Saarbrücken Today RealObjects annouced the official release of its latest cross-platform WYSIWYG XHTML/XML editor edit-on Pro 4, which will bring high-end, key enterprise features to your web-based application and increase the quality of your web content while enforcing corporate design and site standards for style, layout and code.

The editor will significantly increase the productivity of your authors while empowering non-technical users to become content contributors without knowing HTML, XML or other cryptic markup languages. The integrator will save time and money through straight-forward configuration and integration using an comprehensive API and samples. RealObjects easy-to-use editing solutions have revolutionized the way over thousands of users worldwide creating and maintaining their Internet/Intranet content.

The new edit-on Pro 4 features include:

• DTD based filtering of imported and pasted content
• Guaranteed XHTML compliance according to W3C standards through validation against XHTML DTD
• Constraining to XHTML DTD subsets
• Extension of the XHTML DTD with custom XML tags
• Optional cleaning of Microsoft Word content
• Template-based publishing through CSS based read-only elements and areas
• Block-level and inline styles support
• WebDAV protocol support
• Real-time character counting and document size limiting
• User interface and XHTML content created are designed to meet the W3C WAI and section 508 accessibility guidelines
• Support for Java Accessibility Bridge and common Windows screen readers
• Pull down and context menus
• Enhanced image support
• Search and replace in WYSIWYG and Source View
• Justify alignment support
• Improved font capabilities
• Keyboard shortcuts for all editor functions
• Map custom actions to document elements using CSS
• Support for manual hyphenation
• Strikethrough text
• Real-time spellchecking - as you type. Now including 18 international dictionaries (new: Legal English, Portuguese, separate pre- and post reform German)
• Drag and drop from Microsoft Word/Excel and other applications
• Tree view to navigate document's structure and to edit the attributes of all elements with DTD guidance
• Automatic image upload
• Enhanced color dialog
• Mouse-wheel scrolling
• Swing based UI with pluggable look and feel
• Choose tab panel and status bar placement
• Full Apple Safari support including LiveConnect

Customers who are using edit-on Pro 2.x or 3.x with a valid software maintenance subscription may upgrade to edit-on Pro 4 free-of-charge using the "Request Upgrade" form in the "Support" section of our website. Other customers may upgrade to edit-on Pro 4 by purchasing an upgrade license.

About RealObjects
Founded in May 2000, RealObjects is a pioneering developer of easy-to-use, affordable and quick-to-deploy cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML/XML editor solutions, which enable content authoring in Web- and Java-based applications. Its market leading editor applet edit-on Pro perfectly complements web based Content Management, Knowledge Management or e-Learning systems, and streamlines the process of in-browser Web authoring - across platforms, without installation of client-side software.

Headquartered in Saarbrücken, Germany, RealObjects is a privately held software manufacturer with more than 1300 corporate customers in over thirty countries, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, educational institutions as well as government and non-profit organizations. A strong network of key business alliances, value added resellers and OEM partners has already been established.