Monday, April 27, 2009

RSS Replay 1.6.2 Now Available

I like it when people report bugs that I can actually reproduce in the lab. After the update last week several folks reported one or two more problems. I am happy to report that those bugs have been fixed and this update has now been posted for everyone to download at http://www.rnsoft.com/en/products/rssreplay

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.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

RSS Replay v 1.6 is out now and works with Dreamweaver CS4

This morning I announced the immediate availability of RSS Replay version 1.6, an update to my popular Dreamweaver extension for placing content from RSS feeds into webpage layouts.

RSS Replay uses AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and ASP or PHP to collect RSS content from RSS feeds and applies formatting with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that you can control to present the content in the way that best suits your needs. You can Replay content from any RSS or Atom feed, from your website or any other, combine multiple feed sources, or have multiple blocks of Replayed content on the same layout.

This update solves many bugs and adds important features to simplify using RSS Replay.

New in version 1.6:

- CS4 Compatible! (Supports DW8, DWCS3, DWCS4)
- Improved JavaScript -- Supports More Web Browsers
- ASP/PHP Proxys security improvement -- now support Mod_Security for Apache servers
- A more complete list of features is available at http://www.rnsoft.com/en/products/rssreplay/features.php

Get your copy of RSS Replay today and start republishing RSS content tomorrow!

http://www.rnsoft.com/en/products/rssreplay/