Story Monitor Extension
Version History
Beta Version 0.92 - 6th Feb 2006
- No changes other than the maximum compatible version of Firefox.
Beta Version 0.91 - 29th December 2005
- Fixes to support efiction version 2 and changes at www.tthfanfic.com
- Some story URLs have changed between efiction versions 1.1 and 2. If an existing link to a story on a site that has upgraded to efiction 2 is broken to do the following:
- Right click on the story and select 'Story Index'.
- Navigate to the last chapter you read.
- Right click on the story and select 'Delete'.
- Right click on the main window body and select 'Monitor Story' to re-add it using the new URL.
Beta Version 0.9 - 20th December 2005
- Firefox 1.5 supported
- Homepage link in about window no longer opens a model browser window.
- About window displays a please wait message until the release note is downloaded.
- Options to change the update policy are now removed when extension is downloaded from Mozilla Update to comply with their legal policy.
- BUGFIX: If an invalid value is set in the options window it no longer closes.
Beta Version 0.8 - 7th September 2005
- An options window has been added to tailor some previously hard-coded settings.
- You can now update all stories on a site or delete a whole site using the context menu while viewing stories by site.
- Preparation for localisation added (although there are no translations to other languages at this time).
- PHP session IDs are removed from all story urls to allow the extension to work properly when cookies are disabled.
- The extension now defaults to showing the "all stories" view when first installed.
- BUGFIX: When a story was deleted the number of new & read stories on the site was not updated.
- BUGFIX: Stories were not displayed when viewing only unread stories if an error or timeout occured during the most recent update.
- The extension now silently detects and repairs some errors in Stories.rdf if it has become corrupt.
- Firefox preferences added for timeout period, number of simultaneous downloads and debug messages.
- Internal code changes to provide an object-oriented abstraction for sites and arbitrary rdf files.
Alpha Version 0.7 - 23rd August 2005
- You can now choose to view the stories by site or as a flat list and to view only unread stories.
- Support for www.mediaminer.org archive added.
- Compatible with the alpha releases of the next version of Firefox, currently codenamed "Deerpark".
- Some typos/spelling mistkaes corectd.
Note: You must update all stories for the new views to work if you have upgraded from an older version.
Alpha Version 0.6 - 15th August 2005
- The sidebar opens when a story is added if it is closed.
- About box now contains an iframe to show a release note from this site
with a list of changes and a getting started section.
- About box and the sidebar are both displayed when the browser restarts
after a new installation or an upgrade so the user can see the release
note.
- Number of global variables / functions / classes minimised and names
changed to reduce the chances of naming conflicts with another extension.
- Legacy install.js script for pre-version 1.0 Firefox releases dropped from
the package.
- Sidebar shortcut changed to Alt-M to avoid conflict with search box in bookmarks
sidebar and history sidebar.
Prototype Version 0.5 - 14th August 2005
- The update engine now performs multiple simultanous downloads to prevent a slow archive site delaying the update of other sites.
- Major internal rewrite to make the code more object-oriented
- Keyboard shortcut added to menu to toggle sidebar on/off
- The extension now overrides the 400 pixel maximum width restriction for the Firefox sidebar allowing those of you with high resolution screens to see a wider story list.
- Bug Fixed: If a Storyline archive was too busy and returning an "too many mysql connections" error, this was mistakenly taken as the story having
zero chapters,resulting in a negative number of chapters read being displayed until the next update.
Prototype Version 0.4 - 7th August 2005
- Improvements made to the E-Fiction parser after testing it on 42 sites.
Prototype Version 0.3 - 7th August 2005
- User interface now users a context menu on the story list rather than View / Delete buttons.
- Double clicking a story now returns to the last chapter read. You can reach the story index and site homepage from the context menu.
- Single digit chapter numbers now have a leading zero so they sort properly.
- Date columns now sort by accurately by date rather than numerically on the day number.
- The sorted column is saved between sessions.
- You can now choose to update a single story from the context menu.
- About box redesigned.
- Bug Fixed: If a story has unread chapters, the "new" column toggled between zero and the actual number of unread chapters each update.
- Bug Fixed: Single chapter stories on fanfiction.net could not be monitored.
- Bug Fixed: HTML Formatting removed from titles on E-Fiction sites.
Prototype Version 0.2 - 5th August 2005
- A timeout is now used during the update process to stop slow archives from hanging the update process. Stories that timeout are shown in dark red.
- The status column now shows "comms error" or "parse error" rather than just "error" when an update fails.
- On choosing "monitor story" from the menu, the confirmation message box now states whether the story has been added or updated.
- Bug Fixed: Chapters were not counted correctly on all sites powered by Storyline when checking for updates.
- Bug Fixed: Stories were only shown in bold if there were unread chapters when they were added. They now turn bold when new chapters are detected.
- Bug Fixed: Bold was not removed when you re-monitored the last chapter of a story that previously had unread chapters.
Prototype Version 0.1 - 4th August 2005
Initial Release