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                        ChangeLog for Ra-Ajax

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                          Version 3.0.0

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* Added support for setting the selection for the RichEdit control
  through the EffectFocusAndSelect, plus probably also through the
  Focus and Select methods.

* Created a new behavior for doing scrolling on iPad and iPhone.

* Completely refactored the DOM structure for the Accordion, this
  have significantly improved the speed and DOM structure when using
  the Accordion. In addition the Accordion is now much easier to skin
  and modify for your own needs.

* Added Caption and Collapse icon support to the AccordionView.

* Completely refactored the DOM structure and the server side
  control structure of the Window. This has significantly improved
  the speed and reduced the markup and amount of JavaScript and also
  reduced the ViewState of the Window control.

* Fixed a bug in the CheckBox which made it render the Label
  for the CheckBox inside of the input HTML element which was a 
  sever bug.

* Fixed a bug in the RadioButton which made it render the Label
  for the CheckBox inside of the input HTML element which was a 
  sever bug.





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                          Version 2.5.0

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* Added support to programmatically raise the "GetChildNodes" event
  of the "SlidingMenuLevel" by calling the "RaiseGetChildNodes" 
  method.

* Added a new property to "SlidingMenuLevel" called 
  "ChildNodesLoaded" to determine whether the dynamic child 
  menu items of this "SlidingMenuLevel" have been loaded or not.

* Fixed programatically animating the SlidingMenu. There are 
  breaking changes in this fix though which are changes in the 
  API of how to use it...

* Completely removed all website code since it's now a Ra-Brix 
  website. In addition removed the samples and replaces with
  a minimalistic sample since the documentation at ra-ajax.org 
  should be enough now.

* Created a completely fresh skin called "Gold". Removed 
  previous skins due to not meeting the quality standards in our
  Beauty perl.





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                          Version 2.0.4

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* Added support for "ExpandTo" on SlidingMenu for making sure some 
  specific level is initially expanded to. This will NOT work with 
  dynamically created menu items though...

* Now tracking unload of window and shutting down all future Ajax 
  requests on page after unloading of Window. 
  
* Seriously revamped the RichEdit widget. It's now actually close
  to being useful :)

* Added support for executing scripts contained in contents of
  widgets. This means you can add scripts inside of widgets and
  they will be executed (on *all* browsers) when the Ajax Request
  returns.

* Added support for CTRL keys in the RichEditor which means you
  can handle stuff like for instance CTRL+S in your own code.

* Slightly mofified the Ra-Ajax Timer documentation sample.

* Added support for changing the Duration of the Timer during 
  AJax callbacks.

* Added logic that throws an exception when ReRender is being
  called on a Timer to avoid confusion since it doesn't work,
  and there are no circumstances where it's needed.

* Fixed a sever bug in RadioButton and CheckBox which made
  it not able to set its Checked state if the control wasn't
  visble by default on the first rendering of the page.

* Fixed bug that would trigger if no keyboard shortcuts 
  was given to RichEdit

* In Tree, if ClientSideExpansion is true, a CSS class 
  called "active" will be added on mouse over and removed
  on mouseout on Tree Nodes.

* Fixed a bug in BehaviorDraggable which would not remove
  the dragger when mouse left button was released before 
  doing any actual dragging of the element.

* Added a property on the Tree Widget called 
  "UseRichAnimations" which if set will turn on rich animations
  with the mouse over/out effects on TreeNode items without
  being forced to use SingleClickPlusSign expansion
  and ClientSideExpansions to set it.

* Changed the InPlaceEdit to be a LinkButton since then it
  will obey the tab ordering on the page...
  Also made it get focus when esc is clicked to close the 
  InPlaceEdit.
  BREAKING CHANGE!!
  Might break existing CSS!

* Fixed a bug in the SlidingMenu that would make links 
  non-clickable in Chrome...

* Fixed several bugs in the RichEdit widget. It should
  be way more stable now.

* Added support for "AppendControl" in Ra Dynamic.

* Fixed a bug that would force "absolute" for 
  BehaviorDraggable if style was set to "fixed". This
  basically means that you can now also set the style 
  "fixed" for the position of a Window or other draggable
  widgets.





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                          Version 2.0.3

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* Fixed a bug in form serialization that caused an error when 
  dealing with an ASP.NET ListBox that has no initial items.

* Fixed a bug in client-side script options for some widgets that 
  affected 'OnClickClientSide' among other things.

* Added a new effect 'EffectCssClass', developed by Karel Boek. This
  effect enables you to easily change the CSS class of a widget as
  part of a series of chained or joined effects.


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                          Version 2.0.2

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* Completely removed the animation of TreeNodes in IE because in IE
  animating the TreeNodes had just too many issues...

* Fixed a bug with the GlobalUpdater that would not display errors
  correctly that occured on the server. E.g. Exceptions thrown or
  similar things...

* Added support for having -1 as value for left and top properties
  of EffectMove to indicate that particular parts of movement should
  be ignored.





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                          Version 2.0.1

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* Fixed a bug in setOpacity in Ra.js which for IE based browsers
  would make transparent PNGs if they were within the hierarchy
  of the element being called setOpacity for would display the
  transparent parts of the PNG become black. Notice that this
  bug is not fixed, but it's fixed so that once you set the 
  opacity to 1.0 it will DISABLE the alpha filter for the 
  element which means that once the element is finished fading 
  back into 100% opaque it will not show these transparent 
  regions of the PNG as black.
  This bug-fix is especially visible for EffectFadeIn when
  you have transparent PNGs within the Control being faded into
  view.

* Fixed a bug in the rendering logic on the server for opacity
  which made in IE (any versions) if you set the opacity to
  1.0 - the text for that element would render "funny". This
  is due to the alpha-channeling of IE where it renders text
  of HTML elements with alpha transparency to "smoothen" or 
  "blur" the text. This is fixed by in the StyleCollection 
  class checking to see if the opacity being set is 1.0, and
  if it is then *DISABLE* the alpha channeling.

* Changed the (IE only) implementation of the mouseover
  and mouseout to use the native support in IE for 
  mouseenter and mouseleave instead of the "emulated" once
  in Ra. This should make the Ra mouseover and mouseout 
  faster for IE.

* Made several methods on both Effects and RaControl 
  protected instead of public to make the API more clean 
  and less confusing.

* Created support for deep linking in the documentation
  system so that you can link to specific tutorials and
  classes.

* Interlinked all the tutorials with relevant classes
  and so on on the website to make it easier to browse
  around and read the tutorials.

* Seriously revamped the Menu widget to be more up to
  the quality of the SlidingMenu Widget.

* Added support for hover expanding on the Menu widget.
  This comes in addition to the click expansion already
  existing and can be set with the property called
  "ExpandMethod". Notice that for a large webpage
  which have expensive logic or large viewstate
  or is intended to run on a narrow wire or something
  this is not optimal since due to the logic behind
  it will trigger quite many more Ajax Requests which
  will increase the bandwidth usage significantly.

* Added a new project called Ra.Builder which is a 
  helper for creating HTML markup in C# on the server.
  It implements the IDisposable pattern to create
  guarantees for that the HTML Elements you create
  will be closed in the right place.

* Seriously refactored all the core HTML rendering
  logic of Ra-Ajax to use the new HtmlBuilder logic
  which is new in this release.

* Fixed a severe bug in ResizeHandler which would
  create many requests in IE when the viewport was
  being resize by dragging the borders of the browser.

* Made the syntax highlightning for the samples way
  better to conform with the syntax highlightning of
  the documentation.

* Fixed a bug in GlobalUpdater which made consecutive
  queued up Ajax Request trigger the Updater even 
  though they were not supposed to since timer that
  triggers the fading of the Updater wouldn't be 
  correctly reset after an Ajax Request returns.
  This had the effect of "flimmering" the updater
  if you had several buttons that was slow in server-
  side though not on their own slow enough to validate
  the showing of the GlobalUpdater and you clicked
  all those really fast.





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                          Version 2.0.0

                           IMPORTANT!
                      CHANGED LICENSE TO GPL
                 If this causes problems for you, then 
                 please see our consulting offerings at 
                http://ra-ajax.org which comes together 
               with a proprietary license to use Ra-Ajax.

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* Added MaxLength property to TextBox to specify the Maximum number 
  of allowed characters the user can enter.

* Much nicer server error/exception	display (less obtrusive). The 
  user can optionally view the full error details or ignore it.

* Support for setting multiple style values in Ra.Element using 
  JS object literals with the function Ra.Element.setStyles(). Good 
  for writing more compact code when setting multiple style values.

* Better cross-browser obscuring solution for BehaviorObscurable 
  and BehaviorUpdater. Eliminates problems like revealing parts of 
  the page behind the obscurer while resizing the browser window. 
  This solution is pure CSS, no JS is used to adjust for resizing, 
  scrolling etc...

* Support of displaying an image with BehaviorUpdater. Nice for
  displaying things like loading.gif image (http://ajaxload.info) or
  something similar while the Ajax request is being processed on the 
  server.

* Fixed a bug that made the Visible property not work in Opera.

* Added zIndex property to BehaviorUpdater.

* Removed unnecessary code from Dynamic.

* Fixed a bug in TreeView which occurred when ClientSideExpansion
  was turned on and TreeNodes was either expanding slowly because
  of server overhead or nodes was being clicked very fast. If 
  those criteria was met then sometimes nodes would come out
  "empty" and not have content at all which was a bug.

* Added a new Behavior called BehaviorUnveiler which will fade-in 
  any widget into MaxOpcity on mouse over. And fade-out the widget 
  to MinOpacity on mouse out.

* New widget - WebPart. A WebPart is kind of like a minimalistic
  window. Usage would probably be portal creation and similar
  features like IGoogle and such.

* Removed the WindowLight control since the WebPart control is
  far better to use for circumstances when you really need
  a "lighter window".

* Fixed a bug with Accordion which when set to ClientSideChange
  would let the user click an active AccordionView which again
  would trigger a JavaScript bug.

* Cleaned up the API significantly an removed unnecessary 
  and redundant methods and properties for many widgets and
  classes.

* Fixed a bug in LinkButton which made it impossible for the
  LinkButon to have Child Controls. Now though the LinkButton
  can have Child Controls.

* New Widget - SlidingMenu. A SlidingMenu is a cross-over 
  between a Tree and a Menu. It contains most features from 
  a TreeView like dynamically loading of items and such, but 
  at the same time it "appears" more like a Menu in that it 
  can only display one level of items at any time. It is
  heavily inspired by Apple's iPhone/iPod UI.

* Fixed a bug in SelectList that caused the SelectedIndex to 
  not change when a ListItem's Selected property was set to true.

* Fixed a bug in RaControl that made the JSON serialization fail 
  if the value passed in is null.

* Added support for dynamic inclusion of JavaScript files 
  (from resource and file path) on Ajax callbacks. This is 
  100% transparent which means that there is nothing special 
  you need to add to your JS files to use this feature. This 
  also fixes several bugs related to dynamically including 
  extension controls in Ajax callbacks.

* Minor refactorings in AjaxManager.

* Fixed a bug that caused initial setting of opacity style value 
  in the ASPX markup to not work properly in IE. And added special
  handling of opacity for IE.

* Added support for setting any RaWebControls into "no-queue mode"
  which if set (through the QueueMultipleRequests property) will
  make sure that all Ajax Requests generated when the control 
  already have an ongoing Ajax Request will never be queued up.
  This is useful e.g. if you have "slow buttons" which are spending 
  a lot of time on the server and you wish to discard consecutive
  clicks on those buttons (can be any widget) since they're just
  a result of a reckless user clicking the same button multiple
  times.

* Fixed a bug that caused initial setting of opacity style value 
  in the ASPX markup to not work properly in IE.

* Changed the Views property of the Accordion control to
  be a List<AccordionView> property to make it easier to access
  the individual views by index of the ActiveAccordionViewIndex
  property.

* Fixed a bug in EffectFadeIn which made the element you ran it 
  on always display with block style while the Effect was running.

* Fixed a bug in EffectFadeOut which made it impossible to
  run the effect on a widget which initially was invisible.

* Fixed a bug in EffectRollUp which made it impossible to
  run it on a non-block displayed element.

* Fixed a bug in Dynamic that didn't allow specifying no key or
  using an empty string as a key. This is useful in simple 
  scenarios when the user doesn't need to use a key.

* Fixed a ViewState serialization problem between Behaviors
  and their associated controls that made them incorrectly
  load Style properties they were changing on Widgets. All
  though this was a "core bug" it would only manifest itself
  as a bug in the BehaviorDraggable as far as we know which 
  would incorrectly modify the top/left properties of the 
  owning control when dragged around on screen.

* Added support for changing Behaviors' properties on Ajax 
  callbacks.

* Added support for enabling/disabling Behaviors through 
  implementing IDisableableBehavior (implemented only for 
  BehaviorDraggable for now).

* Renamed CreateExtraControlsAtBottom and 
  CreateExtraControlsAtBottomEvtArgs to CreateFooterControls and 
  CreateFooterControlsEventArgs in Calendar.cs
  (Breaking Change).

* Renamed CreateNavigationalButtons and 
  CreateNavigationalButtonsEvtArgs to CreateTitleBarControls and 
  CreateTitleBarControlsEventArgs in Window.cs
  (Breaking Change).

* Fixed a bug in Timer which made it include the JavaScript
  file even though it was not visible.

* Fixed a bug in TreeNode which made it include the JavaScript
  file even though it was not visible if the JS file was needed.

* Changed license from LGPL to GPL.
  BREAKING CHANGE!!

* Fixed a bug in EffectRollDown and EffectRollUp that made 
  the animated element loose its old overflow values if 
  overflow-x was different from overflow-y.

* Changed almost every namespace to become far more 
  intuitive. Note you'll probably going to have to seriously
  rewrite usage of Ra-Ajax. Also changed name of assembly
  Extensions to Ra.Extensions.dll.
  BREAKING CHANGE!!

* Seriously updated the documentation for Ra-Ajax. Now it
  should be really versatile and useful.

* Seriously updated the entire website and also samples.
  Hopefully to the better :)

* Added a whole bunch of really great new tutorials which
  are now an integrated part of the documentation for 
  Ra-Ajax.





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                          Version 1.1.3

                     Enhancements to Dynamic

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* Added a new method 'ClearControls()' that allows you to reset the
  dynamic control and clear its child controls.

* The 'Extra' property of 'ReloadEventArgs' is now persisted between 
  callbacks.

* Added a new boolean property 'FirstReload' to 'ReloadEventArgs' 
  This property is very useful in many scenarios, it is only true 
  the first time the 'Reload' event is fired, i.e. when you call 
  the 'LoadControls(...)' method on the dynamic control thus 
  raising the 'Reload' event, otherwise it is false.


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                          Version 1.1.2

           Bug fixes and Renaming Changes (code breaking)

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* Fixed a bug in Ra.AjaxManager.Instance.Redirect(url) that 
  prevented it from working in Safari.

* Fixed a bug in BehaviorObscurable that made the obscuring div not
  resize correctly when the browser window gets resized, revealing
  parts of the page beneath it.

* In the Dynamic Control, renamed the event 'LoadControls' to 
  'Reload' and 'LoadControlsEventArgs' to 'ReloadEventArgs' and 
  renamed the method 'ReLoadControls' to 'LoadControls'. This is
  a code breaking change, you should modify your code to use these
  new names.


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                          Version 1.1.1

               Bug fixes and minor changes...

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* Window will now have a default Caption of "&nbsp;" if you don't 
  set it. This is because of that the Window will not be draggable
  unless you explicitly set its Caption in your own code.

* Added support for the Dynamic Control to take an addition
  "initialization" object when being ReLoaded explicitly. Note that
  this parameter will not be serialized and given again on next 
  callback, but will be available when the control is signaled to
  ReLoad its controls in your own code. This means that you can 
  pass in "initialization objects" to the "ReLoadControls" method
  which will be passed in to your "LoadControls" event handler.


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                          Version 1.1.0

       Bug fixes, some quite severe...!

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* Fixed so that Accordion now when is set to ClientSideChange="true"
  it won't finish the animation with an explicit height for the 
  element being shown. This was a bug and would make the Auto-Resize
  feature of the Accordion not work fully when animation was being
  done on the client.

* Fixed a bug in HTML select form element serialization


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       Bug fixes and more client-side optimizations...

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* Added a new Widget called "Dynamic" which completely takes away 
  the hassle of creating Dynamically created controls. A great sample
  of use is the "Dynamic.aspx" page which is completely rewritten.

* Added support for having TreeView NOT trigger selection of items
  at all as an option. This is a *BREAKING CHANGE* since the 
  "AllowMultipleSelectedItems" property is now obsolete and exchanged
  with the "SelectionMode" property. This means that the TreeView can
  now be set in MultipleSelection, SingleSelection and NoSelection.

* Fixed a bug in ListItem (SelectList) which made them to never be 
  "selected".

* Added support for SelectedIndex on SelectList.

* Added overloaded constructor for ListItem taking Text and Value
  property.

* Added support for TabIndex on all RaWebControl inherited controls.

  - All the above changes should make it easier to port an "existing"
    ASP.NET WebControls application to Ra-Ajax ...

* Fixed a bug in Style collection which makes the logic throw an 
  exception when there's a whitespace at the end of the style
  collection.

* Fixed a bug in InPlaceEdit that made it not work properly in
  Opera and on Mono.


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                          Version 1.0.2

       Bug fixes and more client-side optimizations...

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* Fixed a bug which ocassionally made the same scripts be included
  more then once in core...

* Added support for having "Client-Side animations" for the Tree
  Control. This works so that if the TreeView have fetched child
  items already or they have been rendered in the HTML/DOM already
  then the animating of the expansion/collapsing of the 
  child-controls will purely happen on the client without having
  to go towards the server. This should seriously make the Tree
  control behave more responsive. Note that this feature is 
  *EXPERIMENTAL* and you should be careful with it in production
  environments. Also when the tree control is set in this rendering
  mode then no "state" will be preserved if you trigger a conventional
  postback for some reasons.
  To set the Tree Control in this mode set the "ClientSideExpansion"
  property to *true*. The default value is false.
  This obviously don't work when Tree control is set so that 
  Expansion property is "SingleClickEntireRow" unless you also set 
  the SelectionMode to "NoSelection" since then the
  actual expansion of the TreeNodes are the same click DOM
  element as the element you click to select nodes. And to
  select nodes is obviously an event that should and must trigger
  a sever-side event.
  Note that even though this works relatively perfect there
  are "border cases" where things doesn't work perfect. This
  is mostly due to that when client-side expansion/collapsing
  is occuring then the DOM is updated but not the server-side
  style collection. This means that e.g. when you expand a node
  on the client and then later select that same node. Then
  there is no way the server can now that that node is expanded
  and it will seem like for the server that the newly selected 
  node is actually *NOT* expanded. Therefore I would encourage
  you to only use this for "completely dead" trees which 
  effectively means Trees that purely live on the client.
  Say like for instance a "menu" which can't handle selections
  anyway etc...


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                          Version 1.0.1

       Client-Side optimizations.
       IE6 bug fixes...
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* RaWebControl now have a property called "OnClickClientSide"
  which if set is expected to be a JavaScript function reference
  and will trigger when RaWebControl is clicked.

* Accordion can now be set to Client-Side change mode by setting
  the property "ClientSideChange" to true. If this property is
  true then no Ajax Request will be triggered when you change
  the active AccordionView by clicking the headers - but instead
  the change logic will entirely run on the client. This means
  that among other things no "ActiveAccordionViewChanged" event
  will be raised when you switch active AccordionView. Though it
  should also optimize the switching of accordions since no Ajax
  request is necessary when switching active View.

* TabControl can now be set to Client-Side change mode by setting
  the property "ClientSideChange" to true. If this property is
  true then no Ajax Request will be triggered when you change
  the active TabView by clicking the headers - but instead
  the change logic will entirely run on the client. This means
  that among other things no "ActiveTabViewChanged" event
  will be raised when you switch active TabView. Though it
  should also optimize the switching of tabs since no Ajax
  request is necessary when switching active View.

* Ra-Ajax now have basic WYSIWYG and Design Time support. 
  It's not a fully fledged design time support. But at 
  least it's good enough to ge a "rough picture" of how the 
  controls will look like in real life. And it also makes 
  the setting of properties easier.

* Fixed a bug in Ra.js - getDimensions which made among other
  things the accordion animation not work for IE6. This have 
  implications only for IE6.

* There's now a pretty nice JS addition to Ra-Ajax in Ra.js
  which should pretty accurately figure out the browser
  version. It even have a "special case" for IE6 which
  should work as good as browser sniffing is possible to
  get to work...

* Changed the previous and next hover background-color 
  buttons for the skins that supports them in Window
  to give "visual clues" that they are "clickable"...

* Added some "effect candy" for the VB.NET DataGrid
  Starter-Kit when paging the DataGrid.


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                          Version 1.0.0

       Releasing the first stable version of Ra-Ajax

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* Ra-Ajax now has 100% Mono compatibility with all its samples


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                          Version 0.9.2

       LOTS of optimizations...
       Plus some bug-fixes...

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* Changed the ViewState logic for Window so that it will roughly use
  170 bytes less ViewState (depending upon what you choose as the 
  name of your skin)

* Fixed a bug that made in-visible Behaviors to render. Note there
  is still some problems when adding and removing behaviors to 
  controls, but this is scheduled for a later release...

* Changed the ViewState logic for Calendar so that it now consumes
  roughly 200-300 bytes less ViewState per Calendar instance.

* Optimized the Style ViewState serialization logic to use less 
  ViewState size when saving Style values into the ViewState.
  This should optimize quite a lot of ViewState away if you're 
  using the Style property heavily in Callbacks and Postbacks...
  Note that even though this makes the Style collection more
  "lightweight" to use we still encourage our users to use the
  CssClass properties as much as possible still...

* Changed some of the samples to be slightly more "relevant".
  E.g. the Button, CheckBox and TreeView samples are changed
  to not show that much off topic features.

* Added up a new "CodeProject Forum-like" Starter-Kit which
  demonstrates how to create an Ajax Forum. Kind of like the
  CodeProject.com forums, only 100 times better ... ;)

* In the release build there will only be created one JS file
  for inclusion on your pages. This was chosen since due to 
  the extremely small amounts of JavaScript in Ra-Ajax anyway
  there is no point in "modularizing" them anyway.

* We are now "packing" the ViewState which means that we only
  return ViewState from the server from the first point where
  the ViewState has changed. This should theoretically save
  a little less then 25% (maybe 20% in average) of ViewState
  bandwidth in total since roughly estimated only 60%
  of the ViewState will be returned from the server.
  Though the numbers will vary depending on which parts of
  the page the user is interacting with and where in the 
  ViewState changes occurs etc...
  This is because we find the *first byte* where a change
  occurs and we return everything from *that* point. Though
  our guess is that about 40% in average of the ViewState will
  be returned fromj the server which means you're saving 20%
  of ViewState bandwidth in total...


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                          Version 0.9.1

       MessageBox, Xtra "tag" property ++++

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* Changed the "Button" property of the TabView to public since it's
  the only way to add up BehaviorUpdater to it. This means that you
  can now have BehaviorUpdater attached to specific TabViews to ease
  the experience on the user for tabview changes that might take
  some time.

* Made a couple of extra constructors for BehaviorUpdater since it
  is often created in code and thereby it's easier to add them up
  with properties when there are constructors taking their 
  properties.

* Fixed bug in BehaviorUpdater that made it sometimes lock the 
  entire screen until a browser refresh was executed. This was
  especially happening in combination with that some container
  wrapping the widget with the obscurer was being ReRendered.
  This is a severe bug in the previous version, if you are using
  BehaviorUpdater.

* You can now add up more then one CssClass to the Window by e.g.
  doing something like this; CssClass="window myCustomClass".
  The Window will only use the first CssClass (window above) to
  figure out the skin parts. The second CssClass will only
  affect the root DOM node of your Window. This makes it possible
  to completely eliminate the usage of the style property in
  the Window.

* You can now add up more then one CssClass to the AutoCompleter 
  by e.g. doing something like this; CssClass="auto myCustomClass".
  The AutoCompleter will only use the first CssClass (auto above) to
  figure out the skin parts. The second CssClass will only
  affect the root DOM node of your AutoCompleter. This makes it 
  possible to completely eliminate the usage of the style property 
  in the AutoCompleter.

* Added the possibility of DENYING expansion of TreeNode items in
  the Tree Control. If this is set there is nothing the user can
  do which will trigger "expansion". Might be useful for scenarios
  where you either don't want to allow user exansion or you want
  "something else" to trigger the expansion of TreeNode items...

* Added up an extra property called "Xtra" on RaControl (meaning
  all controls in Ra-Ajax) which is meant to be extra information
  that controls can store which is only meant for being handled on
  the server. This is especially useful in scenarios where you're
  e.g. through databinding creating controls in e.g. a GridView or
  a Repeater and you need to know the ID of the "current record" 
  for a "Delete record" LinkButton etc. But be CAREFUL with it since
  it adds to the ViewState of your page. So DON'T misuse it!

* Created a new Widgets - MessageBox which does exactly what you
  think it does - and more. You can also in addition to the Yes, No,
  Cancel and OK buttons also create it in "get simple user input"
  mode. Just a nifty shorthand around a modal Ajax Window with a
  couple of buttons and text areas within. But it'll decrease the 
  amount of coding needed on your behalf when needing a simple
  MessageBox.

* Implemented sane defaults for the CssClass of every widget which
  are "skinned". This means that for instance for the Window the
  default CssClass will no longer be "", but rather "window" and
  so on. This makes it easier to start using Ra-Ajax since you
  don't have to supply these values yourself - which sometimes
  will make it harder to start using Ra-Ajax and confuse you in
  the beginning. This was also done in the combination with making
  the CssClass in the RaWebControl virtual. So no you can override
  that property. Which also makes kind of sense...

* Changed the Text of the today button to "Today" since the date
  showing was not that intuitive (thank you Matt)

* Fixed so that both disabled tabs and active tabs no longer have
  the pointer cursor in addition to that they also don't animate
  the colors (that much) as previously. This makes the appearance
  of that they're "less interactive" then previously.


  ------------------------------------------------------------------

                          Version 0.9.0

       Fixed some serious bugs and also added up a new
       recursive FindControl which is quite powerful.

  ------------------------------------------------------------------

* Fixed a bug in Style serialization logic (again) unfortunately
  a small rendering bug came into the 0.8.6 release which was that
  the "GetStylesForResponse" method in StyleCollection.cs would
  actually serialize BOTH the ViewState value AND the 
  "AfterViewStateTracking" value which would occassionally make 
  the same style appear *twice* in the style attribute of the 
  control. This is fixed now.

* Fixed a bug that renders Style value even if they're "empty".
  In Ajax callbacks this should happen, though when rendering
  HTML for some reasons it should never render "empty" value
  like e.g. "display:;" etc. This is now fixed.

* Fixed a bug which didn't apply the 'autocomplete="off"'
  attribute for Firefox on Debian installations which in turn
  made the whole Ajax engine for Ra-Ajax go into "undefined state"
  when user clicked Back, Forward or Refresh buttons...
  This is actually due to a copyright issue between Mozilla and
  Debian which made them re-brand the browser to a different name
  in their (Debian) distribution...

* Fixed a bug that made it impossible to style the WHOLE CheckBox
  and RadioButton. Previously the RadioButton and the CheckBox
  would apply the style and CssClass properties to only the input
  element itself and not the entire span wrapping the whole thing.
  This made it impossible to style the "whole thing". Note that
  this might render compatibility problems for you if you have
  "walk arounds" already for this problem. If your CheckBoxes
  and RadioButtons looks funny, then this is the reason. To fix
  this in existing projects realize that the style and class
  attributes are now applied ONLY for a SPAN element which
  actually WRAPS the entire control.

* Added Text property for AutoCompleter which can be set and 
  retrieved.

* AutoCompleter now works when setting Focus and Select on it.

* Created a new project which is a "selector engine" for the 
  server-side. Kind of like the jQuery version for server-side
  WebControl and Control traversal and selection.
  This project is called RaSelector and can be thought of like
  an "advanced version" of a recursive FindControl 
  implementation...


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                          Version 0.8.6

       This is more of a feature release then the previous one, 
       though we are still mainly focusing on bug fixes - we 
       still had the time for more features this time then in the 
       previous release.

  ------------------------------------------------------------------

* Changed the inheritance chain of the Menu widget. The MenuItems 
  is now inheriting from Panel and the MenuItem is now inheriting
  from Label. This should make it easier for you to construct
  "dummy" Menus which only contains text and nothing more due to
  that the Label have the Text property. You can still add Child
  Controls to MenuItem controls, but if you don't need anything
  else then a Text property for your menu items then you can 
  create smaller and easier understood code by not being forced 
  to create a Literal control to contain the Text but rather use
  the Text property directly from the MenuItem control.
  The DOM structure for the Menu however is completely unchanged...
  Check out the Ajax-Menu.aspx for a sample of using the Text 
  property directly instead of adding Literal child controls...
  This doesn't render incompatible changes in any way, but it makes
  it easier to create Menus in the future and if you wish you also
  have the opportunity to change your code to a far easier to 
  understand code-model.

* Changed the inheritance chain also for the Tree widget. This
  means that for Tree Nodes you can just set the Text property 
  instead of fiddling with Literal controls like you previously 
  had to. TreeNodes inherits from Panel now and TreeNode 
  inherits from Label. There are noe changes to the DOM 
  structure due to this however.  See sample of usage in our 
  Ajax-TreeView.aspx sample. We reduced the amount of code in the
  .ASPX page by roughly 20 with this logic and in the C# codebehind
  file with roughly 30 lines of code by introducing this logic.
  Not to mention the logic is far easier to understand now...
  This doesn't render incompatible changes in any way, but it makes
  it easier to create Menus in the future and if you wish you also
  have the opportunity to change your code to a far easier to 
  understand code-model.

* Fixed a severe bug in the Style serialization logic which makes
  the styles rendered by effects also render into the style 
  attribute of the control occassionally. This made it impossible
  to e.g make a Window initially in-visible while at the same time
  fade it into view with an effect since the Window would "flash"
  and be initially visible until the effect started running on
  the page. This was a pretty obscur and hard to track bug which
  would occassionally make the Style serialization logic not work
  as intended. If you had problems with Styles serialization logic
  previously then this is highly likely the reason. This should 
  also probably make some of your "advanced logic" render a 
  *smaller* ViewState for you since often this would fail in such
  a way that it would render ViewState value it didn't have to 
  render as in render changes done before tracking of ViewState
  was triggered into the ViewState.

* Added up a new effect called "EffectFocusAndSelect" which is 
  useful for times when you have something which fades in but
  you still want to give focus to some control inside of that
  control. The Focus and Select methods will *fail* in such
  circumstances and for such scenarios the EffectFocusAndSelect
  might come in handy.

* Fixed the Viewport-Sample.aspx so that it have the Login Window
  initially IN-visible and fades it into view as the sample is 
  finished loading.

* Fixed the SelectList so that you can now change it without
  experiencing bugs in Ajax Callbacks. Though this means that
  the default value of the Size property is now "1" and not "-1"
  as it was previously. This fixed it so that you can change the
  Size property of it in IE in addition to that you can change it
  in Chrome without experiencing funny rendering bugs or errors.

* Added up exceptions for the Tree Control hierarchy in such a way
  that you will now get intelligent exceptions if you mess up your
  Tree hierarchy by e.g. adding more then one TreeNodes per TreeNode
  or have a Tree Control without a TreeNodes collection etc.
  This is being done in the rendering phase though so you're still
  free to dynamically add up controls in codebehind without 
  experiencing false positives (exceptions where there shouldn't be)

* Now RadioButton and CheckBox will trigger MouseOver and MouseOut
  events also when hovering over/out of the label parts of them.

* You can now trap "EnterPressed" event for TextBox. This will
  actually stop the propagating of the event back up and stop the
  default action which is submitting the form.

* You can now click carriage return (enter) in InPlaceEdit to submit
  the changes you've done without having the form postback.

* Steel skin didn't work on Linux due to a casing bug in inclusion
  of CSS file. This is fixed now.

* Added "EscPressed" event for TextBox.

* Added support for clicking Escape key in InPlaceEdit. This will
  disable the editing and discard the newly written value.

* Slightly optimized the serialization of forms when initiating an
  Ajax callback...

* You can now call RollDown and RollUp on TreeNodes from your own
  code which means that you can programmatically expand and collapse
  TreeNodes in codebehind. This also means that you can 
  programmatically (easily) check if a node is expanded or not by
  checking the Expanded property since this property now is public.

* Added a new Ajax Starter-Kit - an RSS reader. Sample is called
  Viewport-RSS-Starter-Kit.aspx. It features an RSS reader where
  you can add and delete RSS feeds and read (fully ajaxified) news
  items from those RSS endpoints. Note it currently only support 
  RSS 2.0 and not Atom or RSS 1.0.

* Added the "CreateExtraControlsAtBottom" event for the Calendar
  which if handled can create "extra controls" and append in
  between the calendar surface and the "today button". This is
  being used in the newly created DateTimePicker...

* Created an Ajax DateTimePicker which can fetch time values in
  addition to the date values.

* Added up keyboard shortcuts for most Starter-Kits where it 
  makes sense. E.g. GridView uses ALT+SHIFT+N/P for next and
  previous. Calendar Starter-Kit have ALT+SHIFT+C for creating
  a new Activity and ESCAPE for closing "new activity window".
  Etc...

* Fixed a bug which made it impossible to enable a timer which
  was disabled during an Ajax Callback

* Added support for AccessKey for AutoCompleter.

* Added support for Tooltips for AutoCompleter


  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                Version 0.8.5

       This version have been a seriously "stabilizer" which means that we 
       haven't added up much features but probably all users will feel that
       some parts of Ra-Ajax which had some bugs for them are now better and
       far more stable in usage.

  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Added a more "formal process" to our development cycle. This changelog is one
  example of that.
  - This means we'll have (standardly) one release maximum per week, this will be
    on Fridays. Hopefully every Friday. These are "maintenance releases".
  - Then every first Friday of every month we will have a "major release" where
    we will increase the major version number. This will make the 1.0 release hit
    the download area first Friday in January 2009 if we succeed.

* Fixed a bug with setting focus which makes IE fail if DOM element is not visible
  for some reasons (ancestor node might have display:none)
  It still fails, but at least it fails without shutting down all future Ajax and
  giving error messages.
  Relevant for Calendar Starter-Kit.

* Fixed a display bug with IE in Calendar Starter-Kit which made the "Create new 
  Activity" window show up "skewed"...

* Changed the number of nodes in our "Huge Nodes Collection" TreeView - TreeNode 
  in the TreeView sample from 500 to 200 nodes since 500 has a bad tendency of 
  crashing IE...

* Brushed up some of the styles for the sample website. Blue borders around thumbs
  etc...

* Fixed styling bug with Calendar in Combining Controls sample.

* Fixed a severe bug in InPlaceEdit which made the Text property being rendered 
  twice. This happened due to inheriting the InPlaceEdit from Label. It is now
  inheriting from Panel.

* Added support for overriding the Tag property of the Panel - just as we've had
  for a long time for the Label property. This means you can have a Panel render
  as e.g. <p></p> etc...

* Fixed a bug in Window which makes all declaratively created Behaviors (including
  BehaviorObscurer) attach to the Content control collection instead of the Window
  itself. This creates "skewed visuals" for Obscurers on Window. This means BTW
  that there is probably few if any reasons for giving the Obscurer an explicit
  ZIndex property...

* Fixed a bug in BehaviorObscurer which made it obscure also the Control it was 
  ment to make modal if there's an HTML element in the page below the Form element
  with absolute or relative position. Applies only for IE. 

* Fixed a bug in BehaviorObscurer which made it not obscure the entire document
  viewport in FireFox (and possibly other browsers too)

* Fixed a bug in BehaviorObscurer which made the obscurer NOT cover the entire 
  browser Viewport (always)
  The Obscurer now should cover the Browser Viewport for ALL browser in ALL 
  scenarios!

* Fixed a bug in EffectMove which made IE fail if element did not have an
  explicit top or left style before effect was initiated.

* Fixed hovering bugs in IE in Accordion skins "Sapphire" and "Steel". When
  hovering in IE the skin changed to a color background which was not 
  intentionally.

* BehaviorObscurer will resize itself when browser is being resized. 
  Previously the Obscurer would never resize itself when browser was being 
  resized. This would previously make it possible to get to controls actually
  behind the obscurer. The only part left to figure out is when scrolling
  vertically...!

* Fixed height of "Create new activity" on Calendar Starter-Kit since some Safari 
  doesn't respect height style of input form elements...!

* You can now change the Visible property of TabViews inside of TabControls
  in Ajax Callbacks

* You can now change the Caption property of TabViews in Ajax Callbacks

* The TabView now have an "Enabled" property which defaults to true. If
  it is false then the TabView *cannot* bet set to the ActiveTab by 
  clicking it. You will also get visual clues in the skins of the TabControl 
  if you set this property to false...

* Added DefaultWidget property for Ra Panel (and therefore also Window etc)
  which if defined will target the widget with the given ID for being clicked 
  when Enter key is pressed when something inside that Panel has focus.
  Very useful for having default buttons being triggered when user clicks
  enter inside a Panel. Kind of the same as DefaultButton from normal ASP.NET
  Controls. Though DefaultWidget can target ANY type of Widget, including 
  CheckBoxes, DropDownLists etc in addition to Buttons. This ie because in
  Ra-Ajax also non-button controls can observe the Click event...
  When DefaultWidget is being triggered that Widget will also gain Focus.

* Fixed a bug in the internals of Ra-Ajax which made stopping events on both
  Safari and Chrome not work. This means that everything in Ra-Ajax which
  relied on being able to stop a DOM event from bubbling now works in both
  Safari and Chrome (it wasn't really that much that relied on being abl to 
  stop events though)
  Note that this only happens if you return "double false" from your JS event
  handlers as in; [false, false]...!

* Fixed so that MouseOut does NOT trigger when mouse enters a child element
  of the one handling the MouseOut event.

* Fixed so that MouseOver does NOT trigger when mouse re-enters from a child 
  element and back into the main surface of the control.

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