Fluid Infusion 1.2

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

FSS:

• Flexible columns don't maintain proper alignment under certain conditions

• In IE, major font size changes break text positioning within form controls

Framework:

• Renderer performance can be slow on IE 6 and 7 in some contexts

Inline Edit:

• Chrome 4 in WIN XP does not allow tabbing out of tinyMCE editor's edit field

• Text persists in edit mode when view mode displays default text: using IE 6

• Pressing the "Tab" key to exit edit mode places focus on the wrong item

• Inline Edit test fails using IE 8

Layout Reorderer:

• If columns become stacked, can't drag item into lower column

• Can't use keyboard reordering to move a nested reorderer to the right column, using IE6

• Portlet Columns load with no padding between them in IE7

Pager:

• Clicking page numbers throws an error: using IE 6

• The Pager will be refactored. Note that as a result of this, there will be significant changes to the Pager API

• The self-rendering mode of the Pager is not the default mode

Renderer:

• Renderer appears to corrupt templates containing empty tags on Opera (maybe others)

• Attempt to add children to leaf component in tree results in "targetlump is undefined" error

• Enclosing branch nodes within markup which has "headers" attribute causes them to become invisible to the renderer

Reorderer:

• Moving an item with the keyboard "loses" the "ctrl-key is down" status

• Dragging an image offscreen or out of the frame has some unexpected results

UI Options:

• The text in buttons does not change size

• "Links" selection does not work correctly in UIOptions

• Minimum font size control changes the text size even when the base size is larger then the minimum

Uploader:

• Can only tab to the "Browse Files" button once: using IE

• Cannot tab away from the "Browse Files" button with Flash 10; using FF3

  • For information related to known issues with Flash 10 compatibility,
    see Known Uploader issues with Flash 10

See Infusion 1.2 Known Issues for an up-to-date listing of known issues with this release.

Status of Components

Getting Help

For questions and assistance using Infusion 1.2, join the infusion-users mailing list, or join our IRC Channel. If you find a bug or issue with 1.2, you can file bug reports on our issue tracker.

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 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.

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