Ample SDK 0.9.3 Released

Greetings! Today we released new version of Ample SDK - 0.9.3. The major focus was on maturing the platform core - Runtime module. There are multiple improvements to XUL and SVG implementations too. It is almost impossible to highlight all features, improvements and changes made (try browsing commits log on GitHub). A short summary can be found below.

• New features
• Improvements
• Backwards-incompatible changes
• Known issues

New features

• Implementation of the good parts of jQuery API. More details in a Ample SDK for jQuery uses tutorial
• Core localization service. Enables UI technologies and applications to accomodate to user locale
• Plugins infrastructure. XSLT and Cookie plugins included with the SDK
• Support for IE9 and FF4
• Added base64 library that bring support for btoa and atob functions to Internet Explorer 6-8
• HTML5 canvas element for IE6-8
• Guarded API in development build
• It is now possible to run Ample SDK from source without need to build

Improvements

• Simplified UI elements registration API
• Re-visited component-in-component implementation API
• Multiple fixes to SVG implementation for Internet Explorer 6-8
• Multiple improvements to XUL implementation
• Initiated implementation of HTML5 Forms
• Optimized CSS Selectors for #id queires
• Fixed mousewheel event on Mac platform
• Fixed sequences of mousedown/click/dblclick/mouseup events in all browsers

Backwards-incompatible changes

• All Ample SDK classes previously exposed to window with prefix "AML" are now moved to ample.classes object
• XML Schema 1.1 Datatypes module taken out of the core and needs to be included with application when needed.
• UI elements registration mechanism changed. Please refer to the updated Creating UI elements tutorial
• textInput event renamed to textinput to reflect latest changes in DOM Events specification
• Removed Serializer and Namespace objects
• Modality Manager changed

Known issues

• Charts do not work in Internet Explorer 9.0
• Focus doesn't move properly in element with anonymous content
• Dynamically created SVG elements in Interent Explorer 6.0-8.0 don't render properly