[Seaside] [ANN] [VW] Seaside 2.7b1 ready for VW

[Philippe Marschall]

Please note that this version is newer than the 2.7 release for Squeak
and actually contains some backported code of 2.8 like all those awful
comments ;)

additionally
- #tabindex: is now deprecated
- #setSelectionFrom:to: was added to textarea tag (canvas)
- some more small bugfixes were fixed

Cheers
Philippe

2007/5/2, Bany, Michel <mbany at cincom.com>:
>
> I just published the first version of Seaside 2.7 on the public
> VisualWorks Store repository.
> The bundles to be loaded are
>
>         SeasideForWebToolkit (2.7b1.1.0,mbany)
>         SeasideForSwazoo (2.7b1.1.0,mbany)
>
> What's new in Seaside 2.7
>
> - WARequestHandler refactorings
> - Canvas renderer is default, the old renderer is deprecated
> - New, canvas like header api
> - File libraries
> - Some tools have been cleaned up
> - New image map api
> - Many new XHTML elements
> - WAAnchorTag >> #text: has been deprecated
> - Removed WATagBrush >> #tooltip:
> - A deprecation api to make all these deprecations possible
> - Ability to open a debugger on the rendering stack of an element
> - Pretty printer fixes and improvements (including comments)
> - Cookie fixes
> - Convenience methods in WARequest
> - Many bug fixes
> - Class and method comments
> - And more
>
> What's new in Seaside 2.7 that is specific to VisualWorks
>
> - The integration layer has been heavily reworked as a consequence to
> the WARequestHandler refactorings
> - The installer has been reworked to allow for urls like in Squeak, i.e.
> http://localhost:8008/seaside/counter
>
>
> Compatibility
>
> Because the canvas renderer is now the default, Seaside 2.6 components
> that are using the old renderer will need to be changed to work in
> Seaside 2.7. There are two possible strategies, either add a
> #rendererClass methods to the affected components or rewrite their
> rendering code to use the canvas api.
>
> Seaside add-ons
>
> The latest versions of SeasideAsync, SeasideScriptaculous and
> SeasideImageTools are expected to work fine with Seaside 2.7.
> SeasideTesting will probably not work at all in Seaside 2.7. Most of the
> other add-ons are untested for now.
>
> VisualWorks 7.5
>
> VisualWorks 7.5 distribution CD includes Seaside 2.6 and adds-on
> deployed as parcels. These parcels are equivalent to the corresponding
> latest versions published on the public Store repository. The CD also
> includes parcels for a preview version of Seaside 2.7 which is only
> slightly behind the version from the public Store repository.
>
> As you can imagine, feedback is most welcome.
>
> Enjoy,
> Michel.
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