Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>]

I'm happy to announce the newest JsWidget release.  As usual, this is a 
preview.  You'll see a few more of these beta releases before the big 1.0 
release.  As always, I'd appreciate feedback.

This release fixes the JsWidget's previous compatibility problems with 
Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer 6 and 7, bringing those browsers to 
the same level of support as Mozilla-based browsers that I was testing on 
before.  More crucially, all CC-provided HTML IDs and classes and 
JavaScript functions are prefixed by cc_js_ to avoid namespace clashes 
with your applications.  With that, this release marks feature 
completeness and API stability.

If you have been waiting for those to start integrating your web app with 
the widget, now's the time to start!  The documentation at 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/JsWidget should be enough to get going, 
but I still think the best way to see how it works is to look at the demo 
we provide.

You can see a demo of 0.4 on the web at 
http://labs.creativecommons.org/jswidget/tags/0.4/example_web_app/ or 
http://labs.creativecommons.org/jswidget/tags/0.4/example_web_app/with-seed.html 
.  You can follow my plan to get to 1.0 at 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/JsWidget/Plan .  You can download the 
latest demo from ScareForge at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80503&package_id=239510&release_id=530204 
.

(As a side note, I can't get the <select> onchange callback to fire in 
Konqueror.  I'll see if this is resolved in the latest KDE 4.0 beta soon.)

-- Asheesh.

--
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.