Changes upcoming for See

Well - for those of you who keep track of See changes, this is a bit of a preview as to what to expect soon. I'm about to start migrating See to using WebKit for all of it's display rendering and editing. This is a pretty big change. Just to give you an idea of what this will mean:

• Proper interaction with flash & quicktime
• Ability to design complicated slides nad layouts using just HTML
• More user-flexibility in choosing background colours/images
• Easy templating for slides using CSS
• Faster rendering
• Neater code - now I'm just writing HTML/CSS to format slides, rather than doing all the complicated maths - which I'm sure I do slowly

There are some downsides too. The WebKit HTML editing engine is still relatively primative. I've done some initial tests and it seems as though I can get it to behave reasonably for a basic text slide - although I don't know how it will behave for complicated things. Lists seem to cause it to stuff up - you can't edit the last element. Tables do weird things too. And there is no nice way to do paragraph settings. I'd have to make an interface for that. But it's not that hard to do that... It's just a case of working out how...
I also don't yet know how to do pagination in a smart way. But I guess that will be something I can learn in time. My guess is that I can probably do it in a similar way to the way I do it now (if not an identical way).
I also still need to try scaling the WebKit view down (as per the preview panes). This concept probably also makes preview panes display proper QT and flash content as well.
As WebKit continues to evolve and be upgraded we will automatically gain the benefits of the new features and updates.
Look forward to a new version in a month or so...