February in Ample SDK

Road ahead Ample SDK 0.9.5 Ample SDK 0.9.4 Released Ample SDK 0.9.3 Released Dev Update (May)Dev Update (October)Upcoming Events (Sep, Oct)Search in reference Introduction to Ample SDK February in Ample SDK November in Ample SDK Set to go Open-Source Sandbox to try code online New Tutorials section SVG in Internet Explorer Drag&Drop and Resize SMIL 3.0 in Ample SDK Switching to HTML5 doctype Using Resize Manager JSON object support Upcoming changes to CSS Ample SDK plugin for Aptana Default namespaces in DOM Ample SDK in Adobe Air Objects signatures changed SVG 1.2 Tiny in Ample SDK

February in Ample SDK

On 23rd February 2010 we released Ample SDK 0.9.0, below are some highlights:

1) New JavaScript Charts

With this release we include preview of JavaScript charts implementation in Ample SDK. The charts are not production-ready and should be used with care, much of functionality missing or working incorrectly.

Multi-series charts:

Bar (normal, stacked, percentage)
Column (normal, stacked, percentage)
Line (normal, stacked, percentage)
Area (normal, stacked, percentage)
Radar
Doughnut
Bubble
Map

Single-series charts:

Pie
Funnel

2) SVG 1.1 implementation for Internet Explorer

@transform attribute on all shapes and on groups fully supported
Text module quirks fixed
Image element implemented with support for opacity and transformations
Colors specified in percentage rgb(0%, 90%, 19%)
Colors with opacity rgb(100, 200, 12, 0.5)
currentColor and @color attribute
:hover pseudo-class for A element
xml:base on image tag
resolved many issues with scripting elements

Some examples that could not render in previous versions: SVG Grapes, Matrix, Scim. In fact all demos available in the download package now run!

We also added W3C official SVG 1.1 Test Suite (Tiny) into the project to test our implementation against and already resolved several issues thanks to that quite comprehensive set of tests.