Hey, it’s almost done. All that’s left to do is to write a new Web page and documentation. That will take an evening or two. In the mean time, here are the release bits barring some major bug. I’m anxious to get started on 3.1 so it’s time to stick a fork in it.
What’s new:
- Direct messages sent were displaying the author instead of the recipient
- Hover indicator on tabs
- Parse hashtags, @names and urls more like twitter
- Purge old tweets
Parsing hashtags, @names and urls like twitter was way more work than I expected. It’s not at all obvious what the rules are for parsing these items. Fortunately, twitter recently published their text parsing code. It’s in Ruby which I only have a passing knowledge of. Translating to JavaScript was a chore I’m glad to have behind me. There’s also a test description in YAML. One of these days I’ll have to code up some tests to verify the code.
I’ve capped each timeline at 250 tweets (the unified timeline is the sum of all timelines). Tweetz 2.3.5 did something similar.
Available on the downloads page.
We’re closing in on feature parity with version 2.3 with this release.
- More links added to Home, Mentions, Messages and Search timelines
- Restyled user status flyout
- Added “in reply to” by flyout
- Added option to use “Old school retweets”
- Added option to “Show links in post”
- Fix #tag searches
- Translate bare “WWW” urls to links
I’m closing in for the kill now. The only thing I have left on my to do list for this release is indicating which time lines have new posts. I’ve re-purposed the tab icon to indicate current tab. I’m thinking of modifying the hover state images with some indicator (maybe an orange dot in the corner?).
And the future? Here’s my list so far. Vote for you favorites.
- consider new tweet notification like chrome bird
- consider unread tweet hover like chrome bird
- Localize
- Popup send to list like Destroy Twitter
- Spell checker
- Geolocation
- Switch tabs using left/right arrows
- More keyboard shortcuts
- twittpic integration
- Search near you
- Delete tweets
- Growler integration
That’s all for now.
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