Release Notes

Release 2.0.1

The CSS

• Added background color to section body (helps make fades on mac browsers work better).
• Updated colors in documentation to correct contrast errors.
• Removed redundant copyright notices from included files.

HTML

• Changes to markup to address accessibility issues:
  • Made selected tab bold, normal tabs not, for distinction in high contrast mode
  • Added static ARIA attributes (any dynamic updates should be made by product teams)
  • Made page titles unique
  • Added lotusAltText to breadcrumbs with active dividers
  • Changed ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 for multi-language testing
• Made sure example links didn't have an actual href value and example forms don't submit.

Miscellanous

• Added example HTML to the breadcrumb component page
• Made various build improvements
• Various documentation updates:
  • Information about accessibility
  • Information about CSS sprites
  • Added more copyright, trademarks, and legal stuff
  • Added a statement about PNG 8
  • Fixed a broken cross-reference link from search component to searchTab component
  • Added some clarity about the dojo files, prompted by a question from development

Bug Fixes

• Regression fix: underlining of person links and tags was showing up on hover because of added pseudo link visited class - moved this to the reset style definition of active and visited links
• Added the active pseudo link class to the regular, hover and focus definitions for buttons that are created using a link to make sure underline doesn't ever show up
• Partial fix for improving inconsistent size of action buttons in IE6 (changed margins on the img tag from pixels to ems)
• Fix to keep Dojo 1.3 + and - high contrast calendar controls from showing up when not in high contrast. (This fix was triggered by a change in the dojo code)
• Update gold theme so top level navigation is more readable when it wraps to two lines
• Fix for utility links cutting off characters in Korean language
• Fix to make vcard pop up on interactive page
• Fixed various markup corrections identified by WebKing such as: missing closing tags, missing attributes, syntax errors, etc.

Release 2.0.0

The CSS

• Added margins with !important to lotusTabs li so it can be imbedded inside other components without inheriting margins.
• Created lotusTabContent style to allow a defined tab content area (with borders)
• Fixed button text alignment for link buttons.
• Some visual tweaks to the welcome page (alignment of button and links and size of header text).
• Visual updates (only) for the customize palette to create more "depth."
• Added general classes lotusBorderTop and lotusBorderBottom, to give some options of separator bars in the UI (they would be applied as an additional class to an element).
• Updated list component to get rid of bullets on nested lists
• Added lotusFieldBorder class which can be assigned to a div that wraps an input or textarea field in a form/dialog form. It makes the field stand out more.
• Added b and i tags to default style definitions for strong and em tags (technically b and i are deprecated in html, but people are still using them).
• Tweaks to comments layout.
• Sprited background images. Triggered by lotusSpritesOn class on the body tag.
• Adjust alignment of the search component. Also incorporated some styles from individual products.
• Added the following general classes: lotusBig, lotusBold, lotusItalic.
• Removed product-specific classes: lotusIconActivity, lotusIconBlog, lotusIconCommunities, lotusIconConnections
• Added right padding to the section h3 tag to prperly align the help icon.
• Restored the width of the paging controls to the full width of the palette, because there wasn't enough room to accommodate Chinese characters.

HTML

New components (both HTML and CSS)

• Added a new version of the widget - lotusWidget2. Gets rid of built-in left and right margins, adds padding to the wisget body, moves the footer outside of the widget body.
• Added a lotusUpdateStatus version of a lotusPost (comment).

The following are HTML changes required for components.

• Added lotusAltText for + button and ratings images to make customize palette accessible in high contrast mode. Removed alt="+" from blank.gif and substituted alt="" so two plus signs wouldn't show up when images are turned off.
• Added lotusPaletteWidgets wrapper (wraps all the widgets) to allow paging controls to be positioned at the bottom of the palette.
• Added a sample to the header component page of a header with an image.
• Added a span around the deleted comment example in the forum and applied a class of lotusIndent10, to give it some left padding.
• The welcome page search button was missing the lotusBtn class. Added it.
• Added lotusAlignRight class to widget table cells containing the show/hide icons.
• Moved lotusLogo in the banner to a background image.
• Changed the lotusLoginLogo class on the login page to lotusLogo and added lotusAltText for high contrast mode. Kept the lotusLoginLogo class in the definitions for now, but it is deprecated.
• Redid the status version of a comment to include a profile picture instead of the quote icon.
• Replaced show/hide links with double arrow icons (show and hide text remains the alternate text for high contrast mode).

Images

• Updated paletteAdd.gif and paletteAddHover.gif to stand out better against the new widget background color.
• Separated arrows and view control image sprites into separate graphics.
• Replaced lightboxHeaderBkgd.gif with a 1-pixel-wide version.
• Switched to themable buttons for search, add, and close (iconSearch16.png, iconAdd16.png, iconClose16.png). Involves html and CSS changes, as well as new images (see migration guide for details).
• Added some missing RTL images
• Consolidated some arrow images so there aren't so many varieties.
• Replaced iconShow.gif and iconHide.gif files to the double down and double up arrows.
• All gifs were converted to PNG. Most are converted to PNG 8. Many PNG 8 images have alpha transparency.

Deleted:

• Product-specific logos/icons

Miscellaneous

• Removed all original sprites from the UI and replaced with new spriting process
• Removed references to product-specific functions. Changed to Bookmarks or replaced with generic text.

Bug Fixes

• Selected tab in tab component was missing the extra div added for styling.
• Added lotusAltText and some extra styling for proper "high contrast mode" and "images off" display when using blank.gif as a foreground image "window" for a background image.
• Fixed the lotusSubsection left and right margins (set them to 0).
• Fix for display issues with long lists of application links in the banner (supplied by Jordan Liggitt).
• Fixed FF2 display issues for view controls in RTL.
• Fixed hover and focus state declarations for view controls.
• Fixed RTL display issues for customize palette.
• Fixed left alignment of "Show:" text in paging controls.
• Fixed lotusTiny/lotusAction font size resetting declaration
• Fixed regression of close button in dialog. Needed to qualify the style to h1/h2 tags.
• Needed to add lotusCommentItem class to li tags in a lotusCommentList to keep any lists inside the comments from being affected by the lotusCommentList li styles.
• Added a lotusCommentInput class to the lotusAddComment a tag to keep styles from clashing with the form cancel link when the UI switches to the form for input.
• Fixed RTL layout issue for IE7 when you maximize and restore the UI (the interface shifts).
• Fixed RTL and high contrast display isues for the person card
• Global high contrast fixes confined to the CSS:
  • Person Card
  • Tree/Org Chart
  • Dojo Calendar
  • Comments
  • List (delete icons, compressed extra space)
• High contrast fixes requiring lotusAltText (or other HTML changes):
  • Person card twisty arrows.
  • Menu subsection twisties
  • Drag handle for lotusSection
  • Search scope drop-down
  • More button arrows
  • Scroll arrows on sidebar widget
  • Selection on action menus (example on interactive.htm page. More sorts menu.)
  • Sort
  • Display controls - requires additional lotusSelected class on lotusView link that is selected.
• Fixed alignment of cancel links in forms in IE.
• Fixed truncated about box in IE6.
• Fixed related links jumping on hover.

Known Issues

• Dojo slider display issues in RTL mode, particularly IE7. This appears to be an issue with the actual dojo code base.