Sunday, April 19, 2009

RSS Replay 1.6.1 Posted

Early this morning I quietly posted version 1.6.1 of RSS Replay. This update fixes a flashing issue when the Replay is selected from the layout with certain versions of Dreamweaver. I didn't know the bug was there at all -- it wasn't in any of my testbed environments. It was first reported by Kathy Pelham and she helped me fix it. So lets all say thank you to Kathy when we see her next, OK?

As a small side rant, I'd like to point out that Adobe approved 1.6.0 without any bug reports so their testbed is no better than mine. I'm sure if they had encountered the flashy-thingy bug they would have said so. It is entirely possible that some setting somewhere changes the essential behavior when synchronizing a document, and Kathy has it and both Adobe and I do not. But if that were the case you'd think it would be in the documentation.

There is still a quick flash of the property inspector when using DW8 & CS3 as settings in the document are change. That's because the JavaScript within the document has changed, shifting the position of the selection. The selection doesn't move on its own so I have to reselect the Replay place holder in the layout and that reloads the settings. This was resolved by Adobe with CS4 as they started to get more involved in doing JavaScript widgets in Dreamweaver. I, for one, am glad to see the progress.