing in Blog
Save as draft bug fixed
Many other minor fixes and improvements

Contact Form Updates:

Re-written to stop spammers taking advantage of php mail security issue

iFrame Updates:

iFrame width can now be set to less than 100%

HTML Updates:

Added option for HTML plugin to emit only raw HTML

Movie Album Updates:

Fixed quicktime issues regarding the latest version of PC IE 6
Users will no longer hear a short sound clip when adding movies

Photo Album Updates:

Added collapsible large thumbnail view in edit mode
Improved memory and speed issues
Flash slideshow now shows number of images in control area
Now gets photo and album comments directly from iPhoto 5 or greater
Fixed a bug, whereby an album with a movie in it would cause an exception
Fixed quicktime issues regarding the latest version of PC IE 6
Fixed flash slideshow issues regarding the latest version of PC IE 6

Quicktime Updates:

Save movie for Fast Start
Fast start caching option added
Auto option added
Loop option added

Version 3.2.1 - December 6th 2005

Changes not documented here

Version 3.2 - November 17th 2005

Application Updates:

New Application Icon and Slimmer Interface
New Document, Plugin and Theme Icons
Implemented new FTP framework
Site file consolidation added
Support for multiple themes per site added
Theme variation support added
Live rendering of PHP code
Flat file structure support options added
Image Inspector added, with re-size, rotate and flip controls
Image file name and Alt tags can now be customized
Support for unique Site Title, Slogan and Copyright per page
Browser title can now be set independently
Site navigation now highlights ancestors
Custom CSS support added
Custom Javascript support added
Sidebar now supports styled text
Sidebar title support added
Page encoding options added
HTML Error checking window added
Automatic refresh, when themes are edited (and saved) externally
Update all existing themes, and added several new themes
Many more bugs fixes and improvements

Blog Updates:

Category support for Blog entries added
Added support for iTunes specific Podcasting tags
Option to limit the number of posts in the RSS feed
RSS file name is now customizable
Date editing controls added
Inline editing added
Now supports Quicktime Movies in entries
Now supports Localization

Contact Form Updates:

File attachment support added
Message field's now support single quotes
Formating of mail improved
Added e-mail error checking to stop e-mail spamming
Now supports Localization

File Sharing Updates:

Added support for URL's
Added support for dragging and dropping .webloc files
Inline editing support added
Now supports Localization

HTML Updates:

Line numbering added
Now supports Localization

Movie Album Updates:

Can now add .3gp movies to albums
Now supports Localization

Photo Album Updates:

Export images as an interactive Flash slideshow
Better handling and linking of user images
Now supports Localization

Styled Page Updates:

Now supports Quicktime Movies
Now supports Localization

iFrame Updates:

Syntax bug fixed when setting width as percent
Now supports Localization

Version 3.1.2 - July 7th 2005

Changes not documented here

Version 3.1.1 - May 5th 2005

Changes not documented here

Version 3.1 - March 29th 2005

Application Updates:

Unlimited sub menu support
FTP publishing
Preview site in Browser
Sidebar support
Bread-crumb navigation
Publish selected page option
Custom page file name support
Added Meta tag editor
Optimized and Tidied output options
Added Contact Form Page Style (requires PHP)
Added Movie Album Page Stye
Image quality export options
Duplicate page option
Make any page the Home page
Site menu now highlights currently selected page
All themes are now created using XHTML and CSS.
All page styles now create XHTML valid code
Text to HTML conversion re-written. (Now XHTML)
All existing themes updated and improved to support new features
Print style sheet added to all themes
Problem with having multiple documents open fixed
Updated to .Mac Framework 1.1.0
Theme drawer now displays theme names
Page style version number can now be seen in list
Keyboard shortcuts added for common tasks
Re-worked and improved interface
Greatly improved and expanded manual
Updated icons and interface on all page styles
And much, much more

Photo Album Updates:

Customizable Home, Next and Previous link text
Export and preview now uses multiple processors if available
Comment display option added
Image export quality settings added
Improved gallery layout

Styled Updates:

File download support. (drag and drop files to content area)
Easy link insertion now works on images also
Users can now choose targets for links
Fixed alignment bug

Blog Updates:

Comment and trackback system added. (Uses HaloScan)
Weekly/Monthly Archive feature added
Save as Draft feature added
Enabled/Disable RSS Feed
File download support. (drag and drop files to content area)
Easy link and URL insertion feature added. (also works on images)
Users can now choose targets for links
Insert "iTunes Track" feature added
Insert "Today in History" feature added
Insert "Stock Quote" feature added
Insert "Safari URL" feature added
Images in RSS feed now use correct URL

HTML Updates:

5 new quick insert items added

iFrame Updates:

Updated Interface

Offsite Updates:

Web preview added

Quicktime Updates:

QT plugin will now correct incompatible file names and incorrect urls

File Sharing Updates:

Fixed file adding bug.

Contact Form:

Initial Release

Movie Album Updates:

Initial Releases

Version 3.0.3 - January 1st 2005

Changes not documented here

Version 3.0.2 - December 22nd 2004

Changes not documented here

RapidWeaver 3.0.1 - November 25th 2004

Application Updates:

Foreign characters now show correctly in the footer area
Check for update menu item added
Graphical toolbars now scale properly
Fixed a rare update bug, whereby RW would crash at startup
Fixed Export bug, whereby RW would publish all open documents
Resolved console message about SeparatedTableView

Blog Updates:

Blog titles now support foreign characters
Non english systems can now add blog entries
Date is now localized
Update RSS feed to 2.0
Changed RSS feed file extension to '.xml'
RSS output code improved, now "Valid RSS"

File Sharing Updates:

Updated html layout of file list

PhotoAlbum Plugin:

Better image caching to speed up export
Deselect/select all button added
Show/hide captions button added
Plugin now uses "iPhoto.plist" to locate iPhoto library
Link separator "|" is now dynamically added/removed when needed
Large photo pages are now 100% valid XHTML

Quicktime Updates:

Users can now add captions to QT movie pages

Version 3.0 - November 16th 2004

RapidWeaver Lite and RapidWeaver Plus have been combined into one application. RapidWeaver 3.0 is a FREE update for all users.

Application Updates:

.Mac publishing added
All new Photo Album Plug-in added with iPhoto integration
File Sharing Page Style added
iFrame Page Style added
Over 10 new Themes
Custom logo support
Site sub title (slogan) support
Site title support
Email address support
Users can now re-arrange pages.(Drag and drop supported)
Startup time dramatically improved (up to 500%)
Export and Preview of web site speed improved by over 200%
Page title and copyright now support foreign characters
Images placed in page are now saved and exported correctly
Text attributes are now saved
New document preference
Button attributes are now saved
RWTextX attribute is now recognized
Button font and colour change bug fixed
All themes tested with Safari, Mac IE, Firefox and Windows IE 6
RapidWeaver software update bug fixed
Preview now updates when changing button and title
Always goes to edit mode now when adding a new page
Theme and plugin version checking
Greatly Re-worked and improved interface
HTML Help added
Improved Documentation
Over 20 other minor improvements and bug fixes

Styled Updates:

Font button added
Colour button Added

Blog Updates:

Date and Time now editable
Date format changed to "Monday, 1 January 2004, 12:00am"
Image support added
Languages drop down menubug fixed

Offsite Updates:

Offsite page now shows live preview

Quicktime Updates:

Save bug fixed
Improved Interface

Version 1.0 Public Beta 2 - August 7th 2004

Changes not documented here

Version 1.0 Public Beta 1 - July 24th 2004

Initial release