The next-generation Web Editor
based on the rendering engine of Firefox
29Apr 2010
13:02 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
13Apr 2010
19:07 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
I'm currently ironing the ActiveView (that had a few bugs) and the JSMs. Will check that in as soon as it's ready.
12Apr 2010
11:18 - By BlueGriffon - Announcements
I think the title says it all. Too much spam made the fora a real burden. Thanks a lot to Othalian for helping me moderating the new Bluegriffon groups.
02Mar 2010
14:14 - By BlueGriffon - Thinking at loud - 4 comments
Nvu had a strong limitation, because of Gecko. It could only edit CSS styles understandable by the embedded version of Gecko. This is something I don't want for BlueGriffon because I think it does not make sense to make a content editor for the Web that is restricted to Gecko-based browsers. I want users to be able to manipulate a UI that will create -moz-transform but also -webkit-transform. And I also want users to be able to edit stylesheets that include both properties while the -webkit-* are never present in Gecko's CSS OM (and that's normal). I don't need to cascade, I want to preserve all rules and all declarations even multiple declarations of the same property, I want to preserve comments as much as possible (ie between rules and between declarations), I want to preserve CSS parsing errors. The only extra thing I need is a resolver for shorthands.
So I just started my own CSS parser. It'll parse a string containing a stylesheet and will return CSSOM-like objects with the necessary extensions. It'll live inside the CSS Inspector sidebar of BlueGriffon but I will probably make it MPL.
01Mar 2010
16:35 - By BlueGriffon - Thinking at loud - 11 comments
CSS is so cool. So cool. But not in terms of UI for a CSS editor...
In other terms, offering the full power of the 'font-weight' CSS property to a CSS editor will necessarily suck in terms of UI (yeah, forcing a menulist when most users will only use the 'bold' choice just sucks)... I am even tempted to have two modes in the CSS editor, basic and advanced. Pffff....
Ideas, suggestions?
18Dec 2009
10:25 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 2 comments
I think I just found a weirdness in the editingSession and the docshell. If I try to edit a document having a chrome://* URL, scripts and plugins are not correctly disabled. I needed that to store "blank" transitional and strict html and xhtml documents into my jars. Even if I call disableJSAndPlugins() on the editingSession, scripts and plugins are not disabled or disabled only until major changes of the edited document. Not sure it's a bug though, there could be a good reason for this behavior. Anyway, workarounds are easy to implement.
18Dec 2009
10:16 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
It's done. v1.0 as an add-on to the core editor. Precisely one day and a half of work.
17Dec 2009
11:38 - By BlueGriffon - Progress
BlueGriffon has a new sidebar to handle all scripts declared inside the <head> element (scripts inside the <body> element will be visible inline and clickable to edit). The editor for embedded scripts is of course Bespin.
16Dec 2009
17:30 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
Fullscreen implemented with hideable toolbars and a 5 pixels box at the top to show the toolbars in fullscreen mode. On Mac OS X too 
15Dec 2009
14:41 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 3 comments
I have almost entirely revamped the rulers in BlueGriffon. The original code came from Nvu and used a few big hacks. That original code is totally gone and the rulers are now based on SVG. So if you have enhancement proposals with nice UI ideas for these rulers, please leave a comment, thanks.
13Dec 2009
18:31 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 3 comments
If you except minor issues that are more related to the preview of Bespin than Bluegriffon itself, the integration of Bespin as the default source editor is almost done. I am currently working on something new in the world of Mozilla Composer/Nvu/Kompozer/Bluegriffon: users will be able to edit the doctype and change that way the model of the edited document...
11Dec 2009
12:14 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 7 comments
Warning, it's in a very very early state so don't get too excited too soon. And there are a few big issues with Bespin at this time, but hey that's normal it's only a 0.5.
Update: yes, I know, I wrote somewhere a langer nun instead of a nun ; my bad.
10Dec 2009
17:50 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 3 comments
After many months busy on other projects for third-parties, I am resurrecting BlueGriffon. In the last hours, I have added charset and text direction choices to the New Document wizard and fixed the toolbar customization that broke with recent xulrunner nightly builds due to ancient code. Stay tuned.
19Jan 2009
17:17 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - 3 comments
I'm almost done with the templates manager. It now correctly saves locally (or pushes to the remote server) the unzipped version of a template package. I have one bug to fix in the main window and a progressmeter to add for remote storage. And done. Woof. The result is really beautiful, and impressively simple to use. I sincerely hope a lot of template repositories are going to jump on that.
15Jan 2009
18:03 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
Starts looking ok...
15Jan 2009
10:34 - By LaurentJ - Fresh Meat - 8 comments
You will find latest binaries of BlueGriffon (nightlies) for windows and linux here:
I built the linux version on Ubuntu 8.04. I hope it works on other distro.
In the future, we will try to provide binaries for all plateforms at the same time.
Remember that this builds are for test only. We are still far from having a full featured BlueGriffon.
12Jan 2009
23:21 - By BlueGriffon - Fresh Meat - 4 comments
08Jan 2009
15:28 - By BlueGriffon - Progress - one comment
I'm making fast progress on the Templates Manager. See by yourself....
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