varabyte/kobweb v0.13.5

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The biggest feature to be excited about in this release is probably the new Silk Switch widget. (Thanks @stevdza-san for his contribution!! 🎉 )

However, this release also contains a fair number of miscellaneous fixes (and docs cleanup) as well.

Frontend

• Various fixes to the background modifier
  • Blend mode support.
  • Support for separate horizontal and vertical repeat modes.
• Fixed a poorly designed "extent" parameter in radial gradients.
  • extent should have been part of the gradient's size instead of a separate parameter.

    // Before:
    radialGradient(Ellipse, extent = ClosestSide)
    // After:
    radialGradient(Ellipse(ClosestSide))

• New isolation Modifier
  • Can occasionally be useful if you are having issues with how browsers blend transparent layers into each other.
• Added weight modifiers for rows and columns
  • e.g. Row { Box(Modifier.weight(1)); Box(Modifier.weight(0.5)); Box(Modifier.weight(1)) }
  • This is essentially a convenience modifier provided for Android devs who might be familiar with it. It delegates to flexGrow behind the scenes.

Silk

• New switch widget, supporting multiple sizes and (not shown here) color schemes
  
• Improved tooltip / popover behavior when the element it is attached to moves

Gradle

• Allow users to specify a custom location for the favicon path

  kobweb {
    app {
      index {
        faviconPath("/logo.png")
      }
    }
  }

Markdown

• Fixed a compile error you'd get when using void tags (e.g. <br>, <hr>, which don't need closing tags and never have a body)
• Fixed a compile error you'd get when using escaped quotes in the frontmatter block
  • For example, this used to cause problems:

    title: "Deploying to the Cloud using \"Render\" Web Services"