Xinha Here! Firefox Extension

Xinha Here! is a Firefox extension wrapper for the Xinha HTML editor. It enables WYSIWYG editing in any textarea and text box on any website. Xinha Here! opens a Xinha HTML editor in your browser allowing you to edit the data in a WYSIWYG on any website without copying and pasting to secondary HTML editor.
Because the Xinha editor is installed on your local machine rather then a server it is both portable (use it on any website) and fast (files don't need to be transfered over the net). This extension goes great with the SpellBound spell checker extension. I use it on eBay, my WordPress blog, leaving comments on other blogs and forums, anywhere where HTML is accepted.

Installation

Install Xinha Here! v0.12 (help)

Listing on Mozilla Update

Compatibility

License

How to use Xinha Here

1. Place the cursor inside the text area or textbox you want to edit.
2. Right click to bring up the context menu (control + click on Mac).
3. Select Xinha Here from the context menu.
4. Edit the text in the Xinha WYSIWYG HTML editor.
5. Press OK and the valid HTML is pushed back to the original text box.

Known Bugs

• Text in bottom bar twitches.
  Work around: when the text begins to twitch minimize the bottom bar (click the separator between Xinha from the web page). Then restore it (again click the separator). The twitching will stop.Fixed in v0.12 thanks to Hisateru Tanaka
• Right clicking in the bottom bar doesn't work.
  Unfortunately I've been unsuccessful implementing the right click in the bottom bar. If you need right click functionality open Xinha in a window.
• No Xinha Here! Menu.
  There is no menu for Xinha Here other then the right click menu. The right click menu only appears when you right click after placing your cursor in the text area/input box.
• Toolbar's tooltips do not work in bottom bar
  Work around: minimize the bottom bar (click the separator between Xinha from the web page). Then restore it (again click the separator). Tooltips should now work.
• Some toolbar dropdowns are obscured by the text box
  Unfortunatly no fix at this time.
  

Version History

• Initial Release

• Incorporated latest Xinha nightly build
• Firefox v1.5 compatible

• Fixed bug with popup Xinha features
• Xinha nightly build: Nov. 30, 2005

• Restored full compatibility with SpellBound and other context menu extensions
• Added options dialog. Change skin and active plugins.
• Xinha nightly build: Dec. 11, 2005
• Packaged as Firefox 1.5 only

• Restored backwards compatibility with Firefox v1.0.x
• Fixed issues with popup window sizes
• Now persists data after options change

• Xinha Here is now much better at remembering it's source element when opening multiple windows
• Improved window sizing/resizing
• Open Xinha within the browser (Awesome!)
• Xinha skins now apply to whole window
• Added a Xinha plugin specifically for advanced functions (adds features like save as file, open file, recall last input).
• Added automatic updating (only in FF 1.5)
• Fix bug in Firefox 1.0 where plugins list doesn't scroll in options dialog

• Added Open Xinha Here outside of tree menu for easy access
• Now open Xinha Here using Alt-X form any text box
• Flocked!

• Typo in version 0.7 broke automatic update. Fixed.

• Can now select language for Xinha.
• Now use shift-click to strip cartridge returns/line feeds from returned text. Useful for websites that process line feeds.
• Enabled Full Page Xinha plugin.
• Now use ctrl-shift-x to open Xinha (alt-x disabled).
• Xinha nightly build: Trunk (Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:10:25 +1300)

• Enabled tooltips in bottom bar.
• Made bottom bar the default mode (can still be changed in options dialog).
• Improved internal file system, may be faster to redisplay Xinha.
• Eliminated modifications to Xinha core files (easier updating of Xinha core).
• Bottom bar now opens and closes correctly.
• Added Client side spell check using SpellBound.  Must have SpellBound installed and Xinha Here Toolbar active.
• Now hold shift while opening Xinha Here to treat text as preformatted (all HTML is treated as literal text, line spacing is preserved, and tabs are translated to non-breaking spaces).
• Improved about dialog.
• Changed restore button image to avoid confusion with undo.
• Compatible with Firefox 2.0

• Xinha 0.92beta: Trunk (Mon, 26 Feb 2007)
• Added new languages and skins to options
• Skips unsupported or missing plugins in config variable (prevents issues with plugin name changes)

• Fixed bug causing Xinha editor not to load when no plugins were selected
• Included Japanese localization for XinhaHere toolbar plugin
• Expanded localization of XinhaHere toolbar plugin   
• Open/Close file now UTF-8
• Extension localized to Japanese
• Fixed bug casing flicker/blink in the editor under some circumstances
• Xinha editor can now be reduced to smaller width and height

Screenshots

Attachments

Filename		Filesize	Date
	.thumb_XinhaIntro.jpg	1.87 kB	2007-12-02
	xinha_here_v0_10-fx.xpi	351.67 kB	2006-09-30
	xinha_here_v0_11-fx.xpi	318.09 kB	2007-03-27
	xinha_here_v0_12-fx.xpi	319.05 kB	2007-04-27
	XinhaIntro.flv	1.96 MB	2007-12-02
	XinhaIntro.jpg	34.3 kB	2007-12-02

Comments

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Anonymous

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Sat March 17, 2007, 20:19:27

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looks like the page you had had up before is no more - it had some nice tips on it. How can an external css be loaded into the xinahere.jar absolutely?

this.pageStyleSheets = ["http://www.mysite.com/themes/custom/style/style.css"];

doesn't seem to make a difference.

also tried to append to the dropdown to affect the above css switch to the preview, any suggestions?


xinha_config.formatblock =
{
"— format —": "",
"Heading 1": "title",
"Heading 2": "titleLight",
"Heading 3": "titleBright",
"Heading Centered": "centitle",
"Sidebar": "boxcontent",
"Tiny": "tiny",
"Footer": "footmsg",
"Footer 2": "footmsg_l",
"Box Container": "box",
"Image": "image",
"Heading 1 Default": "h1",
"Heading 2 Default": "h2",
"Heading 3 Default": "h3",
"Heading 4 Default": "h4",
"Heading 5 Default": "h5",
"Heading 6 Default": "h6",
"Normal Default" : "p",
"Address Default" : "address",
"Formatted Default": "pre"
};


thank you.

Hypercubed

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Sat March 17, 2007, 20:20:33

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Adding JS to a web page itself will not alter Xinha Here. I've been thinking about how to allow custom CSS, etc, but that would very depending on the website you are on. I'd need to keep a list of CSS per URL.

Jim Witt

Bug in image and link URLs
On : Tue March 27, 2007, 15:42:20

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Upon opening and editing html in the editor the first time, all URLs workout great. Returning to edit again, they are all modified and lost. For example:

Create an image reference of: http://mySite.org/SiteImages/MfgSkills.jpg

Return to modify and the image is lost being re-referenced to: xinha_editor.html/SiteImages/MfgSkills.jpg

The same is true of links.

Hypercubed

Re: Bug in image and link URLs
On : Tue March 27, 2007, 22:23:03

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Are you sure you are using the full URL like you listed. http://mySite.org/SiteImages/MfgSkills.jpg not /MfgSkills.jpg. Relative URLs are sometimes rewritten as xinha_editor.html/. The problem is that Xinha doesn't know where the final code will be so relative URLs confuse it.

Jim Wilt

Re: Bug in image and link URLs
On : Wed March 28, 2007, 05:06:59

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I'm finding this anomaly with SharePoint 2007, so you are correct in that the particular URL may be relative.

Would it be possible to leave the URL untouched (i.e., not attach xinha_editor.html/) so that it will still work when saved? I realize the image still won't show, but at least the URL will work once saved again.

Hypercubed

Re: Bug in image and link URLs
On : Wed March 28, 2007, 20:38:13

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I'll see what I can do but that behavior may be completely within the Xinha editor... which I did not develop.

Vicki Abe

Xinha Here! plugin doesn't work with latest Firefox!
On : Wed March 28, 2007, 20:47:26

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I had a working Xinha!/Firefox installation until Firefox upgraded itself to 2.0.0.3.

Before, when I did a right-click in a gmail (html) compose window, I would get the Xinha edit popup.

Now, on Firefox 2.0.0.3, the right-click menu comes up, but nothing works - Open Xinha here, Open Xinha in Window, and Open Xinha in Bottom Bar -- none of these options work.

Has anyone else seen this problem?

freeman

i don't see any xinha toolbar
On : Thu March 29, 2007, 08:16:11

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I don't see any toolbar. I have enabled it but nothinh changed. i have ff2.0.0.2

Kay Hubbard

Thank you!
On : Thu March 29, 2007, 19:04:13

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Appreciate the fast turnaround on Jim Wilt's request. It's so nice not to have to worry about losing the images, etc. And I'm the user he's trying to make happy...thanks!

Hypercubed

Re: Xinha Here! plugin doesn't work with latest Firefox!
On : Thu March 29, 2007, 23:06:52

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I'm running FF 2.0.0.3 so that is not the issue. It may be the latest version of Xinha Here. Try Opening up the options menu (right click in a text box, Xinha Here -> Xinha Here! Options). After the options menu opens hit ok. Try Xinha Here again. If that doesn't work try disabling the plugins.

Hypercubed

Re: i don't see any xinha toolbar
On : Thu March 29, 2007, 23:08:16

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Xinha here doesn't have a tool bar. Right click in a textbox and select open Xinhe Here!

tazza

Xinha is great
On : Fri March 30, 2007, 06:44:47

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I have just tried out all the text editors on the Mozilla add on and yours is by far the easiest and best to use!!!! is there anyway that more fonts could be added please?

Hisateru Tanaka

Bug report for 0.11
On : Wed April 11, 2007, 14:05:05

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My wish reached you! I'm happy to upgrade XinhaHere to based on Xinha beta0.92.
I tested and report problems below. And I have a patch to fix these problems.
*See my message from your contact form later.

1. Xinha is not loaded when no plugins are checked on option setting.

2. Some features can't be translated even if keywords are added into xinha-core/plugins/XinhaHere/lang.
__a) Open and Save As on file picker window title.
__b) Options, OK and Apply buttons (and its tool tips).

3. File I/O feature now only supports ASCII charset. It should be extended to UTF-8.

Mike

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Sat April 14, 2007, 11:07:10

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<p> Nice... would it be possible to add a configurable hotkey?  Maybe it would also be nice/possible to have the editor open automatically on specific URL patterns (so that if I go to an edit page, it automatically pops up).
<br />
</p>

Hal

Xinha Rocks!! :)
On : Thu April 19, 2007, 07:04:20

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Thank you very much for creating Xinha. It's helping me a lot. :)

Z

default font?
On : Mon April 30, 2007, 14:47:00

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Would there happen to be a way to change the default font?

Thank you!

Hypercubed

Re: default font?
On : Mon April 30, 2007, 21:16:34

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The only way is to extract the files, make the changes, and combine them back into an XPI.

Stefano

Xinha Here and SmartReplace
On : Tue May 01, 2007, 07:18:41

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Thank you for your great work. But, what about to activate the SmartReplace plugin of Xinha editor?

I tried to do it myself and I almost succedeed in doing it. SmartReplace works, but I always get the generic message "An error has occurred" when I start "Xinha Here!".

I only did two "hack" in xinha.jar.

In the file content/options.js, at line 15, I added SmartReplace as an allowed plugin:

_allowed_plugins: 'Abbreviation,CharacterMap,CharCounter,ContextMenu,DefinitionList,EditTag,Filter,FindReplace,Forms,GetHtml,HorizontalRule,InsertAnchor,InsertMarquee,InsertPagebreak,InsertWords,LangMarks,ListType,PasteText,QuickTag,SetId,SmartReplace,TableOperations,Template,UnFormat',

Then I renamed the folder content\xinha-core\plugins\_SmartReplace to content\xinha-core\plugins\SmartReplace.

Could you help me?

Thank you again.

Geko

FireFox Relase 1.5.0.6
On : Thu May 10, 2007, 22:43:07

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Hi guys:

If it works on win-firefox 1.5.0.1, when it'll ready for win-firefox 1.5.0.6 ?

Thanks

Andrew

Default font
On : Mon May 21, 2007, 06:57:01

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I understand that in order to change the default font it is necessary to open up the jar file, but where is the setting for default WYSIWYG font? Is it in one of the CSS files? Thanks.

thetycho

Right-click options suppressed in some text boxes?
On : Fri May 25, 2007, 11:33:33

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I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.3 with gmail. I can right-click in any text box on a composition window and see the contextual menu. However, I can only get the Xinhu window/toolbar to appear in the To: and Subject: text boxes. Selecting Open Xinhu Here! from the contextual menu in the message body of a new gmail yields ... nothing.

Anyone else having this problem?

-t

Edgar Ramirez

Xinha one of favorite add-ons
On : Fri June 01, 2007, 16:12:27

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tankx for Xinha

Denis Rousseaux

Merci pour Xinha
On : Mon June 11, 2007, 21:48:53

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L'éditeur qui me manquait pour faire de Firefox l'outil web universel.
Je contribue via PayPal.
Quid de la gestion des HTML Entities sur Mac ?
Merci.

Jorge

Excelent, but
On : Fri June 15, 2007, 11:46:30

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Hi!!

I've downloaded from here the last version of Xinha,and I thik is the best text editing tool for Firefox, because the lack of rich text is a limiting feature of this navigator.

Even though everything, i love Firefox and I aknowledge your work.

****I have only one problem: I can´t to change the font color, or the web pages I enter, doesn't accept this change. I tired of trying that, without succes***

Please, tell me how to get change font color...

Thank you

Hypercubed

RE: Right-click options suppressed in some text boxes?
On : Sat June 16, 2007, 15:01:36

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thetycho, GMail message body is already a rich text editor. Xinha Here will not work from a rich text field.

Last Edit: June 16, 2007, 15:01:56 by Hypercubed  

Anonymous

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Sun July 01, 2007, 23:32:39

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Having problems getting this extension up and running with Firefox 2.0.0.4. No menu option is coming up in the right click menu. Any ideas?

Peter

Trackin Xinha versions and plugins
On : Mon July 09, 2007, 08:05:26

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This is great! I have a site where we are loading Xinha over the net and it can be a bit slow. This looks like the perfect solution.

Do you have any tips for tracking newer versions of Xinha and its plugins? (I'm a programmer, but have no FF/XUL experience.) In particular, we are using the ExtendedFileManager and I have been looking at your code trying to figure out what I need to do to add it to the plugins list. (I realize that the configuration for this plugin is site-specific.)

Is it as simple as putting the latest versions in the chrome/content/xinha-core directory and rezipping the JAR file? Or are there subtle interactions here that make that difficult? (I suspect there are, but nothing has screamed out at me yet.)

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Lost Wanderer

great tool !
On : Thu July 12, 2007, 06:37:07

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<font color="#ff8e56"><b><font face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="1">Just tested this great extension. It works really fine for me. Thanks !</font></b></font>

genoa

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Thu July 12, 2007, 14:57:24

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Hey, friends. Apologies in advance if this is a repeat (I was able to read *most* of this thread, though not all of it), but I think I've figured out how to get the 0.92beta extension to open up in Fx 2.0.0.4.

When I right-clicked in the empty text field for "Name" (from the "Write a comment" area below), Xinha magically appeared! There were two context menus: "Open Xinha Here!" and "Xinha Here!" And voila!

Hope it works for you, too! And thanks for this lovely little add-on, Hypercubed.

I can't wait to start playing with it.

Cheers!

Anonymous

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Tue July 24, 2007, 02:26:23

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is there any way to enable xinha, when viewing local html file specifically "file:///.....", so that i can edit them.

It is kind of similar to "ScrapBook" addons toolbar which enables for the files save under ScrapBook.

Thanks

Anonymous

Re: Xinha Here! Firefox Extension
On : Thu August 02, 2007, 14:52:56

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I'd like to edit a local html too.

ania

I like this!
On : Fri August 03, 2007, 04:13:02

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<p><strong>Can  i have a source code of this? Cause i have to do something similar ... change html editor which runs without problems on IE to editor which will also run on FireFox</strong>
</p>
<p><strong>Has anyone met such problem? I need some help:)</strong>
</p>
<p><strong>thanks in advance</strong>
<br /> 
</p>

Zenigata

color problem
On : Thu August 16, 2007, 16:59:44

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I have a problem: I can't change the color of text.

Orangedam

Firefox 2 on Linux
On : Sat September 01, 2007, 01:46:10

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Hello!

Xinha is fantastic, but unluckily doesn't work on my freshly installed Fedora FC7 core with native Firefox V2.0.0.5

Hope you can preapre Xinha for this ambient soon...

Orange

Simon Metcalf

Extended File Manager is an advanced plugin for Xinha
On : Wed September 05, 2007, 19:06:14

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Hi

I have Xinha Here the Firefox Add-on

and would like to have Extended File Manager is an advanced plugin for Xinha add can this be done if so how?

simon

Sleeping

nice extension
On : Fri September 14, 2007, 03:25:18

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I don't use your extension very often, but when I use it I can see how it is useful...
Keep developing!

PS: the version on mozilla update is out of date...

Marsh

Extansions and Tags
On : Thu October 11, 2007, 11:59:34

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Hi,

Thanks for the wonderful tool. I have two questions:

1. I want to use Xinha Here with a wiki (TiddlyWiki) which doesn't recognize html unless it's wrapped in <html></html> tags. When I use Xinha Here, the tags are removed. Is there any way to prevent this behavior?

2. How does one use Xinha plugins with Xinha Here? In particular, I want to use AsciiMath and AsciiSVC developed by Peter Jipson (see http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciencepad/asciencepad.html).

Thanks again.

Marsh

Doug

Custom Plugins
On : Sun October 14, 2007, 10:42:20

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How would I go about developing custom plugins for Xinha? Also, how can I disable some of the buttons on the toolbar?

Thanks,
Doug

Hypercubed

Re: Extansions and Tags
On : Sun October 14, 2007, 18:04:15

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Marsh,

1) The html tags are remove by Xinha. I'm not modifying the Xinha editor itself so I cannot change this behavior. Maybe there is a plugin that can do this I'll have to look.

2) I'll look into the plugins you mention. Be aware that some of Xinha plugins require some server side code. Because the Xinha Here plugin is being run inside Firefox those plugins will not work.

Hypercubed

Re: Custom Plugins
On : Sun October 14, 2007, 18:11:16

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Doug,

I know it is not very clear but the Xinha here plugin for Firefox developed by me is not the same as the Xinha editor developed by the Xinha developers. If you want to make a plugin for Xinha visit their site: http://xinha.webfactional.com/

If you want to enable or disable some of the toolbar features go into the Xinha Here options dialog by clicking the "options" button in the lower left of the Xinha Here bar or window.

Ed

Lost Text
On : Thu November 01, 2007, 11:24:13

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It appears text is lost in certain cases. Here's the steps leading up to the problem:

Right-click in text box.
Select Open Xinha Here from options.
Xinha editor opens.
I wait 45-60 seconds or more.
I type some text at the end of the text in the Xinha editor.
I click OK.
The new text is not copied to the text box.

Ed

theddy

Options question
On : Tue November 13, 2007, 11:26:00

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Thanks a lot for this great plugin!

Very small question: I am using it to write text mostly on WordPress blogs. And it seems that WordPress doesn't like very much <p> </p>. Is it possible to turn the implementiation off and to have a "normal new line" after a carriage return?

Thanks,
theddy

Biohabit

Xinha here on Solaris + Firefox 2 works
On : Tue November 20, 2007, 11:20:31

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I have been using xinha here + solaris + firefox for many months without issue.

pete

styles
On : Wed November 21, 2007, 04:31:51

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Can this editor be modded to allow a drop down menu with styles from an external .css stylesheet? and can they be made to show up in the editor?

John

Local file editing
On : Wed November 28, 2007, 04:29:34

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Hi,

I can already edit local files by :

1. launching "xinha here" in a text box
2. loading a file from the local disk
3. saving the file back to the local disk

The problem is that there is no "save" functionality, and the "save as" functionality takes 3 clicks, so it is pretty unusable (think of pressing ctrl-s every few seconds).

I think a very simple solution would be to add a "save" button, which would save on top of the file that was previously selected in "save as" without any dialogs. I could dump NVU and use Xinha Here for every HTML need I have.

aNDREY

CALL XINHA
On : Sat January 19, 2008, 08:00:00

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How to call "Xinha here" from HTML ?
In html i have button and hidden "textarea" for "Xinha here"

Mark

current firefox
On : Wed February 13, 2008, 06:57:08

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According to FF, its not compatible with the current version (2.0.0.12) =(

RAV TUX

Response to: current firefox
On : Thu February 21, 2008, 23:33:06

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<h3><a href="http://www.hypercubed.com/projects/firefox/?d=xinha_here_v0_12-fx.xpi" onclick="return install(event);" iconurl="/assets/images/firefox/xinhahere.png" title="Xinha Here! v0.12">Xinha Here! v0.12</a> is completely compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.12; I am using it right now to make this post. 
</h3>

RAV TUX

Response to: current firefox
On : Thu February 21, 2008, 23:33:56

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Xinha Here! v0.12 is completely compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.12; I am using it right now to make this post.

Dean Peterson

Very Good HTML Editor Period
On : Tue March 11, 2008, 14:36:25

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I haven't had a chance to dig deep into Xinha here much. But what I like a lot.

This maybe a repeat. If so my apologies.

One thing that would make it even better is to have a button to open it from a toolbar. It just seems silly, that given the save feature of the editor it can only be opened in the context of a text box.

Well worth continued development.

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