Glow 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1 due August 7th

[Stephen Elson]

Hi,

This is a quick announcement to say that Glow 1.6.0 RC1 is due to be
released on August 7th.

Glow 1.6.0 RC1 contains a number of enhancements, bug fixes and
performance optimisations, some of which are listed below.

DOM

* css() method now accepts a hash of styles
* create() method supports more elements
* width() method improved reliability
* New position() method to get offset from positioned parent
* New prop() method for setting properties of DOM nodes
* Improved invalid selector error messages
* Performance improvement inserting nodes

Events

* New mouseEnter and MouseLeave pseudo events
* Improved compatibility with Firefox, Safari & Opera bfcache
* fire() method now works with selectors or nodelists

Widgets

* Carousel - itemClick event fires correctly after items are added/
removed
* DragDrop & Sortable - CSS compatibility fixes
* Carousel - Opera 9 Mac CSS fixes
* Carousel - improved keyboard access
* Mask - better handling of pages with horizontal scrollbars
* Panel - option to close with the ESC key
* Panel - fixed IE8 rendering issue

A full list of the changes can be seen on the Lighthouse ticket
system:

http://glow-project.lighthouseapp.com/projects/33663-glow/milestones/current


Cheers,
Steve