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NetObjects nPower product updates
RELEASE (version 1.10.0000.5031)
Download Update #3 Release Date: 10/31/2006
Highlights
- Support for active content. Site visitors using Microsoft Internet Explorer will no longer have to click to activate pages that contain Flash or other active content.
- All generated code now meets W3C HTML 4.01 Transitional standards.
- The default unit of measure for CSS is now pixels.
- Testimonials now allow the Admin to approve visitor posts before they are displayed publicly.
- The object handle size has been increased to improve usability when manipulating objects on a page.
- The Align tab has been moved to the second tab position.
- The minimum thickness for the line shape tool may now be as small as 1 pixel.
Code Generation
- The "Table Row is a form" option has been deprecated to meet the W3C recommendations.
- All new object IDs are created as single tokens.
CSS
- The OL/UL tags are no longer removed when a list is un-indented.
- Table borders are now displayed to meet CSS 2.1 standards.
Forms
- Objects can now be repositioned by dragging them by their labels.
- Hidden fields are no longer added to the list when the Cancel button is clicked.
- Using the File Selector feature now automatically sets the form Method to "Post" and Encoding type to "multipart/form-data".
- The Close Window Button now works on pages that contain Frames.
- The multi-line form element now supports validation options.
Components
- The Rotating Picture component now displays ALT tags correctly.
- The Rotating Picture allows image paths to be entered in the picture browser field.
- Image paths in the Rotating Picture component are no longer modified when the site exported (when using the Versions Manager with the component).
- The Rotating Picture component now accepts upper or lower case image file extensions.
- The Secure Page component no longer shows a broken image on the published page if the "Show secure logo" option is selected and the image path is blank.
- The published page of a component that includes an added Button from the Standard Controls no longer displays the text LABEL on the published page.
- The Forms Handler component no longer generates an "Error 110" message when submitting the form.
Plug-ins
- The DynaButton component has been updated to be compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Navigation
- Additional space and borders are no longer generated when switching between graphical and text navigation.
- Navigation text no longer wraps on publish pages when the character limit extends the object width.
Miscellaneous
- The Version Manager messaging has been updated to remove extraneous warnings.
- Okb files are no longer generated in the User Sites folder.
- The height of the text box is retained when it is locked and the Size Layout to Text option is selected.
- When using the Shape tool with Text in Element selected, the alignment of content now displays correctly.
- File links are now updated to be relative to where NetObjects nPower is installed.
RELEASE (version 1.00.0000.5020)
Download Update #2 Revised Release Date: 04/13/2006
Update 2 Revised addresses some issues that were raised by the user community following the original release of Update 2 and required immediate attention. These items have been appended to the list below. If you installed Update 2 (version 5019), please download and install the new Update 2 Revised. Following installation, your software will be fully updated to version 5020.
Update Contents
Note: Several new enhancements and fixes have been added to the interactive components in Update #2. These enhancements include a Suite Selector for multiple components per site, editable e-mail fields for components that include e-mail communication, and the ability to publish components without having to make a selection in Publish view. To take advantage of these new enhancements and fixes it is necessary to add the component using the updated version of Fusion v9.0. (Exisiting components will continue to work as they did previously, however they will not utilize the new enhancements and fixes offered in Update #2.)
The following items have been changed in this update:
- Center in browser now works in Web browsers
- Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) can now be imported from the Manage Style dialog
- Fixed issue with special characters not displaying correctly in Page view
- Increased security options for interactive components using .csv and .xml files
- Unused layouts in Page view can now be deleted
- Interactive component scripts now upload without having to select Publish Components
- Live preview for the flash plug-in can now be turned on/off
- Empty style tags added to head section is no longer flagged during W3C validation
- Units of measure for font sizes display correctly in Page view
- DHTML setting added to Rotating Picture component and ALT tags now work
- Custom button names now appear in Flash navigation
- Forms Handler component now has editable To and From fields
- Secure Page component now displays correctly on published page
- Flash navigation now centers correctly after resizing and publishing the page
- Email validation works now for the components using php version
- Values filled in a form are now remembered in case of validation errors
- RSS Feed works now even if a DTD reference is included in the rss feed file
RELEASE (version 1.00.0000.5010)
Download Update #1 Release Date: 11/16/2005
Update Contents
The following items have been changed in this update:
- After clearing a link in the components properties palette the link text is now cleared
- Numeric values can now be set above 99 in the component properties palettes
- Creating versioning repositories now displays warnings and a new text box allows the creation of the repository outside the publish profile path
- NOTE: Assisted Coolmaps with issues regarding their components. Fixes posted by Coolmaps in the NetObjects Fusion 9 Components Newsgroup are listed below:
Coolmaps QuickFix

The following files have extra stuff in them that needs to be deleted
atomz.jar coolConfirm.jar sendletter.jar SlideShow.jar SlideShowButtons.jar
All of these files are located in the components/coolmaps folder
First, close Fusion.
Then double click these files (they should open up in WinZip or something like that). Delete the com.netobjects folder entirely. Do this for each file that you have that is listed above.
Reopen Fusion ... Things should work now.

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