Story Monitor Extension

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Version History

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:
1. Right click on the story and select 'Story Index'.
2. Navigate to the last chapter you read.
3. Right click on the story and select 'Delete'.
4. Right click on the main window body and select 'Monitor Story' to re-add it using the new URL.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Initial Release

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