What's new in version 2018?

Overview

Version 2018 is an admittedly long overdue major update that brings WeBuilder up to date with modern standards and technologies.

• Built upon the successful previous version
• Complete dark visual theme support
• Upgraded user interface with high resolution monitor / high-DPI support
• Updated HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP language support and framework definitions
• Address many of the suggestions from our customers accumulated over the last 3 years
• Large number of new and rewritten features

Heavily improved user interface

• Dark interface theme
  
• High resolution monitor (high DPI) support
  
• Customizable tab menu
• Improved multi-monitor taskbar support

Improved text editor

• Better performance with unusually large files
• Fixed some quirks with cursor position

Improved preview

• Updated built-in Chrome preview
• Improved Web browser detection for preview

Improved Project management

• Faster auto complete in large projects
• Experts can now customize TODO keyword pattern via todo.ini file

Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS

• Updated SFTP support and compatibility with the latest servers
• Connect to IPv6 addresses
• FTP connections are saved when modified, not only when application closed
• Various FTP fixes and stability improvements

Improved HTML and CSS support

• New, powerful and up to date HTML formatter
  
• New, powerful and up to date CSS formatter
  
• Updated CSS definitions and compatibility info
• Updated HTML Tidy
• Form field tag editors now support aditional input types (e.g. date, email, tel etc.)
• Form field tag editors now support new HTML5 attributes (e.g. step, min, max, readonly etc.)
  
• Anchor tag editor now uses id for bookmark links
• Improved CSS syntax highlighting
• Improved built-in CSS checker
• Improved CSS, LESS, SASS auto complete
• Updated CSS prefixizer
• Inspector now shows only those prefixized properties that are still necessary
• Collapsible HTML tags now can be configured by advanced users in collapsibletags.ini

Updated framework support

• Added Bootstrap 3 & 4 frameworks
• Wordpress framework update
  

Plugin improvements

• Plugins can easily execute PHP script and get output
• Plugins now can hook into auto complete behavior and modify inserted content
• Plugins now can execute auto complete on-demand based on user actions
• New class TScriptableJSON for parsing and creating JSON
• New TScriptableJsExecuter for executing JavaScript files via Chromium engine without involving browser GUI
• TOpenDialog now supports multiple files via TOpenDialog.Files property

Misc minor adjustments and fixes

• Improved: Code collapse based on keywords
• Improved: Search in multiple files now scrolls more content into view
• Improved: Minimized chance of unwanted breakpoint being set accidentally during line select
• Improved: Improved HTML tag closing, now supports Blade templates
• Fixed: Bug with publish to FTP working incorrectly if a file is opened from FTP
• Fixed: Bug with FTP connection created from Projects window not appearing on FTP tab
• Fixed: FTP transfer progress bar in some occasions
• Fixed: Multiple Inspector bugs with value editing and insertion
• Fixed: Bug with CSS selectors appearing in upper case during syntax check
• Fixed: Bug with META encoding not being inserted properly in some cases
• Fixed: Bug with maximized app window appearing on top when opening files from Windows File Explorer
• Various other fixes

Easy upgrade

• Almost all settings are preserved
• As usually, German, Russian, French, Hungarian, Dutch versions are available