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Coldfusion 8 and Ajax UI problems

Tags: Coldfusion

For the length of time that this product has been in development, the one thing that has annoyed me the most is the lack of builds when fixing problems in the beta stages.

I have worked as a programmer now for 27 years, in that time I have also been a beta tester for Coldfusion for 10 years, and have also worked in the games industry in my teenage years as a Tester and I can tell you that the length of time between builds in the software development of Coldfusion has always been an issue with me.

One of the things I never had a chance to play around with that much is the new Ajax UI tags, and the last build I played with the look and feel was rushed out the door with the final release.

And it took me a whole 5 minutes to pick up on 3 major bugs that should have been fixed and never got fixed, and as simple as these bugs are, they WILL affect your programming and the look of your application so take care now.

Problem #1:

When using the example from the manual, for the tag layout for tabs I noticed that the look had changed since the last public beta, and when I looked at the page source code I was surprised to find that the following tabheight="400px" is translated to height:300px;; in the style, no I did not make a typo. And yes that is one small issue, not a big one but an issue.

Problem #2:

While also looking at the code generated by Coldfusion, I noticed that the div tags defining the tab has also added an extra   so if a developer is looking at getting the text or even a cfgrid as close to the tabs as possible you never will, it doesn't matter what you do you will not be able to remove the added space that Coldfusion 8 has added

Problem #3:

While playing around with the datepicker, in Firefox I can't fault it. But under IE 7, it is a different story. Again I copied the example from the manual and again I was surprised to find that the most simple and basic thing that we all developers will need is that the generated drop down box with all the dates have the correct z-indexing and yet for some reason the style for this control is not only screwed it impedes the use of that in anything that might have a browser control in IE7 underneath it.

And this is in the first 5 minutes of my attempt to use Coldfusion 8.

Can I say not happy Jan?

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