Bindows 4.0

InfiView 2.0 Beta is based on Bindows 4.0 with its enhanced browsers support (IE8, FF3, WebKit 525+, Chrome, Safari-4) .

WebKit Support

InfiView 2.0 Beta now includes support for WebKit browsers:

• Safari 4
• Google Chrome

IE8 Support

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) comes with new features and improved standards support compared with previous versions. It also comes with other differences that maybe are not as well received. Some of these might even cause major issues for existing web applications. As InfiView 2.0 Beta is based on Bindows 4.0, the effect of most of those issues is minimal.

Nested Groups

InfiView 2.0 Beta now supports nested groups. If a group is collapsed, all its internal edges are hidden, and external edges are drawn to the group.

External Resources

We have added support for external resources defined in XML files. This is useful if (for example), you want several similar NodeTypes with, say, an icon and a label. Now you can define the template in XML and simply set the label text and icon URI for each instance.

Simplified Launcher Format

InfiView 2.0 Beta has a new format for launchers: Add a link to the InfiView application.js script. InfiView automatically adds links to Bindows at a default relative URI. The launcher should also include the style sheets bimain.css and infiview.css.

If you have extracted Bindows to a different location than the default, or want to be able to switch between Bindows versions, you can set the BINDOWS_PATH variable to identify your Bindows installation: BINDOWS_PATH = "/path/to/bindows/html/"

New Event Actions

We have added two new event actions: EdgeMouseOver and EdgeMouseOut. These can be added to the markup just as you would e.g. NodeMouseOver.