[Wet-announce] 1.0 Alpha release

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1.0 has been finally released as alpha. This release is behind schedule
by around 2 months but this delay is due to two major changes - 
 
a) WET -171 (Create Dom Processing directly in C#) - To reduce the
dependancy on the WET RPC which turned out to be a big source of
errors. 
 
b) WET -308 (Disintegrate the WET UI) - This was created to change the
way that WET was perceived to be! Somewhere, while creating the WET UI
for 0.9.8, we screwed up and sent the wrong signals that WET was like a
record-playback tool and will let you create test suites by simply
recording user actions. Well WET was never meant to be that way right
from its conception (See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wet.qantom.org/wet_philosophy_mini.html">http://wet.qantom.org/wet_philosophy_mini.html</a>
and the page that is linked to from there). To fix this perception,
WET-308 was thought of - and it turned out that this implementation was
a lot more time consuming than we initially thought! 
 
I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Shruthi J, Saraswathi and
Chitra for their efforts in making the alpha release a reality. Thanks
a lot folks! 
 
More information about this release can be seen at: 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WET/2007/05/26/Wet+1.0+alpha+released%21%21%21">http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WET/2007/05/26/Wet+1.0+alpha+released%21%21%21</a> 
 
Please read the caveats section carefully before deciding if you want
to plunge into using the release right away or wait till Beta is
released. 
 
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Regards, 
Raghu Venkataramana 
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The future of web testing 
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