# Version History

# 2.6.2

September 21, 2023

macOS 14 Sonoma compatibility

# 2.6.1

October 25, 2022

macOS 13 Ventura compatibility (allowing Setapp updates)
Fixed bug where new documents would always get a .html extension (even if another type) when saving via the titlebar pop over window

# 2.6.0

September 2, 2021

Includes built-in PHP to render previews since it is removed in macOS 12 Monterey
New PHP binary path preference automatically detects common installation paths
Dialog windows for JavaScript alert(), confirm(), and prompt() calls
Fixed issue where switching the system to Dark Mode would not change the code editor color
Fixed an issue where opening a PHP document may not immediately show a preview without a refresh
Fixed a hang trying to enter serial numbers on Apple Silicon Macs if Rosetta is not installed
Fixed an issue where the color picker could flash when opening on Big Sur
Fixed a spelling typo in the Mailing List window

# 2.5.0

February 1, 2021

Apple Silicon support to run natively on "M1" Macs
macOS 11 Bug Sur compatibility and UI adjustments
New App Icons matching the macOS 11 Big Sur style
Localizations for German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
Line Comment Selection via Command-Slash
The tab key will indent code when there is a multi-line selection
Preference for tab width, infinite tab stops without wrapping, tab stop sizing matches font size
macOS 11.0+ only: Zoom will magnify like in Safari (page zoom that does not grow the width)
Color Swatches can have opacity
Option to disable macOS Auto Save
Added an optional Save toolbar button
Data collection policy window shows submission data
Tweaked background and line highlight colors to match Hype and improve contrast
Changing to PHP mode will clear out validator errors and changing back to HTML restarts validation
Fixed issue where showing/hiding line numbers a few times would never show the line numbers
Validation server Java process now properly terminates when Whisk quits
Fixed an issue where the source editor font could be blank in preferences
Restore Defaults in Interface Preferences will reset line spacing
macOS 11.0+ only: Injected scroll sync code JavaScript does not pollute globals anymore
Fixed issue where an error was being logged to the console if scrolling before scroll sync could begin
Fixed issue where Restore Defaults in Interface Preferences would show "System" on systems that do not have that option
Improved centering of color swatch hex field
Snippets table scroll bar has better coloring on macOS 10.15 and below in dark theme
Fixed issue where scrollers would show up as white in dark theme on macOS 10.12-10.13
Removed table headers and vertical grid from Code Snippets table
Tweaked visual when dragging Color Swatches
Fixed a bug where non-RGB colors could not be chosen
Removed the Colors toolbar icon, as it is unused
Mac App Store version looks at receipt upon first launch for licenses
Mac App Store version no longer uses IAP for Trial
About Window tweaks
Update copyrights and credits

# 2.0.1

May 24, 2020

Scroll Sync will now work on macOS 10.11 - 10.14
Scroll Sync will now work if there is no doctype declared
Fixed issue where Hype Reflect previews would not show images and other local page resources
Fixed bug where hitting return to accept Kanji with a Japanese input method always created a newline
Showing HTML Source Code for PHP in Dark Theme will use a black background and white text
Fixed issue where Watched Files table would flicker when modifying watched files
Browser preview menu will now show multiple copies with the disk location if the name/version is identical
Fixed issue where validator messages would only show a single line on macOS 10.11 - 10.12
Fixed issue where Dev Tools may not show up if the Web Preview is closed
Fixed issue where splitter resize view would not be shown if Dev Tools are open
Fixed issue where detaching the Web Preview with Dev Tools open would result in a blank spot in the window where Dev Tools should go
Fixed issue where preferences plist file could get unnecessarily large
Email will now attempt to be automatically filled when trying to join Mailing List
Trial purchase button no longer covers window titlebar buttons on on RTL languages
Validate page button is disabled when starting up the validator
Validation is disabled for JavaScript and PHP modes
Zoom menu and Reload toolbar buttons are disabled when the web preview is not shown

# 2.0.0

May 4, 2020

Renamed from HyperEdit to Whisk!
Requires macOS 10.11 or later, supporting macOS 10.15 Catalina (and 64-bit)
Complete UI refresh including integrated inspector and new icons
Scroll Sync
Dark theme
Preview in different browsers and to Hype Reflect
Watched Files automatically discovers associated files and reloads the preview when they change
Updated syntax highlighting to color keywords added in current language versions
Better macOS multi-document tab bar support
Support for macOS Versions/Autosave feature
HTML5 validation (replacing HTML4 validation)
HTML and PHP editing will syntax highlight JavaScript and CSS code blocks
Ability to save all document settings for new documents
Document settings are preserved across launches
New Preferences window where settings take effect immediately
Zoom menu for Web Preview (replaces the smaller/larger text buttons)
Web Preview uses WKWebView for improved performance and crashes/hangs don't take down the app
Web Preview uses HTTP for more realistic rendering
New default page is HTML5 and has areas for script/style
Preference to change line highlight color
Preference to change editor line height
Go To Line panel is now a sheet and starts with the line currently on, has steppers
Color picker uses a popover and can have alpha values
Color swatches accepts rgba, hex, and color name values
Code Snippets can have magic variables for ${caret}, ${title}, and ${charset}
Code Snippets button to insert into the document
Context menu on splitter to change widescreen/portrait or detach
Unicode (UTF-8) is now the default encoding
In-App feedback/bug reports window
New About window
New Mailing List prompt
Improved trial and purchase flow
Free viewer mode if not purchased/no trial activated
App Sandbox (Mac App Store version asks for disk access to bypass when needed)
Notarized app for direct download/Tumult Store distribution
.dmg for direct download/Tumult Store distribution
Fixed issue where the line number would not show up on the last line
Fixed issue where line highlighting would not always extend to the end of the window
Fixed issue where the Dev Tools would steal focus on each key stroke
Fixed issue where the Dev Tools may not show the first console logs on refresh
Snippet Editor is now resizable
Fixed issue indenting/outdenting from first character in a line
Fixed Indent/outdent not working with undo
Fixed issue where replace and undo/redo would not syntax highlight
Fixed a common syntax highlighter crash
New documents get a pre-populated file extension based on editing mode
Added a tool tip for the refresh delay to make it clear it is in seconds
Removed "smart" text insertions in the snippet editor
The delete key will clear snippet keyboard shortcuts
Better autodetection for text encodings to prevent documents from opening blank

# 1.6.1

January 6, 2011

(Mac App Store-only release)

Support for the Mac App Store
Option to highlight current line with insertion point
Higher resolution app icon
Fixed issue where HTML5 SQL databases could not be initialized
Fixed bug where linked files would not be saved when hitting the plus button
Syntax highlighter works better with international characters
Syntax highlighter is much faster/memory efficient

# 1.6.0

April 30, 2008

Improved Leopard compatibility
Fixed many memory leaks
Preview menu has browser icons
New Javascript console using the WebKit Inspector (if Safari 3.1 is installed)
Added preference to display invisible characters
Added Text menu item to convert text to upper and lower case
New toolbar icons (thanks Marc Edwards of iSlayer!)
Added automatic checking for updates (via Sparkle, thanks Andy Matuschak!)
Added ability to report crashes (via UKCrashReporter, thanks Uli Kusterer!)
Fixed an issue saving window layout when the preview is collapsed
Fixed vital information window ordering
Fixed bug where the document was not being marked as dirty
Support for localizations

# 1.5.3

November 29, 2007

Fixed memory leaks
Fixed issue where dragging an image to the editor would give the wrong width/height
Option to continuously spell check
Leopard Compatibility

# 1.5.2

September 18, 2006

Universal Binary

# 1.5.1

March 6, 2006

Fixed several encoding issues
HTML entity coloring
Files in the linked-file drawer can be opened by double-clicking on them
HyperEdit does a better job of cleaning up temporary files
Restored Mac OS X 10.2.8 support
Color palette remembers its state
Revert sheet is now properly dismissed
Fixed a bug in properly loading files with a ".htm" extensions
Various other bug fixes

# 1.5.0

June 20, 2005

New color swatches palette allows inserting colors and saving favorites
The web preview can be torn off into a separate window
Linked files for a document are preserved
The document can be previewed in different browsers
Dragging images into the editor will generate an HTML image tag
Snippets can be dragged to and from the editor
Validation errors can be skimmed with control-up/down
Preference to not create blank documents automatically
Preference to not load the web preview when a file is opened
Find/replace correctly updates the web preview
Resizing the document will only resize the web preview
Disabled "smart delete" when pasting
Fixed bug where the Validator would think the user was not an administrator
Fixed hangs and crashes related to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
Other bug fixes and minor performance improvements

# 1.0.3

July 22, 2004

Fixed bug where validation would not work, and say it was improperly installed
HyperEdit Help (Command-?)
Error skimming with Control-Up/Down
Documents created with HyperEdit will now open with HyperEdit
Find panel will find next with the return key
New HyperEdit document icon and tweaked application icon
Fixed some typos

# 1.0.2

June 15, 2004

Much improved stability and many bugs fixed
Fixed bug in syntax highlighting where colors would be shifted over, or incorrect
Command-Shift-Right/Left is restored to its usual purpose
Opens files properly from dragging onto the dock or application icon
Does not use package installer anymore and overall size decreased
Individual editor background color can be changed by dragging a color swatch into the line number gutter

# 1.0.1

May 20, 2004

Fixed live validation by including appropriate libraries with the installer (optional)
Fixed Mac OS X 10.2 support
Added Latin-2 encoding
Added link to visit HyperEdit website in the Help menu.

# 1.0.0

May 17, 2004

Live HTML W3C-based validation with red underlines and an error drawer
View HTML source code rendered from PHP
Faster, more colorful, customizable Syntax Highlighter
HTML and PHP rendering performance significantly increased
Regular expression find and replace (thanks to OgreKit)
Text Encoding engine improvements and support for more encodings
Shifting right and left of text blocks
Snippets palette supports groups, rearranging, window resizing
Preview in default web browser
Go To Line dialog box
Preference to change line endings to Mac, UNIX, or Windows
Preference to prevent line wrapping
Toolbar items for shifting left/right, previewing in browser, and saving (Customize Toolbar to see them all)
50% split restoration via key combination Command-)
Will remember if palettes were open or closed from the previous launch
Split position will be saved with manual window position save
New/revised toolbar and application icons
Fixed bug where PHP documents greater than 8 KB would cause HyperEdit to hang
Fixed bug where PHP errors would write a lot to the console.log
Fixed bug where the refresh timer would fire after a document was closed causing HyperEdit to crash
Fixed bug where the editor's scroll bar would disappear
Fixed bug where the number view would cause a crash using 2-byte encodings
Fixed bug where Undo would not refresh the preview pane

# 1.0b3

December 29, 2003

New Code Snippets palette
Startup Items in advanced preferences
New Syntax Highlighting engine colors HTML, PHP, CSS, and Javascript
Line numbers appear in the gutter
Options drawer is now a palette
Linked Files drawer revamped with file icons and customizable check interval
Fully reveals and hides the preview by pressing Command-0
Editing mode/Syntax highlighting determined by file extension
Remembers window position, size, and split orientation
PHP include/require statements work correctly
PHP default path is set to /usr/bin/php
PHP should not crash if nothing is installed
Opens and edits files of any type
Preserves indentation for new lines
Spell checking is disabled by default

# 1.0b2

August 18, 2003

PHP Integration
Web view options drawer
Linked files make the web view refresh when they are updated
Document style sheets (always cached)
Support for multiple text encodings
Horizontal split view
Tabbed Preferences
Find/Replace Panel
Preservation of indentation level
Option to enable/disable cache
Turned off syntax highlighting for PHP, CSS, and Javascript files
Fixed toolbar item customization bug
Fixed bug that did not report correct state of the Javascript console
Donation notice
New icon (thank you Jenni Lin)

# 1.0b1

July 23, 2003

Initial Release

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