All releases tagged Minor feature enhancements


Release Notes: A small item of functionality was added to allow you to view extra thread and reply links for each comment.


Release Notes: This release resolves a number of bugs and cleans up some of the formatting. In addition, the code was updated to support better error handling, time zone translations, and date formatting, new artwork, a better credits page, blocking of Web robots, a demo mode, a black colour scheme for reading in the dark, and better reading of truncated comments.


Release Notes: The code was updated to move many of the configuration options away from text files and onto the "Credits/Preferences" page. Additional preferences were added to control the way the pages look. A number of bugs were fixed relating to the way the comments and stories were rendered.


Release Notes: The code was updated to cope with the recent changes to the Slashdot site, and several bugs were fixed relating to the presentation of comments and error messages. New functionality was added to clean up the presentation of quoted messages and excessively long URLs that broke word-wrapping on Web browsers.


Release Notes: A number of bugs were fixed relating to a small number of stories not being shown on the front page and the viewing of pages through Google's HTML to WML proxy. A new feature was added that allows the reader to change the comment threshold from the browser without editing the configuration settings.


Release Notes: The code was fixed to work around Slashdot's latest HTML changes. The redirect code was tweaked to correctly redirect (almost) any link to another Slashdot article within the story or a comment back through AvantSlash. An option was added to change blockquoted comments into italics for easier reading on a smaller screened devices.


Release Notes: A couple of small bugs were fixed relating to the displaying of "mini articles" on the main page and comments that use the blockquote tag. New functionality was added to allow the user to read news from any day previously.


Release Notes: A bug relating to the usage of blockquote in comments to display replies was fixed. Support was added for mini-articles shown on the main page and reformatting of Slashdot links posted in comments and stories (e.g. when a duplicate occurs). Various small issues that occurred during a recent Slashdot HTML change were fixed.


Release Notes: The code was updated to correctly parse the slightly modified Slashdot design.
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