Mark Vincenzes reviewed several enhancements to the Domino Web server available to Domino developers, including:

• The new $$HTMLTagAttributes field, which you an use to specify lang="en" for a page or form
• The new $$HTMLFrontMatter field, which gives you the ability to specify the DOCTYPE for individual pages or forms
• The new $$HTMLOptions field, which can be used to control the display of sections and tables
• The ability to disable passthru HTML at various levels in a page or form
• The ability to get data from a view in JSON format
• new URL commands for views
• the new HTML API

I was disappointed in this session mostly because the new features only involve controlling content. There were no new design widgets added to the product that would make a Domino developer's life easier. While its true that you can use AJAX libraries to add date pickers and rich text editors, isn't it time that some of this stuff be added to the core product, so that developers don't need to include this on their own? How about adding a web version of @PickList?

The HTML API stuff was way over my head. I would have appreciated this new capability more if Mark could have stated why it was being added.

Mark's delivery was pretty dry as well. Of course, he didn't have the sexiest material to review.

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