Announcement: New release candidate, REM version, Select component placeholder and other updates

[amorey]

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know about some new features in MUI and give you an update on the next product release:

First, in order to make it easier to zoom in/out on sites that use MUI, the latest version of MUI includes an option to compile MUI CSS using REM instead of PX. To enable REM in the SASS source you can use the $mui-use-rem SASS variable. Alternatively you can use a pre-compiled version of the CSS file in the extras directory located at extras/mui-rem.css. Unless your site overrides the default font-size property on the html tag, you should be able to switch to REM without any issues.

Second, the latest version of MUI includes an option to add a placeholder label to the Select component in the MUI React and Angular libraries. To use this feature simply set the label via the placeholder html attribute. To use placeholders in MUI VanillaJS you can use the required html hack. Hopefully we can add it as a built-in feature to MUI VanillaJS at a later date.

Third, there's a new release candidate available that includes these features as well as some smaller bug fixes (v0.9.39-rc1). Please check out the release candidate and let me know if you run into any issues. If there are no issues, I'd like to release a new version on Friday.

Lastly, I want to do a better job of letting you know about new features under development and new upcoming releases. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on better ways to communicate with you about MUI development.

Thanks!

Andres