Mozile 0.8 Change Log

Mozile 0.8.0a2 - Alpha 2:
2006-08-25 
- Refactored Mozile to use only CommandGroups for grouping commands.
Removed all handleEvent() methods and the mozile.edit.addCommand() and mozile.rng.Element.addCommand() methods. Removed mozile.edit.addDefaultCommand() and handleDefault() methods. Added mozile.edit.commands and mozile.edit.defaults CommandGroups. Each mozile.rng.Element now gets a "commands" property containing its own CommandGroup. Moved some methods from mozile.edit to mozile.edit.CommandGroup and added removeCommands().
- Renamed the mozile.editAllText() method to mozile.enableEditing().
- Added mozile.enableEditing() calls to the end of edit.js and rich.js. This improves the out-of-the-box experience: once the mozile.js script is loaded all contentEditable="true" areas are editable without further configuration. However using a schema is still a good idea.
2006-08-26
- Fixed the Paste command. Replaced the code for its rich case. Eliminated mozile.edit.cut.unexecute() and mozile.edit.paste.unexecute(). Fixed the tests (which had been disabled: Oops).
- Changed the mozile.edit.insertText command to select the inserted text when called by a request() method, and collapse when called by trigger().
- Improved the module loading system for compiled versions of Mozile. A new mozile.deferRequirements flag is set at the beginning of mozile.js and unset at the end. While the flag is set mozile.require() will add all modules to a mozile.deferrals array instead of loading them. The new mozile.loadDeferred() method gets called at the end of mozile.js and runs require() again for each module on the deferrals list.
- Added a mozile.execCommand() method in edit.js. Given a name and optional arguments, it finds a command and calls request() with the arguments, then adds the new state to the undo stack and updates the GUI.
- Changed mozile.gui.htmlToolbar.Button.prototype.press to use execCommand().
- Fixed "Help" command, which was broken by the recent configuration changes.
2006-08-28
- Made a number of trivial changes to avoid JavaScript strict warnings in Firefox 1.0.8 and Mozilla 1.7.13.
- Made small changes to browser detection to improve support for Opera and Safari (neither runs the full test suite).
- The HTML Toolbar GUI now adds tooltips to buttons and menuitems using "title" attributes. I added tooltip properties to a number of commands in edit.js.
- Added silk/tick.png image. It got lost in the renaming.
- Added a "tools" directory and a set of build tools based on Apache Ant. The README and HTML documentation have been updated with information on building Mozile.
2006-08-29
- Fixed a stupid bug in mozile.findRoot() which would throw an error if it encountered a <script> tag without a "src" attribute.
2006-08-31
- Gave the Mozile toolbar a z-index of 1000.
- New GUI show() and hide() methods. mozile.edit.enable() and disable() call them.
- New mozile.xml.transform() XSLT method. Not well tested at this point. Some new support methods for handling ActiveX XML Objects. Cleaned up some unused code.
- New mozile.dom.Selection.scroll() method. Scrolls the window to the focusNode. Seems to work fine, but I'm not sure when to call it.
- Simplified the xhtml.rng by removing all the unneeded attlist definitions.
- New mozile.dom.getClass(), setClass(), and hasClass() methods. The first two are useful because IE uses a non-standard "className" attribute. The last one is a convenience method which searches a space separated list of classes.
- Preliminary support for non-editable regions. New mozile.protectElement() and protectElements() methods work like editElement() and editElements().
Added private _getElements() and _markElement() methods to reduce shared code.
- New mozile.dom.importNode() method. Takes a node and then creates a clone in the current document and namespace.
- New "className" attribute for MES "command" elements. Sets the class attribute of the created element for those commands which create elements.
- New "import" attribute for MES "element" elements. When true the mozile.edit.generateCommand() method will use mozile.dom.importNode() to import the firstChild into the current namespace.
2006-09-01
- Simple caching system for mozile.edit._getTarget(). Should be safe.
- Hack to fix stupid IE bug. When the selection is collapsed click events don't make their way to the mozile.gui.htmlToolbar.Button.press() method properly. Changed all onclick handlers to onmouseup. This is not proper GUI behaviour. I'll try to fix it properly later.
- New mozile.save.tidy module. It takes a node and spits out a string formatted like HTML Tidy output. The code isn't tested, lacks features, and it's kind of a mess. However it's useful.
- New MediaWiki editing demo. Uses XSLT to transform HTML into wiki markup.
- A set of related changes to disable/enable editing in IE. Moved mozile._getElements() to mozile.dom.getElements() and changed the interface. Added mozile.edit.getMarked() to search for marked elements. Modified mozile.edit.enable()/disable() to turn contentEditable on and off. Made a bunch of changes to editElement*() and protectElement*().
- Fixed broken Indent and Unindent commands and tweaked mozile.edit.Style.
2006-09-02
- Added a mozile.dom.getStyleSheet() method, and changed addStyleSheet to return the created link element.
2006-09-07
- Added a mozile.dom.getText() method which concatenates all the descendant text nodes of a given node and returns the string.
- Added support for parameters to mozile.xml.transform(). Tweaked output in the Mozile case. The IE case hasn't been updated yet.
- New mozile.save.extract module for extracting XML from HTML.
- New Atom XML+XSL editing demo.
- Some tweaks to make mozile.save.tidy deal better with generic XML.
2006-09-08
- Removed mozile.xml.transform() method and replaced it with transformToDocument(), transformToFragment(), and transformToString(). Added new tests.
2006-09-10
- A large set of changes, fixing this bug http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15109 and some related problems.
	* mozile.edit.isNodeEditable() renamed to mayContainText(). Checks an element or text node's parent element to see if an RNG rule allows it to contain text, or (if there's no RNG) it has a non-white-space text child.
	* Added mozile.edit.isTextEditable() method to support mayContainText().
	* Cleaned up and improved:
		* InsertionPoint: seekNode() is much simpler, some other changes
		* mozile.edit.removeText: test() is simpler, execute() handles errors better
		* mozile.edit.remove: test() is much smarter, execute() is simpler
		* several smaller changes in rich.js
	* Fixed a bug in mozile.edit.Remove.prepare().
	* mozile.execCommand() now sets "fresh" to true.
- The previous change to use onmouseup and fix an IE error was causing trouble with Mozilla. Now IE uses onmouseup and other browsers use onclick.
- New mozile.gui.destroy() method.



Mozile 0.8.0a1 - Alpha 1:
- Changed the mozile.edit.insertText.test() method to ignore the Alt key on non-Mac platforms.
- mozile.edit.insertText will now insert a text node if the selection is editable but is not a text node.
- New basic rich editing commands: removeNode, moveNode, mergeNodes, splitNode, splitNodes.
- Speed and general improvements to InternetExplorerRange and InternetExplorerSelection.
- New debugging system in core.js at mozile.debug
- Support for keyboard accelerators.
- New InsertionPoint object. Maniupltaes the selection like a word processor.
- New remove command for rich editing. Quite complicated.
- Empty token inserted into empty block-level elements to avoid having them collapse in Mozilla.
- New CommandGroup class for grouping commands.
- edit.js broken up into edit.js (core and text editing) and rich.js (node editing).
- New GUI system and HTML Toolbar GUI.
- New icons from the "Silk" icon set by Mark James: <http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/>.
- designMode can be disabled by setting mozile.useDesignMode = false.
- New Mozile Editing Scheme (MES) support. Command definitions are mixed into RNG files.
- High level documentation in DocBook format. Original file is doc/docbook/mozile.xml
- New mozile.editElement(), editElements(), editDocument() commands in core.js.
- Default editing command system. Activated by mozile.editAllText(rich). Allows editing without a schema.
- New DocBook demo. Only includes a fraction of the full DocBook RNG.
- New address book XML editing demo.
- New mozile.save module. Includes code for cleaning up and formatting the source. Includes methods for dumping source to a new window and saving via HTTP POST.
- Warning before unloading an unsaved document.
- New Command.request() method designed to make it simple for one command to call another. These changes required a lot of refactoring of the test() and prepare() methods, and throughout rich.js.
- In-page clipboard functionality. Copy, cut, paste to a "local" (document-wide) clipboard.
- New Help command in the HTML Toolbar GUI.
- New command classes: Replace, Style, Unwrap.
- mozile.edit._getNode() and _getTarget() methods to support the new command classes.
- Disabled links in Mozilla inside editable areas. This uses some ugly manipulation of mouse events but it works pretty well.
- Revised modules so that they can be concatenated into a single "mozile.js" file. This required cleaning up some dependencies between modules.
- Made the Command.isActive() and isAvailable() methods work. The GUI now updates buttons and menuitems to reflect the status of the commands. Updated command classes to make use of this.
- Editable containers are now protected from editing. Only the content can be changed, not the container element itself. 
- New command classes: Wrap and Insert.
- Refactored most commands to preserve the selection during their operations. 
- splitNodes now tries to move the IP (without moving the displayed cursor position) so that the minimum number of nodes are split. This makes for nicer source code, and behaves more like a word processor.
- Added "unwrap" functionality to Wrap command class. Wrappers can now be toggled off.
- New mozile.edit.setMark() and getMark() methods for attaching properties to elements. Doesn't work for XML under IE.
- Rename getMozileStuff to parseMES, and refactored.
- Added multiple accelerator support to commands.
- New command classes: Navigate, Split. 
- Insert command class can now insert text.
- New priority system for commands. Default priority is 0. Higher priority means the command is checked first in handleEvent(). insertText has priority 10. Any real value should work.
- Inline white space handling using mozile.alternateSpace setting. Most of the logic is in insertText. Kind of complicated and it hurts performance.
- Renamed directories in preparation for the 0.8.0a1 release. (CVS makes a mess, but might as well get this over with.) Many small changes made.
	- core renamed to src
	- demo renamed to demos
	- test renamed to tests
	- image renamed to images
- Revised loading system. The INITIALIZATION section from mozile.js has been moved into core.js. The file name "mozile.js" is now used for "compiled" (concatenated) and compressed versions of mozile, and it now lives in the top of the 0.8 directory.
- New README and LICENSE files. Changed links in all license blocks to point to LICENSE.


Mozile 0.8p3 - Preview 3:
- Safari version detection. Since the current WebKit nightly versions 420+ (available from this page: http://webkit.opendarwin.org/) don't have the same XML errors as 418, a number of tests which skipped Safari now skip only WebKit versions <= 418.
- Several minor changes to tests to make Opera 9.0b happy.
- Made namespaceURI parameter in mozile.dom.lookupPrefix() optional.
- Use full names in mozile.xpath.getNode() and _getNthChild() instead of the local names.
- New mozile.useSchema() method. Currently global, but should allow finer grained control.
- New mozile.event module for handling events.
- New mozile.edit module, along with a number of primitive editing commands, start and stop editing commands, and full undo/redo support.
- New mozile.dom.InternetExplorerRange and mozile.dom.InternetExplorerSelection, modules. These are based on code started by Jorgen Horstink and extensively modified by David Kingma. They adapt IE's very non-standard TextRange and Selection objects to use the W3C and Mozilla models.
- New mozile.dom.TreeWalker module. Based on code by Chris Nott. Used to implement a TreeWalker object for DOM traversal under IE.
- New mozile.edit.* document-wide commands: undo, redo.
- New mozile.edit.* editing commands: insertText, removeText, removeNode, remove (general), moveNode, mergeNodes, splitNode, splitNodes. Wrap command started but not finished yet. Validation is not supported yet. These commands still need proper unit tests finished. Performance has not been optimized yet.


Mozile 0.8p2 - Preview 2:
- Improved RNG support. Now all browsers (Mozilla family 1.7+, IE 6, Opera 9) except Safari support RNG validation. (Safari has critical bugs in its XML system which cause browser crashes.) The full RNG feature set is not finished (no dtataypes or name classes, some elements missing), but enough is present to run complex XHTML validations.
- Improved namespace support in mozile.dom.
- Reworked mozile.rng to get around a severe limitation of Internet Explorer: it does not support Attr.getOwnerElement or Attr.getParent properly.
- Improved RNG Validation demo.
- Added verbose error messages option for RNG system.


Mozile 0.8p1 - Preview 1:
	General-
- Reorganized everything into a library format, similar to Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org). Each level has a container object. The root is "mozile". Second level containers have their own javascript files of the same name in the "core" directory. They also have their own directories under "testing".
- New load system based on XMLHTTPRequest to fetch files and eval() to evaluate them. Modules call the mozile.require() and mozile.provide() methods to specify the dependency structure.
- RNG validation system. Currently functional only under recent Mozilla browsers (Firefox 1.5, SeaMonkey 1.0, Camino 1.0).
- Cross-browser support. In 0.8 we are attempting to support all major browsers. There may be features which are not available on certain browsers which prevent Mozile from functioning, but so far the code runs (at least in part) on the Mozilla 1.7 family (Mozilla Suite, Firefox 1.0), the 1.8 family (Firefox 1.8, SeaMonkey 1.0, Camino 1.0), Internet Explorer 6, Safari 2, Opera 9.0p2. Konqueror is not yet supported, but support may be possible. See the "KnownIssues" file.
	Specifics:
- New mozile.js format.