Fluid Infusion 1.0

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

Build System:

• The jquery.bgiframe plugin is not included in InfusionAll.js or other custom builds.

FSS:

• Flexible columns don't maintain proper alignment under certain conditions
• In IE, major font size changes break text positioning within form controls
• Opera doesn't seem to repaint certain css changes on the fly, requiring a refresh to see them

Framework:

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

Inline Edit:

• Pressing the "Tab" key to exit edit mode, places focus on the wrong item
• The jquery.tinymce plugin invokes TinyMCE even if it doesn't exist

Uploader:
For information related to known issues with Flash 10 compatibility, see http://wiki.fluidproject.org/x/kwZo

• Cannot tab away from the "Browse Files" button with Flash 10; using FF3
• Cannot Tab to the 'Browse More" button with Flash 10, using FF2

Layout Reorderer:

• Can't use keyboard reordering to move a nested reorderer to the right column, using IE6
• In IE, can't reorderer portlets containing Google components
• Portlet Columns load with no padding between them in IE7

Pager:

• The self-rendering mode of the Pager is not the default mode
• The style name for the root node is not configurable

Reorderer:

• Edge case: visual position of drop target when droppable is at beginning or end of a row
• Dragging an image offscreen or out of the frame has some unexpected results.

UI Options:

• Line spacing setting does not work in Opera
• Minimum font size control changes the text size even when the base size is larger then the minimum.
• Refreshing the browser, hitting cancel or reset, breaks the functionality of the sliders: using Opera
• Reset doesn't work after saving the initial cookie
• Switching from high contrast to any other theme will remove some text from the page: using IE
• Keyboard navigation inside the dialog breaks in simple layout mode: using FF
• Turning on the table of contents causes an error: using Opera
• Using the reset button breaks the preview: using Opera
• Re-opening the dialog after closing it with the 'esc' key, doesn't display the preview window: using IE

See http://issues.fluidproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10189 for an up-to-date listing of known issues with this release.

Status of Components

Description of release status:

• Production: supports A-Grade browsers, stable for production usage across a wide range of applications and use cases
• Preview: still growing, but with broad browser support. Expect new features in upcoming releases
• Sneak Peek: in development; APIs will change. Share your feedback, ideas, and code

Getting Help

For questions and assistance using Infusion 1.0, join the infusion-users mailing list, or join our IRC Channel. If you find a bug or issue with 1.0, 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.

Licensing

Fluid code is licensed under a dual ECL 2.0 / BSD licence. The specific licences can be found on the Fluid wiki's Infusion Licence Template page.

Appreciation

Thanks to all the designers, developers, testers, and support folks who helped us get this release out the door!