Since I switched over to
Firefox a couple of months ago, it's been more
and more painful to switch back to IE just to get the nice FreeTextBox
controls to update my blog. FreeTextBox (irononically not entirely free
anymore) has supported non-IE browsers for a while now, but .Text was
built against an early version. So I grabbed the
source code for .Text 0.95 from
gotdotnet, which is the last version publically released from
Scott Watermasysk, since he rolled .Text into
Telligent Systems' Community Server
(which has a lot more features, but may or may not have a more restrictive liscense, which is
perhaps why so many people are interested in maintaining .Text).
Except it isn't the last version. At some point in time before
Community Server, Scott
was working on .Text 0.96 and even got it to the point where several
sites
were using it in some form (
apparently as long as a year ago). The problem is the source was never
officially released... or was it? If you follow the directions from
Dave Burke
you
can get yourself a copy of .Text 0.96 from SourceGear's public vault.
Is this an official release? A silent release to appease frustrated developers? No one seems to know.
If you do download the code, chances are it won't work right off the
bat. The code has some build errors in it, and so far I haven't been
able to get it to run. Which is why I am currently running 0.95 with
FreeTextBox 3.0 hacked into it, but it seems to work pretty well so
far. If you do get it running and want to migrate your existing 0.95 database,
Chee Wee has some 0.96 upgrade instructions for you.