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Canvas 1.5 Released

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 08-23-2006 | 6,223 views

I have released a new version of Canvas with some nice new updates. First off though - all of this is from my users, so props to them for helping make the product better! You can download Canvas from the project page.

  • There are a variety of CSS fixes. Thanks to Seth for finding them and big thanks to Scott Stroz for fixing them. Let me be clear - my CSS sucks and Scott stopped from going the evil "All Table" route.
  • Sam Curren added two cool new features. First, when viewing wiki page X, if there exists X.A and X.B, you will now see a subnavigation menu for those pages. He also made the title linkable so you can get back from X.A and X.B.
  • Chad Gray added a set of new rendering functions, including strikethough, subscript, and superscript. He also added support for colors, which I wasn't sure about, but since it is so easy for folks to add/remove rendering rules, I went ahead and added them in.

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John Farrar said on 08-24-2006 at 7:11 AM #
Ray, the chorus of the purists (radical designers) is no tables for layouts.

:)
Raymond Camden said on 08-24-2006 at 8:22 AM #
I hear ya. I'm lucky to have Scott Stroz helping me out on these things. CSS just doesn't really click with me. And I assume people would rather me spend time on new features and bug fixes. ;)
chad said on 08-24-2006 at 2:44 PM #
The CSS changes are great! Now IE displays much better.
Lucas said on 08-24-2006 at 3:28 PM #
Any news on an authentication/registration/subscription module??
Raymond Camden said on 08-24-2006 at 3:30 PM #
Do you have a good model for these that I can look at? Or if you have a good idea in your head, you can describe them here.
Lucas said on 08-28-2006 at 2:14 AM #
I was thinking of somthing simple
just firstname, surname, email, password and approved/status.

Primarly so that you can see who is actualy editing/creating the pages and so that you can restrict who can create new pages.
Raymond Camden said on 08-28-2006 at 8:23 AM #
Maybe. I'd then need a proper admin so you can approve users. It seems like overkill, but, I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on it. It would certainly take care of vandalism.
Rob Brooks-Bilson said on 09-08-2006 at 5:36 PM #
Ray,

We've been using JSPWiki here for a while now (sorry, we needed something more feature rich, out of the box at the time).

jspwiki.org

One of the things I like is that it's fairly modular. Right now, we're using basic HTTP authentication (accounts administered via Tomcat), but we're planning on using the LDAP plugin so we can do authentication that way.

I have another project coming up soon that would benefit from a wiki, but I'm on the fence between sticking with JSPWiki, or trying it out with Canvas.
Rob Brooks-Bilson said on 09-08-2006 at 5:45 PM #
Just a few more items that would be really useful:

Ability to create tables in the markup

File uploads

Images
Rob Brooks-Bilson said on 09-08-2006 at 6:07 PM #
One other thing I noticed today as well. For bulleted lists, it would be good if you could use multiple levels of indent:

# Level 1
## Level 2
### Level 3

etc..
Raymond Camden said on 09-08-2006 at 8:19 PM #
Authentication:

My plan was to allow for 3 types:
a) totally open
b) user must register (and click link in email), but then open
c) user must be created by admin type tool

What I could do is ensure that the auth code is abstracted, so you could do ldap/http auth using method c

Images: Can you explain how it would work?

Files: Yep, I'm going to allow attachments to pages. You can embed the attachment in the page (Click here...) and they are listed at the bottom of the page.

Tables: Like images, got an example fo rme?
Rob Brooks-Bilson said on 09-08-2006 at 8:50 PM #
Hi Ray,

Sounds good. Here's how images and tables are done in JSPWiki:

http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/TextFormattingRules
Raymond Camden said on 09-08-2006 at 9:02 PM #
Images are done. Will be in the next release.
Leslie said on 09-11-2006 at 3:36 PM #
Do you have an idea as to the time frame that you plan to release the file attachment and mutliple list indentation features?

Thanks.
Raymond Camden said on 09-11-2006 at 3:40 PM #
Unfortunately no - in fact later today I plan on posting an announcement in regards to support status. Long story short - this week is 100% gone for me as I have to focus on some issues. Sorry. :(
Leslie said on 09-11-2006 at 3:43 PM #
No problem. I was curious as to the time frame of this month, next month, within the next six months. I hadn't expected you to code and publish it this week. Just curious about your roadmap for the Canvas features.

Thank you for your fast reply.
Raymond Camden said on 09-11-2006 at 3:50 PM #
I'd think within the month. I don't know why - but I really like Rob's image suggestion. It works so well.

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