Dave Johnson

May 1st, 2008

We managed to finally pull things together and get the release out despite some attempts by .NET build tools to sabotage the entire release!

With this release we now support Safari 3, have added a bunch of new themes to help you make your apps look hot, some new Dreamweaver extensions that mean there is no JavaScript to write to make master-detail grid or combo applications, and most importantly Mike did an awesome job on getting the new TreeGrid component done!

There are some exciting things in the works as well for next week - including screencasts and even some JavaServer Faces love!

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April 28th, 2008

We are almost a month behind now on the Q2 release of Complete UI but Mike and I are in the final throws of polishing. We are shooting for releasing today and if that fails tomorrow at the latest. As people will know from the beta we are releasing support for Safari 3, new Dreamweaver Extensions, new themes and, most importantly, a new component called TreeGrid for displaying hierarchical data. I have a can of Red Bull in hand and one last Safari Combo bug to fix before the building will commence!

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March 11th, 2008

Just a few more days until the Q2 Beta!

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June 20th, 2007

Just a quick note about the recent release of Complete UI and Grid in particular.

There are a few things to note about the recent release.

As Mike mentioned, both Grid and Combo now, like the rest of Complete UI, support standards mode - w00t. This has been a long time coming but it seems to be working pretty well so far!

Also of note with Grid is that it is much faster to load up in most cases. For example, the editors sample loads in about half the time of the the previous release. But don’t worry, there is still lots more room to improve there and we are actively working on it!

Complete UI also has two new components - Calendar, and Spotlight. AND Calendar has been integrated into the Date Picker control for Grid!

More fun stuff coming up with support for Safari 3, AIR and some new components and major updates to old ones like Tree and Grid.

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June 14th, 2007

With the release of Safari 3 Beta and the recent renaming and Beta release of AIR (formerly Apollo) from Adobe, we have started to work on getting our components running in both of them.

We have run across a few problems - the biggest of which is the lack of any decent debugging tools for either one. I am sure that this will soon change. Currently the best thing around for debugging is Scout.

Grid is being a bit of a challenge given that there is no XSLT support in AIR - though there is in Safari 3. Jake and I got it almost working with a day or so of work / screaming at our computers. Here is a screenshot of what we got so far:

We are pretty happy with the progress and the fact that no one has been hurt - yet

There a few known problems in AIR currently such as CSS opacity not working, table width=0px with colgroups does not work and a few other small things like that. We are certainly happy that Safari 3 and AIR both support addRule and insertRule for working with CSS while a little disappointed in no XSLT support in AIR yet good support in Safari 3.

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