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EditLive! 6.0 Beta released

Well after a lot of late nights our engineers have pulled it off, the beta release of the new generation of EditLive!  Our "track changes" feature is quite different to the other offerings that have quickly made an appearance since our initial announcement.  This "track changes" is built into the editor.  There is no third party application, no separate file or document to deal with.  This makes integration to your server based application extremely easy.  We did a swap out on an IBM Workplace WCM installation in 30 minutes.  Track Changes even picks up formatting alterations and modifications to tables and lists.  Cool new features include colour coding according to who made the change plus notes on each change that mark the time and author of each change ....a bit like what you see in Microsoft Word.

Other new features include the first thesaurus available on an online rich text editor and improved styles dropdowns that change according to what type of content you are working on at the time:  tables, lists or various kinds of text - all fully customisable of course.  Other changes will be less obvious feature wise but will be felt by users when they notice the more robust table support on offer.

If you are interested in trying these new features you can download the beta

EditLive! 6.0 With Track Changes Announced at Office 2.0 Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 12, 2006 -- Ephox announced the beta release of the first online editor with Track Changes at the Office 2.0 Conference. 

EditLive! 6.0 allows non-technical people to create and edit richly formatted HTML documents that look as good as those created on traditional desktop word processors. To the user the look and feel of EditLive! is so familiar that the University of Maryland University College has rolled out EditLive! for its 175,000 online students. Authors save many steps in the online content creation workflow by creating content directly in HTML and can see their changes in real time on live web sites. Control of the whole content creation and publishing workflow is possible without technical staff or webmasters. 

EditLive! is the leading cross-platform rich text editor. It is built into leading Content Management System (CMS) offerings including Vignette, Percussion, EMC Documentum and OpenText. Customers of Stellent and IBM CMS platforms also choose EditLive! as their editor. 

The important news is Track Changes. EditLive! is the only editor with this feature self contained -- it doesn't rely on external modules so integration is straightforward. It does more than highlight differences between versions. It speeds collaboration on documents, allowing each change in a document to be accepted, modified or rejected. It also offers: 

• Colour coding of changes according to who made the change
• Author, date and type of each change is shown
• Text, table and formatting changes tracked

Unique new features: 

• A thesaurus adds to our popular inline spell checker
• Context sensitive WYSIWYG styles menus deliver dropdowns according to what type of content you are editing
• Content preservation in a browser session means you don't lose your edits if you accidentally navigate away from your editor page

Why customers buy EditLive! 

• Webmasters can centrally control and customise the editor interface and content styles
• Copy paste from MS Word into HTML with styles preservation and full W3C compliance
• Guaranteed 100% XHTML compliance ensures your content renders consistently across browsers and platforms
• Accessibility checker for Section 508 and W3C helps authors meet accessibility standards
• Advanced APIs extend EditLive! features with JavaScript libraries and additional Java classes

More information at www.ephox.com. The beta is available to download.

 

Highlighted Links 

EditLive! 6.0 beta download
EditLive! 6.0 homepage

About Ephox 

Ephox was established in 1999 and has 1,500 customers in 35 countries.