Development Tools Now Available  16 Jan 2012, 2:01 pm

For anyone who is using the latest development version of SimplePie (known as 1.3-dev), you might have noticed that the readme mentions SimplePie.compiled.php in the same vein as our previous simplepie.inc. However, in the past, you had to check out the entire repository just to build this.

I’m happy to announce that a pre-built version is now available at dev.simplepie.org. This version is rebuilt within 5 minutes of pushing to GitHub, so it will always be up-to-date with our current development version.

In addition, API documentation built from our PHPDoc comments is now available on dev.simplepie.org. This documentation is designed to give you a bit more of an insight into the SimplePie API, than the wiki. Don’t worry though, our wiki isn’t going anywhere any time soon!

If you encounter any problems, as usual, let us know via the issue tracker.

SimplePie 1.2.1 is Now Available!  15 Oct 2011, 6:22 am

I’m excited to finally announce the immediate availability of SimplePie 1.2.1. This release fixes a few bugs, including a major URL parsing bug, where URLs with query strings were parsed incorrectly. For a full list of what has been changed in this version, see the commits since 1.2, and the issues closed in 1.2.1. This is a recommended upgrade for all users.

Grab it now to upgrade!

So now, a quick status update on the project. Our last blog post noted that we were ceasing development, mainly due to the lack of time we had to devote to the project. However, I am pleased to report that development has been continuing on GitHub. With the help of users and other developers, hacking has been taking place on our two main upcoming versions (1.2.1 and 1.3), with occasional development on ComplexPie, the future base of SimplePie 2.0.

The major version undergoing changes is the master branch (1.3-dev). The major change so far is the restructuring of SimplePie into a more maintainable structure, with one file per class. Major thanks goes to Drak from the Zikula Foundation for undertaking the main body of work. All the classes have also been changed to use PHP 5 code, including proper visibility for methods and properties, and dropping any deprecated code. There are also a lot more unit tests, with more to come before release.

In addition, the one-dot-two branch continues as the legacy PHP 4-compatible branch, with 1.2.1 hopefully our final release on the branch. Occasional bugfix releases will be made on this branch, but no major development is occurring here. New issues are always welcome!

Finally, if you’re reading this, the site has finally been migrated to a new server (thanks to Matt for hosting!). If any brokenness is noticed, please feel free to file a bug on the website bug tracker. That’s all for now, look forward to the release of 1.2.1 in the upcoming future, and thanks for using SimplePie!

SimplePie is ceasing development  26 Sep 2009, 8:48 pm

A little over 5 years ago – July 20, 2004 to be exact – I posted the very first public version of SimplePie as a set of functions that sat on top of MagpieRSS, in an effort to make RSS parsing even easier and more accessible to PHP developers around the world. Since that time, SimplePie has become the de-facto RSS/Atom parsing software for PHP. The software is in use by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, is integrated into more third-party software than I can keep track of, and has been used in everything from blogs and wikis to sites powered by some of the largest brands in the world.

A couple of years ago I co-founded my first company and that has ended up taking a large portion of my time. As part of that, I’ve also released a new open-source project called CloudFusion (formerly Tarzan) that is beginning to take the Amazon Web Services and Cloud Computing world by storm. Geoffrey has spent a lot of time in school, building tools to help the HTML 5 community, and now has a gig working for Opera. There quite simply isn’t much time for SimplePie anymore – for either of us.

We’ve tried to build a community around SimplePie – one where people can help each other, provide tips and tricks, record screencasts, and eventually take over the development of the project. Parts of this were successful while other parts were not. Geoffrey and I have had the pleasure of working alongside some smart, talented people over the years including Ryan McCue, Michael Shipley, Steve Minutillo and many others, but for whatever reason we never developed enough steam to keep it all going despite Geoffrey and my best efforts and other commitments.

So effective immediately, we are ceasing development of SimplePie and shutting down the project. We will shortly be pushing all code to GitHub. The mailing list will continue to serve users for the time being, but my sincerest hope is that someone will take up the charge to fork SimplePie, fix all of its issues, and continue on with this project that’s been such a huge part of my life for the past 5 years.

I’ll be around for a few more weeks to help ease the transition to GitHub and whatever community springs up around that. I’ll probably continue to keep an eye on the mailing list and help where I can, but that doesn’t mean that I’ll be able to answer everyone’s questions. Geoffrey and I sincerely appreciate all of the users we’ve had over the years, the kind words, and all of the cool Amazon wishlist purchases that have shown up on our doorsteps over the years. I hope someone else will take up the mantle for the RSS/Atom/PHP community like SimplePie and MagpieRSS before it.

SimplePie 1.2 now available!  11 Jul 2009, 12:06 pm

SimplePie 1.2 is now available. This release adds a few features that have been requested often, especially caching in MySQL (instead of on the filesystem) and the ability to autodetect more than one feed. Furthermore, a large number of bugs have been fixed, a mixture of low-priority bugs found throughout 1.1′s release-cycle, and a few larger bugs found after 1.1.3′s release.

However, it removes support for hosts that were affected by the libxml2 issue in SimplePie 1.1.1 and below that run PHP versions prior to 5.1.0 (this is as we have a new workaround, which does not subtly change the feed). As a result, any host with a version of libxml2 of 2.7.0 or above with less than PHP 5.1.0 will be broken by this release (however, I expect this accounts for around zero hosts, as I expect those with an up-to-date libxml2 release will equally have an up-to-date PHP release). This leaves our support at better than SimplePie 1.1.1, and (theoretically, at least) worse than 1.1.2 and 1.1.3. Needless to say, this release is API-compatible with previous 1.x releases, so it should be as simple as a drop-in replacement. Feel free to check out the release notes for more details.

The intention after 1.2′s release is to move almost all development work to SimplePie 2 (an announcement concerning that is forthcoming), and as such, lower-priority bug fixes will be accepted into future 1.2.x releases. However, as is the final non-bugfix release of SimplePie 1, regressions are unacceptable, so all patches will have be reviewed by at least one release manager (as of writing, myself and Ryan Parman) and one developer (as of writing, the two RMs and Ryan McCue). One person cannot fulfil both roles for one patch.

Finally, as has been previously announced, SimplePie 2 will require (some as-of-yet undecided version of) PHP 5, so SimplePie 1.2 forms the final feature-release with support for PHP 4. PHP 4, has, however, been unsupported since 2007, so please encourage your host to upgrade (likewise, PHP 5 versions prior to PHP 5.2.10 are unsupported)!

OpenID for comments  16 May 2009, 3:02 am

We’re now supporting a technology called OpenID for comments. What does that mean for you? It means that you can sign-in and comment on our blog with your existing account from Google/Gmail, Yahoo!, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Windows Live, Hotmail, Flickr, AOL, Blogger, WordPress.com, and others!

If you already have a registered account on our blog for commenting, you can sign-in with your existing account. From there, you can (optionally) add a third-party account that you can login with instead.

That is all.

New SimplePie Screencasts  28 Feb 2009, 9:51 pm

It would appear that this is the season for SimplePie screencasts! In the past two days, I’ve discovered a few new SimplePie-related screencasts, and I want to share them (and a couple of older ones) with you.

• Introduction to SimplePie ? Ryan Parman gives you a solid once-over about setting up SimplePie, merging feeds together, auto-discovery, and a few other popular features.
• Adding RSS Content with SimplePie ? Chris Coyier discusses more of the basics from another developer’s perspective.
• Quick Tip: Super SimplePie! ? Niki Brown quickly shows you how to drop RSS content into an existing page.
• CodeIgniter and SimplePie ? Elliot Haughin shows how to integrate SimplePie into your CodeIgniter projects.
• Extending SimplePie to Parse Unique RSS Feeds ? Jeffrey Way dives a bit deeper and talks about how to extend SimplePie’s functionality while playing with a little jQuery.

You can find even more tips, tricks, tutorials, and screencasts in the SimplePie wiki.

Deprecating SimplePie Live!  21 Feb 2009, 3:14 am

Although SimplePie Live! was a cool concept, and something that I would have liked to see be successful, I simply haven’t had the time to put into it for nearly a year and a half now. One of these days I’d like to relaunch it when I have more time and resources to put into it, because I believe it could be a useful tool if executed properly.

That being said, we’ll be shutting down the SimplePie Live! service in the next couple of weeks. This will be the only notice we’ll provide (which probably isn’t a big deal because there are nearly zero users). Instead, I would recommend either using SimplePie (for PHP) or a service like Google AJAX Feed API.

SimplePie 1.1.3 is now available!  20 Dec 2008, 6:13 pm

SimplePie 1.1.3 is now available (like 1.1.2, “core” plugin will be updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves the one major issue that 1.1.2 created (gzip decoding errors while using fsockopen()), and fully resolves the other major issue that 1.1.2 didn’t fully address (a workaround of a libxml2 bug).

Grab the latest release to upgrade!

SimplePie 1.1.2 is now available!  16 Nov 2008, 6:42 pm

My departure was never going to be immediate, but I didn’t expect to be doing this (as Ryan always does this); however, the time has come (for me!) to announce the immediate availability of SimplePie 1.1.2 (“core” plug-ins will be updated soon). This is a bugfix-only release that resolves some of the things that weren’t caught until we after released 1.1.1 (including, interestingly, one very major bug that had existed for years ? it never ceases to amaze me how rarely the web is sensible enough to do what is obvious and should be done to hit such bugs).

Download the latest release to upgrade!

Weigh in on SimplePie 2  30 Sep 2008, 3:04 am

SimplePie 2 is both a fork and a ground-up re-write of SimplePie. The intention is to enhance the performance by trimming the fat, to build something more extensible, to make it easier to contribute, and to optimize for the kinds of tasks that we see people wanting to do frequently.

That being said, I took some time to write down some thoughts about what should go into SimplePie 2, and I would really like to get your thoughts as well. Are there things that SP2 should do that SP1 doesn’t? Would you like to use SimplePie in ways that are currently more difficult than they should be? Are you somebody who has a different design philosophy and you think we should pay better attention to certain things? This is your chance to weigh in with your thoughts, opinions, comments, and other feedback.

Please check out Goals for SimplePie 2. Feel free to edit, change, and improve what’s there. Feel free to argue with what I’ve written. Let’s make this plan better together!

SIGINT: Kaum Fortschritte bei der GSM-Sicherheit  19 May 2012, 6:03 pm

Obwohl Schwächen bei der GSM-Verschlüsselung schon seit mindestens drei Jahren bekannt sind, haben gerade mal sieben der von GSMMap erfassten Netzbetreiber nachgebessert. Auch gegen unerwünschte Ortung per SMS unternahmen nur wenige Provider etwas.

Backdoor in Android-Handys von ZTE  19 May 2012, 4:58 pm

Über eine Hintertür können sich Angreifer Root-Rechte auf Geräten des chinesischen Herstellers ZTE verschaffen und unbemerkt Code ausführen.

Sicherheitslücke bei Kreditkartendienstleister größer als gedacht  18 May 2012, 8:00 pm

Die Sicherheitslücke beim Zahlungsabwickler Global Payments soll bereits seit Januar 2011 bestanden haben und möglicherweise über sieben Millionen Kredit- und Debitkarten kompromittieren.

Kontosperre durch Bitcoin-Lücke  18 May 2012, 4:25 pm

Durch eine Schwachstelle im Bitcoin-Client kann ein Angreifer die Verbindung eines Nutzers zum P2P-Netzwerk stören. Dadurch kann der Nutzer keine Bitcoins mehr senden oder empfangen.

Twitter folgt "Do-Not-Track"-Initiative - und testet selbst Tracking  18 May 2012, 9:05 am

"Do not Track" basiert auf dem Konzept, dass vom Nutzer in seinen Browservoreinstellungen getroffene Entscheidungen zum Datenschutz auch Auswirkungen auf den Umgang der Diensteanbieter im Netz mit personenbezogenen Daten haben sollten.

ITU will globales Abkommen für Cybersecurity vorantreiben  17 May 2012, 11:29 am

ITU-Generalsekretär Touré schlägt kleine, konkrete Schritte anstatt ideologisch geführter Grundsatzdebatten vor: gegen "Safe Harbour"-Staaten, für Kinderschutz.

Avira-Update legt Verhaltenserkennung auf Eis  16 May 2012, 5:35 pm

Nachdem die Verhaltenserkennung von Avira nach einem Service Pack wichtige Systemprozesse lahmlegte, hat der Hersteller das Problem korrigiert. Der Clou: Das Update entfernt die Verhaltenserkennung vorübergehend komplett.

Domain unter .secure nur mit Sicherheitsvorgaben  16 May 2012, 1:35 pm

Unter der gTLD .secure will Artemis eine Art Hochsicherheitstrakt im Internet errichten, über den vertrauenswürdige und sichere Dienste bereitstehen sollen. Die künftigen .secure-Anbieter müssen dazu diverse Voraussetzungen erfüllen.

Sicherheitsupdate für Windows-Version von QuickTime  16 May 2012, 11:05 am

Apple hat in der Nacht zum Mittwoch eine Aktualisierung für sein Multimedia-Wiedergabesystem online gestellt, das einige Sicherheitslücken schließt.

Chrome 19 synchronisiert Tabs  16 May 2012, 8:53 am

Die neue Ausgabe von Googles Webbrowser bereinigt auch eine Reihe von Sicherheitslücken.

Safari deaktiviert nur uralte Flash-Version  16 May 2012, 7:50 am

Apple deaktiviert nur Flash-Player-Versionen, deren Veröffentlichung mehr als anderthalb Jahre zurückliegt – und nicht wie beschrieben Flash-Player-Versionen ohne “das neueste Sicherheitsupdate”.

Avira-Update beseitigt Service-Pack-Fehler  15 May 2012, 7:31 pm

Avira hat das durch das gestrige Service Pack ausgelöste Problem, dass harmlose Prozesse blockiert werden, beseitigt. Betroffene Anwender sollen ein manuelles Update durchführen.

Weiterhin Virenalarm auf Wetter.com  15 May 2012, 4:58 pm

Wie der Betreiber gegenüber heise Security bestätigt hat, wurde über die Wetterseite noch bis zum heutigen Dienstagmittag Malware verbreitet. Wer die Seite seit Montagmorgen besucht hat, sollte besser einen Virenscan durchführen.

Avira-Update legt Rechner lahm  15 May 2012, 12:11 pm

Die kostenpflichtigen Avira-Scanner legen derzeit reihenweise Rechner lahm. Wer das jüngste Update noch nicht installiert hat, sollte es auch nicht tun.

Flashback-Entfernungswerkzeug für Leopard  15 May 2012, 10:25 am

Eigentlich unterlässt Apple Updates alter Mac-OS-X-Versionen. Wegen "Flashback" macht der Computerkonzern nun eine Ausnahme.

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lib_jquery v1.29 released  19 Apr 2012, 11:17 am

Forum member "nibz" provided a patch for the UI presets. No functional changes.

Droplets v1.72 released  10 Apr 2012, 1:16 pm

The new version fixes an error that was introduced with v1.71. Sorry.

Droplets v1.71 released  5 Apr 2012, 11:59 am

The new version includes some minor changes that were added to Droplets 1.2.0, which is part of the WB 2.8.3 download.

wbProfiles v0.76 released  29 Mar 2012, 5:35 pm

The new version fixes some problems with WB 2.8.3. You need to install wblib v0.74, too.

lib_jquery v1.28 released  23 Mar 2012, 10:21 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery core to current release 1.7.2 and jQuery UI to 1.8.18.

Bookings v2.32 released  28 Feb 2012, 11:22 am

The new version fixes a problem with WB 2.8.3.

Page Cloner v0.56 released  26 Jan 2012, 10:43 am

The new version fixes some warnings concerning deprecated PHP functions and cloning of the Form module.

First Beta of wbProfiles module available  1 Jan 1970, 1:00 am

While wbProfiles was intended to be a module for something like vCards, it has evolved very rapidly.

lib_jquery v1.26 released  1 Jan 1970, 1:00 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to current version 1.7.1.

lib_jquery v1.25 released  1 Jan 1970, 1:00 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to v1.7. (See http://blog.jquery.com/2011/11/03/jquery-1-7-released/ for details.) It also fixes a bug in no_conflict_mode() that only occured under very special circumstances.

jQuery Facebook plugin  28 Oct 2011, 12:00 am

Though I personally don't like facebook I needed a plugin for one of my clients

http://jquery.lepton-cms.org/plugins/others/jq-fbwall.php

lib_jquery v1.23 released  1 Jan 1970, 1:00 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to current version 1.6.4.

Droplets v1.7 released  8 Sep 2011, 9:48 am

The new version fixes a problem with deleting Droplets and no longer uses LibraryAdmin or jQueryAdmin to load the tablesorter jQuery plugin.

Droplets v1.63 released  6 Sep 2011, 7:17 pm

The new version integrates with LibraryAdmin and load an advanced tablesorter if available

lib_jquery v1.22 released  2 Sep 2011, 1:57 pm

The new version updates the jQuery Core to v1.6.3 and the UI to 1.8.16.

ExpCounter new release 1.2  2 Sep 2011, 11:38 am

As Volker informed me there is a new release of Expcounter, the 1.2..

New release can be downloaded...

Droplets v1.6 released  22 Aug 2011, 10:50 am

The new version now works with WB 2.8.2, too.

LibraryAdmin v1.4 released  17 Aug 2011, 6:03 pm

The new version brings some updates (CodeMirror, Dialog box) and fixes a bug. It's compatible with LEPTON 1.x and WB 2.8.x.

lib_jquery v1.21 released  5 Aug 2011, 11:11 am

The new version fixes a little bug that prevented UI Effects to work.

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Contactlist 1.0.0 released  15 Jul 2011, 9:57 am

Version 1.0.0 is available, see Modulepage for further infos or/and look at the demo.

Changes:
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Bookings v2.29 released  14 Jul 2011, 3:10 pm

The new version fixes some bugs and has some new features.

Bookings v2.28 released  6 Jul 2011, 11:45 am

The new version fixes two little and one major bugs.

New module dbQuotations  4 Jul 2011, 2:13 pm

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lib_jquery v1.19 released  4 Jul 2011, 11:48 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to current version 1.6.2 and the jQuery UI to v1.8.14.

LibraryAdmin v1.2 released  14 Jun 2011, 1:42 pm

The new version fixes some minor bugs. Please note that there's an open bug; see http://jquery.websitebakers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=66 for details.

LibraryAdmin v1.3 released  20 Jun 2011, 3:32 pm

The new version fixes a minor bug.

lib_jquery v1.17 released  6 Jun 2011, 10:50 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to v1.6.1 and the UI to 1.8.13.

Development of Release 2.8.2  26 May 2011, 10:49 am

Chio again is talking out loud what most of  the remaining WebsiteBaker supporters are thinking: WB is on the edge of being developed to death.

Please read his translated article or try the original in german.

Feel free to comment.

 

lib_jquery v1.16 released  5 May 2011, 9:48 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to version 1.6 and the jQuery UI to 1.8.12

jQueryAdmin v2.14 released  5 May 2011, 10:33 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to version 1.6 and the jQuery UI to 1.8.12

jQueryAdmin v2.13 released  11 Apr 2011, 3:25 pm

Fix: Backend breaks while editing "cycle-all" plugin in some PHP versions
Update: jQuery UI 1.8.9 -> 1.8.11 (see http://blog.jqueryui.com/2011/03/jquery-ui-1-8-11/)

Download the new version here

jQueryAdmin v2.12 released  1 Apr 2011, 1:35 pm

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to the newly released version 1.5.2.

lib_jquery v1.15 released  1 Apr 2011, 11:07 am

The new version updates the jQuery Core to new version 1.5.2. See http://blog.jquery.com/2011/03/31/jquery-152-released/ for details.

Also, this version is now released as "stable".

jQueryAdmin v2.11 released  30 Mar 2011, 5:27 pm

The new version fixes a bug that made saving of externals fail if they were not part of a UI component. (You could not save "Cookie" only, for example.)

LibraryAdmin v1.0 stable released  21 Mar 2011, 2:10 pm

After some months of hard work, LibraryAdmin has now reached "stable" development state. Please note that Droplets v1.51 is required for installation.

LibraryAdmin v0.46 RC released  8 Mar 2011, 6:00 pm

The new version should now install with the old Droplets module, too. But I've not really tested it.

LibraryAdmin first RC released  3 Mar 2011, 12:51 pm

As there seem to be no more serious bugs, the new version 0.45 is released as RC now. Please note that you need to have Droplets v1.51 installed to install LibraryAdmin.

lib_jquery 1.14 released  25 Feb 2011, 9:32 am

The new version updates the jQuery Core to v1.5.1

jQueryAdmin v2.10 released  25 Feb 2011, 9:28 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to current version 1.5.1.

LibraryAdmin v0.40 Beta released  18 Feb 2011, 2:57 pm

The LibraryAdmin module has now reached Beta state. This means "feature complete" and hopefully no more serious bugs. ;) Please give it a try!

modulelist 1.1 released  17 Feb 2011, 6:32 pm

The new version now links to the module homepage (if available) and provides an upgrade link if a newer version is found on AMASP.

Bookings 2.27 released  15 Feb 2011, 12:44 pm

The new version fixes a problem that may occur with mySQL leap seconds; this was reported especially when using XAMPP as leap seconds support is turned on there by default

lib_jquery v1.13 released  8 Feb 2011, 5:11 pm

The new version upgrades all UI component and effects examples for use with LibraryAdmin. Also, there are slight changes in the LibraryAdmin integration.

LibraryAdmin v0.27 (Alpha) released  7 Feb 2011, 1:17 pm

LibraryAdmin is the successor of jQueryAdmin and lets you use nearly any type of JavaScript library. It is nearly feature complete now, so a Beta version is coming closer.

Modify your database to utf-8  6 Feb 2011, 12:39 pm

I wanted to test Ralf's dbWatchSite on AMASP and therefore I tried to install that interesting module. But installation failed: no utf-8 charset. Now I had to set my database to standard utf-8. I took the chance and wrote down my single steps and the output is this "howto".

New sub-project: secure.websitebakers  10 Jan 2011, 3:24 pm

A new project secure.websitebakers was opened today. It's goal is to help securing existing Website Baker installations "from outside", without having to patch hundreds of core files.

jQueryAdmin v2.9 released  1 Feb 2011, 11:28 am

The new version updates the jQuery Core to v1.5

lib_jquery v1.11 released  1 Feb 2011, 10:16 am

The new version upgrades the jQuery Core to v1.5

Foldergallery_JQ 1.19  27 Jan 2011, 5:53 pm

Thanks to Blackbird the Foldergallery_JQ is now working with LibraryAdmin and jQueryAdmin out of the box.

Just install modules and wanted plugins as usual. For details see modulepage.

lib_jquery v1.10 released  26 Jan 2011, 6:09 pm

The new version upgrades jQuery UI from 1.8.7 to 1.8.9

jQueryAdmin v2.8 released  25 Jan 2011, 10:57 am

The new version fixes some small bugs and upgrades jQuery UI from 1.8.7 to 1.8.9

And the winner is...  15 Jan 2011, 9:14 am

We asked you to vote for the best module in 2011 after a few modules had been nominated by community members. For the vote was closed today I am sure you are curious to know the result.  Voting details are published on this page. I would like to thank you all for  voting and I am sure we will have a new voting for the 2011 award.

Vote Module of the Year (again)  7 Jan 2011, 12:07 pm

I am sorry to state this but it is fact: obviously 2 groups (or persons) tried to manipulate the voting.

So I set it back to the start and please vote again  until 15th of January and STOP this foolish behaviour.

Hope we are all adults here and I feel very sorry for those stupid guys. Let the really best rated module win and stop trying to make politics on this site!

jQueryAdmin v2.7 released  5 Jan 2011, 4:47 pm

The new version upgraded the jQuery UI from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7.

New module: lib_mootools  5 Jan 2011, 2:23 pm

A new library module lib_mootools is available. It brings the mooTools JavaScript Framework into Website Baker. An example plugin ("Tips") is included, too.

Vote module of the year 2010  1 Jan 2011, 11:45 am

First of all we wish you a happy new year 2011 and we hope the last night wasn't too hard.

 

As written in this article the time for nomination ended on 31^st December 2010 and it is now your turn to vote for your module of the year 2010.

New jQuery Menu Plugin  23 Dec 2010, 9:15 am

A new jQuery menu plugin was released.

If you are interested you will find neccessary informations and download at the showroom.

TinyMCE jQuery released  21 Dec 2010, 12:42 pm

This is the first integration of the tinyMCE jQuery Release that is available since release 3.3.3. It seems real faster on the first tests than the 'regular one'. But there are still some plugins to be reworked and the included editor has only beta status yet.

New Award  16 Dec 2010, 12:58 pm

At the end of the year 2010 the idea came up to award the module of the year 2010. We want the  community to nominate modules.

See this article for details.

Bugfix MPForm  13 Dec 2010, 5:39 pm

FrankH contributed a bugfix for his MPForm module. See read more link for details.

jQueryAdmin v2.6 released  8 Dec 2010, 2:19 pm

This version includes some minor bug fixes. The most important one prevented from storing changed plugin config.

Rotate 3Di  6 Dec 2010, 2:01 pm

Built a new jQuery Plugin called rotate3D and uploaded it to the showroom and download page.

Christmas Time!  1 Dec 2010, 1:43 pm

For all who are interested in christmas calendars: this one is easy to maintain and nice to use.

Even as a support for your own homepage or customer's homepage.

New jQuery Support Forum!  16 Nov 2010, 2:13 pm

A new forum was opened as part of the jQuery Showroom.

Droplets v1.51 released  29 Nov 2010, 12:49 pm

The new version contains a new (RU) and an updated (NO) language file and a minor fix.

jQueryAdmin v2.5 released  24 Nov 2010, 12:23 pm

The new version contains an upgraded FancyBox plugin and two fixes.

Droplets v1.5 released  24 Nov 2010, 4:48 pm

The new version has two fixes

Droplets v1.4. released  22 Nov 2010, 2:08 pm

The new version allows to duplicate a droplet with one click.

Bookings v2.26 released  15 Nov 2010, 12:36 pm

This is a maintenance release for the updated Bookings Droplet.

jQueryAdmin v2.4 released  12 Nov 2010, 12:15 pm

This version upgrades jQuery Core to v1.4.4 and jQuery UI to v1.8.6.

New Droplet Download Area  9 Nov 2010, 2:34 pm

Since Droplet Module Release 1.2.1 it is possible to import droplets as a zip file. In the new download area you can download current droplets to import them with  latest droplet module.

 

If you want to provide a droplet-zip please contact us

Bookings v2.25 released  8 Nov 2010, 10:42 am

This version fixes a little bug that removed Unicode chars when editing a booking.

Droplets v1.2.1 available!  5 Nov 2010, 12:25 pm

The new version provides a bunch of new functions for a better Droplets management.

Colorbox jQuery Plugin updated again (v1.3.13)  25 Oct 2010, 10:25 am

There was another update of the Colorbox jQuery Plugin.

Colorbox jQuery Plugin updated  22 Oct 2010, 11:45 am

The Colorbox plugin for use with jQueryAdmin was updated to current version 1.3.12.

EasySlider Plugin updated  16 Oct 2010, 10:38 am

The jQuery Plugin EasySlider was updated to latest release 1.7. Download is available on the showroom. Learn more about the latest release of EasySlider.

Tiny MCE 3.3.9.2 available  29 Sep 2010, 3:17 pm

This release fixes more IE 9 beta 1 issues and a few other minor issues, check the changelog for details.

dualSlider Plugin available  25 Sep 2010, 12:01 pm

The new plugin dualSlider is now  available on the plugins page.

When one animation just isn't enough you should use this plugin. For details please see demo-links of plugins or see them working at jQuery Plugin Showroom.

Tiny MCE 3.3.9.1 available  23 Sep 2010, 4:17 pm

This release fixes various browser issues but it's focused on IE 9 beta1 since some larger sites are promoting users to install this even though it's a beta and full of bugs. Some bugs are pretty serious like regexps not working correctly, CSS clipping or onload events. We have reported many of these and will continue to test and report others but it's hard to know what Microsoft will fix and what they will break for the next release. IE8 was a struggle to get working last time since from each beta new bugs appeared and some of them where never fixed even if they where reported early.

Foldergallery: new release  21 Sep 2010, 11:59 am

The foldergallery and the foldergallery-jqa are available as 1.14 now. They are exactly the same without the jQuery scripts that are loaded via jQueryAdmin. Therefore the jQueryAdmin module must be installed.
Notice: it is not possible (and it makes no sense) to run both Foldergalleries on one installation.

WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 Stable released  7 Feb 2010, 12:21 pm

after showcasing three release candidates during the last weeks the developer team is proud to present the final and stable release. In WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 several minor bugs have been fixed and some modules have been updated to new versions. In addition the bug fix for 2.8 is included.

Update from 2.8 to 2.8.1 Stable available  9 Feb 2010, 3:01 pm

Thanks to Matthias there is an update zip-file available that contains only the modified pages needed for an update from 2.8 Stable to 2.8.1 Stable. Please read this post and get your update-package. Keep in mind, that this is not an official package.

check WB requirements  11 Sep 2010, 2:29 pm

If you would like to check if your server meets the requirements to install WebsiteBaker CMS (before upload all files to the webspace) simply use this file.

Download the zip-file, upload the decompressed file via ftp to the root of your webspace and call it  http://mydomian.tld/check-wb.php

That's it.

All Modules And Snippets Project stopped  7 Sep 2010, 11:26 am

During the last months a large gap appeared between the WebsiteBaker Community and some people of that association who try to lead the project.

As you might already know I was the one who puts the association to life for I thought it was a good idea that the project is maintained by a group of persons and not by one person only.

Tiny MCE 3.38 updated  8 Sep 2010, 4:15 pm

Tiny MCE 3.39 is avialable now. This release fixes a few bugs and issues one some what critical when it comes to list handling on IE browsers. So if you are using 3.3.8 please upgrade to this release.
For further details please visit homepage of Tiny_MCE or see the changelog.

AMASP on again  7 Sep 2010, 6:15 pm

First of all thanks to everyone who contacted me and told me his thoughts.

It was not my intention to demonstrate power but to set a sign against things that are going on at the german board of the forum and the moderators that banned me obviously for personal reasons.

jQueryAdmin v2.2 released  31 Aug 2010, 12:17 pm

New Snippet "Random Hoverbox"  31 Aug 2010, 11:00 am

Shows a configurable number of randomly chosen images using the Hoverbox CSS.

Second Birthday  28 Aug 2010, 3:35 pm

On August 21^st 2008 the Project started  on it's old url www.wbmod.bplaced.net with the standard allcss2 template and wysiwyg-sections.

For more information please read this article.

Two new jQuery Plugins  23 Aug 2010, 4:57 pm

Thanks to dbs there are 2 new jQuery plugins available on the plugins page. The PicPox creates a lightbox effect and  can also be used with Foldergallery or Foldergallery-JQA, the jqFancy-Transitions plugin is another interesting slider. For details please see demo-links of plugins or see them working at jQuery Plugin Showroom.

Amazon Book Store updated  20 Aug 2010, 5:59 pm

The module Amazon Store hasn't been updated in a very long time, and there are issues with it's connections to the Amazon Web Services and the code produces quite a few errors when PHP errors are on.
Bryan King has fixed some of the errors and restored connectivity to Amazon.

Thanks for that.

I did some modifications on the info.php and module can be downloaded.

Bookings v2.24 released  19 Aug 2010, 5:11 pm

* New: Added links to all other views on top (suggested by "Vidar")
* Fix: When skipping to "next month" or "previous month" on quarter view, all bookings disappeared (reported by mail)
* Fix: Missing global var in modify.php
* Fix: Month names not translated (reported by "Vidar")
* Updated: NL.php
* New: Show Booking state (color) in the backend

Two new jQuery UI Themes available  19 Aug 2010, 11:02 am

Forum user "dbs" provided two new themes you may use with jQueryAdmin: "Humanity" and "Redmond". See the library page for a preview

jQueryAdmin v2.1 released  13 Aug 2010, 11:42 am

This update brings a new feature: You can choose a page to create a preset for using a select box. The name of the page a preset is for is also shown on mouseover. Also, the jQuery UI was upgraded from 1.8.2 to 1.8.4.

Foldergallery-JQA released  4 Aug 2010, 10:48 pm

For those who would like to use the foldergallery together with jQueryAdmin and jQuery Plugins I created this version. It is exactly the same as the foldergallery (without the jQuery scripts that are loaded via jQueryAdmin). This is the reason why this module is only about 60 KB instead of 1100KB zip-file of Foldergallery.
Notice: it is not possible (and it makes no sense) to run both Foldergalleries on one installation.

New JQuery Plugins  4 Aug 2010, 4:46 pm

There are some new Plugins on the plugins page. In addition, the modified foldergallery was integrated in the showroom and the plugins that are FGready are working on that Foldergallery. It is really easy to use foldergallery together with jQueryAdmin.

jQuery Plugin page updated  2 Aug 2010, 6:28 pm

The jQuery Plugin page is updated. All plugins are now working with latest jQueryAdmin module and there are 3 plugins added to the plugins page.

jQueryAdmin v2.0 released  2 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm

A new version of jQueryAdmin Admin Tool is available. While this is indicated as "RC" on AMASP at the moment, it is meant as a final release.

jQuery Plugin Showroom updated  31 Jul 2010, 1:07 pm

The jQuery Plugin Showroom has been updated to jQueryadmin 2beta9 Release . All Plugins had been reworked and will be offered to download on jQuery Plugin Page as soon as jQueryAdmin is finally released. All lightbox plugins are now FGready, which means that they are ready for use with extended module Foldergallery >1.02, which will be released the next days.

MyBB forum integration updates  13 Jul 2010, 9:29 pm

MyBB forum integration modul updates (0.45)

AMASP not available  11 Jul 2010, 7:04 pm

Just to let you know: on Thursday July 15^th AMASP will mostly not be available due to new server installation.  We hope to be back on Friday.

Rating jQuery Plugins  10 Jul 2010, 11:50 pm

To rate the jQuery Plugins please visit the jQuery Plugins Showroom. I am curious to see what is rated best.

Rating System  5 Jul 2010, 6:38 pm

Though I personally don't like ratings very much (because rating depends on if I need a module or not)  we implemented a rating system for all modules and snippets on AMASP. Happy voting!

Tiny MCE for iPhone  4 Jul 2010, 9:45 pm

There is a lot of questions regarding TinyMCE and why it doesn't work on the modern mobile browsers.

The Tiny MCE developers are trying to improve the editor for usage with iPhone and other mobiles.
For those who would like to help, please click here and read what you can do.

New JQuery Plugin released  2 Jul 2010, 11:51 am

Thanks to mr-fan there is a new tablesorter plugin available on the jquery-library page.  It is also shown on the jQueryPlugins Showroom.

Tiny MCE 3.38 available  30 Jun 2010, 2:48 pm

Tiny MCE 3.38 is avialable now. There had been some bugfixes and code refreshments, Tiny_mce 3.3.8. is now included. For further details please visit homepage of Tiny_MCE or see the changelog.

Foldergallery, new Release  22 Jun 2010, 3:40 pm

Thanks to Chio there is a new release of Foldergallery. There were alot of code-changes and some new and reworked functions. Download foldergallery and test it.

Step by step towards WebsiteBaker3  17 Jun 2010, 12:11 pm

An outlook to the upcoming Release Candidate of WebsiteBaker 2.8.2

Tiny MCE 3.37 available  10 Jun 2010, 7:11 pm

Tiny MCE 3.37 is avialable now. There had been some bugfixes and code refreshments, Tiny_mce 3.3.7. is now included. For further details please visit homepage of Tiny_MCE.

CKEditor module released  1 Jun 2010, 11:55 am

 Module version 0.4.5 is now available. Several bugfixes and the new CKEditor 3.3 is included.

New JQuery Plugin released  29 May 2010, 10:46 am

Cause I needed it for one of my sites I created a bxSlider plugin,  available on the jquery-library page.  Please have a look at the demo.

Tiny MCE 3.36 available  20 May 2010, 2:40 pm

Tiny MCE 3.36 is avialable now. There had been some bugfixes and code refreshments, Tinymce 3.3.6. is now included. For further details please visit homepage of Tiny_MCE.

WebsiteBaker jQueryPlugins Showroom  13 May 2010, 7:00 pm

The new WebsiteBaker jQuery Plugins Showroom was opened today.

On this site all JqueryPlugins that are created for WebsiteBaker CMS can be seen at work on a regular WebsiteBaker  installation using jQueryAdmin module.

The site is not readyand still growing.

More than just a module  29 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Ruud and John (PCWacht) released Droplets

FCK Editor updated to FCKE 2.6.6.  15 May 2010, 10:56 am

Modul-Version 2.9.5 released wich is based on FCKEditor 2.6.6

Text from developpers homepage:
A new bug fix release of FCKeditor is available. Although we encourage everyone to upgrade to CKEditor, we still know that many people are using the good and old FCKeditor 2.x. We have fixed important issues affecting FCKeditor users, including Safari 3 compatibility, Firefox 3.6 compatibility (under ColdFusion) and a problem with infinite loops in IE.

This modul is based on the latest 2.9.4 modul from SVN, wich means all fixes, changes, additions and adaptions wich are made especially for WB are included.

jQueryAdmin v1.1 released  14 May 2010, 11:30 am

This release fixes some issues that were reported for v1.0. Also, the Norwegian language file was completet by Forum User "oeh". Thank you very much!

New Plugin: Twitterbadge  11 May 2010, 3:01 pm

The next plugin was released on JQuery-library page.  Based on this thread on the forum a new plugin was created.  Please have a look at the demo of  Twitterbadge and download the new plugin from JQuery-library page .

New JQuery Plugin released  7 May 2010, 2:30 pm

The next plugin was released on jquery-library page.  Please have a look at the demo of  Popeye. jQuery.popeye is an advanced image gallery script built on the JavaScript library jQuery. Use it to save space when displaying a collection of images and offer your users a nice and elegant way to show a big version of your images without leaving the page flow.

Tiny MCE 3.35 available  6 May 2010, 9:00 pm

Tiny MCE 3.35 is avialable now. There had been some bugfixes and code refreshments, Tinymce 3.3.5. is now included.

Tiny MCE Survey  5 May 2010, 5:10 pm

The guys from tiny_mce want  you to tell them what is still to do in the future:
there is a TinyMCE survey to find out where users are heading in terms of web development

Please click here to take part.


 

CKEditor module: Released RC 2  4 May 2010, 12:45 pm

Several changes to CKEditor module. Adding v2 style and WBLink translation (DE). Using wb_config/default and wb_config/custom folder, adding readme file that explains it.

New JQuery Plugins released  4 May 2010, 10:54 am

There are 2 more plugins available on the jquery-library page.  Please have a look at the demos of JQZoom and Corners Plugin and see how to use it.

jQueryAdmin second RC released  29 Apr 2010, 12:03 pm

This includes some Backend improvements, like links to the AMASP jQuery Library page.

Tiny MCE 3.34 available  28 Apr 2010, 8:07 pm

Tiny MCE 3.3.4 is avialable now. There had been some bugfixes and code refreshments on the existing module for tiny_mce itself was updated 3 times this month.

Bookings v2.23 released  27 Apr 2010, 1:56 pm

See Forum for details: http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,10218.msg119854.html#msg119854

New Module: CKEditor  25 Apr 2010, 4:57 pm

Thanks to Waldschwein and Aldus latest release of CK Editor (follower of FCK-Editor) is in RC status. Please download this module and test it. Post your experiences on the forum.

JQueryadmin and matching Library  31 Mar 2010, 4:10 pm

New Module JQueryadmin had been added by WebBird. In addition new jquery library was opened, where you can download jquery plugins and themes ready for this new module. Using this module makes it really easy to integrate jquery functions in your WebsiteBaker sites.

Smooth Gallery fixed  6 Apr 2010, 10:22 am

Please update Smooth Gallery if you use it on your sites. Thanks to Aldus there is a security reworked zip available.

Backup Module fixed  1 Apr 2010, 6:43 pm

Thanks to Aldus and some others there is a fixed backup module available. The old one was removed from the WB packages 2.8 and 2.8.1 for security reasons.

Feedback Module fixed  3 Apr 2010, 11:15 am

The Feedback Module was released in Version 0.30 because of a security hole. We strongly ask you to update this module if you use the old version.

Swift Gallery  3 Apr 2010, 2:44 pm

You should also update Swift Gallery if you use it on your WebsiteBaker installation to latest release.

Fixed Code2 Module  3 Apr 2010, 11:18 am

Thanks to Aldus the Code 2 Module was fixed. for security reasons. There are other modules following with new releases, so please use the feedreader to keep yourself informed.

Shoutit fixed  3 Apr 2010, 12:53 pm

The Shoutit Module was also fixed for security reasons. Please update as soon as possible if you use it.

Change in WB Leadership  20 Aug 2009, 4:27 pm

As announced at the wb-forum there are changes in project leadership at Website Baker Project.

Testing dbBotTrap  25 Feb 2010, 1:13 pm

We are testing dbBotTrap from Ralf (Berlin)  on AMASP to get rid of spiders and spam bots. If you run into problems please let us know.

Bookings v2.22 released  15 Feb 2010, 4:45 pm

Fixed a bug allowing frontend users to always edit their own bookings. (Backend option 'Owner can modify/delete bookings'  was ignored.)

Portable Edition available with 2.8.1. Stable  12 Feb 2010, 9:39 am

The Portable Edition is now available with WebsiteBaker Release 2.8.1. Stable. Download your package.

Website Baker Portable Edition 2.8 released  5 Sep 2009, 10:08 am

Mr-Fan released a new version of website baker portable edition . Besides this the Website Baker Portable Project introduced its own website. Please visit  websitebaker-portable.com.

Bookings v2.21 released  9 Feb 2010, 1:14 pm

* Fix: Date format in the backend (may be English if this is the OS language instead of current setting of the language file)
* Fix: Saving groups from frontend
* New: Norwegian language file (thanks again to forum member "geirilja")

Website Baker 2.8 Stable released  15 Aug 2009, 12:00 am

Anynews v1.15 available  29 Jan 2010, 10:50 am

* New feature: Order News items by number of comments (forum request)

* Fixed error in Documentation

WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 RC 3 released  24 Jan 2010, 7:29 pm

Today the Release Candidate 3 for WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 was released. Please download the package for (hopefully) last test purposes.

wblib 0.20 released  22 Jan 2010, 12:41 pm

Many news, more than I can post here. This is also the reason for the "jump" in the version. ;)

WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 RC 2 released  17 Jan 2010, 1:26 am

Today the RC 2 for WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 was released. Please download the package for test purposes.

wblib v0.14 released  29 Dec 2009, 5:35 pm

This version includes some first steps with wbDatabase.

Anynews v1.14 released  29 Dec 2009, 12:56 pm

For changes see long text.

New Release Candidate  17 Dec 2009, 8:08 pm

WebsiteBaker 2.8.1 RC1 was released on December 13th.  Download your testpackage and give some feedback on the forum.

wblib v0.13 released  7 Dec 2009, 12:58 pm

Some enhancements in wbFormBuilder class

wblib v0.12 released  2 Dec 2009, 5:15 pm

* Template Engine can now handle {{ :if }} as part of {{ :loop }}

* FormBuilder: Improved checkbox and radio handling

Bookings v2.20 released  25 Nov 2009, 12:50 pm

This version fixes an issue that occured when used with Section Picker module. (No booking data when included on another page.)

wblib v0.11 released  23 Nov 2009, 1:19 pm

Website Baker 2.8.1 announced  28 Oct 2009, 10:04 am

Website Baker 2.8.1 was announced on the forum. Please read this for fist details and timeline.

Bakery v1.4.1  20 Oct 2009, 2:02 pm

Bakery Version 1.4.1: New features, some bugfixes

Brax_HighSlide_Gallery_B  21 Oct 2009, 9:37 pm

 Another  version of the gallery Brax_HighSlide_Gallery_B

Ad Baker - Stable version 1.0 Released  29 Sep 2009, 11:04 pm

I am pleased to anouce that Ab Baker - Classified Ads Module version 1.0 Stable for Website Baker has just been released.

Upgrade FCK Editor 2.6.4 to 2.6.5  11 Oct 2009, 8:17 pm

Upgrade FCK Editor 2.6.5 Modul Version 2.9.1

Updated PM Messages module released  6 Oct 2009, 1:18 pm

More info can be found here

Bookings v2.19 released  3 Oct 2009, 11:42 am

Fixes an issue with WB 2.8 (broken image path) and with the Bookings droplet

Anynews v1.12  24 Sep 2009, 7:34 pm

New version fixes an issue when shortening "short text".

New Module "wblib" (Library)  23 Sep 2009, 5:33 pm

Including Form Builder, Template Engine, and more

Modul UserExtend available  12 Sep 2009, 7:10 pm

New modul that let you store additional information about your WB users (like address, phone, birthdate...).

PM Module Released  5 Sep 2009, 3:04 pm

PM module allows registered users to send PM messages between each other. More info can be found here.

Members 0.7 uploaded  4 Sep 2009, 11:19 am

"Members" is a flexible module for sorting/listing anything. It is often used for special menues or galleries.

New Feature in 0.7: Support WYSIWYG Editors

WB Forum 0.3 published  31 Aug 2009, 11:36 am

A small update to the WB Forum module was made today. New features...

Website Baker Portable Edition  2 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

Mr-Fan released a new version of website baker portable edition

New Backend Theme "Birdie" (green)  20 Aug 2009, 10:26 am

Have a look at this new admin template for WB 2.8

Easy Multilanguage Link - stable version released  17 Aug 2009, 7:39 pm

Version 0.4.1 ofEasy Multilanguage Link is the first version labeled as stable. It gives you the possibility to make your pages easy switchable between multiple language versions with a minimal overhead...

AMASP Site updated  17 Aug 2009, 11:32 am

The AMASP Project Site was updated to latest WB-Release 2.8 stable. If there are any inconsistences please let us know.

Anynews v1.11  13 Aug 2009, 12:00 am

TinyMCE Version 3.2.5  11 Aug 2009, 12:00 am

The WB Module for TinyMCE was updated to Tiny-version 3.2.5

New Show Menu 2  10 Aug 2009, 12:00 am

Brofield released show_menu2  version 4.9 with new handle of hidden  pages.

New Code Snippet "WBRandomSection"  3 Aug 2009, 12:00 am

RC 2 of Website Baker 2.8 released  28 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Matthias announced the release of Website Baker 2.8 Release Candidat 2 at Website Baker Forum. Many thanks to Matthias and the whole Development Team, who made this possible.

EasyMenu v0.41 (Beta) released  24 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Website Baker 2.8 RC1 released  12 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Matthias announced the release of Website Baker 2.8 Release Candidat 1 at Website Baker Forum. Many thanks to Matthias and the whole Development Team, who made this possible.

Bakery v1.3.6  13 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

The new Version of Bakery features new handling of payment methods, new payment gateways, support for Google Analytics, multiple item images, Lightbox2 and more...

CHCounter as a WB Module  9 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Luisehahne added the chcounter as a new wb-module. The new bugfix is included.

Informative Meeting Opensource & Website Baker  9 Jul 2009, 12:00 am

Many companies want a website on which they can change course content flexible and independent of the chargeable services of a web designer or an agency.

At the informative meeting of the local initiative MadeBySoldinerKiez and phpManufaktur we will have a look at the significance of opensource, talk about Content Management Systems (CMS) particularly with regard to Website Baker. We will have a resonable time to talk about your ideas and requirements.

This meeting is free of charge and will be in german language only!

Brax Highslide Gallery  26 Jun 2009, 12:00 am

Brax_HighSlide_Gallery 1.0 Here's a new photo gallery with Highslide javascript library.

Code_2 Module updated  18 Jun 2009, 12:00 am

Code_2 Module was modified by Aldus. New release is extensible.

Viny is dead  19 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

For your information:  Website Baker Community has to sustain a big loss.

SignUp is now at v0.3  25 May 2009, 8:00 am

 SignUp module is now at it's first relase, now V 0.3.0, but even there, you have signup form that can be in a section or the page of your choice, with form and email in the page language.

EasyMenu v0.23  19 May 2009, 12:00 am

new gallery Fancy Brax Box  15 May 2009, 12:00 am

New module Fancy Brax Box 

I created a module for the image gallery with the effect Fancy box.

Module Update  17 May 2009, 12:00 am

Thanks to Thorn the Xinha Editor was updated with the 0.96 beta2 release of xinha. For details please see the Xinha Web Link.

New Module  14 May 2009, 12:00 am

New Image gallery  KA-Image-Viewer was released by gingebaker

Bookings v2.16 available  4 May 2009, 12:00 am

"Bookings" v2.15 fixes some security issues  22 Apr 2009, 12:00 am

New Module "EasyMenu" (Alpha)  7 Apr 2009, 12:00 am

New Module  28 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

Ruud released new module multipart page

"Bookings" v2.14 Bugfix Release  24 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

New version fixes a bug when deleting bookings.

New Module  24 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

New module portfolio has been released by Ruud.

New Snippet  16 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

Another snippet had been found in the forum: tabber snippet created by tomhung

Droplets help  14 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

The droplets help pages are now available in norwegian language thanks to Odd Egil Hansen. If someone wants to translate the help pages int another language please contact us.

"Bookings" v2.13 Released  12 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

Changelog:

* New: You may decide to not show past bookings (requested by "abidan")
* New (and Fix): Show "Breadcrumb" instead of "back link" (see below)
* Fix: Error message when setting "default view" to "current month"

New Admin-Tool "User Search"  3 Mar 2009, 12:00 am

BerndJM released a new admin-tool for easy searching users user search

New Module  17 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

Uthread released a new module contactlist

New Module  14 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

Susigross released new module Fullwrapper

New Core Replacement  13 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

We released the core replacement wrapper built by Vyni (rip)

First Alpha Release  12 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

jrast released the first alpha of foldergallery

"Bookings" v2.12 Bugfix Release  10 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

Fixes a bug when calculating the current quarter

New Module  9 Feb 2009, 12:00 am

Linger added new module social bookmarks

Website Baker Portable  22 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Mr-Fan adds Website Baker portable-package.

It runs a complete Website Baker Installation on a USB-Stick without installation.

New Module (Beta): Topics  28 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

Chio released the beta of "Topics", a new articles module.

Backend template reworked  13 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

Argos reworked his backend template . A coding and a CSS bug were fixed and the CSS improved.

Snippet reworked  10 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

Aldus reworked the product slider for bakery - now called item slide - ,  it is possible to use various templates and layouts now

New Release  5 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

Boudi made some bugfixes ont the catalog module and released version 1.1.

New Release - "Bookings"  5 Jan 2009, 12:00 am

A new version of Bookings was released.

For Developers  28 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Ralf and Aldus released the module require, still beta

New Module  23 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Susigross added download gallery 2

All Modules And Snippet Project (AMASP)  21 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

The AMASP Project bases on a module and snippet list from November 2007.

New Module  16 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Linger added new module wb tweets

New Module  13 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Zonker released News-Archive and Anynews-Archive

New Release  10 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

New Version of Guestbook was released

New Snippet  17 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Nick Willey has added the AJAX Star Rating snippet.

New Module  17 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Nick Willey has added the FAQ Maker module.

New Module  6 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

Doodle Poll added

Core Replacement  9 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Doc added a new core replacement for the media directory

Website Baker Forum Module  7 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

BerndJM has added the first Website Baker Forum Module, based on a previous release by Julian Schuh

RSS Newsfeeder updated  3 Dec 2008, 12:00 am

Spida has updated the RSS Newsfeeder.

New Project  29 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

Chio has added a new project at upcoming items: module  topics

New Category  26 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

I added an new category to show backend templates

New Module  20 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

Ralf (Berlin) released his new uploader module

current discussion  13 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

For those, who could not follow the discussion about wb2-future at the forum, here is a well structered article in german that gives you some background knowledge.

New Version  12 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

Thorn released new version of geo-ip

New Version  9 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

Ruebenwurzel released version 1.6 of module shoutit

New Version  8 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

fsuk released a new version of event calendar

New Module  4 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

New flash mp3 audio player added

New Module  4 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

New Module picturebox was added

New Version  2 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

New Version of module guestbook (v. 2.8.01) released

Thank You  1 Nov 2008, 12:00 am

More than 37 thousand page views at this project in less than 10 weeks. Seems that this project is helpful for the wb community. Thanks for supporting us. Nevertheless we want to improve this project. Send us your ideas.

New Module  31 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

New module job listing was added

Multicultural  19 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

WB users from 23 countries have visited the AMASP Project up to today.

New Module  26 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Ruud added a new module latest news

New Page  23 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

A new page weather was added..........................

Problems with file permissions?  18 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Here are 2 little helpers, easy to install and easy to use.............

Show Menu2  16 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Brofield ha released a new version of show_menu2. For further informations visit this page.

New Snippet  14 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Ralf (Berlin) has added the countdown snippet

New Version  12 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus released a new version of the module amasp-control

New location  7 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Amasp has moved to a new location www.websitebakers.com . Please see, if there are any errors now (please report errors by using the contact formular) .

WOW  5 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

We reached 110 documented modules and snippets, see general view  Thank you all for contributing and supporting

SearchTools V0.61.01  4 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

V0.61.01 will bring great speed gain by caching the tagclouds.

GeoIP 1.01  4 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Just corrected the DEVELOPER.txt-file. Use of GEOIP_SHARED_MEMORY wasn't that smart.
Use GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE or GEOIP_STANDARD instead.

New modules added  3 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

WYSIWYG with history, GeoIP, Tagcloud and Search-extensions by thorn just added.

Bookings v1.17  2 Oct 2008, 12:00 am

Some code corrections and new features

Google Analytics for WB  30 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

This module allows you to inject a piece of Google Analytics Tracking Code to template files automatically. Users can review and modify the template files. Also, users can add/remove the Google code in multiple templates at a time.

Hope this can save you some times.

This module is based on the TemplateEdit.

New Category  24 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

We got a new category called upcoming items. Here you will find modules/snippets in development or in project status. You are able to discuss new modules or add wishes. You can also be part of a developing project if help is needed or you can offer your help.

Guestbook  17 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Please use the guestbook and tell the people, what do you think about this project. Thanks

New Version available  23 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus posted amasp-control version 0.18

Template Error  21 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Chio found out, that our template has the hover ghost bug

Is there a solution for IE7 that also works with IE6? Please answer at the forum.

Win XP an IE7  19 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

We have been informed that the site menu behaves weird with Win XP and IE7 and often sub-items are not shown.

We will try to correct this as soon as possible. Thanks for information.

Hot New Item  18 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus released AMASP Control, a backend-admin-tool that keep you informed about modules and snippets.........

Not all yet, but  17 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

we have 86 modules and snippets online.................

New Modules/Snippets  15 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

There are at least 78 Modules and snippets on this site, look here: general view

Template Edit and Module Edit "Togglelized Versions"  16 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Template Edit and Module Edit "Togglelized Versions" added by Stefek

New Version  16 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Bookings was updated to V  1.16

New Modules  10 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Some Image Galleries had been added

Bookings v1.15  10 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Some new features and fixes

New Snippets  9 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Some new snippets and modules had been added. For a general view look here.

Update Bookings  8 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

New Version 1.13 available

New Module  8 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Module Newsreader was added

New Module  8 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Module frontedit was added

New Registration  8 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Sharmpro has registered

New Snippet Code  6 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

A new snippet code was added: Random Text,  Thanks to Ralf(Berlin)

New Item  5 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Another mp3-player has been added

New Module  4 Sep 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus added new module addresses

New Registration  31 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Ralf (Berlin) has registered and will show some modules soon.

New Registration/New Modules  30 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Chio has registered and shows some modules/snippets. Search for Chio.........

New Modules  30 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Ruud shows some new modules and snippets. Search for Ruud................

New Registration  29 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Sourdough has registered and added the Ajax-Star-Rating Module

New Module / Registration  28 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

BerndJM has registered and added the ToggleMe Module

New Module  27 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Ruud shows another one: last updated rss feeds

The work goes on........  24 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus had created a new module to record the author's input data. Though it is

New Registration / Module  26 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

WebBird has registered and added the Bookings module

New Registration  26 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Aldus has been registered and shows his modules and snippets, for example here

New Template ?  24 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

Chio had worked on a new/modified template for this project. Have a look at this

all modules and snippet project (amasp)  22 Aug 2008, 12:00 am

We will try to collect and show all installable modules and code snippets

SASS vs. LESS  17 May 2012, 5:23 am

"Which CSS preprocessor language should I choose?" is a hot topic lately. I've been asked in person several times and an online debate has been popping up every few days it seems. It's nice that the conversation has largely turned from whether or not preprocessing is a good idea to which one language is best. Let's do this thing.

Really short answer: SASS

Slightly longer answer: SASS is better on a whole bunch of different fronts, but if you are already happy in LESS, that's cool, at least you are doing yourself a favor by preprocessing.

Much longer answer: Read on.

The Much Longer Answer

The Learning Curve with Ruby and Command Line and Whatever

The only learning curve is the syntax. You should use an app like CodeKit to watch and compile your authored files. You need to know jack squat about Ruby or the Command Line or whatever else. Maybe you should, but you don't have to, so it's not a factor here.

Winner: Nobody

Helping with CSS3

With either language, you can write your own mixins to help with vendor prefixes. No winner there. But you know how you don't go back and update the prefixes you use on all your projects? (You don't.) You also won't update your handcrafted mixins file. (Probably.) In SASS you can use Compass, and Compass will keep itself updated, and thus the prefix situation is handled for you. Yes you'll have to keep your local preprocessor software updated and compile/push once in a while, but that's trivial and thinking-free.

So what this comes down to is: SASS has Compass and LESS does not. But it goes deeper than that. The attempts at creating a real robust project like Compass for LESS haven't succeeded because the LESS language isn't robust enough to do it properly. More on that next.

Winner: SASS

Language Ability: Logic / Loops

LESS has an ability to do "guarded mixins." These are mixins that only take affect when a certain condition is true. Perhaps you want to set a background color based on the current text color in a module. If the text color is "pretty light" you'll probably want a dark background. If it's "pretty dark" you'll want a light background. So you have a single mixin broke into two parts with these guards that ensure that only one of them takes effect.

.set-bg-color (@text-color) when (lightness(@text-color) >= 50%) {
  background: black;
}
.set-bg-color (@text-color) when (lightness(@text-color) < 50%) {
  background: #ccc;
}

So then when you use it, you'll get the correct background:

.box-1 {
  color: #BADA55;
  .set-bg-color(#BADA55);
}

That is overly simplified, but you likely get the idea. You can do some fancy stuff with it. LESS can also do self-referencing recursion where a mixin can call itself with an updated value creating a loop.

.loop (@index) when (@index > 0) {
  .myclass {
    z-index: @index;
  }
  // Call itself
  .loopingClass(@index - 1);
}
// Stop loop
.loopingClass (0) {}

// Outputs stuff
.loopingClass (10);

But thats where the logic/looping abilities of LESS end. SASS has actual logical and looping operators in the language. if/then/else statements, for loops, while loops, and each loops. No tricks, just proper programming. While guarded mixins are a pretty cool, natural concept, language robustness goes to SASS. This language robustness is what makes Compass possible.

For example, Compass has a mixin called background. It's so robust, that you can pass just about whatever you want to that thing that it will output what you need. Images, gradients, and any combination of them comma-separated, and you'll get what you need (vendor prefixes and all).

This succinct and intelligible code:

.bam {
  @include background(
    image-url("foo.png"),
    linear-gradient(top left, #333, #0c0),
    radial-gradient(#c00, #fff 100px)
  );
}

Turns into this monster (which is unfortunately what we need for it to work with as good of browser support as we can get):

.bam {
  background: url('/foo.png'), -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 100% 100%, color-stop(0%, #333333), color-stop(100%, #00cc00)), -webkit-gradient(radial, 50% 50%, 0, 50% 50%, 100, color-stop(0%, #cc0000), color-stop(100%, #ffffff));
  background: url('/foo.png'), -webkit-linear-gradient(top left, #333333, #00cc00), -webkit-radial-gradient(#cc0000, #ffffff 100px);
  background: url('/foo.png'), -moz-linear-gradient(top left, #333333, #00cc00), -moz-radial-gradient(#cc0000, #ffffff 100px);
  background: url('/foo.png'), -o-linear-gradient(top left, #333333, #00cc00), -o-radial-gradient(#cc0000, #ffffff 100px);
  background: url('/foo.png'), -ms-linear-gradient(top left, #333333, #00cc00), -ms-radial-gradient(#cc0000, #ffffff 100px);
  background: url('/foo.png'), linear-gradient(top left, #333333, #00cc00), radial-gradient(#cc0000, #ffffff 100px);
}

Winner: SASS

Website Niceitude

LESS has a nicer, more usable website. The SASS documentation isn't awful. It's complete and you can find what you need. But when competing for attention from front end people, LESS has the edge. I don't doubt this plays a large role in LESS currently winning the popularity race. Things may be changing though.

Winner: LESS

The @extend Concept

Say you declare a class which has a bit of styling. Then you want another class which you want to do just about the same thing, only a few additional things. In LESS you'd likely:

.module-b {
   .module-a(); /* Copies everything from .module-a down here */
   border: 1px solid red;
}

That's an "include" essentially. A mixin, in both languages. You could use an include to do that SASS as well, but you're better off using @extend. With @extend, the styles from .module-a aren't just duplicated down in .mobule-b (what could be considered bloat), the selector for .module-a is altered to .module-a, .module-b in the compiled CSS (which is more efficient).

.module-a {
   /* A bunch of stuff */
}
.module-b {
   /* Some unique styling */
   @extend .module-a;
}

Compiles into

.module-a, .module-b {
  /* A bunch of stuff */
}
.module-b {
  /* Some unique styling */
}

See that? It rewrites selectors, which is way more efficient.

Winner: SASS

Variable Handling

LESS uses @, SASS uses $. The dollar sign has no inherit meaning in CSS, while the @ sign does. It's for things like declaring @keyframes or blocks of @media queries. You could chalk this one up to personal preference and not a big deal, but I think the edge here is for SASS which doesn't confuse standing concepts.

SASS has some weirdness with scope in variables though. If you overwrite a "global" variable "locally", the global variable takes on the local value. This just feels kind of weird.

$color: black;
.scoped {
  $color: white;
  color: $color;
}
.unscoped {
  // LESS = black (global)
  // SASS = white (overwritten by local)
  color: $color;
}

I've heard it can be useful but it's not intuitive, especially if you write JavaScript.

Winner: Tossup

Working with Media Queries

The way most of us started working with @media queries was adding blocks of them at the bottom of your main stylesheet. That works, but it leads to mental disconnect between the original styling and the responsive styles. Like:

.some-class {
   /* Default styling */
}

/* Hundreds of lines of CSS */

@media (max-width: 800px) {
  .some-class {
    /* Responsive styles */
  }
}

With SASS or LESS, we can bring those styles together through nesting.

.some-class {
  /* Default styling */
  @media (max-width: 800px) {
    /* Responsive styles */
  }
}

You can get even sexier with SASS. There is a really cool "respond-to" technique (see code by Chris Eppstein, Ben Schwarz, and Jeff Croft) for naming/using breakpoints.

=respond-to($name)

  @if $name == small-screen
    @media only screen and (min-width: 320px)
      @content

  @if $name == large-screen
    @media only screen and (min-width: 800px)
      @content

The you can use them succinctly and semantically:

.column
    width: 25%
    +respond-to(small-screen)
      width: 100%

Note: requires SASS 3.2, which is in alpha, which you can install with gem install sass --pre. I don't think there is any doubt this is a very nice way to work.

Winner: SASS

Math

For the most part, the math is similar, but there are some weirdnesses with how units are handled. For instance, LESS will assume the first unit you use is what you want out, ignoring further units.

div {
   width: 100px + 2em; // == 102px (weird)
}

In SASS, you get a clear error: Incompatible units: 'em' and 'px'. I guess it's debatable if it's better to error or be wrong, but I'd personally rather have the error. Especially if you're dealing with variables rather than straight units and it's harder to track down.

SASS will also let you perform math on "unknown" units, making it a bit more futureproof should some new unit come along before they are able to update. LESS does not. There is some more weird differences like how SASS handles multiplying values that both have units, but it's esoteric enough to not be worth mentioning.

Winner: Narrowly SASS

Active Development

At the time of this writing...

Number of open issues on LESS: 392
Number of open issues on SASS: 84

Pending pull requests on LESS: 86
Pending pull requests on SASS: 3

Number of commits in the last month in LESS: 11
Number of commits in the last month in SASS: 35

None of that stuff is any definitive proof that one project is more active than the other, but the numbers do seem to always leans toward SASS. As I understand it, both of the leads work on the languages in whatever little free time they have, as they both have other major new projects they are working on.

Winner: Probably SASS

More Reading

• Chris Eppstein: SASS/LESS Comparison
• Jeremy Hixon: An Introduction To LESS, And Comparison To Sass
• Ken Collins: Too LESS? Should You Be Using Sass?
• Johnathan Croom: Sass vs. LESS vs. Stylus: Preprocessor Shootout

SASS vs. LESS is a post from CSS-Tricks

Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point  16 May 2012, 6:04 am

Mat Marquis keeping us up to date on the responsive images hot drama. Good reminder at the end about not picking sides.

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Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point is a post from CSS-Tricks

ShopTalk Episode 18  16 May 2012, 2:11 am

With ol' Mean Gene Crawford! We talk about crazy clients, responsive images, health, and all kinds of other shoptalk. Thanks to Mijingo for sponsoring this episode.

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ShopTalk Episode 18 is a post from CSS-Tricks

Which responsive images solution should you use?  11 May 2012, 4:39 pm

There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing with responsive images lately. That is, solutions to help us serve the right image for the occasion (e.g. size of screen and bandwidth available). They all do things a bit differently. To keep track, Christopher Schmitt and I have created this spreadsheet of techniques.

The spreadsheet has the data, but let's digest it through thinking about it through the lens of practical questions.

To choose which technique is right for you and your project these questions may help as a guide. Many of the questions may apply to your project, so you'll have to sort out which techniques fit what scenarios and find the overlap.

Do I have legacy content?

Which really means... do I have legacy content that is impractical to update? For instance, I have thousands of pages of content on CSS-Tricks and a writing staff of one.

The only technique I know of that works with absolutely no markup changes is Adaptive Images. It works by routing requests for images through a PHP file which intelligently serves (and creates if need be) images of the appropriate size for the screen width.

Another question to ask yourself is if you care about legacy content. Perhaps the vast majority of traffic to your site is for newer content in which you can make markup changes and thus take advantage of other techniques. If that's the case, read on to discover those other techniques.

If you have a small project, a brand new project, or a project with legacy content that you are able go back and update, you are also able to choose a technique which does require special markup, so also read on.

Do I care about special markup?

This is really a sub-question of the above. Many of the techniques require you to use special HTML. For example, HiSRC has you put higher resolution images as data-attributes:

<img src="200x100.png" data-1x="400x200.png" data-2x="800x400.png">

I'd say this is a clean, valid, semantic technique, but it also means that you need these attributes on every <img> on your site, which may not be possible on sites with loads of legacy content.

If you know that special markup (or specialized CSS) is not an option for you, really the only option is Adaptive Images. Even Sencha.IO requires prefixing the src attribute which may not be possible with legacy content.

Do I care about semantics?

Some responsive images techniques involve markup which isn't strictly semantic. Ultimately, there is only one way an image can be semantic. That is if the src of it points to a real image and it has alt text describing that image. Brad Frost sums it up nicely:

@stowball Unfortunately its not that simple. A picture of a horse needs to be a picture of a horse or else its not a picture of a horse. :)

— Brad Frost (@brad_frost) April 5, 2012

In other words, if the technique requires at any point the src of the image to be missing or link to a transparent GIF (or the like), that's not semantic.

So why do some responsive images techniques do this? Because having an image with a src that points to that image of a horse means that that image will start downloading as soon as that image gets parsed by the browser. There is no practical way to prevent this. Even if you super quickly swap out that src with a more appropriate version, now you're downloading two images instead of one which is a performance hit instead of a performance gain. You may decide that's acceptable (e.g. "desktop" environments typically have more bandwidth). Usually if this technique is employed, the image in the src is the smallest possible image.

If semantics is important to you, you should look at Adaptive Images (covered above) or HiSRC, a plugin by Christopher Schmitt which you can use with a semantic src attribute.

A few of the techniques use <noscript> tags in which to place a fallback <img> in the case of no JavaScript being available. I'll let you decide if that's semantic or not.

Do I care about validity?

Validity as in "Does it validate?" according to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Validation is a tool to help you find problems and write better markup. But just because something doesn't validate doesn't make it bad or wrong. If invalid code works wonderfully in all browsers, you nor anyone else should care.

If you do care about validity (perhaps a client irrationally requires it from you and is holding your paycheck randsom) then there are a few techniques that you can't use. The picturefill technique, for instance, uses the <picture> element to work its magic. This may ultimately be standarized, but it isn't yet, so it's technically invalid syntax. It's also required that <img> elements have a src attribute, so techniques that remove that to get around the double-image-request problem are invalid.

I'd recommend these techniques if validity is a requirement for you: Adaptive Images, HiSRC, or Responsive Enhance. All of which use simple, valid <img> syntax that include a src.

Do I care about art direction?

Some responsive images techniques serve different resolution versions of the exact same image. While that makes things easier (i.e. less work) it may not acceptable. Here's a visual example:

These images are hand-crafted by a designer, cropped to retain meaning and impact. If you took the image on the right and just scaled it down, the people in the image would be very small and the feel of the image my be lost.

If this idea of art direction is important to your project, you'll need a technique that will allow you to specify exactly which src to serve under which circumstances. This is picture perfect (GET IT?) for picturefill which allows you to be very specific about sources and what circumstances get what.

<picture alt="description">
  <source src="small.jpg">
  <source src="medium.jpg" media="(min-width: 400px)">
  <source src="large.jpg" media="(min-width: 800px)">
</picture>

JavaScript takes it from there.

Do I care about JavaScript?

Most of these responsive image techniques utilize JavaScript to work their magic. Some only a tiny bit to set a cookie, but JavaScript none the less. Some of them have you put an <img> in a <noscript> tag so that there is a fallback image in the case that the user has JavaScript turned off. If you don't like that, and you need to make absolutely sure that your images work without JavaScript, Sencha.IO is your best bet. This service works by identifying your device through it's User Agent string and serving an appropriately sized image. So you link to the largest (reasonable) version you have of it and Sencha will squeeze it down and server smaller versions if need be (it doesn't scale up, for obvious reasons).

What about JavaScript *library* dependency?

HiSRC and rwdImages are both jQuery dependent. If your project is using a different library, these probably aren't for you. But hey, you could port it and open source that! If you aren't using a library, well, you probably should be but let's not get into that.

Do I care about Server Side Components?

Some of these techniques aren't solely JavaScript dependent. Adaptive Images works it's magic primarily through .htaccess and PHP. Well, .htaccess presupposes an Apache server. And, while of course we all know and love PHP (ahem), many websites run on technologies like Ruby or Python.

Responsive Images (the original Filament Group technique) also uses .htaccess. So if you're using something like Nginx as web server, this is either out or you'll have to port over the .htaccess component to Nginx's similar-but-different syntax.

Do I care about bandwidth testing?

Testing the browser window width and making decisions on what image to serve based on that is pretty cool and fundamental to the concept of responsive images. But it's really only half of what the decision of what image should be served should be based on. The other half is available bandwidth. If the user has a very fast internet connection speed, serving large images is OK. If the user has a very slow internet connection speed, they should get smaller images (regardless of screens size). Unfortunately native bandwidth media queries don't exist.

Two of the current techniques do bandwidth testing as part of their decision making: Foresight.js and HiSRC (both are based on the technique in Foresight.js). It works by downloading a test file and measuring how long it took (configurable). The test itself is a slight performance hit, but theoretically the savings gained by serving images based on knowing the current bandwidth is a net (GET IT?) gain.

Do I care about relying on third parties?

Sencha.IO is a completely third-party way of handling responsive images. As far as I know, it works great and hasn't been inflicted with any major downtime, but of course you always run that risk.

You might be thinking: Wow, the Sencha.IO technique is really cool but I worry about the third-party dependency. I wish I could run that on my own server. If you want to go down that road, there is the public WURFL database and this Server Side Responsive Images technique which puts that to work locally.

There are also third-party services like Device Atlas Cloud which does device detection for you. It's also a third-party dependency for your app. No doubt their goal and focus is staying up and fast at all times, but you have to be very careful about who and what you rely on for your business.

Is there a specific CMS with specific CMS powers involved?

Say your project is in WordPress. WordPress has a media uploader built in. When you upload an image with it, it can create multiple versions (scaling down) of that image for you. That's pretty cool and powerful and you could/should take advantage of that. Keir Whitaker talks about using that ability in his article Automatic Responsive Images in WordPress.

This isn't just a WordPress thing though. I'm sure the concepts at work here could be done (or made to be done) in any Content Management System.

Can I wait for the future?

The release of the "new iPad" (the third one, for longevity) is what sparked a lot of these techniques and conversations. Its high pixel density is great for vectors and big photos, but actually not great for things like small icons that need to be scaled up to be the correct size and can be blurry. But serving higher resolution icons means larger file sizes and slower websites. Hence, the need to only serve them in situations/environments that need them.

The world of web standards is aware of this problem. There is a whole group dedicated to talking about it. In time, they may solve it and then we can start using whatever way they come up with (assuming its awesome and better than what we have now).

It may be flipping out the src of images through CSS content like Nicolas Gallagher suggested. It might be the <picture> element. It might be a srclist attribute in HTML or src property in CSS. It might be a prefix.

 

More resources

• Jason Grigsby has an epic three-part series on responsive images starting here.
• Christopher Schmitt's slides on a whole talk about responsive images.
• Mat Marquis on Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

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Opt-in Typography  7 May 2012, 5:19 pm

I recently heard Chris Eppstein give a talk (slides) about creating better stylesheets and using SASS to do it. There were a couple of surprising bits in there, one of which was about "opt-in typography." The idea was that instead of setting global styles for typographic elements like p, ul, ol, h1, h2, etc that you would instead apply those styles as a class, perhaps .text.

The idea is that there is a lot of places on a website where you want a clean slate to work from and not be worried about what global styles are doing. The classic example is lists, where when using them for things like navigation you likely don't want the same margin/padding/list-style as you would within an article.

Further, you might have different sets of typographic styles you may want to apply at will. So, instead of global styles like this:

p  {    }
ul {    }
ol {    }
h1 {    }
h2 {    }
/* etc */

You would scope them to a class instead (using SCSS here):

.text-article {
  p  {    }
  ul {    }
  ol {    }
  h1 {    }
  h2 {    }
  /* etc */
}

.text-module {
  p  {    }
  ul {    }
  ol {    }
  h1 {    }
  h2 {    }
  /* etc */
}

In an area of the site that's a blog post, you can snag your article typography, and in a sidebar module, you can grab the typography for that:

<section class="main-content">
  <article class="text-article">
    ...
  </article>
</section>
<aside>
  <div class="module text-module">
     Texty module
  </div>
  <div class="module">
     Module in which typography isn't needed
  </div>
</aside>

Anthony Short feels the same way.

Of course, the effectiveness of this depends on the website. What kind of site it is and what stage in it's evolution it's in. I suspect it would work better on websites that have a more "modular" architecture and that don't have a huge set of legacy content. I'd be interested in trying it on a fresh project.

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ShopTalk Episode 17  6 May 2012, 5:01 pm

Another RAPIDFIRE show where Dave and I answer as many listener questions as we possibly can.

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Autofill City & State from Zip Code with Ziptastic  3 May 2012, 7:42 pm

Most address fields on web forms ask for city, state, and zip code (or city and post code, outside of the US). But as us nerds often lament, city and state are redundant with zip code. Or at least they can be inferred from a correctly entered zip code. That's the kind of thing computers are good at. What we need is a proper API to cough up that information for us on demand.

Enter Ziptastic, a free (donations welcome) API for just that.

Let's use it.

Form Markup

Five fields. Two for street then city, state, and zip. All wrapped up in a form and fieldset. Nothing special.

<form action="#" method="post" class="fancy-form">

  <fieldset>
    <legend>Address</legend>

    <div>
      <div>
        <input type="text" name="address-line-1" id="address-line-1">
        <label for="address-line-1">Street #1</label>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div>
      <div>
        <input type="text" name="address-line-2" id="address-line-2">
        <label for="address-line-2">Street #2</label>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div>
      <div class="city-wrap">
        <input type="text" name="city" id="city">
        <label for="city">City</label>
      </div>
       <div class="state-wrap">
        <input type="text" name="state" id="state">
        <label for="state">State</label>
      </div>
       <div class="zip-wrap">
        <input type="text" pattern="[0-9]*" name="zip" id="zip">
        <label for="zip">Zip</label>
        <p class="zip-error">Not a real zip code.</p>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div>
      <input type="submit" value="Submit">
    </div>

  </fieldset>

</form>

Only show the zip at first

We'll hide all the divs that wrap each row of form elements. We'll use JavaScript, so that in case the user has JavaScript turned off, the form is still usable.

$(".fancy-form div > div").hide();

Then reveal just the zip code.

form .zip-wrap {
  display: block !important;
}

Front end validation

On the front end, we're already doing the best we can to help the proper entry of a zip code through HTML5 input attributes pattern, maxlength, and required.

<input type="text" pattern="[0-9]*" maxlength="5" required name="zip" id="zip">

Notice it's not of type number. Whenever considering type=number, consider "would I be cool with the browser adding commas inside of this number?" and if it's no, don't use it, because some do.

jQuery: Watch for entry of valid zip code

We're going to watch the zip input for keystrokes. Should the final value after a keystroke be a valid zipcode, we'll attempt to get the city and state through Ziptastic and reveal the other fields.

$("#zip").keyup(function() {
  var el = $(this);

  if ((el.val().length == 5) && (is_int(el.val()))) {

    // Make Ajax call, etc

  }

}

The is_int function is just some extra protection that the number is an integer (like all zip codes) in case the current browser doesn't support the necessary HTML5.

function is_int(value){
  if ((parseFloat(value) == parseInt(value)) && !isNaN(value)) {
      return true;
  } else {
      return false;
  }
}

jQuery: Ajax the data

Yeah so jQuery. We used it above to make event handling on the input easier, but it's really need here because of its ability to make ajax calls with error handling sixty two times easier than doing it with vanilla JavaScript.

After the passed validation, we can make the Ajax call. All we give it for data is the zip code we've collected and we get some JSON back which is trivially easy to access the city and state and apply them as values to the appropriate inputs.

$.ajax({
  url: "http://zip.elevenbasetwo.com",
  cache: false,
  dataType: "json",
  type: "GET",
  data: "zip=" + el.val(),
  success: function(result, success) {

    $(".fancy-form div > div").slideDown(); /* Show the fields */

    $("#city").val(result.city); /* Fill the data */
    $("#state").val(result.state);

    $(".zip-error").hide(); /* In case they failed once before */

    $("#address-line-1").focus(); /* Put cursor where they need it */

  },
  error: function(result, success) {

    $(".zip-error").show(); /* Ruh row */

  }

});

Of course we can validate all day long for the valid format of zip codes, but not every 5 digit integer is a zip code. Should we ask Ziptastic for a zip code that doesn't exist, it will return an error. In that case we just show an error message.

Demo and Download

View Demo   Download Files

Snag the ZIP. GET IT?! Also, if someone wants to apply some actually nice UX and design to this, I'd be happy to update the demo with credit. Andru Stoicescu at Better <html> submitted a bit of a fancier design so I updated to that.

Notes

• I'm not going to tell you this is bulletproof. Addresses are hard. I heard some zip codes cross state lines.
• Ziptastic is US only. Just days after publishing this, Ziptastic starts supporting postal codes internationally. Zippopotamus is similar and supports 60 counties.

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Viewport Sized Typography  1 May 2012, 2:15 am

CSS3 has some new values for sizing things relative to the current viewport size: vw, vh, and vmin. It is relevant to bring up now, because it's shipping in Chrome 20 (canary at the time of this writing). And not behind a flag, it just works. Production usage isn't quite there, but it will be soon enough.

Why is this awesome?

There are many reasons. Here are two:

1. There is a such thing as a comfortable line length for reading text on screens. I don't want to kick a hornet's nest, but let's say its around 80 characters. These units allow you to get it feeling perfect and then have that experience scale to any size screen.
2. They allow you to tightly couple the size relationship of, say, a typographic header and the content it goes with. Like your classic Trent Walton style blog post.

How they work

One unit on any of the three values is 1% of the viewport axis. "Viewport" == browser window size == window object. If the viewport is 40cm wide, 1vw == 0.4cm.

For use with font-size, I guess it's one "letter" that takes on that size, but as we know, in non-mono-spaced fonts the width of a letter is rather arbitrary. I find you just need to tweak around with the values to get it how you want it. Which is basically what we do anyway, right?

1vw = 1% of viewport width
1vh = 1% of viewport height
1vmin = 1vw or 1vh, whichever is smaller

Using them

Easy cheezy:

h1 {
  font-size: 5.9vw;
}
h2 {
  font-size: 3.0vh;
}
p {
  font-size: 2vmin;
}

Demo

Here's a video of a simple layout using vw units so the typography.

Check out the demo yourself (see browser support).

Bugs!

The support is there in Chrome 20, but it fails in one rather significant way. When the browser window is resized, the font doesn't adjust itself according to the new viewport size. The spec says:

When the height or width of the viewport is changed, they are scaled accordingly.

I bugged it. Perhaps not a huge disaster as it's pretty much just us design nerds that go around adjusting browser windows, but still. The font does adjust on a fresh page load.

To fix this issue (allow resizing without page refresh) you need to cause a "repaint" on the element. I used jQuery and just fiddled with each elements (irrelevant, in this case) z-index value, which triggers the repaint.

causeRepaintsOn = $("h1, h2, h3, p");

$(window).resize(function() {
	causeRepaintsOn.css("z-index", 1);
});

Browser Support

Chrome 20+ & IE 10+

I tried Opera Next (12), Safari 5.2, and Firefox Beta (13) and no dice.

Not just font-size

For the record, these are just units. Just like em, px, whatever. You can use them on anything, not just font-size.

I think font-size is the most compelling use case, since things like margin, padding, and width can already essentially react to browser window size by using % units. There is the case where perhaps a more deeply-nested element needs to react to the browser window size instead of its direct parent size.

Using it now

Native usage

You'll at least want to provide a fallback:

h1 {
  font-size: 36px; /* Some tweener fallback that doesn't look awful */
  font-size: 5.4vw;
}

Testing for support

Modernizr doesn't have a test for it yet, but you can test for it yourself by using some throw-away element that you see to some narrow width in CSS but then re-set to 100vw in JavaScript, then measure to see if the width of it is equal to window.width. Something like:

var testEl = $("#vw-test");

var viewport = $(window);

testEl.css({
  width: "100vw"
});

if (testEl.width() == viewport.width()) {
   $("html").addClass("vw-support");
} else {
   $("html").append("vw-unsupported");
};

Mimic the functionality with FitText.js

This idea of binding the overall width of a header with the width of its parent element is exactly what FitText.js does. Only it does it through fancy JavaScript and math and spans and stuff. Theoretically, you could run the test and use Modernizr.load to load up FitText.js if no support is detected.

So yeah

What do you think? Are you into it? Got some ideas on how to use it?

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ShopTalk Episode 16  30 Apr 2012, 2:06 am

Dave and I were joined by Ian Stewart, a Theme Wrangler at Automattic for WordPress.com (he's probably thinking about WordPress themes right this very minute). We talked about WordPress multisite, training clients in WordPress, database syncing, team productivity, and more.

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Conditional Content via CSS Media Queries  29 Apr 2012, 9:48 pm

Jeremy Keith has a great article on his journey to allowing JavaScript to load in content based on the currently active media query. This allows you to keep media queries only in the CSS (DRY!).

The article was sans-demo, so I made one.

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