BlueGriffon 1.0 now available!

After two years of hard work, I am immensely happy to report that version 1.0 of my HTML/XHTML editor, BlueGriffon, went live a few minutes ago. The companion Add-ons web site is also available. A press release should be available later in the day through PRWeb.

Version		Languages	Links
10.5 and 10.6	Intel 32/64bits	Czech English French German Hebrew Italian Japanese Simp.Chinese Spanish	download dmg
XP, 7			download installer download ZIP Warning, you may have to install this (thanks Windows...) if you hit an error launching BlueGriffon
Ubuntu 10.04	32bits		download installer (set permissions and run to install) download tar.bz2
Ubuntu 10.10	64bits		download installer (set permissions and run to install) download tar.bz2
Fedora 10 to 15 (thanks to Remi Collet for contributing)	32 and 64 bits		rpm i386 for Fedora 15 rpm i386 for Fedora 14 rpm i386 for Fedora 13 rpm x86_64 for Fedora 15 rpm x86_64 for Fedora 14 rpm x86_64 for Fedora 13 Repository
			MD5 CHECKSUMS

Warning: it is highly recommended to delete your BlueGriffon profile if you installed and used pre-1.0 versions of the editor. You will have to re-install your add-ons after that.

on Mac OS X: delete ~/Library/Application\ Support/BlueGriffon
on Windows XP: delete c:\Documents and Settings\yourlogin\Application Data\Disruptive Innovations SARL
on Windows 7: delete c:\Users\yourlogin\AppData\Roaming\Disruptive Innovations SARL
on Linux: delete ~/.disruptive\ innovations\ sarl

Back in july 2003, when Netscape collapsed, I decided to start my company Disruptive Innovations to write and distribute my/our own software. I never really dreamt of working for others as a contractor. But when Linspire's sponsoring ended and given the cost of employment here, the only survival choice was to look for contracts. It took me a looong time to find an investor to back us but that quest eventually ended positively.

In the near future, the collection of add-ons available will grow. A CSS Pro Editor is on track, and trust me, it will be the best on the market. I am also working on a CSS Optimizer or at least an add-on able to list all the performance or maintainability hits in the stylesheets attached to a document. A Project Manager and a Template Manager are also on the radar, almost done. The Template Manager will allow to create a new document based on online free templates in one single click. No need to search for templates on the interweb if you don't have time for that, we'll do it for you, feeding you a list of freely available sources. And there are even cooler ideas in the works. Stay tuned !

I would like to thank first my investor, AGB Ventures, who believed in the project and supported it heavily. Then all my thoughts go to the contributors: code or build contributors (Laurent Jouanneau, Jean-Yves Cronier, Alex Bodnaru, Frédéric Bezies and Remi Collet) and L10N contributors (Dean Lee, Goofy, Pascal Cuissinat, Antonio Paniaga, Michal Stanke, André Frick, Simon Speich, Alex Bodnaru, Andrea Sanavia and Koji Ishii). Guys, you rock! Finally, all of that would not exist without Mozilla and its team of gurus extraordinaires, so thanks for being here and allowing people like me to build upon what you do.

If you like BlueGriffon and you want to see it evolve and grow, please support it buying add-ons. That "Freemium" model is the best way to guarantee we'll be able to keep the editor afloat, Open Source and free of charge because we have a revenue stream coming from our add-ons.

And if you want BlueGriffon in your own language that is not in the nine original locales released with BlueGriffon 1.0, why don't you help us? There are cool presents for you if you do!

/* Enjoy! */

</Daniel>

16 comments

1. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 10:14 by BenLeTibétain

Bravo !

2. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 12:47 by brunto

Super, je vais tester cela tout de suite. Félicitation.

3. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 12:58 by ChrisJ

Fécilitations !

Pour info, sur bluegriffon.com, il y a à plusieurs reprises des mots collés dans la description des add-ons.

4. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 16:08 by Étienne

Bravo et merci pour ce fantastique travail ! Cela fait six mois que j'utilise de temps à autre Bluegriffon et avec cette nouvelle version, je vais pouvoir l'adopter définitivement.

C'est un beau logiciel. Merci encore.

5. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 16:18 by Mic

You should better use the environment variable %appdata% for the paths on Windows, since it contains the path to the application data folder on the different Windows versions.

That makes it

%appdata%\Disruptive Innovations SARL

then.
I hope this helps.

6. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 16:21 by Ted Mielczarek

Congrats! Seems like it's been a long road, but hopefully it's well worth it!

7. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 19:20 by Myself

I hope there will be a manual and some tutorials for BG soon. I have been using NVU and Kompozer for many years now but can´t figure out how BG is supposed to work. How to set the cursor between 2 tags for example. The arrowkeys does not seem to do the trick.

8. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 20:48 by Nicolas

Je suis très heureux d'apprendre la sortie de Bluegriffon. Je crois que je vais abandonner progressivement mon éditeur texte.

9. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 23:05 by arne

Version 1.0 and it is still not obvious possible to edit externel css. Hmmmm....
And a site manager would be nice.

10. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 23:34 by Zéfling

Pas mal du tout, heureux de voir que la version 1.0 soit sortie, mais il y a encore quelques de bugs ou manques qui m'empêche d'en faire mon remplaçant de KompoZer. Enfin, ça semble aller sur la bonne voie. :D

Continuez comme ça ! Félicitation.

11. On Tuesday, May 10 2011, 23:46 by Bn

Why there's no DEB package anymore?

12. On Wednesday, May 11 2011, 12:13 by Charles Cooke

It'a great to see Blue Griffon reach the current stage. Congratulations. I can't wait for more!
But, using Windows at least, the statememt on the home page "Because Gecko lives inside BlueGriffon, the document you edit will look exactly the same in Firefox 4." isn't quite correct. Links are rendered in some default styles and not in the styles set in the stylesheet(s).

13. On Friday, May 13 2011, 17:44 by DrSlony

Excellent, I was waiting for this, the preview versions looked very promising!

Will try getting a Gentoo ebuild.

14. On Sunday, May 15 2011, 17:55 by Virtualmix

Thank you so much for your work!
Such a program was really missing from the range of Free Software out there.

15. On Thursday, May 19 2011, 23:04 by caribu

Congrats, also I do most my html by hand I find Blue Griffon really nice for prototyping. Best of luck with building a great community.

16. On Friday, May 20 2011, 06:28 by SomeOneSomewhere

Searching the web for a easy way to convert math expressions i got this website.
MATHML is the only function we really need to complex equations WYSIWYG, don't work...
Any convertion don't work, latex or whatever... to see math expressions i don't need a editor, browsers can do it. LibreOffice can do it but we need to copy then.
Editor can't open xml and mml files, mathml is a xml file.....
For a startup ..... nice job...... you need more nights aroud it.

BlueGriffon^TM