Tidbit: doh.robot initialization
The doh.robot module for Dojo clicks a special text field inserted into the top-left of the test page during its initialization. If you obscure this magic field, the robot hangs.
If you're writing your test cases separate from the page under test (always a good idea), dojo.robotx craftily hides the iframe containing the page to test until the robot is ready. If you're not using dojo.robotx (my constraint), you must be careful to avoid that magic text box in a similar fashion.
iPod Shuffle with TTS
It's about time! Now when can I expect it on the other iPods? Just because they have screens doesn't mean I'm always looking at them.
Two Comments about WordPress
First, the new dashboard coming in 2.7 looks wonderful. I must say it looks much cleaner and appears to fit a typical screen better than the current version.
WordPress 2.7 posting UI screenshot
Second, near the end of the standard install guide for WordPress, there's a link to a separate guide on how to install and update WordPress direct from Subversion. Too bad I discovered these instructions after doing my first install from the packaged version, but it was definitely worth the effort to switch over to installing directly from Subversion.
Stopping Maintenance
Gary and I are stopping maintenance and support on various developer libraries we've created over the years. If anyone is actually using these libraries and wants take over their maintenance, please let one of us know:
- Audio Enriched Links
- PMIDI
- pyAA
- pyFMOD
- pyIFC
- pyOpenAL
- pyHook
- pySonic
- pySonicEx
The code and builds for these projects currently posted at http://sf.net/projects/uncassist and http://sf.net/projects/pysonic will remain in place, but we will no longer update them.
Two fellows have already contacted me about maintaining pyHook, but haven't set up shop yet. I'll provide a link to the new pyHook home page when they're ready.
We will continue maintaining pyTTS.
New Dojo WAI-ARIA tutorial
I posted a new tutorial about writing a rating widget using Dojo. The widget supports mouse and keyboard input, can be used with CSS turned off, reports its value and bounds via WAI-ARIA to assistive technologies, and has text that can be translated. Please let me know if you find any errors or want to suggest improvements.