Always something new at the Sun Software Library
We are an Agile team - we develop new features, we push them out into production. As such, there is always something new at the Sun Software Library.
User Interface improvements
- MyLibrary: We've significantly improved the UI in the MyLibrary tab, it is now easier than ever to manage your content.
- Tag Cloud: Our tag cloud gets an overhaul, and now matches some other popular web sites.
- Icons: Icons, and Icons, and Icons, Oh My!
- Clarify browser support: We've gotten a lot of feedback that our application doesn't work on specific browsers, so we decided to make it a little more prominent what browsers we support (and what we don't). In this day and age, you'd think it would be straight forward to build Rich Internet Applications that work seamlessly across browser types, but that is pretty far from the truth. We still have to test our app on each and every version of every browser.
- Request to be a content manager: We've gotten some feedback that our feature to request to be a content manager was confusing, so we added some text to help explain the process. When you click on that button, an electronic message is sent to the owners of that publisher, indicating your request. They can then log in, and approve or deny your request. You'll be notified when they process your request.
Search criteria now matches on partial keywords
Our default search now matches in partial keywords, rather than whole keywords. For example, searching for "micro" now retrieve entries that have "microsystems" in them. Previously, you had to search for "micro*" to find microsystems (e.g. using our regular expression matching feature).
Direct integration with more Syndication readers
We have added direct support for more popular syndication (e.g. RSS) readers. We prefer the term "syndication" rather than "RSS" because technically we support syndication via the Atom protocol, and not via any of the RSS protocols, but that's really nitpicking. If you don't see your favorite Syndication reader in there, you should tell us, we'd be happy to add it in there. You can always use the "feed" option and then cut-n-paste the URL into your favorite reader.
Also, we fixed numerous bugs.. Nothing new here, we are always fixing bugs.
As always, feedback (either positive, constructive, or what the weather is like where you) is always welcomed!
