script.aculo.us 1.7.1 beta 3
May 25th, 2007 by Thomas Fuchs, 38 comments »An other beta, this time featuring the final version of Prototype 1.5.1, as well as Sortable speed optimizations.
There’s quite a backlog of patches and bugfixes, that I’ll hope to incorporate over the next weeks to get 1.7.1 final out when it’s ready.
Meanwhile, the beta versions of script.aculo.us are quite stable, and while I’m not doing any recommendations for doing so, work quite well on production websites. YMMV, of course; no guarantees. 
You can help getting 1.7.1 final out faster of course, by testing out 1.7.1 beta 3 and discussing any issues on the Google Group and/or submitting reports (please don’t just leave a comment here!). 
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: get the most out of the libraries, fast!
PLEASE …. documentation / user manual !
I’m curious – how do others keep up with and use new features when they’re not documented other than a brief mention in a changelog somewhere? Seriously
The new 1.7.1 beta ist damn great. Im very curious about the final version of this.
You are Funtastic, but the new beta3 of scriptaculous has just been released
The speed optimization is enormous. We use the sortables quite often and you can feel the speed.
Thanks!
It really is much faster !
I use the sortables a lot, but also the effects. Effect.toggle is now really smooth, and it brings a kind of fresh air in my website interface.
Thanks alot.
I’m pretty new with prototype and scriptaculous, I was amazed of it.
I had the problem with too much recursion, and the new version solved it.
Thanks guys, without you the life would be much harder.
It even doesn’t look like beta. I didn’t find any bugs
Just as a note here to anyone that hits the problem i found (a quick google search reveals people are getting the same problem but going about solving it different ways) – if you hit a bug – "too much recursion" with the sortables/dnd, its possible that scriptaculous is being loaded incorrectly.
A few tutorials out there teach you to load the files (effects.js, dragdrop.js and scriptaculous.js) seperately instead of by (as an example) scriptaculous.js?load=effects,dragdrop. This is how i was taught (by my guess, its not the correct way of loading them) – this was the only way i solved this error for my app.
Yes ! Optimizations are really good ! And the filesizes didn’t change !
I updated "protoculous", the prototype+scriptaculous file compressed I made.
Go to http://protoculous.wikeo.be to download it.
See you soon !
Its great. I had tried and found super.. Congrats
Really spectaculous!
Is there a list of chanages for this version posted somewhere?
hot diggerty
Looks like you broke Effect.Fade and Effect.Appear in IE again. Not to be too harsh, but you should really consider testing on the browser that has 80% market share.
@Greg: Could you please elaborate on this? The functional tests are working fine for me. If you do find a bug, please report it on the mailing list and/or trac! thanks!
I figured it out. It seems that in quirks mode, alpha opacity won’t work on absolutely positioned elements. Man I hate IE. Again, my apologies for jumping to conclusions.
Hi !
Thanks for your great job !
If you have speed problems with sortable+drag and drop, don’t load scriptaculous.js. Just load effects and dragdrop.
I have some problems with fade and IE7 too. It works perfectly with firefox.
You hate it? Given the fact that more and more users skip to IE7, it won’t be long. It is harder for me – the striking absolute majority of the xUSSR serfers still use IE6. And since Vista has been generally labeled raw and buggy and bloaty here, it will be a long time before a major shift will occur. Probably not before a new Windows is released. Man, the MS did screw it up with Vista!
when will it be released?
Is it possible to use prototype 1.5.1 with script.aculo.us 1.7.0 instead?
My apologies, it seems that the opacity effects aren’t working for me at all in IE. I tried using older versions of scriptaculous and got the same problem. It must be something to do with the page I’m working on. The only thing I’ve figured out so far is that it is in quirks mode, where I have previously only worked with standards compliant mode. Do filters not work in quirks mode? Most of the code is pretty old, so getting it out of quirks mode is really not likely to happen. I haven’t found any indication on google that opacity filters don’t work in quirks mode, so maybe it’s something specific to our code here.
Anyway, I apologize for jumping to conclusions. Previous releases have broken things in IE, so I assumed this was another case of that.
you should include Effect.Tooltip
http://www.illustate.com/playground/scriptaculous/tooltip/http://www.illustate.com/playground/scriptaculous/tooltip/
this is really missing in Scriptaculous :p
btw, thanks for this great release !
hi,
i know that there is a wiki and a bug-tracking system, but just one short question: sorting tree and inserting nodes into empty containers does not work correctly – am i right? somehow on the second or third level it is not possible to insert nodes into empty containers…
just a short info about being right with my experience or totally wrong would be great.
The example on http://dev.oriontransfer.co.nz/SortableTree/original/index.html (older version of scriptaculous) works great, but 1.7.1beta3 seems to have some problems: http://sven-tietje.de/js/sort.html
it is not ver motivating for you to get that feedback in here, but in fact i`m really satisfied with scriptaculous!
our team has found the bug – setting the tree options hash somehow goes wrong.
correct would be:
———————————————-
var options_for_tree = {
onHover: Sortable.onEmptyHover,
overlap: options.overlap,
containment: options.containment,
hoverclass: options.hoverclass,
tree: options.tree
}
———————————————–
the tree: options.tree ist new.
Your script is great. thanks, I’m new here but after little experiments I must say that I’ll start using it instead moo fx
script.aculo.us 1.7.0 just plain ROCKS! Thank you!
Download the latest stable Prototype version—1.5.1.1 (June 19, 2007) !!
Thanks for your supports.
You rock. Keep up the good work!
any ideas why scriptaculous would cause an access error during page load when the page is used in an out-of-domain iframe?
I wish there would be a reset option for sortables~ I don’t know how this is implemented and it seems difficult to reset to the original order.
Great work! And thanks for latest correstion. Always nice to visit this site!
Good and flexible code.
I got another bug!
When you have a Draggable the opacity goes only back to 0.999999. That hurts a little bit because after the drag the list is not color true!
I think in this version the Effect.Opacity has a problem with Opera. When you fade something from opacity < 1.0 to 1.0, the element disappears after it reached 100% of opacity.
Let’s assume the following code:
function switchMe(subnum,subtype) {
var a = new Effect.Puff(document.getElementById("sub" + subnum + "_a"));
var b = new Effect.Appear(document.getElementById("sub" + subnum + "_b"))
…
}
—-
onClick="switchMe(‘rm<?=$i+1?>’,'a’)"
If I click the button twice, text loses his location, it’s showed at same x,y but not in the span was before. The following clicks switches the text in and out of the span.
When
Thanks a lot!
nice, just took me a while to figure out to use this one instead of the last stable with the lastest prototype version
got those recursion errors all the time…
Hey,
Does beta 3 fix the s is undefined error?
Thanjs