That friendly neighborhood 404 message disappeared at 4egtv.net/Jade/docs to be replaced with the new Wiki for Jade Documentation. Its great-ish. You’ll notice a lot of RED links that link to pages asking you to create this page. That’s expected.

Al through Jade may look small, Jade is a huge application containing advanced abilities such as themes that make Jade stand out as the best word processor for Mac and other operating systems. Of course its not comparable to some great text editors on the windows platform such as jEdit and others, but it is getting to be quite a competitor.

These “RED” links should disappear with in the next couple of links. You can expect to see lots of articles on the inner working of Jade added weekly. Hey if you got a second go check out some of the details, and become a project contributor… or at least download and use Jade!

Here are some cool articles!
Jade Documentation Wiki
Recent Changes
Nice Tutorial on Creating a Theme
Jade Installation
Jade’s Current Features

If you’d like to share your expertise about Jade or some universal concepts, help the admin by creating some of the pages listed on the Wanted pages.

Softpedia, an online advocate for open source projects and an online catalog of software, has tested Jade and believes it to be spy ware free!

I quote:

Jade 1.0 – SOFTPEDIA “100% FREE” AWARD

This product was last tested in the Softpedia Labs on 09 January 2010 by Olivia Irinescu

Softpedia guarantees that Jade 1.0 is 100% Free, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

This software product was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean; therefore, it can be installed with no concern by any computer user. However, it should be noted that this product will be retested periodically and the award may be withdrawn, so you should check back occasionally and pay attention to the date of testing shown above.

To install from Softpedia, click here.
To look at the test results: click here.

The new version of Jade fixes the instability of the tab interface when interacting with more than a handful of documents. The tab interface is still being modified so that it displays better and ultimately is more usable than it is now.

New Features

• Theme Support – Now you can download theme’s uploaded from various users and you can customize your own skin. They are simple to download and simple to install.
• Theme Selection Dialog Box – Theme support is now in the root menu, off of the “Settings” section. It is very simple to change between theme’s you have recently downloaded.
• Raw Text Support – Jade natively supports raw text output out of all types of files, but does not yet support plug-ins or multiple file types. Its a long process of creating the extensibility, but we are getting closer to our goal.

What’s next to come?

• WYSIWYG – A what you see is what you get blog editor, for quick formatted documents.
• Plug-In Support – Jade will soon become the multi-document editor it has been boasting to be. The goal is to have 2 different type of plug ins. The first type of plug-ins will be File Handlers, which will have the ability to change the ‘text object’ into something specific for that file, will be called on an open of that specific file type, and will be sent the data from the object to save the file itself.

For more information, contact the Jade Community by using the forums.

Jade is a Open Source Multiple Document Editor, which allows you to modify your documents in the same editor. Instead of having to download various editors for hundreds of different documents, you can download Jade!

Jade is open source, which means the source is made public for future modification, plus a community of select Jade users modify and fix bugs in Jade. Once you report a bug, the community at Jade will look it over and get it fixed as soon as possible.

Jade is built on the Adobe® AIR™ run-time which allows the project to be built in a modern programming language and to open up extensibility in a consistent programming language. Unlike most Open Source Projects, Jade compiles under one run-time and one language which provides us quick debugging and fast release times.

Jade is available under the “Download” navigation option.