Spaz – What's New (Changelog)

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0.8.4 (2010-01-20)

[FIX] Typing lag improved by introducing a delay into username completion

0.8.3 (2009-11-19)

[FIX] Started using twitter's home_timeline.json so we get API RTs displayed

0.8.2 (2009-05-29)

[NEW] Leopaz theme now part of distribution. Make sure to delete old version if installed as user theme (ronald.devera)
[NEW] yfrog image uploading support (@mharkey)
[NEW] revcanonical support (#200) actually added this time (hannes.magnusson)
[NEW] Pref to start minimized (#52) (adam.kittelson)
[FIX] Highlights @replies to usernames that are a superstring of yours (#132) (adam.kittelson)
[FIX] weird unicode char (\u2028) that was breaking timeline refreshing
[FIX] link parser misses links with "Http" at the beginning (#204) (petercurd)

0.8.1 (2009-04-16)

[NEW] revcanonical short linker support (issue 200) (hannes.magnusson)
[FIX] Favs can now be un-faved (issue 175) (adam.kittelson)
[FIX] Friend/Follower labels no longer reversed (issue 202) (adam.kittelson)

0.8.0 (2009-04-10)

[NEW] OS X Growl support. This will only work with a build from current bleeding-edge Growl source (you can get one here)
[NEW] Added Twitgoo.com image upload support
[NEW] Images now uploaded with separate window
[NEW] dropped images now delegate out to image uploading window
[NEW] Added keyboard shortcut for image upload (CMD+SHIFT+U by default)
[NEW] added new context menu options for users: search for user and filter timeline by user
[NEW] added pref to disable direct posting to Twitter, so folks can *only* post via ping.fm if they want
[NEW] In-reply-to support for posting and reading. "Re:" now appears as link to replied-to message
[NEW] User-supplied sounds now possible via hidden prefs
[NEW] Friends and followers now combined into one section
[NEW] Section filtering is now applied across refreshes, so the filter is persistant (and more useful)
[NEW] Section text filtering now case-insensitive, supports regex
[NEW] Switched to jQuery 1.3.1
[CHANGE] marking all items as read in timeline now only marks *visible* items
[CHANGE] changed scroll to top on refresh to scroll to first new item on refresh. Made it default to OFF
[CHANGE] switched to Google Maps for location links
[CHANGE] lowered minimum refreshinterval to 2 minutes (can be lower if auto-sets)
[CHANGE] filter textboxes now highlight text on click
[FIX] Timeline should maintain scroll position after new items are added to top
[FIX] added - and _ to valid chars for hashtag linker RE
[FIX] Added + to inline links REs
[FIX] added valid chars to shortlink regex (used for expansion): -_+
[FIX] shorten-url window now adjusts size properly for short.ie extra field
[FIX] removed installFolder setting, which was annoying on OS X
[FIX] added tooltips for message action icons
[FIX] patched wonky Twitpic preview code to use prescribed API method
[FIX] Prompt box if username/pass not set replaced with inline warning in main timeline
[FIX] made window-notificationhidedelay actually do something
[FIX] fixed double url encoding bug with short.ie
[FIX] separate prefs for replies, dms and "normal" entries now allows replies and dms to stick around longer, but not grow without bound
[FIX] explicity disabled handling of http auth in URLRequest for auto-expanding of short links
[FIX] Added check that fades-in any user images that did not fade-in after 5 seconds
[FIX] changed dock unread count refreshing to work when view toggled
[FIX] Made hover popup for filter textboxes much more descriptive
[FIX] set onsubmit="return false;" in section menu forms so enter does not submit; cause index.html to reload

0.6.2 (2008-12-22)

NEW: Preference to disable window drop shadow
FIX: Twitpic password sharing warning pref now respected
FIX: Made clearer label for pref to disable warning message about password sharing with Twitpic
FIX: Better tab ordering so entry box is first

0.6.1 (2008-12-03)

FIX: All messages properly reloaded when timeline is cleared and reloaded
FIX: Links in utility windows (help, about, etc) now work
FIX: Password verification now relies solely on HTTP status (fix for upcoming API change)

0.6.0 (2008-11-25)

NEW: Requires AIR 1.5
NEW: Retweet control for messages
NEW: Timeline filtering by keyword on each timeline
NEW: Menu panel for each timeline, featuring Refresh, Toggle, and Mark (all as read) buttons
NEW: char count on all built-in themes
NEW: Notifications now show number of additional new messages (+xx)
NEW: Notifications can now be positioned in any corner of screen via UI pref
NEW: #hashtags now auto-linked to search.twitter.com
NEW: urlzen.com link shortening support
NEW: Dock badge color and shape preferences
NEW: Dock/Systray right-click menu to Quit and Reset Position
NEW: Keyboard nav in timelines will not wrap unless enabled in preferences
NEW: Redesigned spaz-mini theme; minor changes to aesthetics of all themes
NEW: Option to disable Wilhelm (thanks @kibitzer)
FIX: Performance of unread count in dock icon improved
FIX: Favorite stars now are filled-in properly when clicked
FIX: Improved keyboard timeline navigation; works on all timelines and scrolls only at top/bottom
FIX: Improved organization of preferences UI
FIX: Numerous corrections to help info (thanks @kibitzer)
FIX: URL parsing improved
FIX: Wilhelm should now more reliably go away
FIX: Username auto-completion rewritten to be much faster, no longer leaks mem
FIX: Notification popups now use custom HTML/JS solution;
FIX: Potential XSS hole in notification popup system (thanks @doctorlinguist)
FIX: Messages now marked as read upon selection via click or keyboard
FIX: Numerous memory leaks plugged
FIX: Eeduced overall size of installer package by more than 50%
FIX: Hitting "enter" in username or password pref fields now submits prefs
FIX: Enter shortcuts would fire even if form did not have focus (thanks @thynctank)

0.4.6.5 (2008-08-24)

FIX: timelines not sorting properly

0.4.6.4 (2008-08-24)

FIX: timelines not properly resetting "since_id" params when SHIFT+F5 used to clear timeline

0.4.6.3 (2008-08-24)

FIX: main timeline now uses "since_id" parameter instead of "since"; should fix missed tweets issues when client/server clocks out of sync

0.4.6.2 (2008-08-18)

FIX: statuses could not be "favorited"

0.4.6.1 (2008-08-17)

FIX: new installs would not start properly because userthemes dir had not been created

0.4.6.0 (was 0.4.4.1) (2008-08-16)

FIX: various CSS fixes for themes other than default

0.4.4 (2008-08-16)

NEW: Ping.fm integration for crossposting to multiple services
NEW: Twitpic integration for uploading images via drag-and-drop. Twitpic URLs now show preview thumbnail in tooltip.
NEW: Support for Twitter API-compatible services (like Identi.ca) via changeable API and Base URL preferences. Twitter and Identi.ca profiles can be selected from dropdown menu
NEW: Dock icon now displays unread item count on OS X (@julienviet)
NEW: Persistence of "read" status between app runs via sqlite DB (@julienviet)
NEW: Now loads 100 items from friends timeline initially
NEW: Performance improvements on subsequent refreshes
NEW: Ping.fm URL decoding support
NEW: Friends and followers are now sorted alphabetically
NEW: added init CSS to remove ugly webkit focus rings around elements.
NEW: updated default theme to add yellow bg highlighting to text form fields on focus
NEW: added keystroke (CMD+SHIFT+,) to open preferences folder in default browser. This should allow user to access prefs files more easily when UI is hosed by bad CSS
NEW: User avatars now fade-in on load
NEW: Made "Spaz>>" button a little more prominent, and hopefully identifiable as a button
FIX: Added JSON parser wrapper to handle invalid JSON that Twitter has been serving (@julienviet)
FIX: Fixed bug that prevented proper override of themes in User CSS
FIX: Messages that you post should no longer raise notifications
FIX: Lon/lat codes in friends/followers locations are now identified and linked properly
FIX: Changed several methods to use POST; fixes favoriting and following commands
FIX: Prefs are now saved right before an update is applied
CHANGE: Timeline entries now use templates instead of inlined code
CHANGE: Lots of code refactoring, as usual

0.4.2.1 (2008-07-09)

NEW: Added bit.ly support for shortlink generation/decoding
CHANGE: All theme images are now handled by theme's CSS file – no embedded images in HTML. See Spaz theme.css for changes
FIX: Auto-adjusting refresh rate would sometimes slightly exceed stated api limits

0.4.2 (2008-07-07)

NEW: Moved to AIR 1.1, with all new 1.1 capabilities (mostly support for new languages). See AIR 1.1 release notes
NEW: Auto-changing refresh rate: Spaz will ask Twitter for the current API limits and adjust your refresh rate accordingly
NEW: Added multiple url shortener services; currently supports snipurl, is.gd and xrl.us.
NEW: Added menu item for link shortener tool
NEW: Added new short-url domains to decode. Now supports "tinyurl.com","is.gd","snipr.com","snurl.com","moourl.com","url.ie","snipur l.com","xrl.us"
CHANGE: error messages now more clearly explain where error originated (iow, blame Twitter)
CHANGE: Popup on API limit error now reports *exactly* what Twitter returns, including current rate limit

0.4.0 (2008-06-28)

NEW: Summize-powered searching
NEW: Working User CSS hacking with embedded editor
NEW: Inline TinyURL decoding (thanks @julienviet)
NEW: Request per hour calculated when network refresh time changed in prefs
NEW: Mark all read in timeline with CMD+SHIFT+M
NEW: Show help window with F1
CHANGE: Smaller tabs in default theme
CHANGE: Timeout for updates doubled to 40secs
CHANGE: reduced filesize of pngs used in UI
FIX: limit to screenname caching should mitigate slowdowns when typing
FIX: delayed opening authentication panel when opened automatically on startup. Should eliminate layout glitch
FIX: Set minimum width for main window to avoid hiding prefs tab

0.3.8 (2008-05-14)

FEATURE: @username hinting/auto-completion. List of names built from main timeline/friends/followers lists (must be loaded first)
FEATURE: Emoticon support (developed by Graeme Dunlop/@kibitzer)
FEATURE: New user context menus allow messaging, following of *any* users that appear in timeline (including usernames that appear inside tweets)
FEATURE: Shortcut maker now automatically detects links in clipboard; will auto-convert and insert into clipboard
FEATURE: new friends and followers tabs. Currently only shows first 100; this will be improved in the near future
FEATURE: new Main Menu available from [Spaz] header button; presets many items previously available only as keyboard shortcuts
FEATURE: Debug mode now utilizes AIRIntrospector system; allows for much more powerful examination of DOM and AJAX calls
FEATURE: Tweets are now marked as "read" when they are unselected (themes will need to be updated to support "read" CSS class)
FEATURE: Proper user theme support; place themes in user storage directory's "userthemes"
FEATURE: added pref for scroll-to-top on refresh
FEATURE: added pref for checking for "test" versions when looking for updates
FEATURE: Just-posted tweets are now added to timeline immediately
FEATURE: Visual wilhelm excitement
FEATURE: added "hidden" pref (no UI, must manually edit prefs file) to change source string sent to Twitter.
FIX: keyboard shortcuts now work under Linux (thanks agolna)
FIX: set max number of entries allowed in timeline; default is 200 (change manually in prefs file)
FIX: obnoxious error modal than blocked UI dropped; now uses notification popup.
FIX: clicking on a tab before appropriate amount of time has passed will not cause refresh (to avoid inadvertent request limit problems)
FIX: shutdown sound now plays. Skipped if CMD+Q is used to shut down.
FIX: all API actions now performed over HTTPS
FIX: better inline URL parsing; fewer "false positives"
FIX: suppressed error messages on empty responses; these can be caused if user has no DMs or Replies
CHANGE: Popups now open in separate windows
CHANGE: upgrade to jQuery 1.2.3
CHANGE: jquery.enchant alpha added
CHANGE: jquery.ui alpha added
CHANGE: Debug mode now a proper pref, not triggered by presence of marker file
CHANGE: Completely rewritten Preference system – you will need to reset your prefs (sorry!)
CHANGE: Completely rewritten Auto-updating system
CHANGE: Completely removed/rewrote all code that used sandboxing/bridging systems. Spaz now works completely in the AIR application sandbox.
CHANGE: Lots and lots of refactoring all over the place
CHANGE: Tons of little bug fixes; read SVN logs and diff if you're really that interested 8)

0.3.7 (2008-02-27)

AIR v1.0 compatibility
Update to jQuery 1.2.3

0.3.6 (2008-01-14)

New mailing list for support and discussion: Spaz-Users
Spaz now requires AIR Beta 3
Replies, direct messages, and standard timelines now combined into one. Keyboard shortcut to filter tweets (see help)
Timelines now prepend new messages to top instead of wiping and reloading everything
Highlighting of replies and direct messages in your timeline
Tooltips will preview title of external link if possible
Tooltips will show Twitter user info if user is not protected
Wilhelm!
Sent timeline now includes direct messages
Network refresh minimum is now 3 minutes; default is 4 minutes. Can still force refreshes with keystroke or clicking/switching tabs
Followers and Following sections removed until a more effective, useful implementation can be designed (was much less useful if exceeded 100 users)
Lots of new keyboard commands, including keyboard shortcuts for Markdown formatting. See Help section (?) for full details
Rewritten inline link parsing
Tooltips now hide automatically after 8 seconds
Markdown parser modified to remove support for headers (#)
Markdown parser modified so underlines (_) no longer translate to <em> (interfered with posting code snippets)
Root menu dropped from OS X (for now)
Major code rewrites to data retrieval, timeline creation, and event handling

0.3.4 (2007-11-29)

Significant reductions in memory leakage
New user icon
New transition effects for timeline reloads and tooltips
Timelines scroll to top when refreshed
Popup notifications now decode common html entities properly
Timelines now refresh every time they are selected (via tab or keyboard)
Removed "reload" buttons from tabs entirely (just click on tab or hit corresponding number to reload a tab's timeline)
Changes to default window size and positioning
Lots of code rewritten to handle timeline refreshes better

0.3.3 (2007-11-02)

Fixed bug(s) in 0.3.2 because of packaging unstable code; all timelines and functionality should be present

0.3.2 (2007-11-02)

Fixed where prefs weren't loaded correctly because of malformed XML
Added Lucida Console as an option for Dumb Terminal/theme.css; looks a bit better than Courier New in Windows

0.3.1 (2007-11-01)

Notification popups (aka 'toast' windows, aka Growl-style popups) via as3notificationlib. Can be enabled/disabled in prefs. This is experimental, and more control and functionality is forthecoming
Added preference to re-enable AIR's built-in handling of HTTP Auth requests. This is necessary for some proxies that require authentication.
Added 10 second memory usage timer; outputs to debug log
Added timestamp to debug log output

0.3.0 (2007-10-30)

All timelines now retrieve all data, not just from last 24 hours (including DMs, @s, sent messages, followers/following lists)
New theme: "Dumb Terminal." Works best on Windows with Bistream Vera Sans Mono or Iconsolata font; OS X has readable mono fonts by default
New window behaviors: Minimize to systray (on by default), minimize when in background, restore when in foreground
Added Native Shell Menus under OS X
Added System Tray Icon in Windows w/ context menu
Added Dock item menu
User-defined CSS tweaks file now works again
Tweets can now be "selected." Hit '@' (SHIFT+2) to send reply to selected tweet's user
Prefs that require restart to be applied are now indicated
Better descriptions of data retrieval errors; should properly determine if response timed out or if request limit is exceeded
Fixed charcount to reset properly after successful send
Added simple DOM context menus - currently allow user to copy URLs to clipboard
Use '-khtml-user-select' to limit selectability of elements; should eliminate many problems with onlick operations
Popup panels should work a bit better; center properly and drag more easily. Popup panels will be moved to modal windows soon
Upgraded to jQuery 1.2.1
Dumped Interface lib, added jQuery.UI lib
Fixed size of protected post icon
Lots of code cleanup and refactoring

0.2.9 (2007-10-17)

Can now add favorites by clicking on star icon in status
Changed action links in statuses to icons
Removed "reply" link from dm timeline because I keep hitting the wrong link
Minor theme changes: made paging arrows larger, reduced size of textarea in mini theme
Changed minimum refresh time to 1 minute (default is still 2 minutes)
Fixed bug in caching where source links weren't cached properly
Popup panels now center more accurately
Changes to themes and index.html markup to prevent markdown h1 headers from causing mayhem
Added enable/disable Markdown syntax parsing in prefs

0.2.8 (2007-10-12)

Alpha support for Markdown syntax via Showdown JS library
Fixed bug where Spry data errors would sometimes be thrown on startup on Windows

0.2.7 (2007-10-10)

Added drop shadow rendered with flash filters
Added window opacity setting to prefs
Prefs form now uses collapsible panel group
Integrated Spry 1.6 Widgets
Window should not be visible until CSS properly renders
Various tweaks to themes to work with new positioning needs and window visibility
Username and password now stored in encrypted local store -- will need to re-enter username and password on first start
Altered About and Info popups: now have close icons, and links work properly again
Char count in entry box (default theme) doesn't get covered by long messages anymore
Switched to Tahoma as primary sans-serif font on default theme

0.2.6 (2007-10-02)

Updated app to work with AIR Beta 2 (will not work with Beta 1). This fixes most known issues. (Port to Beta 2 primarily performed by Alexandru Chiculita; very special thanks to him and the rest of the AIR engineering team)

Mousewheel now works
Select boxes now display properly
Keyboard shortcuts work when app has focus, but window has not been clicked on
Text nav shortcuts now work in text input widgets
Rounded borders and opacity now rendered properly on Windows

Separated "help" and "info" buttons; added keyboard shortcut info to help popup
Tweaks to mini theme
"Dump HTML" function now dumps html into alert box. You can "select all" from there to grab it and paste it into a file. Enough complaining will get me to refactor this for AIR Beta 2
Auto-updating has not been tested under Beta 2, and may fail. Feedback required

0.2.5 (2007-09-23)

The return of the "from" information for statuses
Location in user list detail now clickable; opens Yahoo! Maps in browser
The start of real user theming – themes now stored in "themes" directory, and users can add their own themes
Added notice of what account you're posting with in status bar while entering status message (Terry Chay is a big whiner)
New caching system that avoids repeated regex processing on statuses and "from" info; might increase mem usage over time – feedback please
Popups now work on Followers/Following list and detail
Clicking on user photo in Following list detail now properly opens profile in browser
Popups now center correctly. Mostly.

0.2.4 (2007-09-19)

Fixed bug where Refresh Interval always reset to 2min

0.2.3 (2007-09-19)

Workaround for Twitter's aggressive caching when passing page parameter. Fixes slow updates on first page, but subsequent pages will still be behind. Filing bug with Twitter folx.

0.2.2 (2007-09-18)

Added paging support: the ability to page back and forward through your various timelines. Feedback appreciated
Added ability to change refresh interval in prefs. Minimum is 2 minutes, max is 60 minutes. Lower than 2 minutes risks getting blocked – you get 70 authenticated requests per hour – so I'm setting that as a hard limit. Feedback appreciated
Switched to SSL-enabled (https) connections for all interaction with Twitter servers. Please let me know if this causes any problems – I could make it a toggle-able option
Added auto-linking of https: and ftp: URIs
Some minor changes to Prefs look in default Spaz theme
Other minor aesthetic changes
Lots of code cleanup

0.2.1 (2007-09-07)

Enabled Auto-check for updates on startup; can be disabled and manually checked in prefs
Changed "Update" button label in prefs to "Save Preferences"
Fixed a possible bug with enabling/disabling sound
Moved 5px left margins on following and prefs tab buttons into CSS files, where they should have been. Margins only included in default theme

0.2.0 (2007-08-29)

New "borderless" window and custom window controls
New theme chooser
New "mini" theme
New "Whitespace" theme
New user CSS styling - choose CSS file in prefs. These rules are applied on top of the current theme
ENTER now submits a tweet
Sounds play on certain events (startup, shutdown, updates found). Use Tokyo Train Station soundset by Dominik Dimaano
Sounds can be disabled in prefs
"Updates found" sound only plays when updates actually found
Debugging can be enabled and disabled by user (Uses Firebug Lite and Spry debugging library)
Debugging info also logged to file in user documents folder
Current tweet no longer deleted on update failure
Adjusted color of "protected" icon
Fixed some parsing issues with links that are wrapped in parens, etc. Note that links with ampersands (&) won't be parsed correctly; I'm hoping Twitter auto-encodes all of those to TinyURLs
Fixed tiling background problem with tweets in timeline
Added WebTwoPointOh dropshadows behind user images in default theme
Windows-only CSS should disable non-working rounded borders

0.1.7 (2007-08-13)

Moved "loading" progress circle into statusbar; will no longer block user actions when displayed
New progress circle icon that works at small size
Increased status bar size for readability
Public timeline tooltips now show user data again when hovering over avatars
Status bar flashes on important events
Fixed bug where r would not reload followers/following directories
Removed pulsing verification success/failure notice (status bar takes over)
Added "Tahoma" to font-family CSS; should work a little better than Arial on Windows (top-priority is still Geneva)

0.1.6 (2007-08-08)

Basic following/stop following functions in the following/followers tabs
Layout cleanup/changes to following/followers directories
Added some very basic system info reporting to About popup
Dropped auto-refreshing of followers and following tabs — didn't seem necessary. Will return if requested, tho
Made form buttons slightly smaller
Hitting Enter in user/pass form now correctly validates
Fixed double-encoding of html entities, so < and > should render correctly
Minor cleanup of layout of timeline entries
Minor change to prefs page layout in anticipation of exposing more preferences
Made BG behind user icons white

0.1.5 (2007-08-04)

Fix for increasing slowdowns each time data was refreshed
Removed "source" reporting (from txt, from web, etc) because of performance issues. It shall return!
Fix for missing tooltips in timeline entries (jQuery tooltip plugin was stripping them)
Version number now appears in About popup
Added 1-8 keyboard shortcuts for tabs
Formatting for tooltips adjusted

0.1.4a (2007-08-03)

Fixed bug with initial startup where user could not enter username

v0.1.4 (2007-08-02)

Fixed bug where only one of multiple links/replies were auto-parsed
Replaced full link text with a short "go »" link when displaying inline URLs
Added parsing of email addresses
SHIFT+ENTER while in the status msg entry box now submits the message
r reloads the current timeline/data
Added info about how tweet was posted, including link to software if available
Added protected icon on protected posts
Stopped improper submission of username/password form if Enter is hit
Added [i] button for About Spaz.AIR popup
New status bar to show stuff and things
Set AJAX request timeout to 20 secs
Removed use of Spry data region states for performance

v0.1.3 (2007-07-26)

Added "delete" function for your tweets (only under your "sent" tab)
Changed progress animation -- feedback please!
New icons for tabs -- reduces size, prettifies
Tooltips for tab icons
Click on time of tweet to view full version on web
Followed and Followers lists now ordered by screen name
Client reporting now correct (iow, Tweets now say "from Spaz")

v0.1.2a (2007-07-25)

Removed Spry debugging code that may have been causing performance issues after a couple hours of use
Fixed bug where auto-refresh wouldn't start until a tab was manually selected

v0.1.2 (2007-07-24)

Cursor now positioned correctly when user clicks "reply" or "dm"
Changed max status msg length to 140. Anything over wouldn't display properly in feed, making it less than useful
Changes to text entrybox color; reduced font size; added "hint" text
Added little dropshadow-y images to main content area and entrybox
Added "About" info popup. Click on "Spaz.AIR" heading at top of window
Added this changelog, accessible through About popup