May 8th, 2012· This maintenance release updates a number of plugins, improves the help integration, and fixes a number of minor issues. This update also makes it possible to download DEVONagent Pro as a trial version from the DEVONtechnologies website and use it with a valid Mac App Store receipt.
New:
· DEVONagent Pro accepts a valid Mac App Store receipt, too.
· Tutorials are directly accessible from the Help menu and the front page of the Welcome Assistant.
· Express mode is compatible to the DuckDuckGo plugin.
· Action scripts receive found scanner objects, too.
Improved:
· See Also drawer uses only supported URL schemes returned by DEVONthink Pro.
· Handling of feeds not containing dates.
· Scripting supports categories of Atom feeds.
· Retrieval of titles and descriptions for links, e.g. for the results of the Facebook Profiles plugin.
· Updated plugins: Medical > PubMed, Images & Videos > Webshots, and Images & Videos > Picsearch.
· Updated Tube scanner.
· Animated frame changes of tooltip of menu extra results.
· Plugin Patents > Google Patents Search updated.
· Help integration.
· Overall performance and stability.
Fixed:
· Script Post > To del.icio.us doesn't require user/password anymore and uses the current tab instead of a new one.
· Glitches of scheduled search windows.
· Crash while browsing results.
· Incompatibility of tab bar to Accessibility.
· Removing user-defined XML plugins from subcategories didn't work.
· Click to Play button in Welcome Assistant was not localized.
· Keychain scripting is no longer used as its not available anymore on OS X 10.7 "Lion" and later.
· Minor other user interface glitches.
· Rare issue of search engine returning too many results in case of complex queries.
· Cursor is now an arrow instead of an I-beam over popup and clear buttons of search fields.
March 30th, 2012· NEW: Support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
· NEW: Scripts inside the subfolder "Toolbar" can be added to the toolbar of search and browser windows. Custom icons are used if available.
· Improved: See also support for the DEVONtechnologies user forum.
· Improved: Apple Mail is no longer used as fallback if sending email fails.
· Improved: Support Assistant.
· Fixed: Disabled plugins were listed in the popup menu of the menu extra.
· Fixed: Search engines returned too many results in case of proximity operators followed by multiple other words or operators.
· Fixed: Localized names for Safari's reading list.
· Improved: Updated References > SEC plugin.
· Improved: French localization.
· Improved: About and splash panels.
· Fixed: Minor interface glitches.
December 8th, 2011· NEW: Scripts > Window > Open Last Safari session opens last Safari session.
· NEW: Search windows display number of unread results in upper right corner.
· NEW: Names of plugins can be used as "Mozilla keywords" in browser window address bar.
· Improved: Slightly revised scanner popup menus.
· Improved: See Also results for new DEVONtechnologies website and apple.com.
· Improved: Embedded Multimedia scanner renamed to Tubes.
· Improved: Revised and completed German and French localizations of description of scanners.
· Fixed: See Also pane listed sometimes related websites twice.
· Fixed: Automator actions compatible to OS X 10.7 Lion and DEVONthink Pro (Office) 2.x.
· Fixed: Issues with handling of saved searches.
· Fixed: Some menu items were not disabled in OS X Lion's fullscreen mode.
· Fixed: Support Assistant updated for new DEVONtechnologies website.
· Fixed: Support Assistant did no longer show tutorials.
November 3rd, 2011· Improved: DEVONtech Forum plugin.
· Improved: Reliability, performance, and memory management.
· Fixed: Further minor bugs and glitches.
· NEW: Completely revised, dynamic See Also pane.
· NEW: More useful See Also results for the DEVONtechnologies website and Apple's developer website.
· NEW: Contextual menu command Add Image To Archive.
· Improved: Slightly revised highlighting of selected objects in icon views.
· Improved: View > Show Icon Previews toggles the icons in all currently visible panes.
· Improved: Escape key can be used to exit full screen mode of search windows on OS X 10.7 Lion.
· Improved: Scripts menu supports custom icons.
· Improved: Plugin Assistant recognizes additional parameters.
· Improved: AppleScript support.
· Improved: Mac App Store compatibility.
· Fixed: Frame and zooming of search windows were not always correct.
· Fixed: Advertisement filter didn't always work on OS X 10.7 Lion.
· Fixed: Several glitches of download manager on OS X 10.7 Lion.
· Fixed: Adding images to DEVONthink sometimes submitted a wrong MIME type.
· Fixed: Random bug of See Also causing poor results.
· Fixed: Opening multiple selected objects in PhotoStickies could launch multiple copies of PhotoStickies.
· Fixed: Icon previews were not shown for all DEVONthink Pro results.
· Fixed: Several glitches in the Support Assistant.
September 2nd, 2011New:
· Support for OS X 10.7 Lion's full screen mode.
· New command Add page/frame address to DEVONthink in contextual menus of web views.
· New command Quick Look Attachment(s) in contextual menus of text view of Digest tab.
· Clicking with Command pressed on results in sidebar of browser windows or on See Also results opens them in a new tab.
· Primary and secondary query terms support now words separated by hyphens: e.g. e-mail is identical to (email OR "e mail") and therefore matches email, e-mail, or e mail.
· Results and scanner objects views support selecting by entering the first characters of the name of an item.
Improved:
· Images plugin, Twitter completely rewritten.
· Science > Scirus plugin returns more results.
· Multimedia, Webcam, and Thumbnail Gallery scanners.
· Macintosh News, Marketing, and New Software search sets.
· Preference option Menu Extra > Open results > In DEVONagent renamed to In DEVONagent Pro.
· Very small icon previews are scaled up to the desired size in expansion tooltips of menu extra.
· Handling of thumbnails, titles, summaries, and links returned by Yahoo.
· Compatibility to some sites.
· Delayed reloading of Cover Flow while searching in results.
· DEVONagent Express has been relocated inside the app package and therefore the option to start it at login might have to be reenabled.
· Default RSS style sheet is now stored in "~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent".
· Fav icons of webpages are now stored in "~/Library/Caches/(bundle ID)/Icons.storage".
· Preferences of menu extra are now stored in "~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent/MenuExtra.plist".
· Reliability when using invalid search sets.
· Performance on OS X 10.7 Lion.
· 64 bit support.
Fixed:
· Various smaller fixes for OS X 10.7 Lion.
· Search sets of DEVONagent Express were not always immediately updated.
· Toggling Show Text Summary In Menu via the menu extra's action menu didn't immediately update the menu.
· Social Networking > Facebook Profiles didn't return all results.
· Icon previews of expansion tooltips of menu extra were not automatically updated.
· Workaround added to anchor/fragment handling for Twitter.
· Fav icon and URL of addressbar wasn't immediately reset after seelcting e.g. a bookmark.
· It's no longer possible to quit the app while an update is installed.
· Sparkle updates are disabled if an unknown framework is discovered.
Removed:
· Obsolete Google Directory plugin.
July 21st, 2011Searching the internet:
· Better search results, summaries, digests, ranking.
· Support for wildcards, more natural phrase matching.
· New Plugin Assistant that allows to easily create new search plugins.
· New possibility to edit and test plugins internally.
· Settings drawer is now a tab.
· Searches can be saved and reopened later.
· Results can be appended to (saved) searches, older results can be skipped.
· Searching in results, improved searching in the archive.
· Express mode for fast searches without filtering.
· Integrated DEVONagent Express.
Improved search engine:
· New scanners and plugins, e.g. for Bing, the App Store, or DEVONthink Pro Office.
· Updated plugins, scanners, and search sets.
· Support for PDF, PostScript, OpenOffice, Oracle Open Office, RTF, and Microsoft Word documents.
· Possibility to match title, text, URL, keywords, description, and objects.
· New search operators and options, e.g. 'OPT' and fuzzy searching.
Web browsing:
· Much improved Web browsing and news feed reading experience.
· Bookmark management.
· Sidebar in browser window unifies drawers.
· Customizable toolbar in browser windows.
· Improved integration of scanners.
· Cover Flow for searching and browsing plus previews/snapshots of web pages.
· See Also drawer lists also archived results as well as documents from DEVONthink Pro and related web pages.
· Improved Archive and Download Manager.
User experience:
· Reworked user interface.
· Improved performance, responsiveness, compatibility, and reliability.
· Improved interoperability with third-party applications and DEVONthink.
· Support for Mac OS X 10.6 and OS X 10.7, e.g the extended Services menu and the Dock icon badge.
· Much extended export capabilities.
· 64 bit support.
· Growl support.
· Welcome Assistant.
June 11th, 2011New:
· Menu extra allowing to search using DEVONagent from anywhere on your Mac. New preferences panel to configure the behavior of the menu extra.
· New default search sets Bing and Google returning ca. ten unfiltered results.
· References > Highbeam plugin.
· File > Export > Report supports OPML and HTML.
· Clicking on words in the text pane of the digest with the Option key held updates the topics map.
· Selected topics can be copied to the clipboard or dragged to other applications.
· Search sets can be exported with drag-and-drop, e.g. to the Desktop.
· Simple asterisk wildcards in phrases, e.g. "word1 * word2" (like 'BEFORE' but more precise).
Improved:
· References > Gutenberg.org plugin.
· Thumbnail Gallery scanner.
· Slightly simpler display of results, reports, and previews.
· Missing preview icons (if enabled) are downloaded before exporting PDF reports.
· Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource supports web archives and improves support for HTML pages.
· Automatically adding results to DEVONthink no longer uses the group selector. Requires DEVONthink 2.0.8 or later.
· Searching in results is also possible in the Digest tab.
· Better suggested filename for reports and saved searches.
· Growl notification after archiving results counts only successfully archived results.
· Handling of badge count of DEVONagent's Dock icon.
· Further minor UI improvements.
· Handling of primary and secondary search terms.
· Filtering of advertisements and social bookmarking.
· By default search sets match now title, text, and URL.
· Saved searches contain even more internal metadata.
· DEVONagent recognizes common HTML error pages returning no error code.
· Error logging more complete.
· Search windows and views are updated more often.
· Archive is flushed to disk more often.
· HTML frames and refreshs are now used less often.
· Automatic installation supports e.g. also /Applications replaced with a symbolic link.
· English and German stop words.
· HTML/XML encoding support.
· HTML parser more compatible to buggy code.
· Support for more date formats.
· Plugin API.
· Memory management and performance.
Fixed:
· Incorrect calculation of weights resulting in poor topics.
· Adding of plain texts to DEVONthink.
· Excluded domains or links were not applied to HTTP redirects and forwards.
· Bookmarks pane was not always initialized.
· Title of browser windows or tabs was not always correct.
Removed:
· Obsolete default sets of version 2.x are now always removed automatically.
· Script 'View results as one HTML page'.
· Default set 'Web (Webcams)'.
Known Issues:
· Menu extra is not yet a stand-alone applet.
· Article filter is not yet available.
· Some plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
· Sending email still requires the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
· 1Password is not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.
· French localization not yet updated.
March 30th, 2011New:
· Menu extra allowing to search using DEVONagent from anywhere on your Mac. New preferences panel to configure the behavior of the menu extra.
· New default search sets Bing and Google returning ca. ten unfiltered results.
· References > Highbeam plugin.
· File > Export > Report supports OPML and HTML.
· Clicking on words in the text pane of the digest with the Option key held updates the topics map.
· Selected topics can be copied to the clipboard or dragged to other applications.
· Search sets can be exported with drag-and-drop, e.g. to the Desktop.
· Simple asterisk wildcards in phrases, e.g. "word1 * word2" (like 'BEFORE' but more precise).
Improved:
· References > Gutenberg.org plugin.
· Thumbnail Gallery scanner.
· Slightly simpler display of results, reports, and previews.
· Missing preview icons (if enabled) are downloaded before exporting PDF reports.
· Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource supports web archives and improves support for HTML pages.
· Automatically adding results to DEVONthink no longer uses the group selector. Requires DEVONthink 2.0.8 or later.
· Searching in results is also possible in the Digest tab.
· Better suggested filename for reports and saved searches.
· Growl notification after archiving results counts only successfully archived results.
· Handling of badge count of DEVONagent's Dock icon.
· Further minor UI improvements.
· Handling of primary and secondary search terms.
· Filtering of advertisements and social bookmarking.
· By default search sets match now title, text, and URL.
· Saved searches contain even more internal metadata.
· DEVONagent recognizes common HTML error pages returning no error code.
· Error logging more complete.
· Search windows and views are updated more often.
· Archive is flushed to disk more often.
· HTML frames and refreshs are now used less often.
· Automatic installation supports e.g. also /Applications replaced with a symbolic link.
· English and German stop words.
· HTML/XML encoding support.
· HTML parser more compatible to buggy code.
· Support for more date formats.
· Plugin API.
· Memory management and performance.
Fixed:
· Incorrect calculation of weights resulting in poor topics.
· Adding of plain texts to DEVONthink.
· Excluded domains or links were not applied to HTTP redirects and forwards.
· Bookmarks pane was not always initialized.
· Title of browser windows or tabs was not always correct.
Removed:
· Obsolete default sets of version 2.x are now always removed automatically.
· Script 'View results as one HTML page'.
· Default set 'Web (Webcams)'.
February 3rd, 2011· Note: This public beta runs until March 31, 2011, and needs to be replaced by a new public beta or the final version until then.
NEW: Plugins References > Gutenberg.org and Computer Science > ACM Digital Library; References > Gutenberg renamed to Gutenberg.de.
· NEW: Navigation bar added to the Results tab of search windows for accessing all scanners that returned items; also includes buttons for switching icons sized, downloading objects, and accessing the action menu.
· NEW: Digest tab and Cover Flow of search windows support Go > Next/Previous Result.
· NEW: Contextual menu command Remember/Forget Selection added to web views. Simplify taking notes, using services, or adding to DEVONthink.
· NEW: View > Inverse Appearance toggles the appearance of results in search/browser windows. Also available in action menu of results pane of browser windows.
· NEW: Toolbar item View added to search windows, enables or disables Cover Flow and shows or hides icon previews.
· NEW: Preferences option Search > Exclude Domains supports simple wildcards; new option Search > Exclude Links excludes URLs containing these strings or matching these simple wildcards.
· NEW: Help buttons added to all preference panes.
· NEW: 'LinkSuffix' key for XML plugins for appending the specified suffix to matching links (e.g. to access results without using JavaScript).
Improved: Scanners Linked Video, Webcams, Linked Documents, Thumbnail Gallery, Wallpapers, and Multimedia.
· Improved: Bottom bar of Digest tab includes buttons to go to the next/previous results in the digest text.
· Improved: Revised default toolbar of search windows
· Improved: PubMed plugin.
· Improved: Apple (Feeds) default search set.
· Improved: Plugin assistant recognizes more URL parameters, improves support or Google custom searches.
· Improved: Old archives are no longer renamed and so remain accessible from DEVONagent 2.3.1.
· Improved: Help and DEVONagent menus slightly rearranged.
· Improved: Welcome Assistant.
· Improved: More reliable filtering of links to search engines.
· Improved: Following links using a user-defined term matches now also URLs.
· Improved: Crawl patterns ignore HTTP POST requests and local file URLs.
· Improved: Recognition of publication, creation, modification, and generation dates; handling of HTML/HTTP dates.
· Improved: English/German stop words.
· Improved: AppleScript support.
· Improved: Error handling.
· Improved: Visual appearance.
· Improved: Overall performance.
Fixed: Betas were limited to 60 hours of runtime.
· Fixed: Incompatibility to Yahoo Groups.
· Fixed: Double-clicking on words in the topics map did not work if the clicked word was not part of the topics list.
· Fixed: Keywords for Cocoa plugins entered in the address bar of browser windows caused exceptions.
· Fixed: Closing a modal name/bookmark editor dialog via the title bar disabled all menus and windows.
· Fixed: Opening a saved search when DEVONagent was not already open could cause wrong topics.
· Fixed: Trying to open an already opened saved search again opened another, empty window.
· Fixed: Security issues with the Mac OS X firewall by adding code signatures to the application; improves also the keychain handling.
· Fixed: Various minor bugs and glitches.
· Removed: Obsolete code for Mac OS X 10.4.
· Removed: Some usage of private APIs.
· Known Issue: Several plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
· Known Issue: Sending email messages still requires the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
· Known Issue: Article filter not yet available.
· Known Issue: 1Password is not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.
December 17th, 2010· Based on the DEVONsphere foundation now bringing: better quality of summaries and digests, heavily improved ranking of results, support for wildcards, more natural phrase matching (e.g. "DEVON tech" matches also 'DEVON-tech' or 'DEVON++++tech').
· Support for Internet locations, e.g. .webloc, using the data fork.
· Support for canonical URLs.
· Added automatic detection of HTTP redirect/forward patterns to other hosts.
· Growl support, can be customized using the Growl preferences.
· Welcome Assistant.
· Support for DEVONthink. It is e.g. possible to drag results to DEVONthink.
· Printing.
· Support for Mac OS X 10.6's extended Services menu.
· Cache, history, and archive handling.
· Reliability of scheduled searches.
· Support for FTP URLs.
· Unification of URLs.
· User agent is now always up to date.
· AppleScript support.
· Preferences enhanced and extended.
· Folder '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent' and its contents can be replaced with aliases or symbolic links.
· Error logging.
· Check for update mechanism, e.g., by using the latest Sparke framework.
· Overall performance, responsiveness, compatibility, and reliability.
Known Issues:
· User interface and appearance (e.g. of search windows) is not yet final.
· Several plugins still have to be updated or optimized.
· Sending emails requires still the unreliable and deprecated Message framework.
· Article filter not yet available.
· 1Password not yet compatible to DEVONagent 3.0.
User Interface:
· Sidebar in browser windows unifying bookmarks, objects, and results. Also visible in full screen.
· Settings drawer of search windows replaced with Settings tab.
· The number of found results, objects, or occurences of found words is shown in titles or as badges.
· The Dock icon now displays the number of found results.
· Snapshots of results or previews are used where applicable.
· Icons added to many places allow to easier distinguish plugins, filters, scanners, objects, etc.
· Shortcut Option-Left/Right expands/collapses all children in outline views whereas Left/Right expands/collapses only the selected item.
· Appearance of all windows, toolbars, and panels revised.
· Menu bar, contextual menus, action menus, and pop-ups revised, reordered, and cleaned up.
· Standardized naming of items in Window and Web menus.
· Edit > Spelling is now Spelling and Grammar.
· F1 through F35 can be assigned to scripts in Scripts menu.
· Tooltips added to many more interface elements.
· Alert sheets.
· Multiple selected URLs of the log can be copied to the clipboard and pasted to the Download Manager of DEVONagent or DEVONthink Pro, to a search set, to DEVONthink, to Safari etc.
· Some shortcuts changed for compatibility.
· Support for Spaces.
· Application and document icons.
Inter-App Interaction:
· Integration with del.icio.us and Twitter (via scripts).
· Scripts for emailing results, opening tabs ins DEVONthink Pro, and for downloading objects of results.
· See Also drawer lists now similar archived or other found results as well as related web pages and similar results in DEVONthink Pro.
· Summary can be added to DEVONthink.
· Results can be added as PDFs or web archives to DEVONthink.
· Search results, browser windows, and tabs can be exported as bookmarks.
· Object views can copy multiple selected items to the clipboard and support also Edit > Copy URL. In addition, it is now possible to drag selected items, e.g. to the Download Manager, to search sets, or to DEVONthink.
· Previews of websites are shared with DEVONthink and are created both automatically and while browsing.
· Data > Add to DEVONthink > via Clip to DEVONthink... opens the Clip to DEVONthink bookmarklet.
· Pages added to DEVONthink can be used standalone, too, e.g. in Safari or on Windows.
· Adding results to DEVONthink adds "DEVONagent" plus the name of the used plugin and its version to the comments.
· Data > Add To DEVONthink > HTML Page renamed to Resource. Sends not only HTML but any downloaded resource visible in the current browser tab.
· All scripts overhauled.
Browsing:
· Internal, fully editable bookmark list.
· Sidebar can include bookmarks from all open DEVONthink Pro databases, Bonjour services, and saved workspaces.
· Toolbar of browser windows is now a standard toolbar which can be customized. In addition, it is now also possible to switch Cover Flow and fullscreen modes via the toolbar.
· Address bar shows an icon if the current tab is already part of one of the open DEVONthink Pro databases; address bar supports Delete, Option-Delete, and Control-K.
· 'Leopard' and 'Newspaper' stylesheets for feeds.
· Support for custom stylesheets in '~/Library/Application Support/DEVONagent/StyleSheets'.
· Enclosures (e.g. podcasts or downoads) of feeds are supported.
· Cover Flow mode can be used as alternative way to display browser tabs. Cover Flow can be used in full screen mode, too, and double-clicking a tab switches back to standard mode.
· Safari-4.0-style zooming.
· Preferences > Web > Images > Scale to fit shrinks stand-alone images to fit.
· Support for revised bookmarks of Safari 4.0 and later.
· Invalidate server certificates can be ignored on demand.
· Tabbed browsing, e.g. by keeping the selected tab always visible and with an optional pop-up menu listing all tabs. New command Data > Open In Tabs.
· Auto-completion in address bar.
· Stylesheets for news feeds.
· Advertisement filter.
· Download manager.
· Workspaces remember more properties and are saved in a new, separate file.
· Command-clicking on bookmarks does no longer open a new tab (only double-clicking with Command held does from now on), Command is used to select and deselect multiple bookmarks instead.
· PDF documents without pagination use the 'screen' media style now and therefore retain the original screen layout.
· Going to previous/next occurrence in web views.
· Filtering of invalid URLs, e.g. data: bookmarks of Safari.
· Support for feeds with relative links (e.g. Google Groups), improved retrieval of dates of feeds, support for more date formats of feeds, and improved compatibility to RSS feeds of news.google.com.
· Feed scanner converts all returned URLs to feed:// so that it's easier to re-use them.
· Importing or using Firefox or OmniWeb bookmarks supports feeds.
· OPML import more reliable.
· HTML refresh and encoding handling.
· Handling of referrer when opening a frame or page in a new tab or window.
· Support for wrong charset/encoding definitions of feeds and HTML pages
· Compatibility to local domains.
· Compatibility to third-party WebKit extensions/hacks.
· Buttons of browser windows no longer perform their action on mouse-down.
· 'localhost' is (internally) converted to 127.0.0.1.
Searching:
· Support for PDF, PostScript, OpenOffice, Oracle Open Office, RTF, and Microsoft Word documents.
· Searches can be saved and re-opened. A saved search includes the term, the used set or plugin, the settings, the results, their sorting, the digest, the log, and a preview for Quick Look and DEVONthink.
· The digest, the topics maps, or a search report can be exported.
· New results can be appended to the previous search.
· Completely reworked Search window: Results tab combines the former Pages tab with Cover Flow functionality and adds Objects sub-tab; Go > Previous/Next is supported; former Settings drawer is now a tab and allows to restrict the search to title, text, URL, keywords, description and objects, and to select which file types to search.
· Results can be manually marked as read or unread.
· 'OPT' operator to specify optional search terms that do not change the search results but their ranking.
· Fuzzy option added to Settings tab of Search windows and to General tab of search sets.
· Code scanner looking for code snippets, Linked Scripts scanner looking for linked AppleScript scripts.
· Search results can be searched from the toolbar; supports also operators and wildcards as well as the the Ignore Diacritics and Fuzzy options.
· HTML meta attributes (keywords and description) based on Dublin Core supported; modification date is retrieved from various meta attributes.
· Advanced tab added to search sets containing the Search In, Files, and Results settings. All other tabs have been reworked and cleaned up, too.
· Format options of File > Export > Results panel renamed to Bookmark, Text, Rich Text, and Resource. The last option exports the originally downloaded page or document in its original format.
· Found or archived results remember which plugin and scanner was used to find them
· Found occurrences in styled email messages are highlighted bold and red.
· Results of See Also for live web views.
· All Images and All Links scanners can now be used for searching, too, e.g. to find images or links matching the secondary query.
· Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
· Topics of Digest include now also phrases with two words.
· Occurrences in title or URL are highlighted if applicable.
· Default digest (without any selected topics) highlights occurrences now, too.
· Sorting.
· Log tab.
· Filtering of results returned by search engines.
· 'Spam' filter. Filtering of re-captchas added.
· Filtering of links to cached pages, to translation services, and to social bookmarking services.
· The Only new pages filter is always applied.
· English and German stop word lists.
· Handing and parsing of news feeds.
· Automatic following of links; automatic follow links term is shown if no term has been entered by the user.
· Reliability, compatibility, and performance of scanners and filters.
· Conversion of HTML pages and feeds to plain text, e.g. for indexing.
· Indexing of numbers separated by '.' or ','.
· HTML/CSS parsers (e.g. more compatible to buggy HTML code).
· Unifying characters with a different width.
· Conversion of common ligatures to their single characters.
· Pages not matching without followed links are no longer skipped.
· Max download size supports now up to 4,096 KB; the default is 512 KB.
Plugins, Scanners, and Search Sets:
· Plugin Assistant. Easily create your own XML plugins.
· Toolbar added to Plugins & Scanners panel that allows to add, edit, duplicate, test, reveal and delete plugins.
· Plugins: App Store, Blekko, DEVONthink Pro Office (searches DEVONthink Pro Office via web sharing), Exalead, Google Blog Search, Mac OS X Downloads, Unfolding News, Yahoo Answers, Yandex.
· New Close window option added to Schedule tab.
· XML and Cocoa plugin architecture; XML plugins can be language-specific.
· Most plugins and scanners overhauled and updated.
· MSN search plugin updated to use Bing now.
· Search sets updated with better combinations of search engines and options.
· Language-specific plugins are listed in bold.
· Search Sets panel remembers the last used search set.
Archive and Download Manager:
· Toolbar search of Archive window supports also operators and wildcards as well as the the Ignore Diacritics and Fuzzy options.
· Sort > Unsorted lists results in their natural order.
· Action menu added to Download Manager.
· Date column is resizable and displays as much information as possible.
· Source URLs are stored as extended file system attribute ('kMDItemWhereFroms').
· Usability of Archive window.
Bug Fixes:
· Workaround added for stupid Adobe Acrobat Internet plugin.
· Issues with creating new search sets.
· Issues with Bonjour support.
· Issues related to bookmarklets.
· Issues related to sorting.
· Accessing search engines did not ignore robot instructions.
· Handling of keywords in address bar.
· Typos in localizations.
· Memory leaks.
· Many more minor bugs and glitches.
Removed:
· Various obsolete menu commands.
· Obsolete plugins: Alexa, Ask, Beaucoup, Bloogz, Complete Planet, Czech Metacrawler, Dogpile, Excite, Feedster, Fybersearch, Galaxy, Gigablast, Icerocket, IncyWincy, Info, Lycos (Discussions), MacMinute, Pandia, SciSeek, Scrub The Web, Search > Meta > ..., SearchSight, Seekport.de, SMEALSearch, Thunderstone, VersionTracker, Wisenut, Wotbox.
· Obsolete scripts: 'Add bookmark to URL Manager Pro', 'Notify via Growl', 'Open tabs in DEVONthink Pro 2'.
· Rastered/aligned scrolling in various views and panels.
· Contextual menu extension (only available on Mac OS X 10.5).
· Use of functionality deprecated by Mac OS X 10.5.
· Danish localization.
June 12th, 2008· NEW: 'Open Current URL in RSS Reader' script, opens the URL of the frontmost browser window in the default RSS reader.
· NEW: Button of web PDF views to save document to download folder (Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' only).
· NEW: Smart update handling using Sparkle.
· Improved: Plugins updated: Citeseer, Clinical Trials, DEVONtechnologies user forum, Email, Feeds, Linked Audio, Linked Video, Healthfinder, Nucleotide, PubMed, MedlinePlus, Medscape, WebMD.
· Improved: Scanners updated: Thumbnail Galleries, Wallpapers, Webcams.
· Improved: Search sets updated: Macintosh News, Marketing.
· Improved: and advertisement filters.
· Improved: Thumbnail retrieval for scanners.
· Improved: Following of links.
· Improved: Unification of URLs.
· Improved: Retrieval of author from RSS feed.
· Improved: Retrieval of titles/descriptions for links.
· Improved: Filtering of links to social bookmarking and translation services, search engines.
· Improved: Compatibility to bad HTML/XML code and bookmarks not conforming to RFC 1808.
· Improved: Handling of browsing history.
· Improved: 'Open Linked JPEG Images' and 'Open Linked JPEG Images in Tabs' scripts.
· Improved: Shortcut for full screen mode changed to Command-F8 for compatibility with Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
· Improved: Contextual menu plugin more compatible on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
· Improved: Further minor user interface enhancements.
· Improved: JavaScript support optimized for Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
· Improved: Naming of shortcuts for scripts supports also 'shft' instead of 'shift'.
· Improved: Error logging.
· Improved: French localization.
· Improved: Overall search and archiving performance.
· Improved: Compatibility to Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'.
· Fixed: Bug causing links to be followed.
· Fixed: Possible issues with Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' and Intel-based Macs.
· Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
· Removed: 'Add Results to DEVONthink Pro' script. Will be part of a future release of DEVONthink Pro.
Find us on Google+
