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<title>jscalendar release notes</title>
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<a href="http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/">The Coolest DHTML Calendar</a><br />
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© <a href="http://www.dynarch.com/">Dynarch.com</a> 2002 and later.
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<h1>jscalendar release notes</h1>
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<p>This release compiled at Monday, 7 Mar 2005 (19:06).</p>
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<h2>1.0</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Added support for multiple dates selection. In this mode the
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calendar will allow the user to select more than one date, and
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will maintain an array of selected dates that can be
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investigated from your custom handlers. Sample in <a
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href="multiple-dates.html">multiple-dates.html</a>.
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</li>
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<li>
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Support for “day info”. Using this feature you can display
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custom information for certain dates. Sample in <a
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href="dayinfo.html">dayinfo.html</a>. Note that if the text
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is really big the calendar layout might appear somehow broken;
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this is something that should be easy to fix in the CSS file.
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</li>
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<li>
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Clicking on “Today” will now close the calendar if the current
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date is already selected.
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</li>
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<li>
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The “first day of week” setting can now be defined in the
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language file--after all, it is locale-specific. The new
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parameter is “Calendar._FD”. Language files should be
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updated, but the calendar will not complain nor fail to
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function if the parameter is not present.
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</li>
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<li>
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Some fixes to make the thing work in Safari. It now seems to
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be properly supported, please let me know if you encounter any
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problems.
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</li>
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<li>
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New skin: Aqua theme, appropriate for MacOSX fan sites :-)
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This theme is located in “skins/aqua/theme.css” (in the
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future, all themes will go to this directory).
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</li>
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<li>
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<b>Bug fixes.</b>
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<ul>
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<li>
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Keyboard operation now functions normally when the
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calendar is displaying days from adjacent months; it might
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even work correctly for months containing disabled dates
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:). This fix was originally developed under contract for
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<a
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href="http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/products/prod1/">The
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Zapatec Calendar</a>. Zapatec kindly allowed us to
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include the bugfixes back in the open source calendar.
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<li>
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Fixed the time selection bug: the previous version would
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reset the time to current time when a new date was
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clicked.
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</li>
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<li>
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Parsing hours like "12:XX pm" would wrongfully replace
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"pm" with "am"--fixed.
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</li>
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<li>
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Fixed critical bugs in parseDate function that would
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initialize the calendar with 'NaN' values in all cells if
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the string to be parsed is not a valid date.
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</li>
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<li>
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The golbal variable that we are using was renamed to
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“_dynarch_popupCalendar” to minimize the risk of name
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clashes. It's still difficult to get rid of it.
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</li>
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<li>
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Added z-index property to drop-down menus style.
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</li>
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<li>
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The calendar will update an input field even in flat mode,
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if an input field was passed. Also, the “showOthers”
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parameter will be effective in both popup and flat mode.
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</li>
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Others, probably.
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</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>
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Documentation & sample files updated.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>0.9.6</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>
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"Smart" (TM :-) positioning algorithm. The new algorithm will
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try to keep the calendar in the browser view, which is helpful
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in situations when the input field is near the bottom or the
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right edge. This code is only tested with IE and Mozilla, but
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it should work with other browsers too. Many thanks to <a
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href="http://www.ex3.com">Sunny Chowdhury</a> for sponsoring
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this feature!
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</li>
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<li>
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Support for IE5/Win is back. I also want to thank Janusz
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Piwowarski for keeping his eye on the CVS ;-) He reviewed my
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IE5-related changes and sent me a much cleaner patch.
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</li>
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<li>
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The calendar will now allow any day of week to be "the first
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day of week". This was requested long time ago, by someone
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whose name I forgot (sorry). The reason was that in certain
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countries weeks start on Saturday. So I thought that instead
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of having a "mondayFirst" and a "saturdayFirst" parameter,
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:-), it's better to have a "firstDayOfWeek" parameter; now
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it's present and its meaning is: "0 for Sunday", "1 for
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Monday", "2 for Tuesday", etc. The equivalent parameter for
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Calendar.setup is "firstDay". The end user can also change
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it very easy: click on the day name in the calendar display.
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</li>
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<li>
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The above feature triggered one <b>important change</b>: the
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notion of "weekend" is now defined in the language file.
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Added parameters:
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<pre>
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Calendar._TT["WEEKEND"] = "0,6";
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Calendar._TT["DAY_FIRST"] = "Display %s first";</pre>
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"WEEKEND" specifies a string with comma-separated numbers from
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0 to 7; they define what days are marked as "weekend". 5 and
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6 mean, of course, "Sunday" and "Saturday". Day first is the
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tooltip displayed when a day name is hovered; "%s" will get
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replaced with the day name. Updated languages are "en" and
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"ro", which I maintain. Please note that languages wich are
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not updated <b>will not work</b>. If yours is one of them,
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please consider fixing it and sending me the fix so that I can
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include it in the distro.
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</li>
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<li>
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The calendar can now display days from the months adjacent to
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the currently displayed one. This is optional, of course, and
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the parameter name is "showsOtherMonths" (or "showOthers" in
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Calendar.setup). All theme files were updated.
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</li>
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Displays "Time:" near the time selector, only if defined in
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the language file.
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</li>
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<li>
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Some bugs fixed in the date parsing code (which has also been
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rewritten a little bit cleaner).
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</li>
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<li>
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Calendar.setup will now configure the calendar to trigger the
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input fields' "onchange" event, if specified, when a date is
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selected.
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New parameter in Calendar.setup: "cache" (<b>defaults to
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false</b>). If set to true then the popup calendar object
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will be "cached", meaning, it will be created only once, no
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matter how many input fields are there in the page. Sometimes
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this is not desirable, which is why I've added this
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parameter. Please note that it defaults to "false" (thus the
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default behavior has changed).
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</li>
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Added a simple PHP wrapper. It provides code which loads all
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the required scripts and theme file, and one function which
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creates and configures an input field for date input. It
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takes care of creating and assigning unique ID-s for the
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calendar fields and it also creates the "Calendar.setup" code.
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Functions to create more specialized fields can be added very
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easily. This feature was requested by the FreeMED.org project
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(thanks for donating!).
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Wow, there were quite some changes :-D Enjoy it!</p>
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<h2>0.9.5</h2>
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<p>
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This release's primary goal is to fix a wrong license statement which
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can be found in some files from 0.9.4. For instance in README or
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calendar.js, the statement was that the code is distributed under the
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GNU GPL; that's because I had plans to change the license, then
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changed my mind but unfortunately I committed files so. I am sorry
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for this inconvenience, please use the latest (0.9.5) release which is
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fully covered by LGPL.
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</p>
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<p>Other changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<b>Fixed</b> an annoying bug that prevented the calendar to display
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correctly when it was configured for an input field inside a
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<b>scrolling area</b>. <b>Many thanks</b> to Ian Barrack (<a
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href="http://www.simban.com">Simban.com</a>) who pointed it up and
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donated quite some money for the Calendar project!
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</li>
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<li>
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All examples use UTF-8 now; the translations may not be all
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up-to-date, but I <strong>strongly</strong> suggest everyone to use
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UTF-8; other encodings are a plain mess. So far I know for sure
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that Romanian translation will work with UTF-8 and <em>not
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anymore</em> with ISO-8859-2. Other translations are probably
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usable under UTF-8, but if your preferred language isn't... ;-)
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please make it and send it to me for inclusion.
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</li>
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<li>
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Fixed small bug in the documentation (one footnote didn't appear
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where it should have).
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</li>
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<li>
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Updated translations: DE, ES, HU, IT, RO. Thanks to everyone who
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sent translations!
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>0.9.4</h2>
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<h3>New stuff</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Supports time selection. Yes. ;-) This work has been largely
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sponsored by <strong>Himanshukumar Shah</strong> (thank you!). See
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the docs and example files for details on how to setup.</li>
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<li>Easy to link 2 or more fields by using the new
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<code>onUpdate</code> parameter of <code>Calendar.setup</code>. This
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is useful, say, to automatically set a value in a second field based
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on the value selected in the first field. See the documentation and
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first sample in <a href="simple-1.html">simple-1.html</a>.</li>
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<li>Other <code>Calendar.setup</code> low-level parameters, for those
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wanting to have the complete control: <code>onSelect</code> and
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<code>onClose</code>. The handlers are called when something is
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selected in the calendar or when the calendar is closed.</li>
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<li>The translation files can optionally include the short day names
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and the short month names. That's because in some languages, like
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German, the short form is not the first 3 letters of the entire name
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but only the first 2. Also in other languages short names can't be
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as easily derived from the full name by just calling substr, so this
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patch solves the problem.</li>
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<li>Implemented a nice way to make some dates "special" (look
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different). Specifically, the <code>setDisabledHandler</code> method
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was replaced with the more general <code>setDateStatusHandler</code>
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method (the old one is still available for backwards compatibility but
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<em>will</em> be removed). More details about this in the
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documentation. Also see <a href="simple-3.html">simple-3.html</a>
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for a live sample.</li>
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<li>Date parsing and formatting engine is now rewritten and supports a
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subset of <code>strftime</code> format specifiers from ANSI C. This
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makes it possible to use dates like "YYYYMMDD" (the corresponding
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format for this would be "%Y%m%d"). Details in the documentation.
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<b>Please note that the new engine is not compatibile with older
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calendar releases!</b></li>
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<li>Along with the new date parser I workarounded an unpleasant crash
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that occurred in IE when certain accented characters appeared in the
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texts. I think German was one of the language with such problems, and
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the workaround was to use the letter without an accent. Well, now you
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can translate to whatever you want.</li>
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<li>"Fixes" (I mean, "horrible workarounds") for Konqueror (and
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hopefully Safari). Unfortunately, this otherwise excellent browser
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still has some bugs that keep the calendar from working
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<em>exactly</em> as it should.. But they're going to be fixed,
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right? ;-)</li>
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<li>CSS themes got pretty much modified too so if you wrote your theme
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you need to update it. Aside for the time selector support, the CSS
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themes contain a simple hack that makes the navigation buttons show
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a little arrow in the lower-right corner which indicates that if one
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holds the mouse a menu will appear.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Translation files</h3>
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<p>The translation files need to be updated in order for the calendar to
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work properly. Currently the only updated files are calendar-en.js
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(main file) and calendar-ro.js (well, yes, I am a Romanian ;-).</p>
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<p>Specifically, they need the following:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Correct date format, according with the new format specifiers
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introduced in 0.9.4. Details about the available format specifiers
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in the documentation</li>
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<li>Short day or month names, <em>if required</em>. If they can be
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derived by taking the first N letters of the full name then a simple
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Calendar._SDN_len = N or Calendar._SMN_len = N will suffice. If N
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is 3 then nothing needs to be done as we take it for granted if no
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other option is offered ;-)</li>
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<li>We have some new texts that shows short usage information as well
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as copyright information.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>If your favorite language is not there yet, or it is but not updated
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according to the main calendar-en.js file, then please consider
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translating calendar-en.js and send the translation back to me so that
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I include it in the official distribution.</p>
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<h3>Bug status</h3>
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<p>Check <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=544285&group_id=75569&func=browse">SourceForge</a>,
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I didn't keep track. However, there were a lot of bugfixes.</p>
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<h2>0.9.3</h2>
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<h3>New stuff</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Opera 7 compatibility — keyboard navigation is
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still not available; text selection can't be disabled, leading to an
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ugly effect when walking through the month/year menus.</li>
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<li>Ability to align the calendar relative to the input field (or any
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other element). Vertical: top, center, bottom. Horizontal: left,
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center, right. This is established as a new parameter for
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<tt>showAtElement</tt>.</li>
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<li>Added <tt>dateClicked</tt> property (boolean). This can be
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inspected in the "onSelect" handler to determine if a date was
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really clicked or the user only changed month/year using the menus.
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You <em>need</em> to check this for "single-click" calendars and
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only close/hide the calendar if it's <tt>true</tt>.</li>
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<li>Full documentation in <a href="doc/html/reference.html">HTML</a>
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and <a href="doc/reference.pdf">PDF</a> format is now available in the
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distribution archive.</li>
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<li>New language definition files: HU, HR, PT, ZH. Thanks those who
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submitted!</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Bug status</h3>
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<p>This covers only those bugs that have been reported <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jscalendar" target="_blank"
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title="Project page at SourceForge">at SourceForge</a>.</p>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=703238&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#703,238</tt></a> — fixed</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=703814&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#703,814</tt></a> — fixed</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=716777&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#716,777</tt></a> — closed (was fixed already in 0.9.2-1)</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=723335&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#723,335</tt></a> — fixed</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=715122&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#715,122</tt></a> — feature request; implemented.</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721206&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,206</tt></a> — fixed (added "refresh()" function)</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721833&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,833</tt></a> — fixed (bug concerning the "yy" format
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parsing)</li>
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<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=721833&group_id=75569&atid=544285" target="_blank"
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title="Go to bug description at sourceforge"><tt>#721,833</tt></a> — won't fix (we won't set the time to
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midnight; time might actually be useful when we implement support
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for time selection).
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<hr />
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<address><a href="http://dynarch.com/mishoo/">Mihai Bazon</a></address>
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