Really Simple History 0.6 goes public

Brian Dillard, Monday, December 3, 2007 @ 9:18 am

Really Simple History 0.6 rolled over this morning from release candidate into final production code. All previous versions are now considered deprecated. The production version of 0.6 is exactly the same as RC1, but it includes more complete release notes and a minified version of rsh.js. (Much respect to Dojo ShrinkSafe!)

I'd like to extend thanks to the many tireless beta-testers who have put RSH through its paces over the last couple of months. Thanks also to the many developers whose work on other Ajax history frameworks has informed my own. Most of all, thanks to Brad Neuberg for initiating the project and allowing me to get my grubby little paw prints all over it.

As always, you can download RSH from its home at Google Code and participate in the RSH community at its Google Group.

The roadmap from 0.6 to 1.0 is taking shape:

0.8 will become available for beta testing by the end of the year. It will include the following enhancements and changes:

• Automatic escaping and unescaping of history points; in 0.6, if you want a history key with spaces or special characters, you have to escape and unescape it in your application code.
• Support for automatic title changes with each new history point; you'll be able to pass a title in with each call to dhtmlHistory.add and see it updated in the browser title bar and history stack.
• A configurable location for blank.html, the html file that enables the library to work in Internet Explorer.
• A totally rewired internal structure using Crockford's module pattern. Private members will be truly private, and the number of global variables will be reduced from 2 to 1.
• An exhaustive tutorial on how to use RSH for a number of different application types.

1.0 is scheduled for 2008 Q1. It will include full jsUnit and Selenium test coverage.

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1. 

   Congrats Brian!

   Comment by Brad Neuberg, Monday, December 3, 2007 @ 9:25 am

2. 

   Awesome work. Our stuff wouldn’t be the same without RSH. Keep up the good work.

   Comment by Justin Meyer, Tuesday, December 4, 2007 @ 11:10 pm

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