RadEditor v5.0 takes the user experience even closer to desktop word processors, thanks to the multilevel Undo/Redo feature and especially the action trails. They allow you to see the past actions and undo/redo one or more of them at once, just like in Microsoft Word.

The toolbars in RadEditor v5.0 can be dragged and rearranged just like in Microsoft Office. Furthermore, toolbars can be undocked and appear floating over the content inside or outside the editor. Developers can specify whether a toolbar is draggable or not using the ToolsFile. RadEditor has 5 docking zones (expand for a screenshot). Each zone can contain one or more toolbars, or can be empty.

RadEditor v5.0 introduces a number of new features, which help the user paste formatted content from Microsoft Word and other applications, and apply different types of format stripping:
1. Strip Word-formatting on paste
2. New! Strip Word-formatting on paste (cleaning fonts and sizes)
3. New! Forced format stripping on Paste
4. New! Word Content in Clipboard Interception
5. Strip Word-formatting after paste
6. Paste plain text
7. New! Paste as HTML

Multiple editors on a single page can now use a single toolbar, displayed at the top of the page. Each editor can still have different set of tools in this top so whenever the cursor I placed in a given editor, its respective toolbar will be displayed on the top of the page.

To take the authoring experience even closer to the usability of desktop applications, RadEditor introduces the ability to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to every tool. This can be done using the new shortcut attribute of the item in the ToolsFile. The shortcut mechanism will override the default shortcuts of the browser, like Ctrl+N, Ctrl+F, Ctrl+P, so you can use those combinations for custom purposes. Keyboard support is also a requirement for "Section 508" accessibility compliance.

RadEditor v5.0 comes with 4 System Modules, implemented like dockable toolbars. You can even create your own modules and plug them in the RadEditor:
• Tag Inspector - displays the tag hierarchy of the current selection and allows you to remove a given tag.
• Properties Inspector - gives you ? quick access to most of the properties of the current tag, eliminating the need to open dialogs.
• Real-time HTML View - it is similar to the Split mode of MS FrontPage - if you make a modification in the WYSIWYG pane or the HTML pane the other pane will be automatically updated. Great fine-tuning tool for advanced users.
• Statistics module - provides word/character count or other analysis of the content.

By default RadEditor uses the CSS classes available in the current page. However, it can now be configured to load external CSS files instead. This scenario is very common for editors integrated in back-end administration areas, which have one set of CSS classes, while the content is being saved in a database and displayed on the public area, which has a different set of CSS classes. Thanks to the CssFiles property, you can specify as a string array the list of CSS files, which you need the editor to use. e.g. CssFiles="~/Examples/ExternalCssFiles/styles1.css,~/Examples/ExternalCssFiles/styles2.css"

RadEditor allows you to insert chunks of HTML code obtained from external files (e.g. pre-formatted tables signatures etc.) Those files are called Templates and can be in any format that your server will allow you to read (HTML, ASCX/ASPX, etc.) Templates are similar to code Snippets with the only difference being that they are obtained from individual files, which the user can browse, upload, delete, etc.

RadEditor v5.0 introduces Client-Side API, which enables developers to control the behavior of the control and add further interactivity to their applications.

RadEditor v5.0 uses conceptually new dialogs, which allows developers to easily create their own dialogs or modify the existing ones.

The some of the button on the RadEditor toolbars will change their state in real time to reflect the actual state of the cursor selection (i.e. bold, justification, etc.) Some buttons will be enabled (or disabled) if certain action can be performed (or not) with the current cursor selection (e.g. Unlink is enabled only if you have selected a hyperlink, Redo is not available if you haven't undone any action first).

You can switch between the listview and treeview with ease as you browse, locate and view items in the Resource Gallery. The treeview has a LoadOnDemand feature, which allows you to load only the treenodes of the currently expanding branch. This significantly improves performance especially for large Resource Galleries.

Using the ClientID property you can assign an ID for a ContentArea of RadEditor to be used in custom client-side code (such as in page processing during a Button.Click event or during the OnPreRender event).

Four new user controls: TableBorderControl, AlignmentSelector, ColorPicker and CssClassSelector have been introduced, which makes working with RadEditor a much more natural and convenient experience.

RadEditor can now provide complete XHTML 1.1 compliance, which has the following two aspects:
- The markup comprising the interface of the editor (toolbar, dialogs, etc.) is XHTML 1.1 compliant.
- The the editor can produce XHTML 1.1 compliant content (the content being edited).

To assist end-users in the XHTML content validation process, RadEditor provides a new module for real-time validation. Using a callback request (Ajax-type request) the editor sends the HTML content for validation to the W3C service, and returns a compliancy report right within the editor interface. This feature eliminates the need for manual copy/pasting of the HTML and validation in a separate browser window.

RadEditor satisfies the requirements for accessibility, which is a result of the following:
- the interface of the RadEditor is "Level A" accessible (in accordance with the W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines 1.0).
- the content generated by the RadEditor can become "Section 508" accessible if the author fills in all required fields (marked with a special accessibility icon ).

In order to build accessible tables ("Section 508"-compliant) you need to add additional fields using the Accessibility tab of the "Table Wizard"/"Table Properties" dialogs. The Windows Narrator tool uses these fields (heading rows, columns, caption alignment and summary) to produce Tooltip message for each table cell. Users with impaired vision can hear those Tooltips as they hover over the cells with the mouse. Similar fields are included in the Hyperlinks Manager, Document Manager, and the Image Properties dialogs.

RadEditor v5.5 can now be used for content authoring on Safari v1.3 and v2.0 for Mac. However, due to the security restrictions of this browser, certain functions of the editor do not work. Please, review the documentation for details.

RadEditor v5.5 has a new event handling module, which results in a significant performance optimization.

RadEditor v6.0 offers great performance enhancements and is faster and lighter than ever before. The component now uses AJAX in all file browser dialogs in order to load files and folders on demand. This greatly improves the usability of the component and re-affirms the product’s robustness for enterprise applications with large file repositories.

RadEditor MCMS Edition is shipped with a special Placeholder that allows developers to easily deploy RadEditor ASP.NET component in MCMS-based projects. The most common settings of RadEditor can be managed directly by configuring the Placeholder properties in Microsoft^® Visual Studio .NET.

RadEditor features a familiar interface that closely replicates the look and feel of Microsoft^® Word. As a result, little or no training is required for regular business users.

RadEditor can be customized substantially, so that it displays different sets of tools and options for different users. The visual appearance of the component (toolbar and dialogs) can also be modified to fit the graphic design of the specific MCMS project.

RadEditor enables end-users to easily insert internal links to other channels/postings of the project. This is achieved by accessing the Internal Links dialog of the MCMS right from the Hyperlinks dialog of RadEditor. As a result, when users need to insert a link to another channel they simply have to select it from the treeview.
 

To provide further integration with MCMS RadEditor employs the platform's security model. As a result, when the "EnableAuthoring" property of the Placeholder is set to False, RadEditor is displayed in "View-only" mode and the content is presented as regular HTML.

RadEditor has an integrated support for the MCMS Resource Gallery. When users work with images, Flash, Windows Media or documents, the dialogs retrieve and save files in the respective folders of the Resource Gallery. The specific user permissions can be set directly from the Site Manager in MCMS.

RadEditor features a multilingual spellchecker, which can use either its integrated dictionaries or the ones supplied with Microsoft^® Word. (Note: Microsoft^® Word must be installed on the server).

Enables users to quickly insert predefined hyperlinks from a drop-down list on the toolbar. The set of links is specified by the administrator.

RadEditor includes tools for generating "Section 508"-compliant content. As a result, the component can be used in US Federal Institutions and other organizations, which require all content to be accessible to people with limited dexterity, low vision, or other disabilities.

RadEditor completely accommodates a CSS-based skinning mechanism. As a result, developers can completely change the appearance of the toolbar and the dialogs by simply modifying the supplied classes and images. The product is shipped with three Microsoft^© Office 2003 skins: blue, monochrome, and custom brown.

RadEditor MCMS Edition can use either classic Windows modal dialogs or its own custom dialogs. The advantage of custom dialogs is that they will not be blocked by the integrated pop-up blocker in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Moreover, the status bar, which is mandatory for all browser windows in SP2, will not be displayed, preserving the proper graphic design of the dialogs.