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Version History

SyntaxHighlighter: Easier to load; faster to boot?

Posted on February 7th, 2009

Change Summary:
Added a new method, SyntaxHighlighter.boot(), to automate the loading process.

Update of Forked SyntaxHighlighter

Posted on December 18th, 2009

Change Summary:
Merged in many of the changes that Alex Gorbatchev included in his 2.1.364 release, but with the following differences:

• In 2.1.364, the ruler functionality was removed. It’s still included here.
• 2.1.364 changed the way that wrapped lines are presented. I’ve kept the old presentation, but modified the icon that’s used to signify wrapping.
• Internally, 2.1.364 uses a separate HTML table to represent each line of source. I’ve maintained the older pattern of simply using a separate <div> to represent each line.

Also new in this release:

• I’ve added a “Hide” button to the toolbar. Code blocks can now be expanded/collapsed at the user’s whim. (As before, an author can still choose to present a block in the hidden/collapsed state.)

Filling The Cracks

Posted on July 22nd, 2009

Change Summary:

• Fixed white lines that had cluttered the gutter.

Dumping Hack Flash, It’s a Class, Class, Class

Posted on July 10th, 2009

Change Summary:

• Ensure that the original whitespace is (mostly) preserved.
• Removed the Flash applet that was used for copying the code to the clipboard.
• Use CSS Sprites on the toolbar, speeding up the download a bit.
• Brushes now call SyntaxHighlighter.registerBrush as they’re loaded. Reduced the runtime cost of brushes via JavaScript prototypes.
• Added (beta-quality) support for the ‘title’ option.
• Use JavaScript to implement toolbar hovers for IE6
• Converted function declarations from this form:
  var foo = function() {...}
  to :
  var function foo() {...}
  after measurements showed that the second form is packed more efficiently.

SyntaxHighlighter Revised (again), Works On Its Own (once again)

Posted on June 10th, 2009

Change Summary:

• Removed the dependency on jQuery that I’d introduced in previous versions.
• Re-implemented the toolbar hover as pure CSS (later revised to use JavaScript for IE6.)

More SyntaxHighlighter Updates

Posted on May 29th, 2009

Change Summary:

• Added the toolbar button for toggling the gutter
• Attach the gutter to the left, so that it remains visible when scrolling
• Made the toolbar partially transparent.
• Cleaned up some code smell that I’d previously inserted.

Fixing A Scroll Where The Grays Came In

Posted on May 14th, 2009

Change Summary:

• Fixed the gray background that had been visible after scrolling to the right.
• Don’t add line numbers to the DOM if they’re not going to be displayed.