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This is a list covering what's new in Domino 8.5.3 from a developer's / XPages point of view.
Domino Designer
New Java design element which lets you create a single Java class, scoped to the current NSF project.
This class is directly available in an XPage.
Source Code Enablement (for interacting with version control systems) built into Domino Designer, the SCE plugin from OpenNTF is not longer needed.
Beside that, there are various internal enhancements in the Source Code Enabled functionality.
Palette Profiles to control which controls are displayed in the control view (File -> Preferences -> Domino Designer -> Palette).
New perspectives for doing classic Notes development or XPages development. Each perspective hides/displays a certain set of design elements, for example are elements like outlines or shared fields hidden in the XPages perspective.
You can filter design element types by yourself and save that as a custom perspective, too.
Updated JavaScript editor with improved code validation, code folding, code templates, formatting preferences and more.
Possibility to sign a list of design elements at once.
Control when the InfoBox opens automatically (File -> Preferences -> Domino Designer -> Forms/Views Design Elements).
F2 on a design elements provides renaming of the element and it's alias.
XPages
New Java design element which lets you create a single Java class, scoped to the current NSF project.
This class is directly available in an XPage.
"Show disabled control for read only" attribute added to all input controls.
New Dojo property panel for controls, so that you can set Dojo attributes more easily.
New performance related application property "Evaluate entire page on refresh".
New "show XPage instead" property for views.
Full text search result sorting using a new FTSearchSorted() method in Java and LotusScript classes: FTSearchSorted(Query, Maxdocs, Column, Ascending, Exactcase, Wordvariants, Fuzzysearch).
This finally solves the usability problem that ftsearch results appear to have no order.
Furthermore, sorting a view by clicking on column headers is still supported after doing a ftsearch on that view.
New properties to support HTML5:
- new application property to set the HTML DocType
- new "attr" properties for controls
Automatic aggregation of JavaScript and CSS resources so that even huge usage of Dojo functionality results in only very few JavaScript/CSS downloads on the server.
This can result in a dramatic increase of performance, especially if the user as only a low bandwith connection.
Possibility to preload the XPages engine on Notes client and Domino server by using notes.ini variables XPagesPreload=1 and XPagesPreloadDB=server!!file.nsf,server2!!file2.nsf.
This reduces the initial loading time of XPages applications.
Dojo is delivered in version 1.5 now.
You can control which Dojo version to use in an application more easily in order to use for example Dojo 1.6 if you need to.
In the fileDownload control you can change the image and confirmation message for the "delete" action now.
A new event "view.postScript()" let's you compute client side JavaScript which is executed every time an full or partial update is executed.
Update 17. oct 2011: I'm not sure if that made it in the final product.
Update 14. july 2011:
All properties -> disableOuputTag on some controls (panel, repeat) hides the actual HTML tag, but renders the content of the control.
All properties -> tagName for the panel control let's you decide wether you want to render a div, span or some other HTML tag for the panel.
General
Update 16th june 2011:
Easier deployment of ExtLib and other OSGI plugins in Domino server (it's not sure that this feature make it into 8.5.3). Details at Declans Dom Blog
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