TagCanvas version history
Here's a list of all the versions of TagCanvas that have been released and the changes that were made in each one. The TagCanvas version number can always be found in a comment at the top of the Javascript file.
| Version | Release date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 2.11 | 06/08/2021 | Added option to display an alternative image when tag is active. |
| 2.10 | 07/04/2021 | Added support for playing audio when mouse enters a tag. |
| 2.9 | 01/03/2016 | Added “outlineDash”, “outlineDashSpace” and “outlineDashSpeed” options for marching ants highlights. Added “tag” and “tagbg” outline colour options, along with new “outline” weight mode. Added “magic” argument support to sphere and cylinder shapes. Added pulsate support to colour and size outline methods. |
| 2.8 | 02/09/2015 | Added “imageRadius” option for rounding off image corners. Added “scrollPause” option for pausing animation during page scroll. Fixed background and outline shapes when too-large “bgRadius” and “outlineRadius” options used. |
| 2.7 | 27/05/2015 | Added “pinchZoom” option for zooming on touchscreen devices. Added “repeatTags” and “minTags” options for repeating the list of tags in the cloud shape. Added support for user-defined shape functions. Added “centreImage” function for simple images in the centre of the cloud. Fixed erratic dragging when multiple fingers touch the screen. Fixed tags not being positioned when a depth of 0 used. Made the “No tags” message draggable. |
| 2.6.1 | 11/02/2015 | Fixed div tooltip for canvas appearing at end of page on startup. |
| 2.6 | 26/01/2015 | Added support for mixed image/text tags and choice or image, text or
both. Added text and image alignment options. Added “No tags”
message when there are no tags to display, and option to disable it.
Added support for displaying the canvas title as a tooltip in the same
format as the tag tooltips. Made the event handlers clear when
TagCanvas.Delete() is used to allow a restart to switch
between drag control and cursor following. |
| 2.5.1 | 04/09/2014 | Added updating of background and border colours in Update and Reload functions. Fixed crash bug in tooltips during clickToFront animation. Fixed crash when a weight of 0 specified. Fixed crash and broken animation on really old browsers. |
| 2.5 | 03/07/2014 | Added “size” outline method and outlineIncrease
option. Added support for multiple weights, “bgcolour” and
“bgoutline” weight modes and multiple weight gradients.
Improved handling of scaled images.
|
| 2.4 | 28/05/2014 | Added outlineRadius, bgColour,
bgRadius, bgOutline,
bgOutlineThickness and padding options.
|
| 2.3 | 23/04/2014 | Added SetSpeed and Delete functions.
Made tags stay highlighted when clickToFront used.
Fixed Update not updating tag weights. |
| 2.2 | 08/07/2013 | Added TagToFront and RotateTag functions.
Added clickToFront, animTiming and fadeIn
options. |
| 2.1.2 | 06/05/2013 | Fixed mouse and touch event positions when canvas is resized from its width and height attributes. |
| 2.1.1 | 24/02/2013 | Restores an undocumented “feature” used by the Drupal module to specify a subset of links for use in the cloud by appending a class selector. |
| 2.1 | 22/01/2013 | Made shuffleTags and Update function work together properly. |
| 2.0 | 18/12/2012 | Changed tag position calculations. Now uses requestAnimationFrame
when available. Added Reload and Update functions. Added support for breaking
tags into multiple lines on <br> tags or using the new
splitWidth option. |
| 1.19.1 | 05/11/2012 | Fixed frame and iframe targetting. Added weightSizeMin and
weightSizeMax options. |
| 1.19 | 26/09/2012 | Improved depth fading and added maxBrightness option.
Added pause and resume functions. Added dragging control option. Added
basic touch screen support when using drag control. Added cloud centre
drawing callback function option. Added “hring” and
“vring” shapes. Added offsetX and
offsetY options for positioning the cloud within the canvas.
Added freezeDecel option for deceleration during active tag
freeze. Added workaround for IE9 drawing glitch. Fixed
freezeActive staying frozen when mouse leaves canvas. Fixed
div tooltips remaining on when mouse enters another tag. |
| 1.18 | 26/06/2012 | Added lock “xy” option. Fixed highlight in “colour” mode to always be 100% opaque. Fixed bug that was shrinking images when they had a shadow. Fixed mouse position calculations when html tag has CSS margin. |
| 1.17.1 | 25/04/2012 | jQuery version had a bug in the hideTags code, preventing
it from working. |
| 1.17 | 25/04/2012 | Fixed bugs: click events not firing in IE9; click events could fire
multiple times in IE<9 after cloud restarted; image scaling problems
with hideTags enabled and started from
$(document).ready() handler; images not appearing until
cloud animates. |
| 1.16 | 10/04/2012 | Added imageScale option and image scaling 1:1 by default.
Fixed tag selection remaining when cursor leaves canvas. |
| 1.15 | 06/04/2012 | Added radiusX, radiusY, radiusZ,
stretchX, stretchY, shuffleTags,
noSelect and noMouse options. Added new
outlineMethod of “none”. Fixed problems with
cross-domain iframes, weighted tags with images, weighted tags in IE7.
|
| 1.14 | 08/03/2012 | Added tooltip, tooltipClass and
tooltipDelay options. Fixed display of mixed text and image clouds
in IE 8. |
| 1.13 | 07/02/2012 | Added activeCursor option. |
| 1.12 | 20/12/2011 | Added multi-font and multi-colour support. Added outlineMethod
option for different ways to highlight the active tag. Now also uses fewer
resources when cloud is stationary. |
| 1.11.1 | 25/11/2011 | Fixed bug in jQuery plugin version where cloud would not animate in IE if
interval option was not set. |
| 1.11 | 23/11/2011 | Added zooming using mouse wheel, horizontal and vertical lock options, cylinder shapes. |
| 1.10 | 29/08/2011 | Better handling of mouse movement. Improved txtOpt mode
quality with txtScale option. |
| 1.9 | 02/08/2011 | Improved image tag compatibility with IE 6-8. Various small optimisations. |
| 1.8 | 27/06/2011 | Added speed improvements with txtOpt option. Added
frontSelect option. |
| 1.7.1 | 14/05/2011 | Fixed a .srcElement is undefined error that was appearing in
Firefox. |
| 1.7 | 04/04/2011 | Added weightFrom and interval options, improved
IE support, and a load of internal changes to improve efficiency. |
| 1.6.1 | 14/02/2011 | Fixed hideTags in jQuery version. Some minor
optimizations. |
| 1.6 | 27/01/2011 | Added weighting of tags, a zoom option and tag shadow options. Also improved calculation of tag text sizes. |
| 1.5 | 20/01/2011 | Adds support for running multiple clouds on one page. Also fixes a bug where clicking a link with a target would open it twice. |
| 1.4.2 | 14/12/2010 | Improves compatibility with IE9. |
| 1.4.1 | 25/11/2010 | Bugfix - right-clicks (and middle-clicks) were triggering links before, but now only left-clicks will. |
| 1.4 | 13/09/2010 | Now supports click event handlers on the links so TagCanvas will work
better with other Javascript and jQuery scripts. There's also a new option,
minSpeed for keeping the cloud moving when the mouse leaves the
canvas. |
| 1.3 | 01/09/2010 | Adds some support for using explorer canvas, using image link tags and selection of the tag list by id. Since the source of the links can now be specified, this is also the first version to support being restarted. |
| 1.2 | 09/06/2010 | Adds several new options: reverse, freezeActive,
initial, pulsateTo and pulsateTime. The
jQuery plugin version is also slightly smaller than the previous version. |
| 1.1.1 | 10/05/2010 | Improves compatibility with older jQuery versions, and also copes better
with FireFox 3.0.x. The older FireFox version supports the canvas element, but
not in the same way as the newer version. For now the stand-alone version will
emulate IE behaviour in FireFox 3.0.x by moving the contents of the canvas into
a div and deleting the canvas. The jQuery version will return
false and let you deal with the fallout. |
| 1.1 | 04/05/2010 | Adds support for adjusting the perspective depth effect, the outline thickness and distance, and also uses a new algorithm to space the tags around the cloud better. This is also the first version available as a jQuery plugin as well as the stand-alone version. |
| 1.0 | 21/04/2010 | First version released. |