Bug fixes and minor improvements

Improved features

• CSP fixer
  • *.html.pre_csp files are no longer generated from the original .html's
  • add CoffeeScript to the script types supported by the CSP fixer
• Project templates
  • pined down Polymer version in the templates to latest (was master)
  • Normalization in Chrome app templates manifests
  • fixed typos and made more uniform the Chrome App manifests generated by the project template types that have them
• Chrome App manifest validator: added alwaysOnTopWindows to the list of recognized permissions

Bug fixes

• fix: Bower would fail to run on a bower_components directory and printed an exception to the console
• fix: Few compile-time warnings
• fix File filter and search view are broken

Bug fixes and some Bower improvements

Improved features

• Bower:
  • support package specifications with just a version or version range and path omitted, e.g. "package-x": "1.2.3", "package-y": "~1.2.3": the path is resolved using Bower registry based on the package name
  • support "*" as a package specification, e.g. "package-x": "*": the path is resolved as above; the tag resolves to the latest stable
  • support packages whose GitHub repositories have moved to a different GitHub organization (so their URL redirects from https://github.com/OldOrg/package to https://github.com/NewOrg/package)

Bug fixes

• Bower: too frequent or large bower install/update jobs would exceed the GitHub API access rate limit, locking the user out of Bower for a 1-hour timeout period
• when deleting a folder from disk on Windows, CDE might delete the contents of a subfolder represented by a junction point, rather than just delete the junction itself
• the editor was very sluggish on very large files with long lines (e.g. minified package sources)
• editor focus would be lost when switching between files via Ctrl-Tab
• sporadic installation failures on Bit9-protected Windows machines should be slightly less probable now, although there is no complete solution yet

Other changes

• pinned the version of Polymer packages in the Polymer-related templates to latest (was master): this should result in more stability
• added more USB devices to the supported list (LG Optimus v3)
• some UI adjustments and refinements

Improved Bower, integrated Polymer Designer, speed improvements, search options, and more

New features

• improved Bower support
  • added support for most of the semantic version range formats under "dependencies" in bower.json:
    • operators <, <=, >, >=, ~ ("approximate"), ^ ("latest compatible")
    • special tag latest ("latest stable tag")
    • unspecified version defaults to latest)
    • examples: "Polymer/polymer#>=0.4.1 <0.4.3", "Polymer/polymer#^0.4.1", "Polymer/polymer#~0.3.0", "Polymer/polymer#latest"
  • added support for "*" package paths in bower.json: such paths will be resolved using Bower registry based on the package name; e.g. "codemirror": "*"
  • the destination directory for downloaded packages can be configured via "directory" field in hierarchically traversed .bowerrc files (other fields are currently ignored); see Bower configuration page
• alpha version of Polymer Designer integration into CDE; some notes:
  • enabled for all HTML files, but meaningful only for HTMLs with a <polymer-element> at the top
  • very sensitive to the input: may fail to render a design if the internal parsing fails; improvements on the way
  • therefore, the primary indended use for now is to jump-start a new Polymer element from scratch, get it to a workable state, then continue more advanced development manually
  • accessible via a new context menu item in the file tree and via a new floating action button (FAB) in the editor
  • to start a new element design, simply create a new empty HTML and click the Polymer FAB in it
  • generates only the .html source for a design; you will need to manually add any dependencies the design requires to a sibling bower.json and run Bower Install on it
  • the undo stack is properly updated with the generated output: the original source can be restored via the usual Undo action
  • known limitations:
    • <link> tags importing external sources are ignored, including outline stylesheets and polymer components not natively known to the Designer (i.e. ones not found it its design palette); use inline tags wherever possible
    • lists of CSS selectors before a single rule are not supported: use duplicate rules for each individual selector
    • HTML tags containing both text content and sub-tags are parsed incorrectly: the text contents is lost; e.g. Some text in <p>Some text <a>some link</a></p> will be lost on import

Project templates

• the New Project dialog can now also be accessed via a new floating action button (FAB) at the bottom of the file tree view
• the much improved Dart Web App and the newly added Dart Package project templates are now based on Stagehand - a new set of best-of-breed prescriptive templates for creating Dart projects
• Polymer-related project templates now depend on the latest stable versions of Polymer components (depended on master before)
• fixed/upgraded some previously/recently broken templates

Other changes

• significant improvements in the editing speed and responsiveness!
• add options to the Search/Replace dialog (regular expressions, case-sensitive, whole words only)
• enabled syntax highighting for .sql and .sqlite file extensions
• UI tweaks:
  • improved the Live Deploy dialog's UI
  • restricted resizing of the commit message text area in the Git Commit dialog to vertical only (could be resized horizontally before)
  • added 11 light color themes for the editor

Bug fixes

• the undo stack in the editor would reset when the rereading the contents of an externally modified file, making it impossible to go back to the original code
• source navigation would become broken when an involved project got deleted

Release v0.6

Initial Dart functionality.

Release v0.4

Simple text editing.