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List of new features in fCMSPro v1.2:

- fTag component
- fRelated component
- fMenu component
- Query class methods: copy, addReturnRelation, taggedWith, relatedTo,
- improved Query.toString method
- fMaster.fcmsInit event
- fMaster.getTagIDByLabel method
- Automatic thumbnail creation
- Tools.getThumb method
- improved documentation

Complete demo website source is included. See case study of demo site with code examples.

Users without flash player 8 (including search engine crawlers) will see html presentation. That way, content displayed inside flash, is indexable by search engines.

According to Google, there is no certain way. So, what is cloaking exactly? Examples by Google:

Serving a page of HTML text to search engines, while showing a page of images or Flash to users.
Serving different content to search engines than to users.

But then, what is content? In case of fCMSPro, do these pages have the same content:
Served to no-flash visitor.
Served to 90+% of visitors.
In both, content is generated from the same data, but who is judging if the content is same?

And what about "insignificant" number of people that like full flash websites?
Should flash designers / developers spend half of their development time working on something that might get their website blacklisted?

This one has it all: heavy gfx, lots of video, 3D animation, half-naked girl and some nice scripting.
dexter.ru
Another amazing recently released websites:
instinct.ru
crvrussia.ru
If you have slow computer or slow internet connection, don't bother to click on the links above.

Available at flashtexteditor.com
See FULL DEMO. Source view enabled.

Features:
• CSS support
• clean HTML output
• image inserting
• multiple undo / redo
• dynamically attachable to TextField or TextArea
• supported tags: p (align, class), span (class), ul, li, strong, em, u, img (src, width, height, id, align, vspace, hspace), a (href, target)
• ActionScript API

Flex component is bundled with FlashTextEditor2, which also includes:
• Flash Text Editor v1.5.4 (AS2, full Flash HTML editing)
• Flash Text Editor v2 (AS2, clean HTML output, supports CSS)
• Flash File Manager (AS2, set of three components for file browsing / uploading, including PHP and .NET backend)

Upgrade is free for current FTE2 customers.
More information....

Flash Text Editor v2 supports CSS.
When StyleSheet support was added to Flash back in version 7, it was disappointing to discover that text fields using it are not editable. There was a possibility to make it work by keep using Flash HTML in the background and somehow render the ouput using the style sheet. It didn't look that it could work well so I postponed working on it and gave priority to other features missing in Flash Text Editor(FTE). Then I found some spare time and decided to give it a try. With lots of XML and String parsing involved, at the end it works amazingly well! Not only that output is clean but it looks almost the same when rendered inside the browser.

Flash supports only the subset of CSS1 properties and for text editing, in most cases, that is enough. In addition FTE2 is fixing a bug with bullets ('li' tags will appear inside unsupported 'ul' tag), outputs valid XML, supports 'strong', 'em' and 'u' tags and gives possibility of using images inside the text field(by solving Flash IMG tag implementation problems). CSS styles can also be changed dynamically.

Main FTE2 engine component is lightweight(15Kb) and separated from the controls, so it is possible to use any component framework with it. Controls using Flash v2 components are provided.

FlashFileManager component set(FileBrowser, FileUploader and FileViewer) is also included, together with PHP and .NET backend scripts. See actionscript reference for those components here.

Another addition is previous version of FlashTextEditor(v1.5.4) which can be used when full Flash HTML editing is needed.
When working with CSS it is important to note:

• any style that is defining one or more paragraph properties(margin-left, margin-right, text-align or text-indent) will be treated as paragraph style
• any style(or format) that is not defined will be ignored in output
• first character of the paragraph should not be formatted using style containing the property that current paragraph style defines. Workaround for this is built inside FTE2.

Click here to see complete list of the features or check out feature comparison of different Flash Text Editor versions. Free FTELight2 component is also available for subscribers of flashtexteditor.com newsletter.

Click here for Flash Text Editor v2 demo. Or here for another demo.