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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Version 1.1

Here's a small update to the site that fixes a problem I was having with the browser's cookies. With the previous version, I was writing temporary data (unsaved route information) to cookies on your machine. What I didn't realize was that cookies are limited to 4kb - about the file size of GoRoam's logo image. This is not very big, especially when saving a large route. So now I'm saving that temporary data back to the server, which slows the page loading a little bit (since the current webserver is not particularly fast), but is more consistent and allows for larger amounts of saved data.

If you used the site previously and now have a too-large cookie on your machine, delete all cookies from goro.am:
  1. Firefox: Click Tools -> Options -> Privacy tab. Click the "Show Cookies" button. Click on any cookie with "goro.am" in it. Click the "Remove Cookie" button. Now you should be all set.
  2. Internet Explorer: Unfortunately, you can't delete individual cookies easily in IE. Either go to Tools -> Interner Options -> General tab and click the "Delete Cookies..." to delete all cookies from all websites. Or open a Windows Explorer window, go to C:\Documents and Settings\your_username\Cookies and look for a file named something like your_username@goro[2].txt and delete the file. Look for and delete any file that has "@goro" in it. This should do the trick.

If you're still having problems with the cookies, email me at bugs@goro.am and I'll try to help. That's everything for this mini-release. Now I'm off to work on adding photos and text to your routes. Stay tuned.

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