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-Recline DataExplorer is an open-source pure javascript data explorer and data
-refinery. Imagine it as a spreadsheet plus Google Refine plus Visualization
-toolkit, all in pure javascript and html.
+A simple but powerful library for building data applications in pure Javascript and HTML.
-Designed for standalone use or as a library to integrate into your own app.
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-
+
## Features
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* Open-source (and heavy reuser of existing open-source libraries)
* Pure javascript (no Flash) and designed for integration -- so it is easy to
embed in other sites and applications
-* View and edit your data in clean tabular interface
+* View and edit your data in clean grid interface
* Bulk update/clean your data using an easy scripting UI
* Visualize your data
-* And more ... see
-
-
-
+* And more ... see
## Developer Notes
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## Changelog
-### v0.5 - Master
+### v0.5 - July 5th 2012 (first public release)
-In progress.
+[40 closed issues](https://github.com/okfn/recline/issues?milestone=2&page=1&state=closed)
-Possible breaking changes:
+Lots of breaking changes to the API from v0.4 (should be very few going forwards) including:
* State only stores backend (name) and dataset url (in url field) rather than entire dataset object
* Backends heavily reorganized
* Rename Document -> Record
* Rename DataExplorer view to MultiView
+* ...
### v0.4 - April 26th 2012