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IF.NET 4.2 Coming Soon
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| Hi David, Very soon. It's really been the InstantKB.NET v2.0 release holding us back. We've faced some tricky coding challenges and quite some feature creep. A small forum update will be available next week to resolve a few issues before v4.1.5 and a beta of InstantKB.NET v2.0 will be available later this month. We've already started work on InstantForum.NET v4.1.5 a few months back and moved to .NET v2.0 / MasterPages etc. As the forum and knowledge base both now share the same framework InstantASP.Common and InstantASP.Common has been changing due to kb development it's been tricky to provide a solid forum update. Things are now stabilizing within the common framework as InstantKB.NET v2.0 is nearing feature completion. This won't be an issue after the v2.0 and v4.1.5 release and you can expect many more frequent updates. We'll also be able to reuse many of the classes and controls we've implemented within our common framework for forthcoming forum updates. For example custom fields for registration, posting within the forum or our new tagging system which will be sharable across current and future apps. We've also performed quite some work on general performance within the common framework (improving object collection, quicker xml/localization lookups and parsing) which will be visible within v4.1.5. I do sincerely appreciate your support and patience David. Hopefully we can reward your support with some very nice updates very soon 
Kindest Regards,
Ryan Healey
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We finally launched our client's site with InstantForum and just now realized that the editor does not work with browsers other than IE? We have a large community of Firefox and Mac users. Our community of users are not technical. Many are sailors/boaters who will be sharing their cruising adventures and boat projects -- but no one can upload images unless they have IE!! This is a REAL problem. Also they're forced to use IFCode which adds another unnecessary level of complexity for them.
With many cross-browser and XHTML compliant editors out there this is the first instance I've seen where such a robust software lacks something so expected and basic. We're using version 4.1.4. I've spent several days customizing and configuring this product for our "non-profit" client. They don't have the funds or time to invest in launching a different forum product. Now what can we do?
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IF.NET 4.2 Coming Soon
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| Hi Many thanks for your comments. I completely agree. Although we do try to downgrade gracefully for other browsers things have moved on since we implemented the WYSIWYG editor and there is no reason we now can't provide the complete WYSIWYG experience on all major browsers. We've moved in this direction with our forthcoming InstantKB.NET v2.0 release and indeed our next update for InstantForum.NET (due shortly after InstantKB.NET v2.0 expected beta very very soon) will feature a fully cross browser WYSIWYG editor. We'll also be providing the option to use several of the free WYSIWYG controls such as freetextbox, or fckeditor. I appreciate the need to get something in place as your looking to go live and we'll look at preparing a post to show how to modify the current v4.1.4 code to work with either fckEditor or FreeTextBox editor ASAP. I suspect a few will find this helpful till the next forum update. We'll keep this posted updated.
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Ryan Healey
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| For all parties concerned by the topic in this thread, we now have a version of the forum available for existing licence holders, which implements FCKEditor instead of our own in-house editor. This version is fixed at Version 4.1.4 SP1, if you email me on: James@InstantASP.co.uk I will send you either the developer or end-user version (dependant on your licence) in zip/rar file format. For future versions we will be looking at implementing the option to make use of a selection of editors, which admins will be able to select from the Control-Panel, whilst also continuing to develop our own editor to provide more functionality and cross browser compatibillity. The option to utilise FCKEditor should I expect, be available from version 4.2 forwards, although it is not yet a 'Confirmed' feature it is highly likely. Hope this solves problems for all of you, and feel free to email me with any queries regarding this version or the implementation of FCKEditor within InstantForum.
Kindest Regards,
James Trott
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