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<h1>Web Tools Platform 1.0 M3 - New and Noteworthy</h1>
<p>This milestone brought more improvements in integrating SSE with the
rest of Eclipse as well as many under-the-cover changes to make SSE more
useful platform as a platform for building more advanced editors. The
SSE team still cooked up a few goodies, though:</p>
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<h3>Structured Source Editing</h3>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>Integrated Preferences</b></td>
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<p>SSE editors now follow the settings made on the standard Text
Editors preference page, including the choice of editor background
color.</p>
<p><img border="0" src="preferences.jpg"
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>HTML Validation</b></td>
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<p>The HTML editor now features as-you-type validation as well as
validation when building.</p>
<p><img border="0" src="html-as-you-type.jpg"
alt="the HTML Source Page Editor with warnings" /><br />
A warning about an invalid attribute value, "toptobottom"</p>
<p><img border="0" src="html-batch-validation.jpg"
alt="HTML Syntax batch Validator shown in preferences" /></p>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>Custom Tag Libraries
from Classpath</b></td>
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<p>The JSP editor now supports using custom tag libraries only
visible as libraries on the project's Java Build Path, even those
exported from other projects.</p>
<p><img border="0" src="taglibs-classpath.jpg"
alt="Explorer showing Libraries on Classpath" /></p>
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<td align="right" valign="top" width="15%"><b>Wizards!</b></td>
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<p>At long last there are now Wizards for creating CSS, DTD, and
JavaScript files.</p>
<p><img border="0" src="wizards.jpg"
alt="Wizard dialog showing new options" /></p>
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