script.aculo.us V1.5_rc3, second release candidate

October 9th, 2005

The final release of script.aculo.us V1.5 should now be just around the corner!

Important changes and fixes from 1.5_rc1 (for a detailed list, see the CHANGELOG file):

Make Effect position available to callbacks
Droppables.fire: send event to onDrop callback [François Beausoleil], #2389
InPlaceEditor: Add disabling the field while loadTextURL loads and add a class while loading, plus fix various bugs with Internet Explorer and InPlaceEditor, [Jon Tirsen] #2302, #2303
Made Droppables.remove work again [thx Mindaugas Pelionis], #2409
Fixed that IE6 would incorrectly render the “fix-windowed-elements-overlapping” IFRAME on autocompletion [thx tshinnic], #2403
Fixed Element.getOpacity throwing an error on Safari in some situations (this caused the autocompleter not to work)
Added format option to Sortable.create and Sortable.serialize to allow custom id formats. The format option takes a regular expression where the first grouping that matches is used for building the parameters. The default format is /^[^_]*_(.*)$/ which matches the string_identifier format. If you want to use the full id of the elements, use format: /(.*)/. More examples are available in the sortable unit test file.
Started refactorings to use the new Prototype features and general code-cleanup
Update lib/prototype.js to Prototype 1.4.0_pre11
Fixed a typo breaking the up arrow key for autocompletion [thx tshinnic], #2406
Changed the handle option on Draggbles to accept classnames, or ids or elements [thx to Andrew West], #2274
Force indicator to be hidden on hiding autocompletion update element, #2342
Make Draggables honor external CSS positioning [thx to Mark Shawkey], #2359
Make zindex handling for Draggables honor external CSS styles
Fix two Sortable.serialize issues, [thx Avi, Gorou], #2339, #2357
Make Element.getOpacity work with IE, added unit tests [thx to Greg Hill]
Make Element.setOpacity honor non-alpha filters on IE (it now works with filters for alpha PNGs)
Fixed that Element.class.remove wrongly deleted spaces between class names, fixes #2311, #2313
Fixed Builder for OPTION and OPTGROUP tags on Firefox < 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6, completely fixes #2325
Improved Builder implementation to deal with Firefox-specific requirements and innerHTML parsing, partly fixes #2325
Attempt to fix crashes in Safari 2.0.1, probably related to the event registering und unregistering in Draggables, possibly fixes #2310