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Saturday, July 26, 2008

WebStory 3.0 Alpha 3 Released

It's been almost 4 months since Alpha 2 release, sorry to keep you guys waiting for so long Embarrassed. But thanks to the numerous constructive feedback and bug reports, here's what have been done for this new Alpha 3:

New Features
  • Added a more straightforward way to add pictures to an article, which no longer requires to add photo to Photo Album first.
  • Added the ability to insert web pictures directly into an article.
  • Blogs will be backed up immediatly during Blog Account setup.
  • If a backed up blog contains pictures from the web, they will be downloaded automatically when the article is opened.
  • Photo thumbnails will be downloaded immediately during Photo Sharing Account setup.
  • Added the ability to back up photos from Photo Sharing Account.
  • Added new "Position" tab for setting picture alignment, border and margin in Picture Properties dialog.
  • Added Insert Picture and Insert Hyperlink button to Quick Access Toolbar.
  • Added support for dasBlog, b2evolution, Community Server, .TEXT, ExpressionEngine, Radio Userland and Serendipity.
  • Many other unnamed small improvements.
Bug Fixes
  • Same blog account can be created twice.
  • Picture lock ratio does not work properly in Picture Properties window.
  • The problem of zooming and rotation in Photo Editor.
  • Commas are not recognized in multiple tags entry.
  • Access Violation error is raised when trying to Refresh Blog List from main form.
  • Edit photo properties, click "Save" will cause database error.
  • In WYSIWYG Blog Editor, place Intro Tag as first or last item will cause blog publishing error.
  • In Windows Vista, an error message of "Invalid ImageList" will be shown in WYSIWYG Blog Editor when hiding Intro Tag.
  • Blog account password becomes empty after account info is updated.
  • No horizontal scroll bar for HTML Source View.
  • Unable to download blog category.
  • Many other unnamed bugs.
For new users who are interested to evaluate this alpha version, please contact me at [support (at) webstory.my].

2 comments:

Giu said...

Allo Junior, Guilli here!!
Happy to see the new version!

Missing urgently how to add a webstory.ORG on the list of blogs; since it is a user-domain based blog, how do we do that one? ;)

(Asking here because other readers could benefit of the answer!)

My best wishes, and always testing,

Moi XD

Junior said...

Hi Guilli,

I already sent a reply to your mailbox :)