January 2007 – Weapon of Choice

PunchCard 1.2 Released Today

Simplified the inclusion of the PunchCard code in a page
The configuration of a widget is now by means of a metaboject, and is compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict
Updated the code to use version 1.1.1 of the jQuery library (bundled)
The example.html file shows how to put on the same page as many widgets as you like. Each of them can have it’s own style
Simplified the stylesheets. Add new styles for colors and shapes of the widgets to the punchcard.css stylesheet (compare with example.html)

(the greeny thing below this line is a punchcard)

Changes

Changed the recipes format to JSON. Previous recipes need a small conversion. Just compare to a JSON recipe and you’ll see how to
Improved support for dynamic setups, by means of metaobjects, which allow a clean configuration on a per element basis
Improved support for static setups
New examples show how to configure static and dynamic setups
- static: recipes and stylesheets linked from the page
- dynamic: recipes and stylesheets downloaded on demand
The examples also show how to mix languages in the same page, manually configure a mixed language setup, use metaobjects, use a dynamic download in a static setup
Added an option for preventing CSS downloading on demand
Added a new recipe and example for pure HTML
Updated the bundled jQuery library to version 1.1.1
Dropped support for Code Highlighter styleSets. It’s very easy to convert a styleSet to a JSON recipe, though
Fixed a bug in the white space’s rendering
Improved the white space’s rendering in Opera9.1
Added scope protection to all the Chili code
Tested with IE7, FF1.5, Opera9.1

Files

H is the 8th letter of the Latin alphabet
H and 8 often have very similar names:
- in English: H=aitch, 8=eight
- in Spanish: H=hache, 8=ocho
- in Italian: H=acca, 8=otto
H is the 8th most frequent letter of English
the three most frequent letters of English are: e, t, a