DOMAssistant

Update:  Version 2.7.4 has been released to address a regression bug that affects the addClass(), removeClass() and replaceContent() methods. Please update to this version. Sorry if it has caused any inconveniences!

We are pleased to announce that your favorite Javascript library has just received an update! Yes, it’s a zero-point-zero-one version increment, but make no mistake about it - DOMAssistant 2.7.3, while continuing its promise of being extremely light and fast, sees the addition of some much requested features and fixes, including:

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Four months after BoxIt Rounded Corners, Samuel Desnoës has released yet another plugin for DOMAssistant.

As its name DOMAssistant.Tabs suggests, it allows you to create a tab-based navigation system on your webpage with a simple call:

$$(’myContainer’).doTabs();

Released under MIT license, the demo and download link are available on the official website.

PURE is a cross-browser, cross-library templating engine that runs on the client-side to render backend JSON and XML data into HTML. It is extremely lightweight, fast, and reduces complex data handling logic into a single line.

Today, the PURE team announces official support for DOMAssistant. We are proud and at the same time happy to see DOMAssistant picking up momentum on real world usage.

 Do check out the PURE-DOMAssistant demo and give this nifty little library a try!

With 2.7.2, we continue to fix the inevitable bugs that have slipped through. The changes in this release are:

• Fixed regression bug on $ with multiple arguments
• Fixed passed parameters not checked before their usage in attrToXpath()
• Fixed buggy :checked behavior in non-IE browsers
• Two new methods preview: triggerEvent() and replace() 

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Tuesday this week we released the 2.7.1 release of DOMAssistant. Unfortunately, two somewhat edge cases sneaked through. While these probably won’t affect most of you, we thought it best to quickly release a new version, just in case.

The problems were in regard to setting certain attributes on tables in Internet Explorer and the ability to pass in numbers as well as strings when setting attributes in IE.

Therefore, version 2.7.1.1 is now available for download.

If this had the chance to cause you any inconvenience, we sincerely apologize.

We were very happy with our 2.7 release, and now we just thought that we’d issue some small updates and fixes to that.

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Samuel Desnoës, also responsible for the translation of the DOMAssistant documentation into French, has released a DOMAssistant plugin called BoxIT (BoxIT in French).

It is a plugin to be used to automate the creation of graphical round boxes on block-type tags (P, DIV, UL, LI) in an HTML page, to avoid having a lot of superfluous markup in your documents.

DZone have just published an article by me about working with AJAX calls and DOMAssistant. Go read, to delve into the DOMAssistant universe.

When it comes to creating richer web interfaces, using images to improve the experience is a most important way to do it. Therefore, we’re proud to release the PictureSlides DOMAssistant plugin.

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DZone recently published Interview: Robert Nyman : Creator of DOMAssistant where I talk about DOMAssistant and a little about other JavaScript libraries.