Spaz – What's New (Changelog)

For further details, please read SVN commit logs

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