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  14     <h1>jscalendar release notes</h1>
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  16     <p>This release compiled at Friday,  6 Feb 2004 (21:40).</p>
  17
  18     <h2>0.9.6</h2>
  19
  20     <ul>
  21
  22       <li>
  23         "Smart" (TM :-) positioning algorithm.  The new algorithm will
  24         try to keep the calendar in the browser view, which is helpful
  25         in situations when the input field is near the bottom or the
  26         right edge.  This code is only tested with IE and Mozilla, but
  27         it should work with other browsers too.  Many thanks to <a
  28         href="http://www.ex3.com">Sunny Chowdhury</a> for sponsoring
  29         this feature!
  30       </li>
  31
  32       <li>
  33         Support for IE5/Win is back.  I also want to thank Janusz
  34         Piwowarski for keeping his eye on the CVS ;-) He reviewed my
  35         IE5-related changes and sent me a much cleaner patch.
  36       </li>
  37
  38       <li>
  39         The calendar will now allow any day of week to be "the first
  40         day of week".  This was requested long time ago, by someone
  41         whose name I forgot (sorry).  The reason was that in certain
  42         countries weeks start on Saturday.  So I thought that instead
  43         of having a "mondayFirst" and a "saturdayFirst" parameter,
  44         :-), it's better to have a "firstDayOfWeek" parameter; now
  45         it's present and its meaning is: "0 for Sunday", "1 for
  46         Monday", "2 for Tuesday", etc.  The equivalent parameter for
  47         Calendar.setup is "firstDay".  The end user can also change
  48         it very easy: click on the day name in the calendar display.
  49       </li>
  50
  51       <li>
  52         The above feature triggered one <b>important change</b>: the
  53         notion of "weekend" is now defined in the language file.
  54         Added parameters:
  55
  56         <pre>
  57           Calendar._TT["WEEKEND"] = "0,6";
  58           Calendar._TT["DAY_FIRST"] = "Display %s first";</pre>
  59
  60         "WEEKEND" specifies a string with comma-separated numbers from
  61         0 to 7; they define what days are marked as "weekend".  5 and
  62         6 mean, of course, "Sunday" and "Saturday".  Day first is the
  63         tooltip displayed when a day name is hovered; "%s" will get
  64         replaced with the day name.  Updated languages are "en" and
  65         "ro", which I maintain.  Please note that languages wich are
  66         not updated <b>will not work</b>.  If yours is one of them,
  67         please consider fixing it and sending me the fix so that I can
  68         include it in the distro.
  69       </li>
  70
  71       <li>
  72         The calendar can now display days from the months adjacent to
  73         the currently displayed one.  This is optional, of course, and
  74         the parameter name is "showsOtherMonths" (or "showOthers" in
  75         Calendar.setup).  All theme files were updated.
  76       </li>
  77
  78       <li>
  79         Displays "Time:" near the time selector, only if defined in
  80         the language file.
  81       </li>
  82
  83       <li>
  84         Some bugs fixed in the date parsing code (which has also been
  85         rewritten a little bit cleaner).
  86       </li>
  87
  88       <li>
  89         Calendar.setup will now configure the calendar to trigger the
  90         input fields' "onchange" event, if specified, when a date is
  91         selected.
  92       </li>
  93
  94       <li>
  95         New parameter in Calendar.setup: "cache" (<b>defaults to
  96         false</b>).  If set to true then the popup calendar object
  97         will be "cached", meaning, it will be created only once, no
  98         matter how many input fields are there in the page.  Sometimes
  99         this is not desirable, which is why I've added this
 100         parameter.  Please note that it defaults to "false" (thus the
 101         default behavior has changed).
 102       </li>
 103
 104       <li>
 105         Added a simple PHP wrapper.  It provides code which loads all
 106         the required scripts and theme file, and one function which
 107         creates and configures an input field for date input.  It
 108         takes care of creating and assigning unique ID-s for the
 109         calendar fields and it also creates the "Calendar.setup" code.
 110         Functions to create more specialized fields can be added very
 111         easily.  This feature was requested by the FreeMED.org project
 112         (thanks for donating!).
 113       </li>
 114
 115     </ul>
 116
 117     <p>Wow, there were quite some changes :-D  Enjoy it!</p>
 118
 119     <h2>0.9.5</h2>
 120
 121     <p>
 122       This release's primary goal is to fix a wrong license statement which
 123       can be found in some files from 0.9.4.  For instance in README or
 124       calendar.js, the statement was that the code is distributed under the
 125       GNU GPL; that's because I had plans to change the license, then
 126       changed my mind but unfortunately I committed files so.  I am sorry
 127       for this inconvenience, please use the latest (0.9.5) release which is
 128       fully covered by LGPL.
 129     </p>
 130
 131     <p>Other changes:</p>
 132
 133     <ul>
 134
 135       <li>
 136         <b>Fixed</b> an annoying bug that prevented the calendar to display
 137         correctly when it was configured for an input field inside a
 138         <b>scrolling area</b>.  <b>Many thanks</b> to Ian Barrack (<a
 139         href="http://www.simban.com">Simban.com</a>) who pointed it up and
 140         donated quite some money for the Calendar project!
 141       </li>
 142
 143       <li>
 144         All examples use UTF-8 now; the translations may not be all
 145         up-to-date, but I <strong>strongly</strong> suggest everyone to use
 146         UTF-8; other encodings are a plain mess.  So far I know for sure
 147         that Romanian translation will work with UTF-8 and <em>not
 148         anymore</em> with ISO-8859-2.  Other translations are probably
 149         usable under UTF-8, but if your preferred language isn't... ;-)
 150         please make it and send it to me for inclusion.
 151       </li>
 152
 153       <li>
 154         Fixed small bug in the documentation (one footnote didn't appear
 155         where it should have).
 156       </li>
 157
 158       <li>
 159         Updated translations: DE, ES, HU, IT, RO.  Thanks to everyone who
 160         sent translations!
 161       </li>
 162
 163     </ul>
 164
 165     <h2>0.9.4</h2>
 166
 167     <h3>New stuff</h3>
 168
 169     <ul>
 170
 171       <li>Supports time selection.  Yes. ;-) This work has been largely
 172         sponsored by <strong>Himanshukumar Shah</strong> (thank you!).  See
 173         the docs and example files for details on how to setup.</li>
 174
 175       <li>Easy to link 2 or more fields by using the new
 176         <code>onUpdate</code> parameter of <code>Calendar.setup</code>.  This
 177         is useful, say, to automatically set a value in a second field based
 178         on the value selected in the first field.  See the documentation and
 179         first sample in <a href="simple-1.html">simple-1.html</a>.</li>
 180
 181       <li>Other <code>Calendar.setup</code> low-level parameters, for those
 182         wanting to have the complete control: <code>onSelect</code> and
 183         <code>onClose</code>.  The handlers are called when something is
 184         selected in the calendar or when the calendar is closed.</li>
 185
 186       <li>The translation files can optionally include the short day names
 187         and the short month names.  That's because in some languages, like
 188         German, the short form is not the first 3 letters of the entire name
 189         but only the first 2.  Also in other languages short names can't be
 190         as easily derived from the full name by just calling substr, so this
 191         patch solves the problem.</li>
 192
 193       <li>Implemented a nice way to make some dates "special" (look
 194         different).  Specifically, the <code>setDisabledHandler</code> method
 195         was replaced with the more general <code>setDateStatusHandler</code>
 196         method (the old one is still available for backwards compatibility but
 197         <em>will</em> be removed).  More details about this in the
 198         documentation.  Also see <a href="simple-3.html">simple-3.html</a>
 199         for a live sample.</li>
 200
 201       <li>Date parsing and formatting engine is now rewritten and supports a
 202         subset of <code>strftime</code> format specifiers from ANSI C.  This
 203         makes it possible to use dates like "YYYYMMDD" (the corresponding
 204         format for this would be "%Y%m%d").  Details in the documentation.
 205         <b>Please note that the new engine is not compatibile with older
 206           calendar releases!</b></li>
 207
 208       <li>Along with the new date parser I workarounded an unpleasant crash
 209         that occurred in IE when certain accented characters appeared in the
 210         texts.  I think German was one of the language with such problems, and
 211         the workaround was to use the letter without an accent.  Well, now you
 212         can translate to whatever you want.</li>
 213
 214       <li>"Fixes" (I mean, "horrible workarounds") for Konqueror (and
 215         hopefully Safari).  Unfortunately, this otherwise excellent browser
 216         still has some bugs that keep the calendar from working
 217         <em>exactly</em> as it should..  But they're going to be fixed,
 218         right? ;-)</li>
 219
 220       <li>CSS themes got pretty much modified too so if you wrote your theme
 221         you need to update it.  Aside for the time selector support, the CSS
 222         themes contain a simple hack that makes the navigation buttons show
 223         a little arrow in the lower-right corner which indicates that if one
 224         holds the mouse a menu will appear.</li>
 225
 226     </ul>
 227
 228     <h3>Translation files</h3>
 229
 230     <p>The translation files need to be updated in order for the calendar to
 231       work properly.  Currently the only updated files are calendar-en.js
 232       (main file) and calendar-ro.js (well, yes, I am a Romanian ;-).</p>
 233
 234     <p>Specifically, they need the following:</p>
 235
 236     <ul>
 237
 238       <li>Correct date format, according with the new format specifiers
 239         introduced in 0.9.4.  Details about the available format specifiers
 240         in the documentation</li>
 241
 242       <li>Short day or month names, <em>if required</em>.  If they can be
 243         derived by taking the first N letters of the full name then a simple
 244         Calendar._SDN_len = N or Calendar._SMN_len = N will suffice.  If N
 245         is 3 then nothing needs to be done as we take it for granted if no
 246         other option is offered ;-)</li>
 247
 248       <li>We have some new texts that shows short usage information as well
 249         as copyright information.</li>
 250
 251     </ul>
 252
 253     <p>If your favorite language is not there yet, or it is but not updated
 254       according to the main calendar-en.js file, then please consider
 255       translating calendar-en.js and send the translation back to me so that
 256       I include it in the official distribution.</p>
 257
 258     <h3>Bug status</h3>
 259
 260     <p>Check <a
 261         href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=544285&group_id=75569&func=browse">SourceForge</a>,
 262       I didn't keep track.  However, there were a lot of bugfixes.</p>
 263
 264     <h2>0.9.3</h2>
 265
 266     <h3>New stuff</h3>
 267
 268     <ul>
 269
 270       <li>Opera&nbsp;7 compatibility &mdash; keyboard navigation is
 271         still not available; text selection can't be disabled, leading to an
 272         ugly effect when walking through the month/year menus.</li>
 273
 274       <li>Ability to align the calendar relative to the input field (or any
 275         other element).  Vertical: top, center, bottom.  Horizontal: left,
 276         center, right.  This is established as a new parameter for
 277         <tt>showAtElement</tt>.</li>
 278
 279       <li>Added <tt>dateClicked</tt> property (boolean).  This can be
 280         inspected in the "onSelect" handler to determine if a date was
 281         really clicked or the user only changed month/year using the menus.
 282         You <em>need</em> to check this for "single-click" calendars and
 283         only close/hide the calendar if it's <tt>true</tt>.</li>
 284
 285       <li>Full documentation in <a href="doc/html/reference.html">HTML</a>
 286         and <a href="doc/reference.pdf">PDF</a> format is now available in the
 287         distribution archive.</li>
 288
 289       <li>New language definition files: HU, HR, PT, ZH.  Thanks those who
 290         submitted!</li>
 291
 292     </ul>
 293
 294     <h3>Bug status</h3>
 295
 296     <p>This covers only those bugs that have been reported <a
 297         href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar" target="_blank"
 298         title="Project page at SourceForge">at SourceForge</a>.</p>
 299
 300     <ol>
 301
 302       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=703238&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 303             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#703,238</tt></a> &mdash; fixed</li>
 304       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=703814&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 305             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#703,814</tt></a> &mdash; fixed</li>
 306       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=716777&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 307             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#716,777</tt></a> &mdash; closed (was fixed already in 0.9.2-1)</li>
 308       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=723335&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 309             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#723,335</tt></a> &mdash; fixed</li>
 310       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=715122&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 311             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#715,122</tt></a> &mdash; feature request; implemented.</li>
 312       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721206&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 313             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,206</tt></a> &mdash; fixed (added "refresh()" function)</li>
 314       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721833&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 315             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,833</tt></a> &mdash; fixed (bug concerning the "yy" format
 316         parsing)</li>
 317       <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721833&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
 318             title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,833</tt></a> &mdash; won't fix (we won't set the time to
 319         midnight; time might actually be useful when we implement support
 320         for time selection).
 321
 322     </ol>
 323
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 325     <address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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