Fluid 0.1

Fluid 0.1 Release

• Release bundle: http://fluidproject.org/releases/0.1/fluid-0.1.zip
• Source code (SVN): http://source.fluidproject.org/svn/fluid/components/tags/fluid-0.1/

What's New in Fluid 0.1

Well, this is our first release, so it's all new! The bundle includes:

• Fluid Component library source code
  • Reorderer framework library
  • Lightbox component
  • markup examples
  • test files
• Documentation
  • User Experience (UX) Toolkit
  • API documentation
  • Tutorials

Features of Fluid 0.1

• Add the ability to reorder image thumbnails to your application.
• Reorder arbitrary DOM elements in your application.
• Keyboard accessibility for navigation and reordering.
• Learn helpful design tips from expert Interaction Designers

Known Issues

See http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10014 for an up-to-date listing of known issues.

General

• With respect to mouse-based drag-and-drop, one cannot drop an orderable before any other orderable; the drop point is always after. In particular, one cannot place an orderable before the first item.

• Pressing enter on a focussed thumbnail does not always display the full image after a drag-and-drop. The reason is that occasionally the wrong part of the thumbnail acquires keyboard focus, and pressing enter does not thereby activate the link.

• The use of the dojo toolkit is not optimized for download. It is possible to create a dojo package that contains only the parts of dojo that a Fluid component needs. This will be done in a future release.

• The key strokes that the Reorderer uses for navigation and placement were chosen based the ARIA W3C working draft: arrow keys to navigate, modified by the control key when moving an item to a new location. This may conflict with keystrokes defined by the browser, the OS, or an assistive technology. As such, the Reorderer may not function properly depending on the context.

• Occasionally, a thumbnail in the Lightbox is only partially scrolled into view. If a user navigates to it using the keyboard, the view is not automatically scrolled with the result that parts of the thumbnail are clipped by the edge of the window - the entire thumbnail is not visible.

• The Reorderer's concept of fixed items needs refinement. While a fixed item cannot be moved directly by the Reorderer, its position can be altered by the reordering of items around it. When the user moves, say, a list item to a new position within the list, any fixed list item in the same list changes location
  so as to not leave any "blank" items.

• Reordering either via mouse-based drag-and-drop, or using the keyboard, is sometimes slow when there are a relatively large number of orderable items. In short, the Reorderer does not scale well with respect to the number of orderable items.

Internet Explorer Issues

• Dragging a thumbnail in the Lightbox results in selecting all of the thumbnails that the mouse moves over. The other thumbnails are highlighted. This occurs when the click-to-drag gesture is done on the whitespace of the thumbnail.

• Dragging items can freeze when done quickly. If the user moves the mouse relatively quickly while dragging a thumbnail in the Lightbox, it will freeze over the drop target, and the mouse cursor changes to a crossed-out circle. Releasing the mouse button has the result that the thumbnail is placed at the location where it froze. Furthermore, this problem is influenced by the number of items: the more items there are, the easier it is to freeze.