Re: 3.1 coming soon; 4.0 has begun..

Hi Gregg!
Just wanted to follow up, to see when the update is available?
Looking forward to the new features.
Thorsten

--- In [email protected], "Gregg Woodcock" <woodcock@S...> wrote:
> Below you will find a partial release notes update for 3.1 and 4.0.
> We have NOT settled on the feature set of 4.0 except that we have
decided
> that Browser Launch will be in and, in fact, we have already
completed it
> and it is in Beta testing (it turned out GREAT)!
> 
> 3.1 will be out just as soon as we figure out the situation with the
conduit
> and resolve a couple of minor Treo issues (they have different hard
button
> labels/functions than all the other PDAs).
> 
> One of the reasons we decided to implement Browser Launch for 4.0 our
> discovery of the wonderful FREE project 'nntprss':
> http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nntprss/
> 
> This tool *should* allow for most users (anyone who interfaces with
a host
> Windows PC to retrieve messages) to use Yanoff as an RSS reader!
> It works for conduit users just fine but we are having trouble
getting it
> work through BlueTooth because for some reason the network connection
> through BT does not recognize localhost redirection (127.0.0.1). 
Not sure
> how it will work for direct Wi-Fi but we will test this soon.  Once we
> figure all this out, then the only users who will not be able to RSS
will be
> those who poll "live" over their Palm phones.  But even for those
users, if
> they are clever enough (be sure to let me know if you figure out how
to do
> this), it should be possible to setup nntprss servers "live" over the
> internet.  Once somebody documents this (we probably won't get
around to it
> any time soon), every type of user will be able to RSS with Yanoff
(or any
> other newsreader for that matter)!
> 
> Although Browser Launch is a crucial supplement for RSS (because
most RSS
> articles are composed of a teaser followed by a URL) and will be
GREAT in
> 4.0, this RSS solution should work right now for any users of Yanoff
> (including GPL).
> 
> So I encourage you to get your bug reports (3.1) and feature
requests (4.0)
> in SOON!
> 
> Here are the changes new in release 4.0 (from 3.1):
> 
> * Browswer Launch features completed (prefs/infrastructure in 3.1)
(Yanoff+)
> 
> Here are the changes new in release 3.1 (from 3.0):
> 
> * New "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Go on-/off-line" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Reply" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Forward" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Followup" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "New article" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "New eMail" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "eMail the author" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Test SMTP server" menu items under "Com" menu on article screen
> * New "Browser Launch" menu item under all screens' "Com" menu
> * New "Browser Launch No Prompt" menu item under all screens' "Com" menu
> * New "Browser Launch" ButtonActions on all screens (up to 4 flavors per
> screen)
> * As a result of above, changed several shortcut letters
> * Some help text typos cleanup (esp. Misc Prefs)
> * Restored left/right movement function to some broken input dialogs
> * Removed "keyboard" ButtonAction (no screens are editable so its
useless!)
> * Fixed title bar vestiges on Article View with DIA closed when
long->short
> * Fixed "liar" outgoing "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" MIME headers!
> * Encode trailing spaces when Content-Transfer-Encoding is
> "Quoted-Ptrintable"
> * Fixed ButtonAction menu items where "...EtScrn" should have been
> "...ExScrn"
> * Added "Info" menu with "List Subscribed NGs" option to "Server Prefs"
> screens
> * Fixed "Purge killfile" crash
> * Validate/repair "Followup-To:" headers in outgoing articles
> * Enforce rule: "Followup-To:" header must be subset of "To:" (except
> "POSTER")
> * Fixed crash when "too long since last MID Purge" dialog not on NG list
> screen
> * User is pushed into ButtonAction prefs on first visit to 3 main
screens
> * Do not prompt user to purge MIDs if "Save MIDs" Poll Pref is unchecked
> * Modified (again) confusing "mail server not ready to use" error text
> * Made "Go on-/off-line" and "Network Prefs" work from within Yanoff-
> * Fixed incorrect hard button (FiveWay) override when menu bar is first
> opened
> * Fixed over-drawing of open menu list with message body text during
redraw
> * Removed erroneous "crashed" dialog when returning from "Network Prefs"
> * Upgraded to new SDK from PocketPurchase to fix these 4 problems:
> *    Pocket Purchase: nag displayed when returning from "Network Prefs"
> *    Pocket Purchase: nag-if-key-present-at-first-run error
> *    Pocket Purchase: FiveWay center button no worky in their dialogs
> *    Pocket Purchase: crash when entering crdit card expiration month
> 
> 
> Here are the bugs that are outstanding:
> 
> * Cursor sometimes misplaced when returning to NG list screen
> * Occasional post-poll crash on some devices when memory is low (<
600KB)
> * If poll started inside NG with 0 articles, screen improperly refreshed
> * Occasional non-redrwan screen when minimizing DIA on HandEra
> * Popup keyboard used to insert <Return> into field such as "T:" may
lock
> field
> 
> 
> Here are the features on our ToDo list:
> 
> * Color support
> * RSS Support
> * SSL Support
> * Full MIME support
> * Don't split mid-word when encoding Quoted-Printable
> * format=flowed support (support infrastructure currently exists)
> * Multi-language support
> * Memory Free in upper-right corner updated during purges
> * Turn off backlight during article thread/index
> * Export article to address book (Name=Name/Email=Email/Note=article)
> * Beam article as Memo
> * VFS support (including log-to preference)
> * Preference: Exported Memo destination category
> * Take WordWrap setting into account when Quoting article text for
F'Up/Re
> * Custom-Headers-Exist indicator on NG Prefs
> * XFace support
> * Mail-Copies-To support
> * Left-handed scrollbar support (infrastructure exists now)
> -- 
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> My plan to save the world:
> More Jesus, Less Government!
> http://www.PalmYanoff.com




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