[Developers] mjt 0.5 is released

Wed Jun 27 21:56:06 UTC 2007

Mjt 0.5 has been released: for more info see http://mjtemplate.org/

This release has plenty of new features and examples:

mjt.else and mjt.elif attributes
   when combined with mjt.if, these attributes eliminate many
   cumbersome uses of mjt.choose.

mjt.on* event handlers
   Mjt provides handler attributes like mjt.onclick,
   mjt.onsubmit, etc.  Unlike the usual DOM event handlers,
   the event body is compiled within the current lexical scope.

mjt.for creates a new variable scope
   This is done by wrapping the body in a javascript function() {...}
   declaration.  This results in the variable capture semantics that most
   people expect when writing event handlers.

mjt.run() does the right thing without arguments
   If mjt.run() has no arguments, it
   will implicitly treat the <body> element as a template, compile it,
   and replace it.  This removes the tedious <div id="top">...</div>
   boilerplate from every mjt page.

mjt.run() has several other arguments that allow you to run
   templates that were declared previously, rather than compiling
   and expanding in-place.  This allows more dynamic apps.

mjt.attrs lets you dynamically add attributes to the generated
   html using a Javascript expression.

examples are Valid XHTML + Mjt
   The examples now validate against mjt.rnc and xhtml.rnc, using
   James Clark's nxml-mode.

experimental: support for including mjt using an inline <script> tag
   mjtinline.js is a thin wrapper script
   around mjt.js that lets you include Mjt in your pages, even if you
   can't change the <head> or <body> tags.  Bloggers may be interested
   in this one.  See the inline script example.

experimental: autosuggest menus
   There is an implementation of autosuggest pop-up menus using Mjt
   and jQuery that you can play with.  The UI flow still has lots of
   rough edges.  There is a type suggestion example  for Freebase
   as a demonstration.  Still needs some porting to work on IE6.

enjoy!

    nick