Alpha release 7 of new OWF8 available

[Rob Antonucci]

OWF is in its fourth month of a 6 month refactoring effort.  We plan to put out alpha releases every two weeks.

 

We’ve completed our seventh sprint.  Source code is available via GitHub or a distribution bundle is available via a link on the Platform page at https://www.owfgoss.org/platform.html.   The new product is starting to look like a recognizable, usable OWF.

 

In this release we added the following features:

·         Keyboard navigation

·         Ability for widgets to store and retrieve preferences

 

A notable but less visible accomplishment this sprint was the addition of functional tests that test full user-to-database interaction.

                                                                                                                                            

This alpha release does have a glitch with securing Ajax calls.  If you are using username and password to authenticate, then depending on your browser you may need to explicitly point your browser at  one of our REST URLs.  Otherwise Ajax calls may silently fail or pop-up annoying dialogs.  See the README.md for detailed instructions.

 

Robert Antonucci

Ozone Widget Framework