From joeysazo at mail.com Tue Dec 2 23:15:15 2008 From: joeysazo at mail.com (Joseph Sazo) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 02:15:15 -0500 Subject: [Maf] no more appending pages to existing archive? Message-ID: <20081203071515.6631E1CE302@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Paolo, First off, thanks a lot for updating MAF for FF3. I actually postponed upgrading to FF3 until yesterday to wait until several extensions like MAF were updated. MAF works great, cleaner than ever! I do have one question/suggestion: why did you decide not to allow appending pages to existing archives? Personally, I've used this "feature" (listed as a bug under release notes) many times in the past, as I find it to be very convenient at times. If possible, could you add a new option to "Append Page To Archive" in the context & Tools menus? Thanks for your work on this! -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Wed Dec 3 03:45:08 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:08 +0100 Subject: [Maf] MAF 0.8.2 install problems In-Reply-To: <000001c952cc$e68ebd10$b3ac3730$@de> References: <000001c952cc$e68ebd10$b3ac3730$@de> Message-ID: <49367144.4070004@amadzone.org> Eckhardt Newger wrote: > So far, I noticed three problems when installing (or upgrading) MAF 0.8.2 on > Firefox 3.0.x: > > 1. Add-ons which do not pass the compatibility test will be deactivated. You > can avoid this if you check the box to bypass this test when installing MAF > 0.8.2 (Obviously, Firefox tests compatibility of all Add-ons, not only that > one which is going to be installed). > > 2. The menu under Tools where you can switch between themes gets a new entry > 'undefined undefined' which when being selected will bring up the Default > Theme. There is still the entry 'Default' in this menu if you haven't > removed it by yourself. The entry 'undefined undefined' isn't listed under > Tools | Add-ons | Themes, so you can't get rid of it that way. > > 3. The searchbar collapses to its smallest possible width (to give space for > just one letter). The width can't be adjusted with Searchbar Autosizer > (version 1.4.1). When MAF 0.8.2 is being deactivated or deinstalled, the > searchbar resizes according to the settings made in Searchbar Autosizer. > > Due to the last item I went back to MAF 0.7.1u for the moment. Thanks for taking the time to test in detail and report the problems you found; it has helped me a lot in pinpointing the issue. I installed Searchbar Autosizer and was able to reproduce the problem: messages like "'...replace' is not a function" appeared in the Error Console. The problem is actually due to some code that I had to move from an isolated position to the main browser window. This code affects the global JavaScript Array object, causing potential conflicts with all the other extensions that don't explicitly shield themselves from this effect. Removing this code fixes the problem. I think this is also the cause of all the other problems you experienced. I'll make a new development build of MAF in the next few days; I'll let you know when it's available for testing. Regards, Paolo Amadini From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Wed Dec 3 03:54:38 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:54:38 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Message box when save is completed (was: Re: [ANN] MAF 0.8.2 released) In-Reply-To: <1215882.293311227962128420.JavaMail.coremail@app144.163.com> References: <493032AA.7000104@amadzone.org> <1215882.293311227962128420.JavaMail.coremail@app144.163.com> Message-ID: <4936737E.2040209@amadzone.org> hogsonik wrote: > Thanks for your good working. When I save a page, you know ,sometimes It > can't be saved because the page wasn't loading completely! But maf 0.8.0 > don't tell us whether a page was saved completely, you know, version > 0.7.0u will give a message ! So, can I ask why you disable that tip! Hello, the notification you mentioned is disabled by default in MAF 0.8.x, but can be enabled again by selecting this option in the "Main" preferences pane: "Show a message box when completing a single page archival" Hope this helps, Paolo From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Wed Dec 3 04:13:48 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:13:48 +0100 Subject: [Maf] no more appending pages to existing archive? In-Reply-To: <20081203071515.6631E1CE302@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20081203071515.6631E1CE302@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <493677FC.10907@amadzone.org> Joseph Sazo wrote: > Paolo, > > First off, thanks a lot for updating MAF for FF3. I actually postponed > upgrading to FF3 until yesterday to wait until several extensions like > MAF were updated. MAF works great, cleaner than ever! > > I do have one question/suggestion: why did you decide not to allow > appending pages to existing archives? Personally, I've used this > "feature" (listed as a bug under release notes) many times in the past, > as I find it to be very convenient at times. If possible, could you add > a new option to "Append Page To Archive" in the context & Tools menus? The main reason why I removed support for appending to an arbitrary existing archive is the presence of a crasher bug affecting Firefox 3.0.x with MAF 0.7.x, if someone tried to append to an existing file that wasn't a ZIP archive. I managed to report the Firefox bug only today (it takes time to write a proper report): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467740 Another minor reason is the fact that, with the old user interface design, it was not clear one was going to append to an existing archive rather than overwriting it (this is also the reason why I felt to mention it as a "bug"). As you suggest, when I'll enable the feature again, I'll create a separate menu option for it. Regards, Paolo From xavier.robin at bluewin.ch Fri Dec 5 00:31:37 2008 From: xavier.robin at bluewin.ch (Xavier Robin) Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:31:37 +0100 Subject: [Maf] BabelZilla for MAF translations Message-ID: <4938E6E9.30105@bluewin.ch> Hello all ! Some times ago I translated MAF into french. Now my translation is outdated and much of the interface is in english. Therefore I would like to update my translation. However, I think it would be nice if MAF was available for translation on BabelZilla . Not only would it gain a wider visibility for translators (you can get several localizations), but also it's a perfect tool to keep translations up-to-date (just submit the update to the site a few week before the final release, registered translators are alerted and will update it quickly). Best regards, Xavier Robin -- french translator on BabelZilla From marc.moeller at gmail.com Sat Dec 6 14:32:26 2008 From: marc.moeller at gmail.com (Marc Moeller) Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:32:26 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Feature request: option to store index.htm without compression Message-ID: Paolo, let me join the chorus, thank you for making MAF FF3 compatible and for putting so much work into this. It works great. Now I can finally upgrade to FF3. It would be a nice feature to have the option to store the index.htm file without compression. This would allow the user to have the computer search for text within the stored web pages; however this advantage comes at the cost of increased archive file size. As far as I know, the FF3 zip handler allows to set the compression on a file by file basis, so it should be possible to incorporate this option. I consider this request to be a low priority one: Nice to have, but not essential. Best regards, Marc M?ller From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Sun Dec 7 03:48:14 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:48:14 +0100 Subject: [Maf] MAF 0.8.2 install problems In-Reply-To: <49367144.4070004@amadzone.org> References: <000001c952cc$e68ebd10$b3ac3730$@de> <49367144.4070004@amadzone.org> Message-ID: <493BB7FE.3030504@amadzone.org> Paolo Amadini wrote: > Eckhardt Newger wrote: >> So far, I noticed three problems when installing (or upgrading) MAF 0.8.2 on >> Firefox 3.0.x: >> >> 1. Add-ons which do not pass the compatibility test will be deactivated. You >> can avoid this if you check the box to bypass this test when installing MAF >> 0.8.2 (Obviously, Firefox tests compatibility of all Add-ons, not only that >> one which is going to be installed). >> >> 2. The menu under Tools where you can switch between themes gets a new entry >> 'undefined undefined' which when being selected will bring up the Default >> Theme. There is still the entry 'Default' in this menu if you haven't >> removed it by yourself. The entry 'undefined undefined' isn't listed under >> Tools | Add-ons | Themes, so you can't get rid of it that way. >> >> 3. The searchbar collapses to its smallest possible width (to give space for >> just one letter). The width can't be adjusted with Searchbar Autosizer >> (version 1.4.1). When MAF 0.8.2 is being deactivated or deinstalled, the >> searchbar resizes according to the settings made in Searchbar Autosizer. >> >> Due to the last item I went back to MAF 0.7.1u for the moment. > > [...] > > I'll make a new development build of MAF in the next few days; I'll let > you know when it's available for testing. I'm about to build MAF 0.8.3, which hopefully should fix all of the conflicts reported by you and others. When it's ready, can you please verify if your problems are solved? I'll send an e-mail with the download link as soon as the build is ready. Thanks, Paolo From dr_wrx at hotmail.com Sun Dec 7 04:00:11 2008 From: dr_wrx at hotmail.com (Dr WRX) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 23:00:11 +1100 Subject: [Maf] Installation of 0.8.2 bug Message-ID: Hi there, I installed MAF 0.8.2 and after installation, "1-click weather" failed to be shown in the status bar. Uninstallation of MAF 0.8.2 returned the weather information. I am running FF3.0.4 under Vista Home Premium. I just wanted to pass it on. Nick _________________________________________________________________ Holiday cheer from Messenger. Download free emoticons today! http://livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669758 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Sun Dec 7 05:04:22 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:04:22 +0100 Subject: [Maf] [ANN] MAF 0.8.4 ready for testing Message-ID: <493BC9D6.9080608@amadzone.org> Hello, Mozilla Archive Format version 0.8.4 is now available for testing. This experimental version can be downloaded here: http://downloads.mozdev.org/maf/maf-0.8.4-fx.xpi Changes from 0.8.2 to 0.8.4: * Fix: Installing MAF caused several other extensions and some Firefox built-in features to break. * Change: MAF is now able to open MAFF and MHTML archives even if their file type is customized in the user profile (customizations are visible in the "Applications" preferences pane of Firefox). Regards, Paolo Amadini From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Sun Dec 7 05:24:20 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:24:20 +0100 Subject: [Maf] BabelZilla for MAF translations In-Reply-To: <4938E6E9.30105@bluewin.ch> References: <4938E6E9.30105@bluewin.ch> Message-ID: <493BCE84.4070200@amadzone.org> Xavier Robin wrote: > Hello all ! > > Some times ago I translated MAF into french. Now my translation is > outdated and much of the interface is in english. Therefore I would like > to update my translation. > > However, I think it would be nice if MAF was available for translation > on BabelZilla . Not only would it gain a > wider visibility for translators (you can get several localizations), > but also it's a perfect tool to keep translations up-to-date (just > submit the update to the site a few week before the final release, > registered translators are alerted and will update it quickly). Hello Xavier, thank you for your interest in translating MAF! And thanks for the BabelZilla tip, I'll submit MAF 0.8.4 to the site this very afternoon. You'll find me there, giving explanations for the translation if needed. Regards, Paolo From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Sun Dec 7 05:51:26 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:51:26 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Feature request: option to store index.htm without compression In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <493BD4DE.8040900@amadzone.org> Marc Moeller wrote: > Paolo, > > let me join the chorus, thank you for making MAF FF3 compatible > and for putting so much work into this. It works great. Now I can > finally upgrade to FF3. Hi Marc, let me express a choral reply to all of you MAF users who are constantly encouraging me to proceed in this interesting project :-) > It would be a nice feature to have the option to store the index.htm > file without compression. This would allow the user to have the computer > search for text within the stored web pages; however this advantage comes > at the cost of increased archive file size. As far as I know, the FF3 zip > handler allows to set the compression on a file by file basis, so it should > be possible to incorporate this option. I think it is a good idea to allow the user to set the compression level of the saved MAFF archives, even though there's no point in doing it only for the index file (for example, if the page has frames, the actual content is stored in another file). As for your use case, that is setting compression to zero in order to have clear-text contents and allow blind search in the file, it may succeed sometimes but it is not the way I would attempt to solve the problem. In particular, international characters in HTML files are often encoded, and the only way to detect them would be to use a search and indexing tool that is capable of interpreting HTML. I expect those tools to be also able to open ZIP archives, regardless of their compression level. I think Windows XP and later versions have these features built-in, even though by default only archives with the ".zip" extension are opened. > I consider this request to be a low priority one: Nice to have, but not > essential. I've added the request in the MAF issue tracker: https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20329 Regards, Paolo From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Sun Dec 7 05:54:29 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:54:29 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Installation of 0.8.2 bug In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <493BD595.4090708@amadzone.org> Dr WRX wrote: > Hi there, > > I installed MAF 0.8.2 and after installation, "1-click weather" failed > to be shown in the status bar. Uninstallation of MAF 0.8.2 returned the > weather information. > > I am running FF3.0.4 under Vista Home Premium. > > I just wanted to pass it on. Thanks! Please try the latest testing version and let me know if that solves the problem: http://downloads.mozdev.org/maf/maf-0.8.4-fx.xpi Regards, Paolo From joeysazo at mail.com Sun Dec 7 13:04:57 2008 From: joeysazo at mail.com (Joseph Sazo) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:04:57 -0500 Subject: [Maf] suggestion: publish MAF on addons.mozilla.org Message-ID: <20081207210457.ABC2E11581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> Paolo, I was searching for extensions this afternoon and saw MAF, but it's the old version. I suggest you publish the new one there, since more people would see it. That's how I found MAF in the first place a few years ago. -Joe -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Mon Dec 8 02:06:31 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:06:31 +0100 Subject: [Maf] suggestion: publish MAF on addons.mozilla.org In-Reply-To: <20081207210457.ABC2E11581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20081207210457.ABC2E11581F@ws1-7.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <493CF1A7.2070504@amadzone.org> Joseph Sazo wrote: > Paolo, > > I was searching for extensions this afternoon and saw MAF, but it's the > old version. I suggest you publish the new one there, since more people > would see it. That's how I found MAF in the first place a few years ago. Unfortunately, at present, neither I nor the original creator Christopher Ottley have access to the account that would allow us to publish the new version of MAF there. If this information turns out to be unrecoverable, maybe we can work out a different solution with the administrators of addons.mozilla.org, but for the moment I'm just waiting for a normal account recovery to take place. Regards, Paolo From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Mon Dec 8 06:40:47 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:40:47 +0100 Subject: [Maf] [ANN] MAF now available for translation on BabelZilla Message-ID: <493D31EF.8050604@amadzone.org> Hello, Mozilla Archive Format is finally available for translation on BabelZilla (http://www.babelzilla.org/), the site dedicated to the internationalization and translation of the extensions of Mozilla applications. Anyone interested in translating MAF or verifying the existing translations can now contribute easily by registering with the BabelZilla Web Translation System. Completed translations, in testing stage: fr-FR, it-IT, pl-PL Existing translations, still to be completed: da-DK, de-DE, pt-BR, ru-RU, sl-SI Thanks in advance to anyone willing to contribute. Regards, Paolo Amadini From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Mon Dec 8 08:54:12 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:54:12 +0100 Subject: [Maf] [ANN] MAF 0.8.4 released Message-ID: <493D5134.7040001@amadzone.org> Hello, Mozilla Archive Format version 0.8.4 is now officially available for download at . Changes from 0.8.2 to 0.8.4: * Fix: Installing MAF caused several other extensions and some Firefox built-in features to break. * Change: MAF is now able to open MAFF and MHTML archives even if their file type is customized in the user profile (customizations are visible in the "Applications" preferences pane of Firefox). Regards, Paolo Amadini From maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net Wed Dec 17 09:05:00 2008 From: maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net (maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:05:00 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Feature Suggestion for MAF Message-ID: <3B11EFFC364A4BE8A803F20CB8F941F1@aldi2001> @Paolo: Thank you for transferring this great extension to FF3! Now that I found your work I was finally able to upgrade to FF3, I just can't live without this one! A small suggestion: I see that new pages are no longer appended to an archive, it is replaced instead. This could be a problem however if the user is not notified, he could unintentionally delete an older version of a page, that he wants to keep (Almost happened to me several times now, I use this extension extensively all the time). Could you please add a simple overwrite warning dialog in options? Thank you so much! Xoxy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Mon Dec 22 04:14:21 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:14:21 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Feature Suggestion for MAF In-Reply-To: <3B11EFFC364A4BE8A803F20CB8F941F1@aldi2001> References: <3B11EFFC364A4BE8A803F20CB8F941F1@aldi2001> Message-ID: <494F849D.1080102@amadzone.org> maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net wrote: > @Paolo: > > Thank you for transferring this great extension to FF3! > Now that I found your work I was finally able to upgrade to FF3, > I just can't live without this one! > > A small suggestion: > I see that new pages are no longer appended to an archive, > it is replaced instead. > This could be a problem however if the user is not notified, > he could unintentionally delete an older version of a page, that he > wants to keep > (Almost happened to me several times now, I use this > extension extensively all the time). > Could you please add a simple overwrite warning dialog in options? Hello, thanks for reporting this, I'll work on the open and save dialogs and include the fix for this issue in the next release. I also filed a report in the bug tracker system: https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20378 Regards, Paolo From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Wed Dec 24 07:12:14 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:12:14 +0100 Subject: [Maf] [ANN] MAF 0.8.6 ready for testing Message-ID: <4952514E.20403@amadzone.org> Hello, Mozilla Archive Format version 0.8.6 is now available for testing. This experimental version can be downloaded here: http://downloads.mozdev.org/maf/maf-0.8.6-fx.xpi Changes from 0.8.4 to 0.8.6: * Fix: When the archive extension (for instance, .maff) was added automatically on save, no overwrite prompt was displayed if the file already existed. This case was more common on operating systems other than Windows. * Fix: Minor changes in the "Save Page As" and "Open File" integration. Regards, Paolo Amadini From paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org Thu Dec 25 11:41:22 2008 From: paolo.01.prg at amadzone.org (Paolo Amadini) Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:41:22 +0100 Subject: [Maf] [ANN] MAF 0.8.7 released Message-ID: <4953E1E2.30708@amadzone.org> Hello, Mozilla Archive Format version 0.8.7 is now officially available for download at . Changes from 0.8.4 to 0.8.7: * New: Several localizations have been updated. * Fix: When the archive extension (for instance, .maff) was added automatically on save, no overwrite prompt was displayed if the file already existed. This case was more common on operating systems other than Windows. * Fix: Minor changes in the "Save Page As" and "Open File" integration. Regards, Paolo Amadini From maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net Fri Dec 26 21:14:59 2008 From: maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net (maf_mozdev_org.pq at xoxy.net) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:14:59 +0100 Subject: [Maf] Thank you, Paolo! Message-ID: Thank you so much for fixing this, you made my Christmas. Just to give you an idea how much I am depending on this: I did a 'short' search over my terabytes of hard disks and came up with about 15000 (!) files with maff extensions, being in accordance with my saving at least 10 pages a day for several years now. So without you rewriting this I could never have moved to FF3! Xoxy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: