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Unofficial changelogs for Firefox releases even for the next versions like Firefox 3.0. Interesting.

Microsoft publicly stated IE will have core engine support for SVG in IE7.x (most likely 7.2) (power point presentation); they are currently working with Firefox, and others to ensure version / profile rolling compatibility.

Borrowed from allforces.com.

Maybe this would also mean the end of slow SVG/Canvas emulations using VML. Hopefully this release will also be available for Windows XP.

As you maybe already know, Opera has today announced the new major version of the Opera browser. For me it seems to be again faster than the previous major version. The loading times and interface speed seems to be quite good using typical qooxdoo widgets. In my opinion the most interessant new features are:

• Valid ACID2 rendering
• Support for the SVG Basic profile
• Support for Microsoft's designmode and contenteditable extensions
• Canvas support
• Some support of parts of CSS3
• JavaScript console is now Error console and can display messages, warnings, and errors from different sources.
• Added support for -o-text-overflow:ellipsis, synonymous to text-overflow:ellipsis
• UL/OL elements now use padding instead of margin by default.
• Added support for XSLT 1.0 and the XSLTProcessor constructor.
• Added support for XPath 1.0.
• Added support for onmousewheel events.
• Improved handling of offsetTop, offsetLeft, and offsetParent.

This makes me really happy. Together with the overall performance improvement, the new features like canvas could really support a break-through for some new features to the web.

A more detailed change log can be found here.

I've just registered and configured a new mailing list, which is used to monitor the bug activity. Bugs in qooxdoo are also used to manage feature additions and enhancement wishes.

You can register yourself to always stay up-to-date with the further development of qooxdoo.

There is some progress at Microsoft's development of Internet Explorer. Reading the recently published IE chat transcript contains some interesting points:

• We support embedding/hosting WPF applications within IE but we don't natively support XAML
• We are making improvements to a lot of performance issues across IE, including memory leaks. Stay tuned for updates of the browser.
• In IE7 we do not support XHTML [content-type application/xhtml+xml]. We will treat it like HTML content.
• We will consider it [DOM method .addEventListener()] for a release after IE7.
• We have no plans in IE7 to support allowing customization of the RSS reader. This is good feedback for us to consider for future releases, thanks.
• Requesting foo.innerHTML on elements returns incorrect data [even in IE7, will be maybe fixed with further releases of IE] (mostly a formatting nightmare) (tags are not in the case specified, or specifically lowercase many of the attributes are not quoted properly, and self-closing tags are not self closed.)

So far so good. Microsoft, we are waiting for IE8. Especially regarding JavaScript support.

It was a lot of work. But today I would like to announce, that our bugzilla is fully integrated inside the new qooxdoo portal now. This means that it uses the same header, footer and colors. I have also tried to make the templates a bit more conforming to our site-wide used standard XHTML 1.1. This was quite complicated, because the default templates contain old style unclosed br- and hr-tags, deprecated font-tags, align- and valign-attributes and some other '98-style HTML code.

To search for a better base template is not so easy because with the general search term "bugzilla" the results are the mostly from other bugzilla installations and not really related to a bugzilla problem itself. So it was a big chunk of work. But the result looks quite nice and I think we could keep it this way, at least for the next few months.

To fulfill the requirements for a bug-tracking tool for qooxdoo, we have finally installed a fresh bugzilla to bugzilla.qooxdoo.org. After you register yourself, you can enter your bugs there.

As some of you have already realised this site is moving to a new server and backend system.

All community members can now easily make contributions to the site and/or documentation. We started to move old content from old homepage to this new one, e.g. articles in the documentation section.

It would be great if you could help us here! You can start right away.

This area will be used to announce new releases and other more official stuff.