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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<chapter id="introduction-3-2">
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<chapterinfo>
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<title>What is &quantaplus;?</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Eric</firstname>
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<surname>Laffoon</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>sequitur@kde.org</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Christopher</firstname>
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<surname>Hornbaker</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>chrishornbaker@earthlink.net</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Fabrice</firstname>
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<surname>Mous</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>fabrice@kde.nl</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>
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</chapterinfo>
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<title>What is &quantaplus;?</title>
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<blockquote>
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<attribution>
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Eric Laffoon at http://quanta.sourceforge.net
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</attribution>
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<para>
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&quantaplus; is a web development tool for the K Desktop Environment.
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&quantaplus; is designed for quick web development and is rapidly becoming
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a mature editor with a number of great features.
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</para>
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<para>
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Our objective remains to create the very best web development tool
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anywhere. We realize that we will need many more people active to
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accomplish this, so we are in the process of developing enhancements geared
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toward making it easy for web developers to customize, extend, and enhance
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&quantaplus;. Then we will be asking you, the web developers, to contribute
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your feature enhancements. We will organize these so that &quantaplus; web
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developers can find just the resources, extensions and custom plug-ins
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they need to be the most kick butt developers ever.
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</para>
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</blockquote>
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<sect1 id="quanta-intro-3-2">
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<sect1info>
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<title>&quantaplus;: Where It Was And Where It Is Going</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Robert</firstname>
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<surname>Nickel</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>robert@artnickel.com</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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</author>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Christopher</firstname>
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<surname>Hornbaker</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>chrishornbaker@earthlink.net</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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<othercredit role="reviewer">
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<firstname>Fabrice</firstname>
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<surname>Mous</surname>
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<affiliation>
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<address><email>fabrice@kde.nl</email></address>
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</affiliation>
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<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
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</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>
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</sect1info>
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<title>&quantaplus;: Where It Was And Where It Is Going</title>
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<para>
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While striving to become the best &HTML; editor, the developers of
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&quantaplus; began to think about a rather intriguing idea: <quote>What if
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&quantaplus; was a generic, extensible, markup language editor?</quote>
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Well, that would only make it the greatest Web Development Environment
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for &kde;! So it was done.
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</para>
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<para>
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No longer bound to &HTML;, &quantaplus; is now well on its way to becoming
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an all-purpose Web Development Environment. Essentially, if you can define
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it in &XML;, then &quantaplus; should be able to serve as an &IDE; for it.
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</para>
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<para>
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Now, with the above said, it must be noted that &quantaplus; is an
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outgrowth of the outstanding efforts that have been put forth by the
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entire &kde; development community. &quantaplus;, in celebration of open
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source, uses the idea of <quote>Why write something somebody already
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wrote?</quote> Thanks to &kde;'s framework, not only is this possible, but
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it also allows users and developers to extend &quantaplus; to match their
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unique needs.
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</para>
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<para>
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&quantaplus; provides web developers with an intuitive and powerful
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multiple document interface (&MDI;). It can dramatically increase your
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productivity. Through the use of custom actions, scripting, and toolbars,
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you can automate almost any task. With the use of <application>
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Kommander</application>, you can extend &quantaplus; in a manner in which
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you never have to remember scripting command syntax again. (More about this
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can be found in <xref linkend="extending-quanta-3-2" />.)
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</para>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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