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April 06, 2005

MXNA 2.0 Beta: Day 2

I want to thank everyone for all the feedback we've gotten on the MXNA 2.0 beta so far. We had about 50 additional feed submissions, some great feature requests, and even a few bug reports. MXNA 2.0 automatically emails errors to me as soon as they occur, usually with enough information that I can get them fixed pretty quickly, and you guys helped me uncover a couple good ones faster than any QA team could have.

I installed a new build last night with the following changes:

  1. Added the Danish, Turkish, and Indonesian languages.
  2. Fixed a bug in mobile smart categories. If you've been trying to view smart categories on your mobile device (I know you're out there because I saw the bug reports), they're working now.
  3. Fixed a bug in the search term RSS. MXNA 2.0 lets you create custom RSS feeds from aggregated data, including feeds based on search terms. Yesterday search-based feeds were broken, today they are not.
  4. Added the number of feeds being aggregated in the header. Expect that number to continue to rise, especially for non-English feeds.
  5. Removed the code that automatically focused the cursor in the search box so you can now use the space bar or arrow keys to scroll down without having to click on the page first.
  6. Fixed a bug that was causing the application to fail when rendering pages that we can't translate yet. Yesterday, I added our first Russian weblog which threw things off a bit since MXNA 2.0 does not support Russian translations yet. Anyway, I fixed the bug on our end, and will add support for Russian translations as soon as it's supported by Google (our translation engine).
  7. Added about 50 new weblogs, most non-English. I'm really glad to be able to include the rest of the world in MXNA 2.0.
  8. Worked out some kinks in the ping mechanism. After you make a new post, be sure to ping MXNA 2.0 so we can aggregate your work right away. You can configure your blogging application to do the ping automatically, or you can easily do it manually just by typing in your site's URL.

I think that's all. Anyway, on to today's list of updates!

Posted by cantrell at April 6, 2005 05:00 PM | References

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Is the source code going to be made available?

Posted by: Jim at April 6, 2005 05:04 PM