Version History
- Version 0.8.1.126
- Enhancement - Complete re-writing of the slideshow module allowing to navigate back and forth with the arrow keys and optimizing the image loading process. If possible, the order of the images in the document will be preserved in the slideshow. It can however be altered in the case of slow download of large pictures.
- Enhancement - Firefox browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll preference is now respected - If true, when clicking on the address bar, the whole content of the box is selected.
- Enhancement - The number of columns in data trees was increased.
- Enhancement - File save/open dialogs now take into account the type of files to be displayed on Linux and Windows.
- Fix - In some cases, especially on Mac PPC, the slideshow was showing the current Web page between images, this was fixed in the new slideshow module.
- Feature - Added advanced selection features in the bottom panel of each view.
- Feature - Added menu items to access the different views, execute the extraction processes and move the extraction results to the catch.
- Version 0.8.1.91
- Enhancement - Save folder dialog is now shown as soon as the 'save incoming files...' box is checked instead of when first item is moved to the catch.
- Enhancement - In some cases, when dragging an image from the page to the catch, the low resolution image was taken, even if a high res image was found in the 'images' view. High resolution images are now systematically preferred.
- Fix - Export shortcut key, crtl-shift-E / cmd-shift-E now works.
- Fix - Diacritics are now handled properly in 'Apply scraper to URLs'
- Fix - Corrected a bug that prevented image size filtering to work for full-screen slideshows when preference was set to default value (150x150).
- Fix - Came back to previous version of URLs in the 'images' view, keeping hex escaped characters as unescaping them would cause problems in some cases.
- Fix - Corrected bug preventing to open Excel exports coming from certain views (undefined column width).
- Fix - Corrected bug that made 'images' return wrong file sizes for certain jpeg images.
- Fix - Corrected download file naming problem that sometimes made outwit write over previous downloads of the same name.
- Version 0.8.1.83
- Enhancement - New user interface. Tabs were replaced by a side panel with hierarchical list of views.
- Enhancement - Completed Kernel code refactoring and commenting.
- Enhancement - Enhanced image extraction.
- Enhancement - Dramatic performance improvement in the display of the 'images' view.
- Fix - Corrected resizing of images during slideshows.
- Fix - Corrected activation/disabling of some features in the right-click menu.
- Fix - Corrected issue preventing to move from the 'tables' view to the catch, a selection including rows with labels and others without.
- Fix - Enhanced Excel exports keeping column widths, solving scroll problem and as well as issue with large text clippings in cells.
- Feature - Added preference panel with few preferences including the minimum image size to be displayed in slideshows.
- Feature - Basic deduplication is now performed when adding rows to the Catch.
- Version 0.8.0.34
- Enhancement - Enhanced performance in browse & slideshow.
- Enhancement - Enhanced download management and use of bandwidth.
- Fix - Corrected refresh and focus problems in trees.
- Fix - It is now possible to alter the URL for a scraper
- Version 0.8.0b3 (build 17) - First beta version for Firefox 3.0
- Enhancement - Refactoring of the Kernel and migration to Firefox 3.
- Fix - Minor corrections were made to the application of scrapers.
- Fix - Several incorrect tree behaviors disappeared with FF3 implementation of trees.
- Feature - Addition of the "New table" directive in the scraper definition.
- Feature - More high resolution images are found by the 'images' widget and the slideshow.
- Feature - Download status was added to the bottom status bar.
- Feature - Address history with autocompletion is now available in address box.
- Version 0.7.1 (build 201) - Last update for Firefox 2.0
- Enhancement - New and enhanced image extraction process.
- Enhancement - Next in series: enhanced navigation link recognition.
- Fix - Back and Next buttons now clean widgets from previous data and a reload is no longer necessary as widget data is updated properly.
- Fix - 'Hide Local' and 'Hide Cache' no longer produce error alerts.
- Fix - In the emails widget, the email addresses are now editable with a double click and can be copied.
- Feature - Text, links and images can now be directly dragged to the catch.
- Feature - The 'images' widget now includes additional information and images are sorted by size at the end of the extraction process.
- Version 0.7.0 Beta 1 (build 183) - First Public Release
- Fix - The missing scrollbar bug in the 'page' widget is solved.
- Version 0.7.0 Beta 1rc3 (build 179)
- Enhancement - Scrapers are now applied to the unaltered source code, which solves the remaining issues.
- Fix - Menu shortcuts now work on Linux and Windows systems.
- Feature - A Quick Start Tutorial is directly accessible from the Help menu.
- Feature - The application is directed to a welcome page after a new update was installed.
- Known Issue - The vertical scroll bar sometimes randomly disappears in the 'page' widget (requires to restart the extension).
- Known Issue - 'Back' is not handled properly in some cases and requires to reload the page before extracting its content.
- Known Issue - The peek window behaves erratically with some Linux versions.
- Known Issue - Some pictures may still be missing in the 'images' widget in the case of ajax content updated after page load.
- Known Issue - Everybody's desperately waiting for the scripting environment.
- Known Issue - URL cannot be changed in the Scraper Editor.
- Known Issue - The Catch and the 'page' widget should accept drag and drop.
- Known Issue - The Scraper Editor needs work. Missing particularly: deleting, duplicating and reordering rows.
- Known Issue - Normalizing figures with a comma for decimal separator and exactly 3 decimal digits gives wrong results.
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 10 (build 166)
- Enhancement - Scraper edition and application are more stable.
- Feature - A right click on a tree now allows to apply scrapers to a column of selected URLs.
- Feature - A right click on a tree now allows to normalize non-metric figures (for now: distances, areas, volumes, weights).
- Feature - A help infrastructure was added. Only includes one or two articles for now.
- Feature - The source colorizing is now working as expected: the text and data that are actually displayed on the web page stand out from the HTML code.
- Fix - The Dig button is now enabled as soon as the current page contains links.
- Fix - The application doesn't crash anymore on PPC Macintoshes when clicking on a tab.
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 7 (build 143)
- Fix - Better handling of Reloads, refreshing content of widgets.
- Enhancement - Handles Ajax Content. Mostly in the case of images added after page load.
- Fix - Fixed problems in the launch of on demand processes.
- Enhancement - Added ‘Hide Local’, ‘Hide Cache’ and ‘Documents’ checkboxes in the 'links' widget to better filter the results.
- Enhancement - When a slideshow is interrupted : back to page of last image displayed.
- Enhancement - In a slideshow, pressing the Return key moves current image to the catch.
- Feature - Source widget now contains the source code of the page (colorizing and refresh still work in progress).
- Feature - Source widget now contains a pre-version of the scraper editor (final ergonomy to come in a future implementation).
- Feature - When a scraper exist for the current URL, the new 'scraper' tab contains the results (NB. pb when scraping immediately after editing a scraper).
- Fix - Solved problem making some Images appear in the Links widget instead of the Images widget.
- Fix - Solved problem of Flash Animations still visible during a slideshow on Macintosh.
- Fix - Fixed problem in the history widget causing missing URLs or and bad updating of Frequency.
- Fix - Headers are now properly updated when deleting a column.
- Fix - Useless columns & headers are now properly removed when deleting a row.
- Enhancement - The Escape Key now interrupts browse and dig processes.
- Fix - Column headers are now removed on delete all rows.
- Enhancement - Empty cells are not moved to the Catch any more.
- Enhancement - Added ‘Hide Local’ checkbox in the 'images' widget to better filter the results.
- Fix - Widgets are now emptied when a problem happens loading a URL.
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 6 (no build)
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 5 (build 142)
- Fix - Changing Priority or Rating in the Catch now affects all selected items, in the case of a multiple selection.
- Enhancement - Changed the way text is extracted from web pages: seriously improved performance on large pages.
- Enhancement - Dramatically improved performance in several other processes, especially in the links extraction.
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 4 (build 135)
- Feature - Activated 'Save Selected Files' and 'Save Selected Files In...' from widgets 'images', 'links' and 'catch'.
- Feature - Double-clicking on a thumbnail in the 'images' widget now opens the picture in 'page' (like does double-clicking on the 'Media URL').
- Fix - Clicking on the 'View' menu doesn't crash anymore on PPC Macs.
- Feature - Added a 'Feedback' menu for beta-testing purposes, with Bug Report, Suggestions, Version History and Test Links.
- Enhancement - Modified Dig, to include more link types, and go through them in the order of appearance in the page instead of backwards.
- Version 0.7.0 Alpha 3 (build 129)
- (First limited release to Alpha-Testers)