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I develop a CMS that has been using HTMLArea RC1 for the last couple of years. I have been following this Xinha project for the last year. I have been waiting on a Xinha version 1 release, because I figured when that time came, it would be ready for production use. It seems like it might be a while until that happens. So, I am curious if Xinha is ready for production use (or, at least as ready as HTMLArea RC1 was). Obviously, my users already deal with plenty of bugs with HTMLArea RC1, however none of those bugs cause major roadblocks for my users. Are there any show-stopping bugs in Xinha that prevent it from being ready for production use? Thanks
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I use Xinha in a production product, as do some other users. Clearly I don't follow the development in the trunk, but we find a reasonable stable revision, do some testing on it, and then use it. That works for us. At this point Xinha trunk has been pretty consistently stable as well -- there was a period when it had frequent problems, and upgrading would usually cause regressions. But I haven't noticed that happening that often anymore.
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Xinha is more stable than HTMLArea 3 RC1. I had been using RC1 with hundreds of lines of unsupported bug fixes that either came from contributors to the former HTMLArea forum, or that I had figured out myself. This year I switched over to Xinha, and no longer have to add any bug fixes, because all those legacy problems are fixed and just an unpleasant memory now...
To get an idea of how many problems were fixed, go to http://xinha.python-hosting.com/report/6 and look at the closed tickets in the rows with the gray background. Not all of these were problems inherited from HTMLArea 3, but quite a few were. Also, compare the level of activity to the support that is available for HTMLArea 3, which probably doesn't work in the new version of FireFox.
There are no show-stopping bugs that I know of with Xinha. For me, there were so many problems with RC1 that I wasn't able to use it without significantly changing the htmlarea.js file, which took me about five months before the number of showstoppers became acceptable, though still problematic. Xinha works great, right from the download.
Last edited by mharrisonline (2005-12-18 02:19:39)
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As the others have said, Xinha is, IMHO, far and away better than HTMLArea was, HTMLArea was flakey as anything, Xinha isn't. I use the trunk at various revisions in my own production systems.
Version 1.0 is something I'd like to see happen before April. After that we can start structural changes to improve speed, lower memory use, Safari and Opera support.
James Sleeman
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I am developing a site (Intranet) which will use Xinha. I have a few issues, but most are quirks in JavaScript rather than Xinha.
Kudos to the developers!
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I'm using Xinha in production and it's very solid.
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