edit-on Pro Technical FAQs

The following FAQs mainly focus on technical questions in terms of integrating and running edit-on Pro. However, the section "Miscellaneous" also answers some questions regarding features and usability of the editor. Please note, some of the answers also refer to the edit-on Pro Integration Manual.

Also available: edit-on Pro Licensing FAQs

1. Integration

1.1 To what extent can I customize the toolbar, menus as well as look and feel of edit-on-Pro?

1.2 I'm using my own custom tags and custom attributes. Why are they removed when loading the document into edit-on Pro?

1.3 I'm using ASP.net. Why does the applet not POST the HTML content while plain text does work?

1.4 How can I use my own custom tags and custom attributes in my documents?

1.5 Why does edit-on Pro load a configuration file multiple times?

1.6 Does edit-on Pro support arbitrary DTDs?

1.7 Is it possible to add additional symbols to the "Insert Symbol" dialog?

1.8 How can I specify a default font in edit-on Pro?

1.9 Does edit-on-Pro support Multi-Byte/Unicode characters, e.g. Japanese or Chinese?

1.10 I want to include edit-on Pro several times on a page, but get a JavaScript error every time I call a JavaScript API function. What can I do?

1.11 Which CSS selectors are supported by edit-on Pro?

1.12 How can I return the focus to a form field after edit-on Pro requested it?

1.13 I want to add any words to the spelling checker dictionary. How can I do this?

1.14 edit-on Pro offers WebDAV support. How can I use this feature?

1.15 How can I implement a file upload mechanism without using WebDAV?

1.16 How can I load external style sheets?

1.17 How to update my current edit-on Pro installation to the latest release version?

1.18 How to preserve unknown XML Tags when loading documents into edit-on Pro?

1.19 Is it possible to use server-side scripting languages in the content edited with edit-on Pro?

1.20 I added some words to the spelling checker dictionary by editing the default dictionary file. Why aren't these changes available for the end-users?

1.21 Which copy and paste respectively drag and drop options form MS Word does edit-on Pro provide?

1.22 How can I optimize the editors loading time?

1.23 Why am I no longer able to increase or decrease the indentation after updating to edit-on Pro 5.1.198 or newer?

2. System Requirements

2.1 Does edit-on Pro support the Apple Safari browser?

2.2 Can I use the Microsoft Java VM to run edit-on Pro?

2.3 Why does edit-on Pro not support JRE versions before Sun JRE 1.4.2.?

2.4 Why is Mac OS X the only Mac OS version supported by edit-on Pro?

2.5 Why does edit-on Pro support only Safari on Mac OS X?

2.6 edit-on Pro often locks up on Mac OS X. What can I do?

2.9 I am using Windows Vista and receive an error message saying the publisher could not be verified by a trusted source. What should I do?

3. Miscellaneous

3.1 Is edit-on Pro a replacement for a WYSIWYG HTML page editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver?

3.2 Does edit-on Pro provide a special API to retrieve the number of words contained in a document?

3.3 How to integrate a print functionality into edit-on Pro?

3.4 Why is my edit-on Pro (Version 4.0) license key invalid after updating to edit-on Pro 5?

3.5 Where can I find the copy to clipboard function?

3.6 When loading the editor, I receive a security message which tells me the certificate is invalid. How should I proceed?

3.7 Does edit-on Pro come with a non-technical end user documentation or manual?

3.8 Does edit-on Pro have an Autosave function?

3.9 Are server names case-sensitive?

3.10 Is it possible to disable the "Advanced" tab within the "Insert Image", "Insert Hyperlink" etc. dialogs?

3.11 Using a SSL connection, I receive a prompt asking whether to display unsecure elements on the page. What is it caused by and how can I prevent this behaviour?

3.12 edit-on Pro loads slowly and doesn't work properly with Adblock installed under Firefox. What can I do?

3.13 Can the editor's "Enter" and "Shift-Enter" behaviour be alternated?

3.14 When clicking on the "Window Mode" button the editor appears in a separate popup window. Can I set the size of this popup window?

3.15 Why is the editor window not correctly rendered when using IE and iframes?