During the last IKS hackathon at the end of November the VIE core developer team got the ability to hold a face-to-face meeting and concentrated their work on the most pressing issue with VIE: Releasing version 2.0.
In order to ship this major release, three issues had to be resolved first:
- compatibility issues with IE
- continuous integration
- API documentation
IE compatibility
For the first version of VIE, we were mainly developing on Google Chrome and Firefox and paid more attention to enrich VIE with more features than robustness. However, as the library grew and with it the list of users, the need for a broad support through all browsers increased. For most browsers, this went smooth. Of course, the Internet Explorer had to be handled special and some issues had to be resolved (see, e.g., [1] [2] [3]). Continue Reading →