HtmlEntities Adobe AIR widget

2007-11-26T22:27:24Z

The HTML Entity Character Lookup was originally developed by Remy Sharp as a HTML + JavaScript (i.e. web app) as well as an OS X dashboard widget. The only possibility for windows users to use that app offline was the HTML Entity Character Lookup Firefox plugin made by Yining. I wanted something different, so here it is: The first release of my Adobe AIR HtmlEntity widget. Now updated for AIR 1.0! In order to run this, you’ll need to install the Adobe AIR runtime available at http://adobe.com/go/getair. Once you got the runtime, you can install HtmlEntities by clicking the button below.

The application is licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 License. As far as I know the CreativeCommons licenses are not compatible with (or at least not recommended for) software, but since Remy Sharp licensed his app under this ShareAlike license I have to use the same license.

Update, Nov 27^th, 23:52: HtmlEntities now compiles in ActionScript 3.0 strict mode, making it a little faster overall. The file size has been drastically lowered by checking the embedded fonts - Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic and Hebrew characters are not needed and have been removed. For more information, check the change log.

Update, Dec 18^th, 19:52: I removed some minor bugs caused by a RegEx expression locking out records with opening or closing brackets (that’s the reason why © and ® were not working).

Update, Dec 20^th, 21:07: Just noticed Adobe released the AIR beta 3. HtmlEntities works under AIR beta 3 too, so no need to recompile.

Update, Dec 30^th, 17:09: The search box now has focus when opening HtmlEntities.

Update, July 7^th, 19:02: Finally I updated this to work with Adobe AIR 1.0 and above.

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HtmlEntities Adobe AIR widget