From myfirstnamehere at gawab.com Mon Nov 2 03:14:09 2009 From: myfirstnamehere at gawab.com (Benoit Renard, msnmsgr) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:14:09 +0100 Subject: Progress on version 0.8.5 and 0.9 Message-ID: Hi everyone It's about time I let you know about my progress. Version 0.9 has not been forgotten. I lacked the time in the first half of 2009 to work on it. These days I'm working on it almost daily, refactoring code and fixing small bugs that crop up in the process. That doesn't mean that I haven't been working on features. There is better smiley detection, and URLs are detected and made clickable. Display picture support is there as well, except you can't set your own yet. I want to release version 0.8.5 one of these days that fixes some bugs, but there's one bug I don't know how to fix yet. Some of you may have noticed that often your contacts have signed in without being notified of this event. This is because of a server bug/change that sends the wrong command for this event. It's non-trivial to work around. Also, I've read on a Spanish weblog that some had trouble signing in when they were using non-alphanumeric characters in their password. I haven't been able to reproduce this, so if anyone can tell me with which characters this occurs, I would appreciate it. Oddly enough, I haven't received any complaints that my extension isn't officially compatible with Firefox 3.5. I hope this status update was interesting for you all. See you! From myfirstnamehere at gawab.com Sat Nov 21 13:33:12 2009 From: myfirstnamehere at gawab.com (Benoit Renard, msnmsgr) Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:33:12 +0100 Subject: Version 0.8.5 has been released! Message-ID: Hi everyone Version 0.8.5 has been released. Here's what's changed: -Replaced escape and unescape function calls by encodeURIComponent and decodeURIComponent function calls respectively. This makes for better character escaping and unescaping, which should enable signing in with a password that contains certain non-alphanumeric characters. -Adding a contact to a list no longer resets his/her display name to the e-mail address. -The menu items "Send an Instant Message..." and "Send an E-mail..." in the Contacts menu and in the context menu now actually work. -Adjusted CSS for instant messages for Gecko 1.9.x compatibility. -Added it-IT locale supplied by Vink8_. Additionally, the extension is now tagged as compatible with Firefox 3.5.