We have just cleared the Lively Kernel for release under the...

        MIT license

Yayyy!

It is our intent now to wrap it all in a shiny new package with canvas support, namespaces, wiki work, end-user programming frameworks, the great JavaFX experiment, and maybe even a bit of documentation(*).


        We need your help

At one time or another, the Lively Kernel has run more or less in Safari, Firefox, Opera and even Internet Explorer and a JavaFX applet. And now there are both SVG and Canvas versions as well. We need your help testing, locating and, ideally, fixing whatever bugs may affect Lively Kernel on each of these platforms. We are not so interested in problems which can be fixed simply by getting a more recent version of the same browser, except that we would publish them as known problems. But we are interested in such issues as command keys don't work, screen size is wrong, it crashes, etc.

Our goal is for this release to present all the good stuff we've done, in a form that runs on as many browsers as possible, on as many OS's as possible, in as many countries as possible.

The two files to test are the normal and canvas versions of our latest sources...

        
http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/repository/lively-kernel/trunk/source/kernel/index.xhtml
and
        
http://livelykernel.sunlabs.com/repository/lively-kernel/trunk/source/kernel/expt.xhtml

Note that the system browser (world menu / tools) will allow you to view the entire code base. If you wish to help with bugs, then either send us what you think to be a fix, or contact us regarding write access to our repository.

Please send your testing results and suggested fixes, either to me or to the list, and I will collect these in a status report and punch list of items remaining before we make the release.

Thanks all

        - Dan, for the LK team

(*) If you have developed any useful documentation (such as where in the sourcefiles to find various things, etc), please feel free to pass those along, and we'll try to fold them into the Wiki and any other documentation that we assemble for the release. Thanks in advance for that too.
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