Hi all,

Now Lazarus has been released a week ago, I've finished a simple review with an overview of some of it's new features. For those interested: http://www.cnoc.nl/en/lazarus-1-4-review/

Regards,

Joost.

This website seems a bit weird. I went to have a look at the article and the page was blank. Now I always uses the excellent "noscript" to protect me from some of more nasty aspects of the internet and this was clearly blocking something. Looking at the HTML, comes up with things like:

<noscript><iframe src="//www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-TH9X6K" height="0" width="0"
style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>

I don't like the look of zero size I-frames. They are rarely for the benefit of the user especially when in a "noscript" tag, there is no probability of the size ever changing. The page also links to lots of javascript.

It seems like the author does not want us to view the site unless we let javascript run. Why? Sorry, but I am a bit paranoid when it comes to web security.

thanks for the overview

Joost van der Sluis wrote

Now Lazarus has been released a week ago, I've finished a simple review with an overview of some of it's new features. For those interested: http://www.cnoc.nl/en/lazarus-1-4-review/

The contents look good in general!

Some minor corrections :
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1. EditorToolbar does not need to be uninstalled any more. It can be hidden from View menu.

2. The help really is loading faster, the code was improved. There is even a blog about it : http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.fi/

3. Undo-function in form-designer does not "work better", it is a whole new feature in 1.4. It did not exist in earlier releases. It is one of the coolest improvements IMO. Earlier if you worked on a complex layout of components inside a Panel and then deleted the panel by accident, there was no way to get it back. Now there is! ---

You could also mention the Checkbox boolean editor in OI, usability improvements in many IDE windows including the ComponentList (Ctrl-Alt-P), reworked TEditButton + derivatives, and TCoolbar and TControlbar components which is now "ready".

Juha

This website seems a bit weird. I went to have a look at the article and the page was blank. Now I always uses the excellent "noscript" to protect me from some of more nasty aspects of the internet and this was clearly blocking something. Looking at the HTML, comes up with things like:

It's just wordpress, using a common template and some plugins to create a layout dynamically. Maybe that those need a lot of javascript and are not that nice.

It seems like the author does not want us to view the site unless we let javascript run. Why? Sorry, but I am a bit paranoid when it comes to web security.

The site has been setup by our cms-supplier. For me it's not important enough to spend any time on it's internal design. That takes only time. It works, maybe not entirely how I would want it to, but it's good enough.

But I'm sorry to hear that there are people who can not read it due to this, but it's just a simple site with some content, nothing to spend too much time on...

Regards,

Joost.
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