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Chili 1.5 Released Today

UPDATE: Chili 1.6 has been released

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

  • download all in a zip
  • read the manual
  • Examples (static)
  • Examples (dynamic)
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Magic H/8

  • 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

Eta

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Javascript Zombies

Javascript examples tend to zombify quite fastly. It’s pretty easy to make up a page for showing something, but very soon that page becomes unusable. I’m constantly finding many broken javascript examples in the internet.

And the semantic of a broken javascript example is a logic problem nobody can solve. Is it broken by accident or on purpose? Was it already broken when created? Who, what, where, when did it break? Is it a browser test? Am I doing something wrong?

Maybe we should refrain from presenting online examples.