ColdFusion Matt | 03 May 2008 11:02 pm
CF9 Centaur Feature Requests
Here’s some notes I took from the cfObjective community giving feature requests to the Adobe team for ColdFusion 9. This list is incomplete. Some requests were hard to catch and I came in a bit late. But here’s a bunch that were talked about. I’m bolding items I felt were particularly well received. Of course, this is totally subjective.
- parse action script 3 natively within coldfusion (compile it into java) … there was passionate discussion here, in my opinion though it seems very difficult and something that wouldn’t provide enough short term profit for the effort. I could be missing the big picture though.
- ability to throw exceptions in cfscript
- cfscript should do all of the language construct
- ktml support for rich text editor … ktml sounds doubtful as this is a retired product
- ability to flatten pdf forms, so forms can be created, sent to customer and customers cannot edit.
- add <cffinally> tag as in try, catch, finally
- transaction managers for nested transactions
- a packaging system to easily distribute cf apps as single file, like java has jar files
- tags that generate html would have the capability to use html 4.01 strict not just xhtml
- compress javascript files
- cfhtmlfoot tag to write content immediately before closing html tag
- onrequstend that stops breaking cfcs … I may have misheard this one
- trusted cache and turn it on or off per application
- being able to cache parts of a page only
- ability to strip down whitespace so html is a single line, aggressive whitespace management
- name elements by attributes and be able to clear specific elements in cache
- be able to cache something until change
- better dealing with null values
- info in server monitor about unit tests of code to show code quality to management
- ability to script to photoshop, indesign
- hibernate, jpa, orm integration
- cfvideo tag like cfimage, ability to add chapters or cut longer video into clips
