Change log

• features of the new 2008 version:
  1. now running on Dojo 1.2
  2. now using the new Dojo DataGrid widget
  3. now using Django templates
  4. now using Python on the server
  5. pages now have unique URLs
  6. pages appear correctly even if you don't have JavaScript running (which means Google can index them)
  7. our plugin views are now widgets (subclasses of dijit._Widget)
  8. now running against a real back-end datastore: currently provided by Google App Engine
  9. now runs cross-browser (old OpenRecord ran only in Firefox, new one runs at least partially in: IE, Safari, Chrome, Firefox)
  10. modest UI cleanup
  11. added UI to let people create and delete notebooks (rather than having everything in a single document)
  12. added UI to let people re-order sections on a page
  13. added UI to let people create and edit items in List plugin
  14. added UI to let people delete pages, sections, and items
  15. added simple UI features designed to let people create websites that are "Powered by OpenRecord" but which display their own website name and/or logo
  16. ...
• missing features, which the old 2007 version used to have:
  1. new Table plugin is view-only, where the old Table plugin was editable:
  2. have not yet replaced old plugins: Detail, Bar Chart, Timeline, Scatter Plot
  3. have not yet replaced old code that used to keep track of item change version history
  4. have not yet replaced old code that allowed multi-value attributes
  5. have not yet replaced old code that allowed Date attributes (and flexible Dates like "Oct 1962")
  6. have not yet replaced old code that allowed item-reference attributes
  7. have not yet replaced old code that allowed you to add columns to a table
  8. ...