History - What's New?

Luxor now has its own news blog titled "The Memphis Sun". To read up on what's new please browse the Memphis Sun stories or subscribe to the newsfeed (RSS) to catch the latest Luxor news.

Luxor now lets you plug-in your own XUL tags that you can use along with all built-in XUL tags simply by poping an XML config file into your app's chrome config folder. For more info, please grab a copy of Petra, Luxor's plugin/addon example suite.

Luxor now supports

• more CSS style properties such as border (e.g. solid, double, groove, ridge, inset, etc.), font, background, color
• new tags such as stack, deck, and window
• ad-hoc context popup menus
• XHTML 2.0 like href and target attributes
• toggle buttons, radio and checkbox menuitems
• about, portal and portlet URLs (e.g. about:, portal:sysinfo, etc.)
• and much more

• Modul-mania. New modules include: Apollo, Caramel, Houston, Rachel, and Salsa
  • Apollo - Test Skeleton for Web Start/JNLP
  • Caramel - Java Extensions (non-GUI only)
  • Houston - Yet Another Status and Logging Toolkit
  • Rachel - Resource Loading (includes HTTP web service)
  • Salsa - Swing GUI Add-Ons
• Python interpreter added (thanks to Jython)
• More Docs (e.g. framed XUL tag reference, framed JNLP tag reference, etc.)
• More Examples (e.g. Calc, a simple calculator)
• Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements

• I added a couple of new tags (e.g pre, colgroup, col).
• Datagrid now supports XPath expressions thanks to Jaxen/SAXPath. XPath lets you fill up your table by picking and choosing from your XML data.
• Improved resource loading. New convenience methods such as getResourceAsXmlDocument(), getResourceAsProperties(), getResourceAsString() and more.
• chrome:// URL protocol handler added.
• Browser registry and target attribute added to let you specify in what browser window you want documents to show up.
• Config settings added. Now you can get config settings from Java properties or strongly-typed XML data using getString(), getStringArray(), getInt(), getBoolean() and more.
• Improved web service. HTTP web service supports HEAD requests and uses RFC-1123 compliant date format (e.g. Mon, 06 May 1996 04:57:00 GMT). WebResource is now an interface to let you easily add your own content sources.
• XulManager API quick reference docu added, plus more Luxor Notes.
• Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

• I added a couple of new tags (e.g iframe, gadget, datagrid, tree, image, mchoice, stylesheet). Some tags are still experimental (that is, they aren't full featured yet as I still need to work out some details).
• I added XSL/T support. Now you can dynamically create XUL snippets from non-XUL XML documents using XSL/T stylesheets/templates.
• I added XML data import/export (aka copy/paste) for XUL forms. Now you can paste XML data into your form to auto-fill it, for example.
• Labels no longer restrict you to use plain-vanilla text only, instead you can go wild using HTML inside labels to create multi-column, multi-line labels using tables, breaks and more to style your text, for example.
• I added a couple of new example apps (e.g validation, XSL/T templates, XML form data copy and paste, datagrid, etc.).
• Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

• I added numerous new Luxor XUL tags. Especially noteworthy are all the box layout tags (such as hbox, vbox, groupbox, grid, tabbox, etc.). Now you can also put boxes inside boxes, or table inside tables.
• Most Luxor XUL tags and attributes now follow Mozilla XUL names. In case there is a difference, there's usually a good reason such as the Luxor XUL tag doesn't exist in Mozilla XUL (e.g. portal, portlet) or Mozilla XUL's tag is too generic or too low-level and Luxor can do better (e.g. choice, table, password).
• I added CSS support. Luxor's CSS properties currently include width, height, min-width, min-height, max-width and max-height.
• Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

• Everything is new.