Congratulations to Fluid on the Fluid 0.8 Release
I write to congratulate the Fluid Project on the release of Fluid Infusion 0.8, featuring the Fluid Skinning System.
I'm looking forward to the Jasig conference in a week showcasing progress of including Fluid Infusion features in the upcoming uPortal 3.1 release as well as discussion of how to bring more Fluid to bear on the user experience needs of higher education open source web applications.
I repost here verbatim Colin Clark's post on the jasig-ue email list announcing this release, in the interest of helping to get the word out about this incremental release of this excellent software project:
The Fluid Project is pleased to announce the final release of Fluid Infusion 0.8, a new release featuring our first production release of the Fluid Skinning System, a preview of User Interface Options, and many bug fixes.
This is the last major release before Fluid 1.0. Coming in March.
Please see What's New in This Release below for more details.
Infusion 0.8 is available for download at:
http://fluidproject.org/index.php/download-infusion
What's New in This Release?
* Uploader now supports all A-Grade browsers with both Flash 9 and 10
* Improved documentation
* Fluid Skinning System
* Preview of User Interface Options
* Upgrade to the latest version of qUnit automated Javascript test harness
* Many bug fixesSee the complete list here:
http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requ...What is Fluid Infusion?
Fluid Infusion is a collection of rich, reusable, accessible user interface components built for the Web. These components have been designed by a cross-disciplinary team and thoroughly tested for usability and accessibility. By incorporating Fluid components into your web application's user interface, you will make your application easier to use by more people. Easier to use means happier users.
Known Issues
An up-to-date listing of known issues with this release is available at:
http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requ...Help us Build a Usable Web For Everyone
The Fluid Project is an open, collaborative development project. Our goal is to improve the user experience of community source web applications, so if you are a designer or developer and want to help change the world, consider getting involved! The Fluid component library includes not only full source code but also a designer's toolkit that offers useful design, accessibility, and usability strategies and documentation, all backed by a growing community of interaction designers, user interface experts, and software developers contributing a wealth of expertise in usability and accessibility.
Many thanks to everyone in the community for their hard work and support for this release!
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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org
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After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2004, Andrew stayed on to serve his alma mater as a casual systems programmer with the Technology & Planning group. His interests include automated software testing, application frameworks, and electronic security. Projects in which Andrew has been involved include the Central Authentication Service, YaleInfo Portal (Yale's uPortal implementation). and the Jasig uPortal project. Andrew currently serves on the Jasig CAS steering committee, has been the release engineer for uPortal, and has been published in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery on the topic of electronic voting. In spring 2006 Andrew joined Unicon full time, serving roles since then including technical lead and Cooperative Support developer.
