Excellent, congrats on the release! Matt
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 10:23:01 AM UTC-6, Jason Grout wrote: > > > We are pleased to announce the release of ipywidgets 6.0, Jupyter > interactive widget library. Jupyter interactive widgets enable building > simple GUIs in the Jupyter notebook. > > See https://blog.jupyter.org/2017/03/01/ipywidgets-6-release/ for a > nicely formatted version of these release notes with links. > > ipywidgets 6.0 is a major release of the project. In this release, we > closed 197 issues and 309 pull requests with 732 commits. > > Installation > ============ > Using conda: > > conda install ipywidgets -c conda-forge > > (The OS X conda package will be available in a few hours.) > > Using pip: > > pip install ipywidgets > jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension > > What's new in ipywidgets 6.0? > ============================= > > Custom widget styling > --------------------- > In addition to the existing Widget.layout attribute, which enables the > specification of layout-related css properties for the top-most DOM element > of a widget, we added a new Widget.style attribute. This attribute enables > custom styling of various widget types (such as Button.style.button_color). > > The top-level styling properties that were deprecated in ipywidgets 5.0 > have been removed. > > Using widgets outside of the notebook > ------------------------------------- > Another change in 6.0 is the ability to render Jupyter interactive widgets > outside of the notebook: > > * Widgets can be rendered in Sphinx documentation, either with the > jupyter-sphinx extension or the nbsphinx notebook converter. > * Widgets now render on nbviewer. > * Jupyter interactive widgets can be embedded into static web sites, such > as http://jupyter.org/widgets. > > Custom widget libraries built upon ipywidgets 6.0 can also take advantage > of these features. > > This feature required the formal specification of a mime type for Jupyter > interactive widgets, which is now contained in the new > jupyter-widgets-schema npm package. > > Redesign of the core widgets > ---------------------------- > The widgets provided with the base Jupyter widget libraries have gone > through a major re-design. > > We also migrated from the less CSS preprocessor to the use of css > variables. In addition to the main benefits of adopting web standards, we > take advantage of css variables defined in JupyterLab to style the > interactive widgets consistent with the environment. > > Migration to Typescript > ----------------------- > The jupyter-js-widgets JavaScript package, which is the front-end > component of ipywidgets, has been completely refactored and migrated to the > Typescript programming language. We also adopted the PhosphorJS JavaScript > framework, which is at the foundation of the JupyterLab project, for better > layout capability and integration with JupyterLab. > > Credits > ======= > This release has been a team effort of a large number of contributors. We > would like to thank the following 31 people who contributed, and especially > the 14 people who contributed for the first time in this release. > > Contributors to this release (alphabetical order): > > Afshin Darian (first contribution) > Adam Chainz (first contribution) > Benjamin Ragan-Kelley > Brian Granger > Cameron Oelsen (first contribution) > Carol Willing > Dave Willmer > denfromufa > Giles Weaver (first contribution) > Gino Bustelo > Grant Nestor (first contribution) > Jason Grout > Javier Pedemonte > Jeff (first contribution) > Jeroen Demeyer > Jonathan Frederic > Justin McCandless (first contribution) > Ludwig Schmidt-Hackenberg (first contribution) > Maarten Breddels (first contribution) > Martin Renou (first contribution) > Matthew Craig > Matthias Bussonnier > Michael Pacer (first contribution) > Oliver Evans (first contribution) > Paul Ivanov > Philipp Rudiger (first contribution) > Srinivas Kumar Sunkara (first contribution) > Steven Silvester > stonebig (first contribution) > Thomas Kluyver > Sylvain Corlay > Yoshiki Vázquez Baez > > Thanks, > > Jason > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/685c473a-0a42-4df5-a8dc-40694f1fb047%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
