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Friday, February 22, 2008

Version 0.2.3

Here's a minor version update that fixes a few small bugs:
  1. Added "move point" functionality. Now if you click on a point (as opposed to a line segment), you move the point when clicking a new location on the map - instead of the old behavior of inserting a new point after the selected point.
  2. Fixed some weirdness when clicking on the route; segments were being selected incorrectly in certain situations, which hopefully is now fixed.
  3. Hide the blinking cursor when the "find location" box is hidden.

That's all for now. I'm thinking the next version will be a more major one, including user accounts, logging in, and saving routes. So you may not see a new update for a few weeks, but when you do the improvements should be significant.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Version 0.2.2

Let's just call this the Mac-fix-release. I fixed a number of problems that I noticed while using GoRoam on a Mac in both FireFox and Safari (mostly Safari). All you PC users, you shouldn't see any difference with this release, except for the new Quick Start Guide. I created this page because I think that educating users on how to use the site will be one of my biggest hurdles - feel free to email me any thoughts about what is/isn't clear about the site's usage instructions. Now the main updates included in this release:
  1. It actually works on Safari! I figured I wasn't going to even bother with Safari, but the fixes to get the site to a usable state were kind of minor, so now I'll plan on supporting Safari from here forward. It may just be my slow test machine or my old version of Safari, but I find that Safari is still much slower than FireFox on a Mac, so I'd recommend using FireFox if you have the choice.
  2. Tool highlighting - it seems that websites cannot use custom cursors in any browser on a Mac. I was using custom cursors to indicate which tool you were using on the map, so it wasn't very obvious which tool was active when using the site on a Mac (PC users should see the cursors without a problem). Instead, I'm highlighting the active tool by increasing the size of the button in the toolbar. It's kind of ugly, so if you have any better ideas, feel free to email them to me.
  3. I also made some minor layout fixes.

That's it for this release. All you Mac users can now use the site with the knowledge that it is at a working level on par with your PC brethren.