[Semediawiki-user] [SFI] Version 0.3: jQuery date picker added, combobox removed

[Yaron K. <ya...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Version 0.3 of Semantic Forms Inputs has been released. I'm not actually the
author of Semantic Forms Inputs, but I'm announcing this release
specifically because Sanyam Goyal and I are responsible for it - we made a
bunch of changes in this version, as part of Sanyam's Google Summer of Code
project (all done with the blessings of Stephan Gambke, the main author).

The main changes in this version are:

- a new input type, 'simpledatepicker', was added. This is a date picker
input that uses jQuery and jQuery UI - it actually uses Javascript files
from Semantic Forms, so the latest version of SF, 2.0, is needed for this
input to work.

- the 'combobox' input type was removed, since Semantic Forms now has a
combobox input type of its own.

- there were a set of PHP changes to get SFI to conform more to standard
MediaWiki conventions.

- the code itself was moved from Google Code hosting to the Wikimedia SVN
repository, which will make translation possible, and generally make it
easier to modify the code. This will also enable SFI to get added to the
Semantic Bundle, since SB can only use extensions that are on the standard
SVN repository.

The one piece of bad news is that the old date picker input, 'datepicker',
which uses the YUI library, currently no longer works - this may get fixed
soon, though.

You can read more, and download the new version, here:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Forms_Inputs

-Yaron