Simple Uploads Plugin for CKEditor

Author:

Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo

Version history:

  1. 1.0: 28-September-2011. First public version.
  2. 2.0: 10-June-2012. Included support for Drag&drop. This version is not open source
  3. 2.1: 17-June-2012. Added pasting from clipboard in Chrome. Allow dropping multiple files. Clean up non-valid Safari images (webkit-fake-url)
  4. 2.2: 17-July-2012. Avoid problems in Macs pasting from MS Office into Chrome
  5. 2.3: 22-September-2012. Show a greyscale animation while uploading a picture (except if it's pasted in Firefox)
    Compatiblity with CKEditor 4 beta
    Disabled the check that prevented drops in Opera: if the browser doesn't support an API to detect the correct caret position we'll let it handle that part.
  6. 2.4: 25-November-2012: Polish the upload notification: show full color image as soon as it has been uploaded, show an overlay with the numeric percentage.
    Use upload progress also for pasting in Firefox
    Avoid extra body after pasting in Chrome
    Drag over effect to highlight the editor.
  7. 2.5: 20-February-2013. Integrate correctly with the Undo system.
  8. 2.6: 22-February-2013. More protections in case the user tries to mess with the editor while uploading a file.
  9. 2.7: 23-February-2013. Protection in case the user switches to Source mode while uploading
    Unification of code for pasting in Firefox and rest of cases
    Configuration options for the drag-over shadows.
    Integration with CKEditor 4.1 data filtering
  10. 3.0: 26-April-2013. Two buttons for the toolbar to add files or images for those users that don't like to drag things :-).
    Fix problems in CKEditor 4 if setData is called on the editor
    Use correct URL for upload if it lacks query string parameters.
  11. 3.1: 4-May-2013 Adjusted the ACF for IE8 and IE9
    The events have been renamed to "simpleuploads.startUpload" and "simpleuploads.endUpload" and now the startUpload can be used to cancel an upload
  12. 3.2: 1-June-2013 Adjusted the regexp for detection of uploads to take care of systems that lack the status message.
    Added a console warning if the upload url hasn't been set in the configuration of CKEditor.
    Add a space to separate links when dropping several files (not images).
    Fixed bug in IE10 on drop of multiple files.
  13. 3.3.1: 23rd-July-2013 Changed the "100%" text after file has been sent to "Processing..." (it can be modified in the lang file)
    Readjusted the detection of file upload name to take into account apostrophes again
    Toolbar buttons didn't work correctly in IE8 since 3.1
    Fixed Strict mode problems
    Better detection of failed uploads
  14. 3.3.2: 2nd-August-2013 Compatibility with IE11: adjusted for keep on allowing upload by drag&drop and added pasting from clipboard
    Add dimensions of the uploaded images as attributes to the created elements.
  15. 3.3.3: 22-September-2013 Improve detection of failed uploads to correctly show the error message
    Allow the "simpleuploads.startUpload" event to modify the name of the uploaded file (except for uploads in old IEs). If you want full control the best option is to modify your upload script at the server.
  16. 3.3.4: 5th-October-2013 New event "simpleuploads.finishedUpload" that it's fired after the final element has been inserted into the page (so you can add for example your custom class or modify any other attribute)
  17. 3.4 Support for Cross domain requests. Now you can upload your files for example to http://media.example.com and edit the page from http://admin.example.com.
  18. 4.0: 18-November-2013
    Renamed from imagepaste to simpleuploads
    According to your previous customizations, the upgrade can be very easy or require a little bit of attention.
    Added support to specify extra fields during uploads (for example to support anti-CSRF tokens)
    Replace the QuickUpload buttons in all the CKEditor dialogs with one-click buttons
    Allow to drop files on the dialogs that have a quick upload of file browser options
    Those uploads provide an upload progress bar, cancel button and allow the same features as the rest of uploads (verify the file for size, extension, etc.. before starting the upload, modify the upload url, add extra fields...)
    Handle pasted images for Chrome and IE11 in the Paste dialog (remember that it's easier if you just Ctrl+V on the main document)
    Added cancel button for images dropped on the editor
    Added progress and cancel options for files dropped on the editor
  19. 4.0.1: 20-November-2013
    Fixed compatibility with IE 11
    Corrected cancel button for file uploads in IE
    Improved upload progress for files
  20. 4.0.2: 30-November-2013
    Support pasting text and images from MS Word in IE 11
    Avoid a problem with Chrome if the editor is empty and you drop a file below the highlighted body
    Support Firefox in the Paste dialog
    Improved compatibility with CKEditor 4.3 and the new Widgets
    Improved compatibility with IE 11 (several adjustments)
  21. 4.1.0: 7-December-2013
    Enhance the toolbar buttons to preserve better the existing content:
    Apply similar checks on the drop target:
    During a drop, if the Shift key is pressed, create a link (a) instead of an image (img)
    Added new simpleuploads_hideImageProgress option to use always plain text for the uploads instead of the image preview
    Handle the third optional parameter in the upload callback for dialogs if it is a function (compatibility with the default uploads)
    Adjusted the htmlFilter that strips the temporary elements to deal with changes in CKEditor 4.3
    Don't break the table dialog if the plugin "dialogadvtab" is not included
    Corrected compatibility in dialogs with IE8
    Added German and Polish translations
  22. 4.1.1: 8-January-2014
    Added validation of images for the toolbar button and image dialogs
    Adjusted regexp to parse results to handle better OTRS
  23. 4.1.2:
    Allow to set "simpleuploads_imageExtensions" to false or an empty string so no file is inserted as image
    Correctly send extraFields when pasting an image in Firefox and IE11
  24. 4.1.3:
    Modified the function in getTimeStampId to toISOString and the regexp to protect against third party libraries
    Handle pasting of images if forcePasteAsPlainText is enabled
  25. 4.1.4: 16-January-2014
    Readjusted for changes in the image2 widget
  26. 4.2.0: 2nd-march-2014
    New event simpleuploads.localImageReady that allows better checks on the selected images (not available for IE8 & IE9).
    Based on this event, two new options are available, simpleuploads_convertBmp and simpleuploads_maximumDimensions
    More features (local resizing) will be available in a future release.
    This event requires asynchronous processing, so maybe there are situations that I didn't test properly, please, cautious with this update for a few days.
    -Fixed bug with the paste dialog due to recent changes in CKEditor
  27. 4.2.1: 9-March-2014
    Fix memory leak by reference to the editor even after it has been destroyed
    Added new translations
  28. 4.2.2: 13-March-2014
    If CKEditor was launched in a jQueryUI modal dialog, the file picker didn't work.
  29. 4.2.3: 27-March-2014
    Detect the response sent after an upload even if it incorrectly has quotes around the funcNumber paramenter.
  30. 4.2.4: 4-April-2014
    Prevent firing the "blur" event on the editor when clicking on the upload buttons with Chrome.
    Correct detection of the toolbar buttons in IE8.
    Avoid error when integrating with a dialog that lacks an onShow handler.
  31. 4.2.5: 16-May-2014
    Allow to embed the files as base64 data: URLs if the filebrowserUploadUrl is set to "base64"
  32. 4.2.6: 19-May-2014
    Protection to avoid errors with the paste dialog in a smartgwt environment
    Disable upload buttons if base64 encoding has been selected for old IEs
  33. 4.3.0: 12-June-2014
    Disable the sendAsBinary method in Firefox to avoid the compatibility warning
    New optional parameter that can be used to set custom http headers in the XHR
    Avoid temporary visible space while pasting an image with IE11 or Firefox
    Adjusted the regexp to handle new KCFinder
    Included the xhr and original data object in the simpleuploads.endUpload event
  34. 4.3.1: 22-June-2014
    Correct the API that handles modified images if a dialog is open
  35. 4.3.2: 26-June-2014
    Try to parse correctly the url of the uploaded file if it contains escaped chars like \u00E6
  36. 4.3.3: 27-June-2014
    Fix the previous two bugs when using the Upload button in the Image dialog
  37. 4.3.4: 20-July-2014
    Pasting an image in Chrome placed it at the start of the content depending on the page.
  38. 4.3.5: 2-September-2014
    Fixed regression of 4.3.4 for CKEditor 3.6
  39. 4.3.6: 27-September-2014
    The toolbar buttons used an incorrect syntax in the requiredContent definition for the ACF.
    New event 'serverResponse' to handle custom responses from the server
  40. 4.3.7: 1-October-2014
    Images dropped in IE11 didn't have the correct location if used with the Image Crop plugin
  41. 4.3.8: 21-November-2014
    Handle correctly dropped files when using the CKEDITOR.inline method with textareas
  42. 4.3.9: 2-December-2014
    New configuration option "simpleuploads_inputname" to specify the name of the input sent to the server with the file data
    Added protection against overwritting the native URL object by the CodeCogs plugin
    Improvements to the usage of the "base64" upload option (Remember that we advice you to avoid this option unless you're really sure that this is the way to go, it's mostly unsupported and untested due to the lack of valid use cases so far)
  43. 4.3.11: 11-December-2014
    (skipping 4.3.10 as the plugin.js in 4.3.9 already used that version)
    Fix upload for IE8 that were broken in 4.3.9
  44. 4.3.12: 22-March-2015
    If an Image2 widget is selected, replace the image when using the toolbar button.
  45. 4.3.13: 23-June-2015
    Allow dropping multiple files on dialogs
    Corrected the method fired on a dialog when a file is uploaded from "onFileSelect" to "filebrowse.onSelect"
  46. 4.3.14: 27-June-2015
    If filebrowserImageUploadUrl is set but filebrowserUploadUrl is empty, dont' crash trying to upload a non-image file
    Optimized the pngs for the toolbar buttons
  47. 4.3.15: 13-September-2015
    Unified formatting by Eslint
    Removed compatibility code for CKEditor 3.6, if you need it, please send me a mail
    Adjusted compatibility for CKEditor 4.5.2 to drop files on the dialogs
  48. 4.3.16: 13-September-2015
    Use "accept" attribute to show only images in the "add image" prompt (doesn't work for MS Edge, bug report)
  49. 4.3.17: 8-November-2015
    If the 'notificationaggregator' plugin is loaded (introduced in CKEditor 4.5) use it to show the messages instead of window.alert except if there's a dialog shown

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