New Document Modes for JavaScript, ASP, XML, and VBSCript makes it easier to work with those languages
Improved Syntax coloring for HTML, XHTML, PHP and CSS
Built in Syntax Coloring for ASP, JavaScript, XML, and VBScript
Smart Indenting Braces will properly Indent PHP, JavaScript etc... functions for you
Find Matching Parentheses will highlight the opening parenthesis when you type a closing one
New Document icons for your web site files
A few new tool bar icons in the editor window
Redesigned Snippets window (Window Menu->Snippets) lets you give names and more easily create custom Snippets that can be easily inserted into your document
Control-Click on some highlighted text lets you easily create a new snippet from the selected text
Search and replace in a folder or web site gives you better control of the files you want WebDesign to search in by specifying their extensions
Uploading web sites gives you more control of the types of files you want uploaded by specifying the file extensions
Open any linked document by clicking within the linked tag and going to the File menu and selecting Open Linked File or control-clicking and selecting Open Linked File
New Find Ending tag and Go to Next Tag menu items
Improved Attribute Editor
More Text button lets you add values to attributes easily and in more than one line
A clear button lets you easily clear the value of an attribute
Check for a newer versions automatically on open
Support for Rendezvous in the FTP browser for connecting to FTP servers on a network
Rewritten manual with comprehensive screen shots and more step by step details. A new Quick Start Guide is also provided
WebDesign can now display images for you if they are opened in the Site Manager or when using the New 'Open Linked Document' menu item
FTP Browser is now compatible with more FTP Servers.
FTP Browser shows image icon for images
FTP Browser now supports folder links
You can now view the FTP transcript from the FTP Browser
'Revert to Last Saved' menu item
Creating a new web site using WebDesign Site Manager will create an index.html file and an images folder for you automatically
Improvements
Improved FTP browser will now work properly after uploading a file to it
Refresh problems when the toolbar button was collapsed in the editor window
Improved FTP browser reliability
Improved icons for FTP browser and Site Manager
Find Again (COMMAND-G) would not properly update the scrollbar so mouse scroll wheels would not work properly
More detailed error messages if a file can not be saved
Updating includes in a folder would cause a crash
Shortcuts window renamed to Snippets and now properly loads the icons for the copy/paste buttons
Uploading web sites through the Site Manager is faster and won't require a reconnect after moving through directories or creating new directories
Connecting to an FTP browser with a path that doesn't exist won't cause and endless loop of erros
Uploading multiple files to the FTP Browser works correctly and reliably
Save File To FTP and dragging files to the FTP dialog would not work properly
The focus is returned to the text field when you press the preview button to preview a document in WebDesign
Files may occasionally get cut off when saving back to an FTP Server (after downloading it from the built in FTP browser and pressing COMMAND-S)
Fixed the crash when trying to select a color in the attribute editor
FTP Browser buttons in Mac OS X 10.2 now display properly
Pressing the arrow keys within a document no longer cause it to become unsaved
Sorting in the Site Manager now works correctly
Faster uploading of web sites from the Site Manager. It no longer causes periodic long delays when uploading
Uploading multiple files at once through the FTP browser now works correclty and more reliably
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
Bug Fixes & Improvements
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
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
Bug Fixes
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
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