July 9th, 2011Issues that are resolved in this service pack:
· Fixed several issues improving product stability.
· Fixed items and visuals in the Insert Symbol dialog.
· The CSS property "overflow: hidden" now behaves correctly on the design surface.
· Improved handling of the HTML "name" attribute.
· Added a notification error in Snapshot panel.
· Fixed online help links in several places.
· Fixed an issue with Copy/Paste in the Folder List panel.
· Fixed an issue in which CSS media queries were removed by the "Reformat HTML" command.
· Fixed several issues that affected the formatting of special characters and symbols.
· Src and link handling now allows protocol-relative URLs.
· Fixed an issue in which deleting a table row or column through the context menu caused unexpected behavior.
· The Hyperlink dialog now properly handles links that are already URL-encoded.
· The CSS property "pre-wrap" now behaves correctly on the design surface.
· Fixed ALT+F1 shortcut for the Folder List panel.
· Fixes to the JavaScript extensibility model.
Improvements provided by this service pack:
jQuery support:
· IntelliSense has been added for jQuery. In addition to the jQuery functions themselves, this provide IntelliSense for ids and classes in your document when creating jQuery selectors. It also includes the ability to continuously chain jQuery function calls and obtain IntelliSense.
New Snippets Panel and improved Snippets behavior:
· Snippets now appear in their own panel. This panel provides all the previous functionality of the snippets feature, including keyboard accessibility from Code View with CTRL+ENTER. Snippets previously created by the user will be automatically migrated to the new snippet format and appear in the Snippets panel.
In addition, the Snippets panel provides the following improvements:
· Ability to create folders to categorize your snippets.
· Ability to create wrap snippets—with before and after sections—that you can use to surround text you select in Code view.
· Includes a large number of new sample snippets across several categories.
· Ability to quickly search the Snippets panel to find snippets by name, description, and the code of the snippet itself.
Image Thumbnails in the Folder List Panel:
· The Folder List now provides an image thumbnail preview in Windows 7 and Vista. This includes information such as file size, width, and height of the image for reference. Quick links, next to the image, CSS, and JavaScript files, copy relevant markup to the clipboard, and paste it into your code.
Interactive Snapshot Panel:
· The Snapshot panel now provides an Interactive mode for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. This mode allows you to preview dynamic content and code in a browser inside Expression Web. All JavaScript and other interactive content will behave just as if you used the Preview in Browser command.
Universal comment/uncomment:
· Code view now provides context-sensitive comment and uncomment functionality. The appropriate type of comment will be inserted, depending on the type of code block you currently have selected in your document. Comment/uncomment supports HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript.
Workspaces:
· Customers can now define and save multiple layouts of their application and panels. Several starter workspace layouts are provided. In addition you can create your own panel layouts and save them to custom workspaces of your choosing.
Custom Toolbars:
· The popular Custom Toolbars Add-in has been directly built into the application, enabling you to create and name multiple custom toolbars and to add items of your choosing to each of them.
Look and feel improvements to the Code View:
· Code now uses the popular Consolas font by default. Color and syntax highlighting in Code view have also been improved.
June 8th, 2010Expression Encoder 4 Pro Release Notes :
Opening a .mov file results in an error :
Attempting to open a .mov file in Expression Encoder will result in an error due to the fact that Apple QuickTime, versions 7.6.4 and later, adds a new DLL dependency to their SDK which causes the failure of .MOV files to load. However, you can work around this issue by doing the following:
· On the Start menu, right-click Computer and, in the context menu, click Properties.
· Click Advanced system settings.
· In the System Properties dialog box, click Advanced.
· In the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables.
· In the System variables list, locate the Path variable and double-click it.
Type one of the following strings at the end of the path in the Variable value box. This adds the missing directory to your path:
· If you are working in a 64-bit environment, type: ";C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\"
· If you are working in a 32-bit environment, type: ";C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\"
· Click OK in each successive dialog box.
· Restart Windows.
M2TS VC-1 files not supported :
· The M2TS VC-1 file format is not supported in this release.
Clipped captions in DFXP files :
· In some cases, captions from DFXP files may be clipped in the Preview area. To see the entire caption, zoom the Preview area to a full-screen view.
Live Smooth Streaming system requirements :
· Using Live Smooth Streaming requires special minimum requirements in order to prevent problems with both encoding and archiving. Make sure that your computer meets the designated Smooth Streaming System Requirements.
Microsoft Expression Web 4 Release Notes:
· Fixed-position elements in Super Preview
· Content with CSS fixed positioning may appear in several places in the SuperPreview display.
Flash and ActiveX objects in SuperPreview :
· Because SuperPreview does not render Flash, ActiveX, or other object content, a region that contains an object may not be displayed at the same size as it would be displayed in a browser (depending on the underlying HTML and CSS). Set width and height dimensions (in pixels) for each DIV tag that contains an object tag to help mitigate this problem.
Script-triggered layout changes in SuperPreview :
· Layout changes triggered by asynchronous JavaScript or other Ajax content may not render in SuperPreview.
Firefox uses default settings in SuperPreview :
· Firefox browser views in SuperPreview are displayed with Firefox default installation settings, regardless of user-customized settings.
Login-controlled pages in SuperPreview :
· SuperPreview does not prompt users for login credentials and so cannot access pages that require authentication, such as those controlled by an .htaccess file.
Right-to-left language rendering in SuperPreview :
· Pages that are encoded in HTML to use a right-to-left language may not display correctly in SuperPreview, particularly in a Firefox browser display. You may be able to improve the display of these pages by choosing a larger Browser Size.
Selectable elements in SuperPreview:
· Children of an HTML element with CSS overflow property set to hidden, auto, or scroll may be selectable in the SuperPreview browser view, even though they may not be visible in the rendered page.
Framesets in SuperPreview :
· HTML elements inside frameset pages are not selectable in SuperPreview or visible in the DOM tree. Open the frameset pages individually to display them in SuperPreview.
Timed meta redirects in SuperPreview :
· SuperPreview does not follow meta redirects that have a time interval greater than 0. Instead, navigate directly to the desired page with SuperPreview.
Style attributes in SuperPreview :
· Style attribute information in the DOM tree may vary between browsers. Because of differences in the way that Firefox and Internet Explorer process web pages, SuperPreview may report different representations of style attributes in the DOM trees of each.
Element display size for quirks-mode pages in SuperPreview :
· Quirks-mode pages may display the body and html element height and width incorrectly in SuperPreview. Elements inside these tags are unaffected.
Security certificate errors in SuperPreview :
· Pages that display security certificate errors in a browser will not display correctly in SuperPreview.
Cookie behavior in SuperPreview :
· Cookie behavior is inconsistent between browsers. Because SuperPreview relies on locally installed browsers, it will sometimes read and write local browser cookies.
Visited link display in SuperPreview :
· Some links for Internet Explorer may display as "visited" in SuperPreview, depending on the user's Internet Explorer browser history.
Scrollbar display in SuperPreview :
· Scrollbars may not be displayed in some SuperPreview browser views for pages with frames, iframes, or other large, scrollable regions.
Too many connections over FTP :
· When the number of simultaneous FTP, SFTP, or FTPS connections exceeds the connection limit imposed by the server, Expression Web may display the error message "Too many connections from this IP." If this error occurs, click Publishing Settings, and then click Site Settings. Click the Publishing tab, and then click Edit to display the Connection Settings dialog box for the publishing destination. Set Maximum simultaneous connections to 1.
Deep Zoom content in pages that contain the Mark of the Web :
· If the Mark of the Web comment is inserted in a page and then the page is opened in Internet Explorer, Deep Zoom content does not function.
Photoshop images with spot color or alpha channels :
· Expression Web does not import alpha channels or spot color channels from a Photoshop image. Alpha and spot color channels are not displayed in the Import Adobe Photoshop File dialog box and are not visible in the imported image. No error message is displayed.
Importing Silverlight video on 64-bit Windows :
· Expression Web will not import Silverlight video on 64-bit versions of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 unless Window Media 11 SDK is installed. To correct this problem, download and install the Windows Media Format 11 SDK.
· This problem does not occur on 32-bit versions of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, or on 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7.
Drag and drop from remote sites :
· In the Pulishing view, drag and drop from a remote site to the local site does not work.
Root-relative links in SuperPreview and Snapshot :
· By default, pages that reference images or other content through root-relative links will not display correctly in Snapshot or SuperPreview. To correct this, on the Site menu, click Site Settings. Click the Preview tab. Check Use Microsoft Expression Development Server and select For all web pages. These settings must be configured for each site that uses root-reltaive links.
Copy and paste between sites :
· If text is copied from a page in one site, closing the site, opening another site, and pasting the text does not work.
Page corruption with Dynamic Web Templates :
· Applying a Dynamic Web Template to existing pages can alter the layout of the existing elements on the page and can generate anomalous markup.
Image scaling with high-DPI display settings :
· Images are not correctly scaled in SuperPreview when Windows is configured to use custom DPI display settings. Because Firefox and Internet Explorer scale images differently, the same image will be displayed at different sizes when Firefox and Internet Explorer are selected for the browsers views.
Working on a file under source control without opening the containing site:
· Source control functionality is not available for a file that belongs to a site under source control unless the site is opened first. To restore correct source control functionality, close and restart Expression Web, open the site from source control, and then open the file.
April 13th, 2010Fixed position elements in Super Preview :
· Content with CSS fixed positioning may appear in several places in the SuperPreview display.
Flash and ActiveX objects in SuperPreview :
· Because SuperPreview does not render Flash, ActiveX, or other object content, a region that contains an object may not be displayed at the same size as it would be displayed in a browser (depending on the underlying HTML and CSS). Set width and height dimensions (in pixels) for each DIV tag that contains an object tag to help mitigate this problem.
Script-triggered layout changes in SuperPreview :
· Layout changes triggered by asynchronous JavaScript or other Ajax content with extended load times may not render in SuperPreview.
Firefox displays in SuperPreview :
· Mozilla Firefox browser views inside SuperPreview are displayed with Firefox default installation settings, ignoring any user-customized settings.
Login-controlled pages in SuperPreview :
· SuperPreview does not prompt users for logon credentials such as those controlled by an .htaccess file. Attempts to access a page protected in this way will fail.
Right-to-left language rendering in SuperPreview :
· Using HTML to set the text direction to right-to-left causes rendering issues in all browsers.
SuperPreview and Internet Explorer 8 Beta :
· SuperPreview is compatible with Internet Explorer 8 but is not compatible with Beta or Release Candidate (RC) versions of Internet Explorer 8.
Selectable elements in SuperPreview :
· Children of an HTML element with CSS overflow property set to hidden, auto, or scroll may be selectable in the SuperPreview browser view, even though they may not be visible in the rendered page.
Framesets in SuperPreview :
· HTML elements inside frameset pages are not selectable in SuperPreview or visible in the DOM tree. Open the frameset pages individually to display them in SuperPreview.
Timed meta redirects in SuperPreview :
· SuperPreview does not follow meta redirects that have a time interval greater than 0. Instead, navigate directly to the desired page with SuperPreview.
Style attributes in SuperPreview :
· Style attribute information in the DOM tree may vary between browsers. Because of differences in the way that Firefox and Internet Explorer process web pages, SuperPreview may report different representations of style attributes in the DOM trees of each.
Element display size for quirks-more pages in SuperPreview :
· Quirks-mode pages may display the body and html element height and width incorrectly in SuperPreview. Elements inside these tags are unaffected.
Security certificate errors in SuperPreview :
· Pages that display security certificate errors in a browser will not display in SuperPreview unless the certificate has been approved in the browser.
Cookie behavior in SuperPreview :
· Cookie behavior is inconsistent between browsers. Because SuperPreview relies on locally installed browsers, it will sometimes read and write local browser cookies.
Visited link display in SuperPreview :
· Some links for Internet Explorer may display as "visited" in SuperPreview, depending on the user's Internet Explorer browser history.
Scrollbar display in SuperPreview :
· Scrollbars may not be displayed in some SuperPreview browser views for pages with frames, iframes, or other large, scrollable regions.
Too many connections over FTP :
· When trying to connect to FTP, SFTP, or FTPS servers that don't support simultaneous file transfers, Expression Web may repeatedly display the error message “Too many connections from this IP.” If this error occurs, click Publishing Settings, and then click Site Settings. Click the Publishing tab, and then click Edit to display the Connection Settings dialog box for the publishing destination. Set Maximum simultaneous connections to 1
Deep Zoom content in pages that contain the Mark of the Web :
· If the Mark of the Web comment is inserted in a page and then the page is opened in Internet Explorer, Deep Zoom content does not function.
Photoshop images with spot color or alpha channels :
· Expression Web does not import alpha channels or spot color channels from a Photoshop image. Alpha and spot color channels are not displayed in the Import Adobe Photoshop File dialog box and are not visible in the imported image. No error message is displayed.
Importing Silverlight video on 64-bit Windows :
· Expression Web will not import Silverlight video on 64-bit versions of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 unless Window Media 11 SDK is installed. To correct this problem, download and install the Windows Media Format 11 SDK.
· This problem does not occur on 32-bit versions of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, or on 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or Windows 7.
Publishing view icons :
· When you set a folder that contains subfolders and files to be excluded from publishing the icon is changed only for the selected folder; the icons for the subfolders and files do not change until you refresh the Folder List panel even though those subfolders and files are correctly excluded from publishing as soon as the property is set for their parent folder.
Overwriting files that are not checked out in Team Foundation Server:
· If you start a Get all files from the publishing destination operation without first checking out the files in your working folder, the files are not automatically checked out from source control. Instead, the files in your working folder will be overwritten but will still be locked and their status remains as "checked in." To work around this issue, check out any files that will be overwritten before getting the files from the publishing destination.
Working on a file under source control without opening the containing site :
· Source control functionality is not available for a file that belongs to a site under source control unless the site is opened first. To restore correct source control functionality, close and restart Expression Web, open the site from source control, and then open the file.
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