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17<h1><a id="distribution" name="distribution">Distribution</a></h1>
18<p>MochiKit - makes JavaScript suck a bit less</p>
19<ul class="simple">
20<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Async.html">MochiKit.Async</a> - manage asynchronous tasks</li>
21<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Base.html">MochiKit.Base</a> - functional programming and useful comparisons</li>
22<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="DOM.html">MochiKit.DOM</a> - painless DOM manipulation API</li>
23<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Color.html">MochiKit.Color</a> - color abstraction with CSS3 support</li>
24<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="DateTime.html">MochiKit.DateTime</a> - &quot;what time is it anyway?&quot;</li>
25<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Format.html">MochiKit.Format</a> - string formatting goes here</li>
26<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Iter.html">MochiKit.Iter</a> - itertools for JavaScript; iteration made HARD,
27and then easy</li>
28<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Logging.html">MochiKit.Logging</a> - we're all tired of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">alert()</span></tt></li>
29<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="LoggingPane.html">MochiKit.LoggingPane</a> - interactive <a class="mochiref reference" href="Logging.html">MochiKit.Logging</a>
30pane</li>
31<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Signal.html">MochiKit.Signal</a> - simple universal event handling</li>
32<li><a class="mochiref reference" href="Visual.html">MochiKit.Visual</a> - visual effects</li>
33</ul>
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35<div class="section">
36<h1><a id="screencasts" name="screencasts">Screencasts</a></h1>
37<ul class="simple">
38<li><a class="reference" href="http://mochikit.com/screencasts/MochiKit_Intro-1">MochiKit 1.1 Intro</a></li>
39</ul>
40</div>
41<div class="section">
42<h1><a id="see-also" name="see-also">See Also</a></h1>
43<ul class="simple">
44<li><a class="reference" href="http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit">Google Groups: MochiKit</a>: The official mailing list for discussions
45related to development of and with MochiKit</li>
46<li><a class="reference" href="http://mochikit.com/">mochikit.com</a>: MochiKit's home on the web</li>
47<li><a class="reference" href="http://bob.pythonmac.org/">from __future__ import *</a>: Bob Ippolito's blog</li>
48<li><a class="reference" href="http://openjsan.org/doc/b/bo/bob/MochiKit/">MochiKit on JSAN</a>: the JSAN distribution page for MochiKit</li>
49<li><a class="reference" href="http://del.icio.us/tag/mochikit">MochiKit tag on del.icio.us</a>: Recent bookmarks related to MochiKit</li>
50<li><a class="reference" href="http://technorati.com/tag/mochikit">MochiKit tag on Technorati</a>: Recent blog entries related to MochiKit</li>
51</ul>
52</div>
53<div class="section">
54<h1><a id="version-history" name="version-history">Version History</a></h1>
55<p>2006-XX-XX      v1.3</p>
56<ul class="simple">
57<li>New MochiKit-based SimpleTest test runner as a replacement for Test.Simple</li>
58<li>MochiKit.Base.isNull no longer matches undefined</li>
59<li>example doctypes changed to HTML4</li>
60<li>isDateLike no longer throws error on null</li>
61<li>New MochiKit.Signal module, modeled after the slot/signal mechanism in Qt</li>
62<li>updated elementDimensions to calculate width from offsetWidth instead
63of clientWidth</li>
64<li>formContents now works with FORM tags that have a name attribute</li>
65<li>Documentation now uses MochiKit to generate a function index</li>
66</ul>
67<p>2006-01-26      v1.2 &quot;the ocho&quot;</p>
68<ul class="simple">
69<li>Fixed MochiKit.Color.Color.lighterColorWithLevel</li>
70<li>Added new MochiKit.Base.findIdentical function to find the index of an
71element in an Array-like object.  Uses === for identity comparison.</li>
72<li>Added new MochiKit.Base.find function to find the index of an element in
73an Array-like object.  Uses compare for rich comparison.</li>
74<li>MochiKit.Base.bind will accept a string for func, which will be immediately
75looked up as self[func].</li>
76<li>MochiKit.DOM.formContents no longer skips empty form elements for Zope
77compatibility</li>
78<li>MochiKit.Iter.forEach will now catch StopIteration to break</li>
79<li>New MochiKit.DOM.elementDimensions(element) for determining the width and
80height of an element in the document</li>
81<li>MochiKit.DOM's initialization is now compatible with
82HTMLUnit + JWebUnit + Rhino</li>
83<li>MochiKit.LoggingPane will now re-use a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_MochiKit_LoggingPane</span></tt> DIV element
84currently in the document instead of always creating one.</li>
85<li>MochiKit.Base now has operator.mul</li>
86<li>MochiKit.DOM.formContents correctly handles unchecked checkboxes that have
87a custom value attribute</li>
88<li>Added new MochiKit.Color constructors fromComputedStyle and fromText</li>
89<li>MochiKit.DOM.setNodeAttribute should work now</li>
90<li>MochiKit.DOM now has a workaround for an IE bug when setting the style
91property to a string</li>
92<li>MochiKit.DOM.createDOM now has workarounds for IE bugs when setting the
93name and for properties</li>
94<li>MochiKit.DOM.scrapeText now walks the DOM tree in-order</li>
95<li>MochiKit.LoggingPane now sanitizes the window name to work around IE bug</li>
96<li>MochiKit.DOM now translates usemap to useMap to work around IE bug</li>
97<li>MochiKit.Logging is now resistant to Prototype's dumb Object.prototype hacks</li>
98<li>Added new MochiKit.DOM documentation on element visibility</li>
99<li>New MochiKit.DOM.elementPosition(element[, relativeTo={x: 0, y: 0}])
100for determining the position of an element in the document</li>
101<li>Added new MochiKit.DOM createDOMFunc aliases: CANVAS, STRONG</li>
102</ul>
103<p>2005-11-14      v1.1</p>
104<ul class="simple">
105<li>Fixed a bug in numberFormatter with large numbers</li>
106<li>Massively overhauled documentation</li>
107<li>Fast-path for primitives in MochiKit.Base.compare</li>
108<li>New groupby and groupby_as_array in MochiKit.Iter</li>
109<li>Added iterator factory adapter for objects that implement iterateNext()</li>
110<li>Fixed isoTimestamp to handle timestamps with time zone correctly</li>
111<li>Added new MochiKit.DOM createDOMFunc aliases: SELECT, OPTION, OPTGROUP,
112LEGEND, FIELDSET</li>
113<li>New MochiKit.DOM formContents and enhancement to queryString to support it</li>
114<li>Updated view_source example to use dp.SyntaxHighlighter 1.3.0</li>
115<li>MochiKit.LoggingPane now uses named windows based on the URL so that
116a given URL will get the same LoggingPane window after a reload
117(at the same position, etc.)</li>
118<li>MochiKit.DOM now has currentWindow() and currentDocument() context
119variables that are set with withWindow() and withDocument().  These
120context variables affect all MochiKit.DOM functionality (getElement,
121createDOM, etc.)</li>
122<li>MochiKit.Base.items will now catch and ignore exceptions for properties
123that are enumerable but not accessible (e.g. permission denied)</li>
124<li>MochiKit.Async.Deferred's addCallback/addErrback/addBoth
125now accept additional arguments that are used to create a partially
126applied function.  This differs from Twisted in that the callback/errback
127result becomes the <em>last</em> argument, not the first when this feature
128is used.</li>
129<li>MochiKit.Async's doSimpleXMLHttpRequest will now accept additional
130arguments which are used to create a GET query string</li>
131<li>Did some refactoring to reduce the footprint of MochiKit by a few
132kilobytes</li>
133<li>escapeHTML to longer escapes ' (apos) and now uses
134String.replace instead of iterating over every char.</li>
135<li>Added DeferredLock to Async</li>
136<li>Renamed getElementsComputedStyle to computedStyle and moved
137it from MochiKit.Visual to MochiKit.DOM</li>
138<li>Moved all color support out of MochiKit.Visual and into MochiKit.Color</li>
139<li>Fixed range() to accept a negative step</li>
140<li>New alias to MochiKit.swapDOM called removeElement</li>
141<li>New MochiKit.DOM.setNodeAttribute(node, attr, value) which sets
142an attribute on a node without raising, roughly equivalent to:
143updateNodeAttributes(node, {attr: value})</li>
144<li>New MochiKit.DOM.getNodeAttribute(node, attr) which gets the value of
145a node's attribute or returns null without raising</li>
146<li>Fixed a potential IE memory leak if using MochiKit.DOM.addToCallStack
147directly (addLoadEvent did not leak, since it clears the handler)</li>
148</ul>
149<p>2005-10-24      v1.0</p>
150<ul class="simple">
151<li>New interpreter example that shows usage of MochiKit.DOM  to make
152an interactive JavaScript interpreter</li>
153<li>New MochiKit.LoggingPane for use with the MochiKit.Logging
154debuggingBookmarklet, with logging_pane example to show its usage</li>
155<li>New mochiregexp example that demonstrates MochiKit.DOM and MochiKit.Async
156in order to provide a live regular expression matching tool</li>
157<li>Added advanced number formatting capabilities to MochiKit.Format:
158numberFormatter(pattern, placeholder=&quot;&quot;, locale=&quot;default&quot;) and
159formatLocale(locale=&quot;default&quot;)</li>
160<li>Added updatetree(self, obj[, ...]) to MochiKit.Base, and changed
161MochiKit.DOM's updateNodeAttributes(node, attrs) to use it when appropiate.</li>
162<li>Added new MochiKit.DOM createDOMFunc aliases: BUTTON, TT, PRE</li>
163<li>Added truncToFixed(aNumber, precision) and roundToFixed(aNumber, precision)
164to MochiKit.Format</li>
165<li>MochiKit.DateTime can now handle full ISO 8601 timestamps, specifically
166isoTimestamp(isoString) will convert them to Date objects, and
167toISOTimestamp(date, true) will return an ISO 8601 timestamp in UTC</li>
168<li>Fixed missing errback for sendXMLHttpRequest when the server does not
169respond</li>
170<li>Fixed infinite recusion bug when using roundClass(&quot;DIV&quot;, ...)</li>
171<li>Fixed a bug in MochiKit.Async wait (and callLater) that prevented them
172from being cancelled properly</li>
173<li>Workaround in MochiKit.Base bind (and partial) for functions that don't
174have an apply method, such as alert</li>
175<li>Reliably return null from the string parsing/manipulation functions if
176the input can't be coerced to a string (s + &quot;&quot;) or the input makes no sense;
177e.g. isoTimestamp(null) and isoTimestamp(&quot;&quot;) return null</li>
178</ul>
179<p>2005-10-08      v0.90</p>
180<ul class="simple">
181<li>Fixed ISO compliance with toISODate</li>
182<li>Added missing operator.sub</li>
183<li>Placated Mozilla's strict warnings a bit</li>
184<li>Added JSON serialization and unserialization support to MochiKit.Base:
185serializeJSON, evalJSON, registerJSON.  This is very similar to the repr
186API.</li>
187<li>Fixed a bug in the script loader that failed in some scenarios when a script
188tag did not have a &quot;src&quot; attribute (thanks Ian!)</li>
189<li>Added new MochiKit.DOM createDOMFunc aliases: H1, H2, H3, BR, HR, TEXTAREA,
190P, FORM</li>
191<li>Use encodeURIComponent / decodeURIComponent for MochiKit.Base urlEncode
192and parseQueryString, when available.</li>
193</ul>
194<p>2005-08-12      v0.80</p>
195<ul class="simple">
196<li>Source highlighting in all examples, moved to a view-source example</li>
197<li>Added some experimental syntax highlighting for the Rounded Corners example,
198via the LGPL dp.SyntaxHighlighter 1.2.0 now included in examples/common/lib</li>
199<li>Use an indirect binding for the logger conveniences, so that the global
200logger could be replaced by setting MochiKit.Logger.logger to something else
201(though an observer is probably a better choice).</li>
202<li>Allow MochiKit.DOM.getElementsByTagAndClassName to take a string for parent,
203which will be looked up with getElement</li>
204<li>Fixed bug in MochiKit.Color.fromBackground (was using node.parent instead of
205node.parentNode)</li>
206<li>Consider a 304 (NOT_MODIFIED) response from XMLHttpRequest to be success</li>
207<li>Disabled Mozilla map(...) fast-path due to Deer Park compatibility issues</li>
208<li>Possible workaround for Safari issue with swapDOM, where it would get
209confused because two elements were in the DOM at the same time with the
210same id</li>
211<li>Added missing THEAD convenience function to MochiKit.DOM</li>
212<li>Added lstrip, rstrip, strip to MochiKit.Format</li>
213<li>Added updateNodeAttributes, appendChildNodes, replaceChildNodes to
214MochiKit.DOM</li>
215<li>MochiKit.Iter.iextend now has a fast-path for array-like objects</li>
216<li>Added HSV color space support to MochiKit.Visual</li>
217<li>Fixed a bug in the sortable_tables example, it now converts types
218correctly</li>
219<li>Fixed a bug where MochiKit.DOM referenced MochiKit.Iter.next from global
220scope</li>
221</ul>
222<p>2005-08-04      v0.70</p>
223<ul class="simple">
224<li>New ajax_tables example, which shows off XMLHttpRequest, ajax, json, and
225a little TAL-ish DOM templating attribute language.</li>
226<li>sendXMLHttpRequest and functions that use it (loadJSONDoc, etc.) no longer
227ignore requests with status == 0, which seems to happen for cached or local
228requests</li>
229<li>Added sendXMLHttpRequest to MochiKit.Async.EXPORT, d'oh.</li>
230<li>Changed scrapeText API to return a string by default.  This is API-breaking!
231It was dumb to have the default return value be the form you almost never
232want.  Sorry.</li>
233<li>Added special form to swapDOM(dest, src).  If src is null, dest is removed
234(where previously you'd likely get a DOM exception).</li>
235<li>Added three new functions to MochiKit.Base for dealing with URL query
236strings: urlEncode, queryString, parseQueryString</li>
237<li>MochiKit.DOM.createDOM will now use attr[k] = v for all browsers if the name
238starts with &quot;on&quot; (e.g. &quot;onclick&quot;).  If v is a string, it will set it to
239new Function(v).</li>
240<li>Another workaround for Internet &quot;worst browser ever&quot; Explorer's setAttribute
241usage in MochiKit.DOM.createDOM (checked -&gt; defaultChecked).</li>
242<li>Added UL, OL, LI convenience createDOM aliases to MochiKit.DOM</li>
243<li>Packing is now done by Dojo's custom Rhino interpreter, so it's much smaller
244now!</li>
245</ul>
246<p>2005-07-29      v0.60</p>
247<ul class="simple">
248<li>Beefed up the MochiKit.DOM test suite</li>
249<li>Fixed return value for MochiKit.DOM.swapElementClass, could return
250false unexpectedly before</li>
251<li>Added an optional &quot;parent&quot; argument to
252MochiKit.DOM.getElementsByTagAndClassName</li>
253<li>Added a &quot;packed&quot; version in packed/MochiKit/MochiKit.js</li>
254<li>Changed build script to rewrite the URLs in tests to account for the
255JSAN-required reorganization</li>
256<li>MochiKit.Compat to potentially work around IE 5.5 issues
257(5.0 still not supported).  Test.Simple doesn't seem to work there,
258though.</li>
259<li>Several minor documentation corrections</li>
260</ul>
261<p>2005-07-27      v0.50</p>
262<ul class="simple">
263<li>Initial Release</li>
264</ul>
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267<h1><a id="copyright" name="copyright">Copyright</a></h1>
268<p>Copyright 2005 Bob Ippolito &lt;<a class="reference" href="mailto:bob&#64;redivi.com">bob&#64;redivi.com</a>&gt;.  This program is dual-licensed
269free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
270<a class="reference" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php">MIT License</a> or the <a class="reference" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.1.php">Academic Free License v2.1</a>.</p>
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