Acronyms

February 15, 2008 — Antoine Toulme

I was puzzled to see this post from Chad showing up in my feeds reader with a nice underlined word, animated when mousing over it.


It so occurs that the acronym tag can be used to do that. No Javascript involved.
This might be an old trick, but it just works. Thanks Chad!

UPDATE: See the comments, use abbr instead.

UPDATE 2: See Chad’s post:

1. : a tag that is supported by more browsers now, but may become obsolete in the future, judging by a proposed specification that may one day become a standard
2. : a tag that, right now, isn’t supported properly by the browser with the single biggest share of the market — and, thus, the browser used by the most potential visitors or customers at your website

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Graphical goodies for the BPMN modeler

February 15, 2008 — Antoine Toulme

We have worked hard on the BPMN modeler and have a few things to show off.

Some semantic changes

  • Associations can target sequence and messaging edges.

    • At the semantic level only. We are actively working on making it possible to connect them in the diagram.

  • Pools hold messaging edges.

    • We haven’t worked on making it possible in the editor as well, but the semantic model accepts those now.

Support for BPMN 1.1

We are heading for basic support of BPMN 1.1. You can deactivate it in the BPMN Diagrams preference page.

  • Signal events

    • They really don’t look good yet, and we are looking for help on that
    Signal events.

  • The look and feel of shapes is BPMN 1.1 compliant

    • Multiple event and event-based gateway a la BPMN 1.1 sauce
    Throwing and catching events are not drawn in the same way

  • Routing of sequence edges with gateways has drastically improved.

    • Nice looking diagram

    More

    • We have added the link and multiple events to the palette.

      • We miss images for those items right now, as well as the ones for the signal event. Working on that bit.

    • Only one connection handle shows at a time in the diagram.

      • We wanted to have only one connection handle showing at a time. That way when you mouse over the shapes, they don’t animate all at the same time.

    • Terminate events are better centered

      • Better centered terminate end events

    • Improvements over lanes

      • Lanes
      Lanes can now have a background color, and they resize in a better way that they used to.

    • We have fixed a pesky bug when using the BPMN modeler in a different editing domain.

    We hope you enjoy those improvements, will be inspired by them and will give us a hand at the next Eclipse bug day!

    Posted in BPMN, Eclipse, General, Intalio, new and noteworthy. No Comments »