This update for DTCoreText is our most error-free release ever! We added tons of new unit tests and added code coverage monitoring via Coveralls. And in doing so we found a plethora of little bugs creeping around in little untested (“uncovered”) code.
Changes
- ADDED: VIDEO tag with no direct SRC attribute will now use the first one from its child-tags
- ADDED: support for letter-spacing CSS style (mapped to kerning)
- ADDED: Proper nested lists support in DTHTMLWriter
- ADDED: Code coverage support
- FIXED: Resizing behavior of DTLazyImageView
- FIXED: Potential dead-lock in [DTAttributedTextContentView layoutFrame]
- FIXED: HTML with lists might trigger a crash because an NSArray was mutated while being enumerated
- FIXED: Output of nested lists was broken
- FIXED: Elusive crash related to text blocks
- FIXED: a situation where some whitespace does not get trimmed correctly
- FIXED: CSS inheritance would clash mit direct inheritance of DTHTMLElements
- FIXED: The “not-found range” {NSNotFound,0} was used incorrectly in several spots
- CHANGED: Replaced instances of using DTVersion for runtime version checking with method recommended by Apple
- CHANGED: Requires DTFoundation 1.5.4
Adding code coverage report generation aided greatly in finding some places where the code was misbehaving. I also found that code coverage analysis has sort of a “gamification effect”. You get motivated to try to spot some places that – if you write a proper unit test for them – can get your score a bit higher.
Adding unit tests for fixed bugs – where possible – plus this extra motivation from the Coveralls chart increased the number of unit tests from about 110 to 160.
I was also able to get in a few very old feature requests that turned out to be relatively straightforward. For example adding support for the letter-spacing CSS attribute:
The update is tagged on GitHub and also available via CocoaPods.
Shout Out: doRadiology Apps
This edition’s shout out goes to several radiology apps by BestApps. For example Diagnostic Radiology – Dynamic Approach to Abdominal Radiology.
According to the app’s maker “This app uses DTCoreText for everything”. This app got recently nominated Semi-Finalist by Radiology Website Aunt Minnie for the Best Radiology Mobile App 2013 award.
Congratulations to doRadiology! Great to hear that DTCoreText has enabled production of such high caliber apps.
Categories: Updates