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Yahoo! Widget Engine for Mac Changelog

What's new in Yahoo! Widget Engine for Mac 4.5

Nov 30, 2007
  • Fixes:
  • Implemented text speedup for Mac.
  • Fixed event.key
  • Added support for numlock modifier on keyboard, mouse, and drag events
  • map the window levels correctly (mac only)
  • Added timeout property to XHR.
  • Added JSON object (from json.org).
  • Leopard support
  • Fix issue with unlocalized "Preferences" submenu in system tray.
  • Allow CSS to affect text alignment even in non-wrapped text objects. Only works with a minimum version of 4.5 or later.
  • Fix issue where saveImageToFile() couldn't deal with scrolled frames.
  • Fix localization of preferences dialog title.
  • Fix localization of dialog title when iTunes is not installed.
  • FINALLY support ctrl-a and ctrl-e in the evaluation field in the debug window on Windows.
  • Always set system.event when minVersion >= 4.5. system.event is, however, considered deprecated. You should always use the event passed to your handlers.
  • Implement URL properties to expose a URL 'cracking' API, i.e. you can access the components of a URL.
  • Get Drag/Drop working for window objects (Windows only?)
  • Allow 0 as a valid length value in CSS. It's supposed to be valid.
  • Only print warnings about elements being in widget and metadata files if the values actually differ
  • Changed XPath to work to spec. It wasn't returning the correct result for string() functions.
  • Added window.getCurrentMousePosition()
  • Added window.close()
  • Added widget.createWindowFromXML()
  • Lazier GC on minimum version or 4.5 or greater.
  • Added onPreferencesCancelled.
  • We now properly propagate exceptions thrown in the ready state callback of an XMLHttpRequest through to the open or send call that may have called it.
  • Fixed issues with text files getting double linefeeds.
  • Made sure the main window doesn't get shown if hidden and form() is called.
  • Fixed issue where we couldn't parse XML with DOCTYPE, particularly for vitality.
  • Added Display object and various functions to allow you to get the display list.
  • Added Rectangle object to allow you to do fun things like union and intersection. Wahooo!!!
  • Fixed various canvas drawing issues.
  • Now allow canvas to render another canvas via drawImage.
  • Ubiquitous mouse handlers.
  • No more crashing when calling removeChild on context menu items.
  • No more crashing when passing an anonymous function to URL.fetchAsync().
  • Known Issues:
  • On Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), a call to Flash's IsPlaying() method always returns false ' even if the Flash object is, in fact, playing.
  • Flash's readystate reporting cycles through all five states, even if the Flash movie does not exist.
  • Flash quality method is not returning proper information.
  • HTML is not supported on Windows 2000 or Mac OS 10.3.9
  • No IME support for Flash or HTML