Friday, February 09, 2007

Hippo-lease version 0.2

Oddly enough this release is best viewed with IE7. Firefox works allright, but sometimes it decides you'd like to select the images that make up an island instead of dragging it and things get a bit crazy. I'd definitely recommend IE for right now.

The interface has undergone a pretty dramatic re-design & I think it's going to be a lot better. Information about your topics now comes up as overlays.

The coolest new thing is certainly the zoom. Wheel those mouse wheels if you've got em, or use the scale tool. Either way I think you'll find it much easier to get a handle on your hippocampus.

The most importan new feature is that there's no more save button (except on the 'Edit an entry popup' where you definitely need to hit the save button to have things save). I think this will clear up some problems people were having with the previous interface where people thought it was losing changes because they didn't realize they needed to hit save.

Expect thing look & feel to get a big overhaul soon, but the widgets themselves to stay in the same places and the functionality to stay about the same.

Besides that, an IE plugin is on the way, and there's also a new version of the Firefox plugin which will copy the selected text into the "notes" field.

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