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Deco11

Christian Decker

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Sxip contributes Java and Perl libraries to OpenID 2.0

Some great news from the Sxip team, who recently released their a beta of their service Sxipper, have released two libraries for OpenID:
Licensed under an open source Apache 2.0 license, Sxip has released the OpenID4Java and OpenID4Perl libraries. The libraries are easy-to-use and well-documented, allowing you to add full support for OpenID 1.x, 2.0 and Attribute Exchange into your Java and Perl based applications. We invite you to try them out and would appreciate your feedback! We also welcome and encourage community participation around the ongoing development of these libraries. OpenID is an emerging Identity 2.0 authentication mechanism that enables users to maintain one login and password account for access to many sites. Package downloads for the latest version of the Java and Perl libraries for OpenID can be found on the distribution project page at code.sxip.com. In the coming weeks, we’ll update the library based on the progress of the OpenID Authentication 2.0 specification and we’re looking forward to working with others on the project!
I’m a huge fan of OpenID, and everything that helps implement the protocol easier is a step in the right direction.
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Octo25

Christian Decker

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Dojo 0.4 has been released

The Developers of the Dojo Toolkit have realeased their newest version 0.4. This might not yet be exciting enough, but they added a lot of new features, fixed many (really many) bugs. And there is another candy for Dojo Developers: the first release of the documentation tool.

Core

  • GFX library – graphics library (see demos and tests)
  • New charting engine, details To Be Announced.
  • JS Linker – essentially done as alpha release, won’t be integrated into dojo build process for 0.4 release
  • I18N Infrastructure
  • event normalization of keyboard events (new “onKey” event)
  • html-refactor
  • onDomLoad – dojo is initialized as soon as DOM finishes loading w/out waiting for images etc. to finish downloading
  • jum – Various enhancements being made in combination with new unit test runtime tool using rhino api directly. Unit tests can now be written and used on projects outside dojo. Semantics for grouping/setup/teardown/etc still being designed/thought about.
  • major dojo.lfx improvements. Wipe and fade animations are now chain()-able among other improvements.
  • dojo.html.metrics – scrollbar width measurement, current font size measurements, the ability to get how much of an HTML fragment will fit on a single line in a container, and to populate a container node with as much of an HTML fragment as will fit into it. Also included is a way of measuring the dimensions of a node if one was to populate it with a specific HTML fragment.
  • dojo.debug.console – improved debugging with Firebug on FF/Safari, with fallback to Opera error console, if available.
  • HtmlDragCopy? – copy an element instead of moving it from source to target, with ability to specify if a copy can be copied again.
  • dojo.debug.console – console logger for Firefox (using Firebug), Safari and Opera. Deprecated dojo.debug.Firebug.
  • API documentation -inline code docmentation) added to many files.

Widget Infrastructure

  • Namespace support and refactoring of how to declare widgets, and automatic widget/manifest loading feature
  • high-contrast mode infrastructure, and support for a few widgets (checkbox and tab container complete)
  • subwidgets in templates
  • widget-refactor – changing everything to widget/ directory, etc.

Widgets

The roadmap has also been updated, showing 0.4.1, 0.5 and beyond.
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Octo23

Christian Decker

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Dojo 0.4 Release Upon Us

The Dojo team is eyeing a full release for Tuesday at The Ajax Experience (a lot of the team will be here!). Today they put out which will probably be the final release candidate, so baring any issues in testing we will be ready. Dojo 0.4 Features
  • GFX Library
  • Internationalization infrastructure
  • dojo.debug.console: console logger, improved debugging with Firebug
  • dojo.html.metrics - scrollbar width measurement, current font size measurements, the ability to get how much of an HTML fragment will fit on a single line in a container, and to populate a container node with as much of an HTML fragment as will fit into it. Also included is a way of measuring the dimensions of a node if one was to populate it with a specific HTML fragment.
  • Widget Infrastructure: namespace support, subwidgets, refactoring of dir structure
  • Widgets: New widgets have been added and updated including: VML support, FilteringTable widget, Slider, Toaster, DropDownTimePicker, RadioGroup, Clock, ProgressBar, Datepicker, Editor, AccordionContainer, and many more.
Read more in the release notes, and stop by Alex Russells Dojo session at The Ajax Experience for more info. We will put up information from his talk. [via Ajaxian]
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