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Sandvox Changelog

What's new in Sandvox 2.10.11 Build 29583

Feb 7, 2018
  • Improved support for having your Sandvox published pages hosted through HTTPS. Contact form, Google maps, feeds, counter, and other services now work properly if your pages are served through HTTPS.

New in Sandvox 2.10.10 Build 29578 (Aug 1, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixes crash on launch bug in OS X 10.6 that was introduced in version 2.10.9

New in Sandvox 2.10.9 Build 29576 (Jul 19, 2017)

  • Improve FTPS protocol support
  • Ask for the SSH key password if the key file is password protected
  • Fix blank page opening in browser in purchase window

New in Sandvox 2.10.8 Build 29570 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • Fix crash that happens when publishing to FTP or SFTP sites in macOS Sierra
  • On macOS Sierra, newly created documents will have simpler language code if one of Sandvox's main supported languages.
  • Work around some errors that were preventing Google Maps from appearing properly in Sandvox's preview
  • Allow for older Vimeo video IDs less than 8 characters
  • Turn off video preload when turning off video autoplay, fixing issue with poster images

New in Sandvox 2.10.7 Build 29565 (Jun 23, 2016)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Indent tags properly in Raw HTML objects
  • Disable text substitution in Raw HTML and code injection input fields

New in Sandvox 2.10.6 Build 29564 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • Remove "send from karelia.com" from contact form since this is now a required behavior. More info in forum post.
  • Show certain FTP connection errors in the window, not just log them

New in Sandvox 2.10.5 Build 29562 (Feb 25, 2016)

  • Don't show Debug menu.

New in Sandvox 2.10.4 Build 29559 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • Use HTTPS to connect to our Sparkle update server to address security issue. Update to Sparkle 1.6.1 for HTTPS compatibility.
  • Addresses a crash when browsing a server during host setup
  • Clicking Host Setup "Verify" button immediately accepts any changes made to input fields without requiring user to tab out of them
  • Address an error condition when replacing a media placeholder with a movie at an external URL

New in Sandvox 2.10.3 Build 29552 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Improved full-screen support on YouTube videos
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Document would fail to open if the "Arial" font is not available
  • Fixed bug where publishing to Sandvox Hosting would try to delete old files and fail, retrying every time you published
  • Improved reliability when creating missing directories on an SFTP server
  • Addresses a crash which could happen when connecting to a remote server
  • Objects:
  • Amazon List: Restored functionality to "enhanced" and "shuffle" layouts, and restored "Use product preview popups", to keep up with changes on Amazon's part. Some international Amazon stores may not show the product; we are investigating this issue and will update Sandvox as we find out more. In the meantime, the basic layouts should continue to work just fine.

New in Sandvox 2.10.2 Build 29547 (Aug 28, 2015)

  • PUBLISHING TO A REMOTE SERVER:
  • Improved reliability of re-connecting to FTP and SFTP servers
  • Fixed a bug where some intermediate directories weren’t being created over SFTP if needed
  • PUBLISHING IN GENERAL:
  • Fixed an issue which would occur in the rare circumstance of publishing a file to a location that Sandvox believes to currently be a folder
  • Fixed a crash when canceling publishing
  • Addressed a rare issue where a media file could be named with a space, rendering it incompatible with some servers
  • OBJECTS:
  • Amazon objects are a bit more tolerant of malformed associates IDs.
  • Contact Form specify their encoding consistently for better international support
  • PUBLISHING TO A FOLDER:
  • Worked around a hang which could occur when publishing to a folder on OS X 10.7 Lion or later
  • file: URLs can be specified for the site URL
  • Improved workflow when publishing to a folder by default:
  • The “Publish” command takes immediate effect, rather than confirming the location with you first. You can change location if needed by selecting “Publish to Folder” instead
  • At the end of publishing, the Share panel is presented again
  • Fixed an issue which happened if the usual target folder can not be found

New in Sandvox 2.10.1 Build 29533 (Apr 17, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed: Choosing Setup Host and clicking "Done" would cause entire website to need to be republished
  • Fixed: Certain situation signing into Sandvox Hosting would crash. Crash avoided and additional diagnostics in place now.
  • Fixed: Publishing to a folder, without having hosting already configured would crash
  • Fixed crash when publishing finishes on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

New in Sandvox 2.10 Build 29530 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Sandvox Hosting! This version integrates with Karelia Software's new Sandvox Hosting service.
  • The Host Setup Assistant now integrates directly with Sandvox Hosting, plus dramatically simplifies the process of setting and testing third-party hosting providers as well.
  • The act of exporting a site and the act of publishing onto the local computer via the Host Setup Assistant have been unified into a "Publish to Folder" menu item. The "Publish to this folder by default" checkbox allows repeated publication to that same folder.
  • Those Sandvox designs that use Google fonts will load them asynchronously, which means that these websites will load (though without Google fonts) from places like China that block them. Third-party designs will need updating to take advantage of this.

New in Sandvox 2.9.5 Build 29412 (Mar 19, 2015)

  • Fixes a recently-discovered security flaw in the library used to connect to SFTP servers (libssh2)

New in Sandvox 2.9.4 Build 29409 (Mar 13, 2015)

  • Publishing:
  • Resolved an issue where graphical text wasn’t publishing for some sites
  • Improved compatibility with Microsoft WebDAV servers
  • Fixed a crash when browsing some WebDAV servers
  • Worked around an issue where directories weren’t being created during publishing to some SFTP servers
  • Markup:
  • Design fixes
  • Better compatibility of page headers with modern versions of Internet Explorer
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • A crash when creating links
  • Handling of collections with invalid file names
  • Closing a document and choosing to revert changes would cause it to spring back open again
  • Plug-In Developers:
  • Fixed API for generating a full-size image

New in Sandvox 2.9.3 Build 29309 (Dec 17, 2014)

  • Compatibility:
  • Addresses an issue where some objects could disappear within Sandvox on OS X 10.10 Yosemite
  • Resolves an issue where composing a message to share a page on OS X 10.10 Yosemite would appear to have no link
  • Improves post-publishing sharing popup button compatibility with OS X 10.10 Yosemite
  • Addresses an issue where exporting on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard would result in the document window becoming unresponsive

New in Sandvox 2.9.2 Build 29213 (Oct 31, 2014)

  • Compatibility:
  • Fixes display of Sharing icon in publishing-complete sheet on OS X 10.10 Yosemite
  • Places Inspector correctly when reopening after quitting and relaunching on OS X 10.7 Lion and later
  • Improves reliability of SFTP authentication during publishing on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Other Changes:
  • Addresses issues when publishing with certain host setup settings
  • Improves handling of corrupted syndication count
  • Fix issue with Sparkle preference not being loaded correctly

New in Sandvox 2.9.1 Build 29106 (Oct 31, 2014)

  • Resolves an issue where browsing folders on a server would result in infinite log-in failures
  • Better detection and handling of hosting providers which require permissions to be set on files after Sandvox uploads them
  • Improved detection of long uploads caught out by FTP's idle timeout issue
  • Ensures sure that hierarchical menu & print style code gets loaded properly from UTF-16 encoded websites
  • Updated designs and help pages

New in Sandvox 2.9 Build 29099 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Objects:
  • Contact Forms now have the “Send from Karelia” option checked by default if it had not explicitly been turned off before. This is to help reduce the number of messages lost due to mistyped “from” addresses or aggressive spam filters on the receiving end. A few Sandvox users may want to turn this checkbox off if they are relying on the old behavior for any mail-processing rules or scripts. (Or, better yet, update those mail-processing rules or scripts.)
  • New object for playing videos hosted on Vimeo
  • Improves handling of images which have accidentally been set to have “auto” width or height
  • Corrects an issue where pasting or dragging pages to duplicate them could end up shrinking photos
  • Publishing:
  • We’ve added support for additional publishing protocols:
  • FTP with Implicit SSL
  • FTP with TLS/SSL
  • WebDAV with HTTPS
  • The full suite of protocols is available during Host Setup. If you’ve previously chosen to publish to an FTP server, Sandvox will guess whether to use FTP or FTPS based on your previous preferences. If this guess is wrong, you just need to edit your Host Setup, selecting the correct protocol to use.
  • Sandvox is now stricter about certificate handling when connecting to a server using TLS/SSL (i.e. publishing using HTTPS or one of the FTPS protocols). Certificates must be deemed valid by your Mac, either because they’ve been signed by a recognized authority (this is the normal case), or your Keychain has been configured to make an exception for this particular certificate/server. If at all possible, we recommend hosting providers use a suitable certificate and upload settings. If not, third-party FTP clients such as Transmit can generally be used to generate a system-wide exemption for your particular setup.
  • SFTP and FTP connections are reused when possible for better performance
  • When stopping publishing, the currently uploading file is allowed to finish first. Clicking the Stop button for a second time forces the upload to stop immediately
  • Avoids the quirk where the publishing process of folders could appear to jump backwards and forwards for some time
  • Fixes a crash when SFTP authentication takes too long
  • Addresses an issue where the publish or export progress window would unnecessarily include an entry for the overall upload folder
  • The dock progress indicator for publishing is working again
  • Revamped sheet for browsing remote folders during host setup
  • Browser Compatibility:
  • Allows IE 9 and above to play video and MP3 audio natively, not using Flash
  • Fix to video/audio flash detection script
  • Adds a margin below popup menus so that sub-menus taller than the content will not be cut off on Webkit browsers
  • Improves compatibility of favicon images with Google Chrome
  • Distribution & Licensing:
  • Sandvox is now distributed as a .zip archive, not a disk image (.dmg). Consequently, the software license agreement is shown on first launch (instead of as part of mounting the disk image)
  • If launched from outside of the Applications folder, Sandvox offers to move itself to a more appropriate location
  • Fixes a crash in the licensing window
  • Document Handling:
  • Improves reliability of importing corrupted old Sandvox documents
  • Corrects a bug where photo albums wouldn’t display titles after import
  • Raw HTML:
  • Smart-quote substitution is disabled in the Raw HTML editing and Code Injection windows
  • Other Changes:
  • Localization updates
  • Improves reliability of re-opening Inspector windows at launch on OS X 10.7 and later
  • + and : characters are now disallowed in page file names
  • Design fixes
  • Resolves an issue where creating a link in an empty paragraph, and where there were following paragraphs, would result in the link’s text being empty
  • Restores “Paste Link” functionality
  • Improves compatibility with current developer release of OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”
  • Theme Designers:
  • Extra style sheets can be bundled as part of a design, when referenced as an import with a relative path

New in Sandvox 2.8.9 Build 28900 (Feb 7, 2014)

  • Fixes a bug which stopped Graphical Text appearing within Sandvox
  • Addresses an issue pasting or dragging some pages containing images
  • Addresses a hang when resolving media file locations under certain, rare circumstances
  • Localization updates

New in Sandvox 2.8.8 Build 28805 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Improves compatibility of Disqus comments with HTTPS and non-UTF-8 sites
  • Fixes an issue where the “Copy file into document” checkbox was ineffective for objects other than Images
  • Addresses an issue where Facebook Like & Send buttons could stop a document from saving
  • Fixes to Hydrogen and Kryptonite designs

New in Sandvox 2.8.7 Build 28729 (Dec 6, 2013)

  • General Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves minor incompatibilities with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Restores word-wrapping to long site menu titles on certain designs, and sub-menu titles on all designs
  • Addresses an issue with icons in the Site Navigator only being partially drawn, particularly on OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Fixes an alignment issue in the sidebar with Facebook Like buttons that don’t have App IDs
  • Fixes a site extraction issue for non-image media files
  • Document Handling:
  • Fixes an issue with the “File > Copy Files into Document” menu
  • Improves choice of filenames within document packages for better compatibility when transferring documents via legacy filesystems
  • Addresses a very rare issue where corrupted sidebar object ordering could lead to a document failing to save
  • Other Changes:
  • Improves performance when handling large images on a page

New in Sandvox 2.8.6 Build 28615 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Improves compatibility with OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Addresses an issue where images could be slightly cropped when published
  • Addresses a problem where Sandvox was unable to copy some media files with custom access permissions
  • Improves responsiveness when handling pages with large thumbnail images
  • Corrects an issue where creating a collection by dragging a page inside another would add it to the site menu
  • Stability improvements when publishing and saving

New in Sandvox 2.8.5 Build 28518 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • Editing:
  • Improves reliability when changing source of media objects
  • Improves performance when going to view a page containing a Photo Grid within Sandvox
  • Addresses stability problems while editing inside some objects
  • Publishing:
  • Corrects potential issue when publishing large, Retina-optimized images
  • Fixes compatibility between Hydrogen & Kryptonite designs, and some hosts
  • Small efficiency and responsiveness improvements during publishing
  • Other Changes:
  • Design fixes
  • Localization tweaks and fixes

New in Sandvox 2.8.4 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • Corrects a bug where Sandvox Badges weren’t behaving as links properly
  • YouTube object: broadens range of recognized embed codes
  • Pressing Shift-Return enters a line break in all text areas of the web editor again
  • Minor help documentation updates

New in Sandvox 2.8.3 (Jun 21, 2013)

  • Addresses error message that tended to appear after adding photo pages while running on OS X 10.7 Lion or later
  • Fixes a bug where audiovisual media adding by dropping into the Site Navigator would be unplayable
  • Addresses an issue where certain characters would stop Galleries from working
  • Improves stability
  • Help updates

New in Sandvox 2.8.2 Build 28211 (Jun 8, 2013)

  • Publishing:
  • Fixes an issue where a preferences setting could cause publishing not to report proper progress
  • Improves performance when publishing sites with very large numbers of images
  • Addresses an issue where file download pages would have no icon once published
  • Fixes a crash when handling missing or corrupted images
  • Corrects a very rare issue where unexpected characters could appear in Firefox once published
  • Objects:
  • Corrects a compatibility problem with Amazon objects on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Updated Facebook object for latest Facebook changes
  • Fixes an issue with the Facebook object Activity Feed on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Clarifies the message on the Sharing Bar when Facebook is selected, but not configured
  • Document Handling:
  • Resolves an issue where document Quick Look information wasn’t being updated
  • Addresses an issue where Sandvox was unable to save after a document appeared to have been modified by another application
  • Other:
  • Design fixes

New in Sandvox 2.8.1 Build 28106 (May 17, 2013)

  • Quietens messages about media unable to be copied into documents
  • Fixes a performance issue publishing sites with lots of images
  • Fixes a bug with Facebook like & send button not always publishing correctly
  • Corrects a bug where the Sharing menu was wrongly disabled
  • Addresses an issue with the button for more information on dealing with incompatible plug-ins not working
  • Fixes a crash while editing or publishing certain Amazon object configurations
  • Improves handling of corrupted known_hosts files when publishing
  • Better handling of a highly rare corrupted site issue

New in Sandvox 2.8 Build 28042 (May 15, 2013)

  • Can automatically take advantage of high-resolution source images to optimize for display on Retina screen devices, whenever they are available. Controls for this have been added to the Appearance tab of the Document Inspector.
  • The Metrics Inspector now helps with image optimization:
  • Dimensions are now measured in points instead of pixels (Retina displays contain 4x as many pixels as 'regular' resolution displays)
  • If an image will appear at less than full quality (on either regular or Retina displays), a warning message will appear
  • The Size button now acts as a toggle between 'Retina' & 'regular' quality, preventing over-sizing of images
  • When Retina support is turned on, Sandvox makes high-resolution images "retina-ready" so that people who view your website on Retina screens will see images that are optimized for their screens, instead of 'regular' resolution images. On Retina screen devices, 'regular' resolution images appear fuzzy and pixellated.
  • With Retina support 'on' Sandvox will optimize, whenever possible:
  • Image objects, including logos
  • Banners (your custom banners & built-in banners for most Designs)
  • Photo Grid (including Gallery), Slide Show, and Titles & Summaries indexes
  • Amazon Lists
  • Badges & icons: RSS and Sandvox badges, and AIM Status objects (unfortunately not possible for other IM services at present)
  • Note: You may notice differences in the built-in banners and/or placeholder images in some Designs due to updates made for Retina support.
  • Designs:
  • Two new included Designs: Hydrogen and Kryptonite. You can choose to use either a left-side Sidebar or a right-side Sidebar with Hydrogen or Kryptonite.
  • All Designs have been updated to have a more accurate "full width" description, enabling image objects to be manually resized wider than in previous versions. Note: If using a "Simply" design, you may need to adjust some object widths manually to match the previous sizing.
  • Other minor updates to several included Designs
  • Social & Sharing:
  • Sharing Bar -- A new Sharing Bar object can be added to the end of any page, bringing together all of our supported Sharing buttons in a neat, convenient row.
  • Sharing buttons -- including the Sharing Bar -- are now organized into their own Sharing section of the Objects toolbar item
  • Pinterest & LinkedIn -- Support for buttons for both Pinterest & LinkedIn have been added. These buttons can be placed on any page
  • Twitter -- The Twitter button now features additional button types/options, including Hashtag and Follow
  • Facebook -- The Facebook button now supports many other configurations, including Like Box and Activity Feed
  • Objects:
  • Google Maps are now automatically localized into your site’s language, where supported
  • Contact Form has a new "Send from karelia.com" checkbox, that, if enabled, will improve the chances that visitors’ messages will get to your inbox, instead of being filtered to your ‘junk’ folder as SPAM.
  • Amazon objects can now open links in a new window
  • Photo Grid’s Gallery feature has been updated with minor bug fixes
  • Publishing:
  • When publishing media, Sandvox now replaces any spaces in filenames with hyphens instead of underscores
  • Podcast RSS feeds now include images suitable for iTunes listings. The image for each episode can be previewed and changed using the Appearance tab of the Page inspector
  • Improved stability during Host Setup
  • The "Legacy (ConnectionKit)" FTP system has been removed
  • Other:
  • Improved responsiveness while large documents are saving
  • Links to pages which have since been deleted are automatically unlinked
  • jQuery 1.9.1 is now automatically supported (adjustable using the Site tab of the Document inspector)
  • Bug fixes

New in Sandvox 2.7.7 Build 27712 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • Twitter:
  • Twitter is starting to disable direct access to feeds, breaking Sandvox’s Twitter object. Existing objects continue to work when published, but will guide you how to transition to Twitter’s preferred approach
  • Publishing:
  • Improves compatibility with bad FTPS servers for customers on OS X 10.7 and earlier
  • Objects & Pages:
  • Restores Inspector functionality when editing inside an object, such as a Text Box
  • Missing, size-less images can be selected for correction or deletion
  • For video objects, allow the poster type to be changed even when preload checkbox is chosen
  • Other Changes:
  • Minor Design fixes
  • Help documentation updates

New in Sandvox 2.7.6 Build 27600 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Improves stability while publishing or handling missing media
  • Addresses an issue choosing a banner or favicon image

New in Sandvox 2.7.4 Build 27419 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Editing & Objects:
  • Improvements and bug fixes to handling of list indenting
  • Performance improvements when editing, and dragging in media
  • Dragging in images from the Finder and other similar locations ignores the filename extension if there is one
  • Even if the site title is hidden, it will still be shown on the result page of a Contact Form, e.g. “Return to [site title]”
  • Changing the collection to index causes Titles & Summaries objects to properly update
  • Saving:
  • When a long save finishes, restores focus to your document
  • Performance improvements when saving, particularly on OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Resolves a bug where ASCII or Latin encoded sites failed to include Quick Look previews
  • Fixes an issue relaunching Sandvox having previously left a Code Injection window open
  • Publishing:
  • Password can be shown if entering it while publishing
  • Host Setup now handles servers which insist on unusual text encodings by falling back to ASCII if suitable
  • Better handling of SFTP password storage
  • Stability improvements
  • Resolves an issue where host setups whose folder begins with two or more slashes would stop Sandvox from remembering what it had already published
  • Local publishing setup is now compatible with OS X v10.7.2 and earlier
  • Resolves an issue where exporting some sites would place some resources in the wrong location
  • Other Changes:
  • Minor Design fixes
  • Help documentation updates

New in Sandvox 2.7.3 Build 27304 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • Publishing & Host Setup
  • Enhanced test makes sure your site URL is reachable from the rest of the internet, not just your Mac
  • Simplified local hosting setup can publish to any location on your Mac
  • FTPS support can be enabled from the preferences window
  • Other New Features:
  • Support for Internationalized Domain Names in URL fields
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where unwanted square brackets would appear if Facebook was chosen as your comments provider
  • Re-instates handling of links when dropped on to objects such as YouTube
  • Stability improvements, including when importing Sandvox 1 documents

New in Sandvox 2.7.1 Build 27101 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Fixes issue launching Sandvox on OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Improves performance when editing pages containing Site Map objects

New in Sandvox 2.7 Build 27100 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • Mountain Lion Features:
  • Notification Center
  • Sharing
  • Quick Look gesture for previewing media at larger sizes
  • Faster saving of documents with Versions feature enabled
  • During publishing, if you walk off, Sandvox ensures your Mac won't fall asleep
  • Site Extractor compatibility with OS X 10.8.2
  • Retina Macs:
  • Retina-ready UI
  • Quick Look preview pops up from correct location on Retina Macs
  • Host Setup Assistant Overhaul:
  • Quicker route to entering your hosting details
  • Simplified entry of hosting details, including autofill of existing settings
  • Live testing and diagnostics of site's URL
  • Smarter password field, including ability to show the password
  • New folders can be created on the server while browsing
  • Support for custom private SSH keys
  • Browser copes better with non-existent folders
  • Publishing:
  • Improved publishing performance
  • Generation of better indented HTML for readability
  • Pages and Objects:
  • Google+ object
  • Adjustable thumbnail size for Title & Summary indexes
  • Copying and pasting pages is smarter about including sidebar objects
  • Resolves issues switching between regular and block quote styles of text box
  • Corrects issues center-aligning audio players on a page
  • Resolves an issue where adjusting the sorting of a collection wouldn't always be reflected by indexes until later
  • Document Handling:
  • Faster and smoother opening of documents
  • During a long save operation, progress bar appears
  • Drag and Drop:
  • Photo albums can be dragged straight from iPhoto into Sandvox
  • Dragging in an image recognises the caption from a broader range of sources
  • Other Changes and Bug Fixes:
  • Inclusion of Chrome when guessing the URL to use for links etc.
  • Fixes a bug when adjusting “Open in new window” while also changing a link's URL
  • General stability improvements

New in Sandvox 2.6.1 Build 26000 (Jun 23, 2012)

  • Fixes an issue where turning off "Load data from the Internet" could cause local resources to fail to load in the Web Editor
  • Corrects an issue with links in RSS feeds

New in Sandvox 2.6 Build 25376 (Jun 14, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Site Extractor: Generates a Sandvox document based off of the text and images of your old website, to help get you off the ground that little bit quicker
  • Japanese localization
  • Email links can specify a subject for the message
  • Size control for Tweet Buttons
  • Improved document-saving performance, particularly on Lion
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Several design fixes including slideshow glitches on some designs and improved Opera compatibility.
  • Corrects improper indenting of items in the Media Browser
  • Corrects an issue where opening certain documents would cause Sandvox to quit
  • Improved Facebook object's compatibility with different site languages

New in Sandvox 2.5.8 Build 25256 (May 31, 2012)

  • New Features:
  • Running the connection test automatically detects servers that don't support overwriting of files
  • More efficient handling of images which have been scaled up beyond their source size
  • YouTube object supports short `youtu.be` URLs
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug where Sandvox was unable to export or publish locally on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Resolves an issue where the start of a paragraph wasn't selectable if it directly followed an object
  • Other Changes:
  • Improved naming of links created by choosing a file
  • Amazon affiliate links are declared as `rel="nofollow"

New in Sandvox 2.5.6 Build 25220 (May 10, 2012)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Corrects an issue where the built-in store would direct you to our store page asking for your details again
  • Other Changes:
  • Updated help documentation

New in Sandvox 2.5.5 Build 25218 (May 9, 2012)

  • Publishing:
  • Running the connection test automatically applies any character encoding that the host enforces, rather than asking you to do so
  • If publishing a site which requires visitors to enter a username and password, Host Setup is able to cope with that by prompting you for those details
  • cURL is now the default FTP subsystem
  • Addresses a crash during Host Setup
  • Resolves an issue where some photos failed to publish at full size
  • Addresses an issue publishing untitled pages
  • Addresses issues browsing during Host Setup
  • Corrects an issue working with relative document root folders for SFTP connections
  • Fixes a bug where entering your password while publishing was actually cancelling the publish
  • Fixes a bug where an RSS badge could cause archives to be generated strangely
  • Objects:
  • New Photo Grid option: thumbnails can be “Scale to Fit” or “Scale to Fill”
  • Contact Forms and List of External Links can be reordered in the Inspector again
  • Resolves an issue where Flash Object Inspector became mis-laid out
  • Improved handling of audio objects within Sandvox
  • Improved handling of source-less images pasted in as part of some text/HTML
  • Corrects an issue in the Vector designs where some images became non-selectable in Sandvox
  • Resolves an issue where turning on “Object causes wrap” for images inside of text boxes was sometimes causing saving to fail
  • Links:
  • Files can be directly chosen in the Link Inspector
  • Fixes a bug where linking to a URL with the same host and scheme, but differing port number would generate incorrect links
  • Text Editing:
  • Improved handling of alignment commands, particularly with text that contains line breaks
  • Fixes a bug where dragging images into a page that contained empty paragraphs often resulted in them being unexpectedly inserted at the top of the page
  • Document Handling:
  • Improved save performance for sites with large numbers of General Index objects
  • Addresses an issue importing Sandvox 1 documents that contain large numbers of external images
  • Reducing a document’s file size won’t offer to remove hidden files, improving compatibility with version control systems
  • Other Changes:
  • Updated localizations and help documentation
  • Pasting a page keeps the original’s filename if reasonable

New in Sandvox 2.5.4 Build 25172 (Apr 6, 2012)

  • Contains an alternate FTP subsystem. We would like to get as many people testing it as possible to see if there are any bugs. To do so, simply select “cURL” as the FTP Subsystem in Sandvox’s Preferences window. The next time you publish or run through Host Setup (FTP connections only, obviously!), the new system will be used.
  • This new FTP subsystem brings about:
  • Improved handling of long uploads
  • Improved compatibility with some servers like GoDaddy’s Windows hosting
  • Fewer crashes during publishing and Host Setup
  • Gatekeeper and Developer ID
  • Sandvox builds are now signed with our Developer ID, for compatibility with Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper feature when it ships. This will mean that the first time you publish with Sandvox 2.5.4, you will be prompted for keychain access again. After that, if you chose “Allow Always”, Sandvox will be to able to retrieve your password for publishing warning-free.
  • Licensing:
  • Upon launch, Sandvox now checks for the presence of either a Karelia-supplied license key or a valid Mac App Store receipt. This allows Mac App Store customers to download new versions of Sandvox, including betas, directly from Karelia.
  • Other Publishing Changes:
  • Videos can be played in Firefox again
  • Galleries handle errors better
  • Corrects an issue where some links would behave properly in Sandvox but fail once published
  • If home page is excluded from Google sitemap, the rest of the site still gets included
  • Addresses a problem where Slide Show objects could cause Archives not to be generated
  • Avoids uploading media with unsuitable filenames in rare situations where Sandvox knows a file exists on the server, but not the content of it
  • When choosing the document root folder in Host Setup, listings are sorted in the same order as the Finder
  • Restores SFTP public key functionality during Host Setup
  • Fixes a crash when cancelling WebDAV publishing or host setup
  • Resolves an issue where trying to publish to the computer kept insisting that Host Setup was not yet complete
  • Fixes a bug exporting newly created sites
  • More informative SFTP transcript
  • Document and Media Handling
  • Once locating an external media file fails, Sandvox will not retry until next time the document is opened
  • More sensible error message should saving fail mid-way through
  • Improved handling of pasting and dragging media
  • Do not generate thumbnails on generic media
  • Other Changes
  • Design updates
  • Updates to help pages
  • Many image file sizes have been reduced, making the overall download for Sandvox smaller
  • Improved memory usage
  • Addresses an issue where sidebar contents would vanish while editing
  • The home page can’t be accidentally duplicated
  • Improved cleanup of pasted in text
  • jQuery (used for popup menus) is no longer loaded from Google, due to issues accessing it from China. Now using Microsoft version, with a fallback to a local copy
  • We are standardizing on nomenclature as “license key”, no longer using “registration code”

New in Sandvox 2.5.3 Build 25096 (Mar 13, 2012)

  • Publishing:
  • Improves stability during publishing, including better error handling should an SFTP upload fail
  • Sandvox is now stricter about making sure host setup has been completed before publishing
  • Corrects an issue where exporting a site for the first time could lead to incorrect paths in the HTML
  • Fixes an issue with Facebook Comments administration
  • Document Handling:
  • Quick Look previews include custom banner, if set
  • Improved responsiveness on Lion when saving to slower disks
  • Media:
  • Fixes audio/video compatibility with IE 9 & 10
  • Addresses issues when pasting or dragging in images
  • Adobe Flash:
  • Flash videos which cannot be previewed by Sandvox, due to security restrictions in the most recent versions of Flash, now show a placeholder instead; Flash videos will still display correctly on the published site
  • Raw Flash files preview correctly within Sandvox
  • Automatically migrates external media to the new system introduced in OS X 10.7.3
  • Other Objects:
  • Toggling an object's border now appears immediately in the Web View
  • Addresses issues undoing or redoing the insertion or deletion of some objects
  • Resolves performance problems with some sites containing a Titles & Summaries Index
  • Other Changes:
  • Corrects issues when working with custom styled text
  • Improvements to Code Injection window
  • Localization updates

New in Sandvox 2.5.1 Build 25043 (Feb 1, 2012)

  • Adds new Slide Show page template
  • Turning on Gallery for Photo Grids properly updates the Web Editor
  • Corrects issue with aligning an Inline object
  • Corrects rare issue with saving documents
  • Corrects label in the Comments sheet
  • Corrects Growl message at end of publishing

New in Sandvox 2.2.4 Build 24196 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • Performance:
  • Improved performance when dragging in large numbers of images or other files
  • Publishing and Host Setup:
  • Fixes several publishing bugs
  • Improves browsing of folders during host setup including: the root of WebDAV servers can be browsed if the server supports it, the full directory hierarchy is reported for SFTP servers
  • Objects:
  • Corrects sizing of Facebook Badge
  • Improves layout of Flickr Badge
  • Adjusting the maximum number of items to show in an index updates immediately
  • Only images and Raw HTML can be placed not to cause wrap
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves issues saving documents, particularly after dragging content into the Site Navigator
  • In the event of an incredibly long page title appearing in an alert sheet, it is truncated to a reasonable length
  • Improved indenting of lists
  • Other Changes:
  • Updated help documentation
  • Design updates

New in Sandvox 2.2.3 Build 24182 (Dec 15, 2011)

  • Publishing:
  • Addresses an issue where applewebdata: URLs appeared on published sites
  • Corrects publishing of PDF image objects
  • Fixes rendering of Facebook comments in Internet Explorer 8
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Restores French and Japanese stores in Amazon object
  • Resolves an issue where saving a document would result in an error message while still succeeding
  • Resolves an issue where dragging into the Site Navigator marked the receiving collection as unpublished
  • Addresses an issue inserting Tweet Buttons into page text
  • Fixes a bug where some sites couldn’t save after changing from a third party design to a Sandvox-supplied one
  • Addresses an issue where editing text imported from a Sandvox 1 document split each link out into its own paragraph
  • The “All” button in the Design Chooser remains selected when clicked for a second time
  • Stops a flickering issue in the recent documents list
  • Resolves a conflict where Lightroom libraries sometimes stopped Sandvox launching
  • Crash fixes
  • Other Changes:
  • Design updates

New in Sandvox 2.2.2b Build 24166 (Nov 19, 2011)

  • Restores support for PowerPC-based Macs

New in Sandvox 2.2.2 Build 24163 (Nov 18, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Support for Sudden Termination on Snow Leopard and later, allowing Mac OS X to log out quicker
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Addresses issues working with objects within text areas
  • Fixes an issue reverting a document with a Code Injection window open
  • Addresses issues deleting pages
  • Deleting a callout when attached to another was actually deleting both of them; same goes for when moving to sidebar
  • Resolves an issue where turning a regular text box into a block quote wasn't showing the full styling immediately
  • Improved compatibility with Growl

New in Sandvox 2.2.1 Build 24151 (Nov 12, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Logo image can have its linking adjusted just like a regular photo
  • SFTP publishing will ask you what to do if it discovers the server's host key has changed
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves issues with thumbnail and logo images, including setting a custom thumbnail for multiple pages at once
  • Delicious List updated for compatibility with Delicious.com changes
  • Dropdown menu compatibility improvements
  • Corrects display of the tagline in Sandvox with some designs
  • Corrects an issue resizing some objects like Maps
  • Resolves issues when saving documents
  • Previously open documents are correctly restored upon launch on Snow Leopard
  • Fixes a crash attempting to publish when password can't be found
  • Gallery bug fixes
  • Addresses a number of issues upgrading Sandvox 1 documents

New in Sandvox 2.2 Build 24132 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • Text Editing:
  • Brand new List Inspector for control of bullet points and numbering
  • Format → Strikethrough command
  • Make Text Bigger and Make Text Smaller commands
  • Full support for customizing writing direction
  • URLs can be dragged into the Link Inspector
  • Objects:
  • Google Maps object
  • Inline captions are resizable
  • Inline Text Boxes can be resized down to as little as 16 pixels wide, and have callouts wrap around them
  • Publishing:
  • Publishing efficiency and reliability improvements
  • Improved SFTP, WebDAV, and MobileMe publishing
  • If Sandvox can't find your password while publishing, you'll be prompted to re-enter it
  • Exporting for the first time guesses what to name the resulting folder
  • Raw HTML:
  • Tidy HTML function, and Indentation controls in the HTML editor
  • Develop menu, which can be enabled from the Preferences
  • Document and Media Handling:
  • File → Revert to Saved command
  • File → Copy Files into Document command for gathering up media that had previously opted out of being copied
  • Addresses issues saving documents, including locating media afterwards
  • Better handling of missing thumbnails in both index objects and the Site Navigator
  • Other:
  • RSS feed compatibility improvements
  • Bug fixes

New in Sandvox 2.1.11 Build 24112 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Restores compatibility with Leopard for WebDAV and MobileMe publishing

New in Sandvox 2.1.10 Build 24107 (Oct 12, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Brand new Blueprint design
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Address an issue where placeholder photos could become distorted after changing design
  • Fixes several possible crashes when publishing
  • Relative URLs are generated to graphical text images when possible, so displays correctly when exporting, or, in rare cases, publishing
  • Resolves an issue where custom movie poster images were being lost
  • Fixes a drawing glitch in the List of External Links Inspector when running Lion
  • Other Changes:
  • Installing an update to a plug-in moves the old plug-in to the Trash
  • New WebDAV and MobileMe publishing subsystem

New in Sandvox 2.1.9 Build 24091 (Sep 23, 2011)

  • Publishing:
  • Brand new SFTP publishing system for improved reliability
  • More efficient publishing of changes
  • Improved compatibility of Flash files with Internet Explorer 8
  • Improved compatibility with Opera
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves a (rare) issue where deleting a page or object could stop Sandvox from saving
  • External Links and Downloads can now appear in RSS feeds
  • Improved handling of images when truncating summaries
  • Text editing automatically strips out all unwanted attributes

New in Sandvox 2.1.8 Build 24063 (Aug 18, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Keyboard shortcut for updating preview from the HTML editor:Command-R
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves an issue where some line breaks were stripped out by mistake
  • Improved layout of Contact Forms and other similar objects after making a change
  • Addresses an issue moving external links in the Site Navigator
  • Small improvement to cleanup of whitespace in text HTML

New in Sandvox 2.1.7 Build 24054 (Aug 13, 2011)

  • Colorspaces:
  • All images are now published as sRGB for maximum browser compatibility
  • Non-RGB images were causing problems on Lion, resulting in crashes, or stripy, distorted photos. If you have been experiencing this, can fix by:
  • Use the new Empty Cache command in the Sandvox menu
  • Publish All
  • Text Editing:
  • Making a text field empty, then ending editing, hides it
  • Placeholder text fields are included when publishing
  • Dragging an image set not to cause wrap risked lose some of the following paragraph text
  • Correct selection when deleting forwards from the end of a paragraph
  • When creating a link, if no browser URL was found, guess from pasteboard contents
  • Addresses a few issues when selecting ranges of text
  • Handle text boxes which have somehow completely lost their content
  • Unnecessary line breaks are stripped out while editing
  • Upgrading from Sandvox 1:
  • Fixes importing of Sandvox 1 sites containing two or more empty download pages
  • When editing text pages upgraded from a Sandvox document for the first time, better handle Flash, video, audio, and external images
  • On Lion:
  • Resolves an issue where some documents/setups were causing the upgrade to fail immediately
  • Resolves a hang at the end of upgrading
  • Media:
  • Missing audio files can be selected
  • Audio objects are resizable only horizontally
  • Indexes:
  • Fixes an issue where archives would be limited to listing as many articles as appeared in the collection's main index
  • If a page has its title hidden then the title text will still appear in indexes unless there is a summary to display instead
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Design updates
  • Resolves an occasional crash deleting or undoing deletion of objects
  • Handle dragging non-images onto the banner section of the Site Inspector
  • A few small memory leak fixes
  • Improved reliability of HTML editor
  • Ensure there's still a page selected after collapsing a collection on Leopard
  • Other Changes:
  • German localization updates
  • Sandvox 1 & 2 maintain a separate lists of open documents, to make switching between them easier

New in Sandvox 2.1.6 Build 24037 (Aug 4, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Reduce File Size... menu item that removes all unused media from the document package
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves an issue where some font size changes wouldn't "stick"
  • Addresses an issue when changing alignment of a paragraph containing line breaks
  • Increased stability of publishing
  • Addresses an issue where inserting or changing audio/visual media wouldn't take effect until the whole page was reloaded
  • Resolves an issue inserting text boxes into pages without a sidebar
  • All images imported from Sandvox 1 documents now have the correct resize handles when selected
  • Improves compatibility with Aerolite designs
  • Addresses a number of issues with the Design Chooser when presented as a window
  • Custom thumbnails are included when copying or duplicating a page
  • Changing site language immediately updates Archive page titles
  • Other Changes:
  • French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese localization updates
  • Improved heuristic for automatically adding pages to the site menu
  • Creating a link no longer checks the clipboard for a possible URL
  • List of Links and Collection Archive generate less whitespace in their HTML
  • Improved crash and exception reporter

New in Sandvox 2.1.5 Build 24020 (Jul 29, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves a crash during autosave
  • On Lion, handles autosave trying to kick in while in the middle of a normal save
  • Resolves an issue skimming over photos in the media browser
  • Better handles objects containing invalid HTML
  • Addresses an issue publishing resources of sites whose URL ends in /index.html
  • Fixes an issue caused by unusually nested indexes
  • Other Changes:
  • Design Chooser is slightly taller by default so you can easily see it's scrollable on Lion
  • Updated German localization

New in Sandvox 2.1.4 Build 24011 (Jul 25, 2011)

  • Lion-Compatibility:
  • Correct layout of disclosure triangles in the Site Navigator
  • Resolves an issue where documents with large quantities of text containing an object would fail
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Addresses an issue where linking an image would deselect it
  • Display graphic titles in Sandvox when the "Load data from the Internet" is disabled in the preferences
  • Handle iPhoto images dragged from the media browser when stored externally to the main library
  • Other Changes:
  • Performance improvements

New in Sandvox 2.1.2 Build 23991 (Jul 16, 2011)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Resolves an issue moving objects in the sidebar

New in Sandvox 2.1 Build 23984 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Block Quotes (available to insert directly, or as an option in Text Box Inspector)
  • Sandvox is now Lion-compatible
  • "Format → Clear Style" menu
  • Tagline can be aligned
  • On Snow Leopard and later, scaled images match the color space of their source when possible, reducing file size
  • Publishing:
  • Improves publishing performance
  • Internet Explorer compatibility improvements with HTML escaping
  • Demo publishes five pages, as promised
  • Objects/Plug-Ins:
  • Fixes Twitter streams to work again
  • Corrects the URL Page Counter uses for tracking (note: This will cause the page counter to reset since the URL will be different; if you have an existing site, make sure that your "include index filename" preference is not inadvertently checked)
  • Align images in indexes to match their source
  • Quicktime movies work better with a very finicky Firefox
  • Improves poster image handling of QuickTime movies
  • Fixes an issue where audio wouldn't autoplay in Firefox
  • Flash object is Firefox compatible
  • Gallery image numbers are localized
  • Resolves an issue publishing square images in Galleries
  • Placeholder for hidden audio is always visible and selectable
  • Facebook button is resizable so can fit all Likes in
  • Sandvox now always uses plain text for titles in indexes
  • Custom summaries don't necessitate a "Continue Reading" link
  • Hyperlink titles when importing table indexes from Sandvox 1 sites
  • Addresses an issue where RSS badge callouts could cause archives to generate improperly
  • Inserting a Raw HTML object opens the HTML editor
  • More lenient validation of Raw HTML for the Web View
  • Text Editing:
  • Fixes an issue with text editing stripping out spaces from hyperlinks when it shouldn't
  • Improves reliability of deleting images which have "Object causes wrap" turned off
  • Addresses an issue undoing editing of captions
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Improves performance and stability of saving
  • Disqus compatibility improvements
  • Resolves an issue where adjusting the type of date shown on a page was making it temporarily change alignment
  • Improves reliability of pasting objects, particularly into the sidebar
  • Resolves an issue deleting pages using contextual menu
  • Pages dragged in the Site Navigator to a new location are only added to the site menu if it makes sense
  • Resolves an issue where site menu was not wrapping to a second line
  • Fixes some bugs related to the page file extension popup
  • Corrects preview and publishing of non-image file thumbnails
  • Improves Leopard compatibility
  • Stability improvements
  • Other Changes:
  • Home page is automatically included in the site menu of new sites
  • Cutting a collection always includes all of its descendants, otherwise they're effectively deleted
  • Localization updates

New in Sandvox 2.0.5 Build 23793 (Jun 3, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Performance improvements when determining what to publish, and dragging in media
  • Performance improvement when saving documents
  • Determine if media needs publishing faster
  • Updates to help pages
  • Site Title can be aligned
  • Store more information about published media files to improve upload efficiency
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix some problems when run in German
  • External images were writing out their size twice
  • Fix issue with loading Titles & Summaries inspector under Leopard
  • Change max number of tweets displayed from 20 to 999
  • Determine if media needs publishing even faster
  • Migrate Collection Archives properly
  • Importing a multi-gigabyte Sandvox 1 document could cause a crash or hang
  • Exclude pages from indexes only if they are explictly marked as a draft; not if an ancestor is
  • Pagelet title alignment wasn't always showing up live in the web view
  • If the same media file happens to exist on the host twice, could cause more changes to be uploaded than strictly necessary
  • Issues with several designs fixed
  • Permit unclosed Raw HTML tags for display in web view
  • Audio elements were having trouble loading inspector due to missing help file
  • improvements in valid HTML generation where possible
  • Other Changes:
  • Only prompt to save after publishing if there's actually changes

New in Sandvox 2.0.4 Build 23667 (May 27, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • German and Brazilian Portuguese localizations. A big danke schön and obrigado to Götz Görisch and Paulo Neto
  • Minor Inspector improvements including:
  • Support for setting thumbnail for homepage
  • Publishing:
  • Sandvox prompts you to save after publishing finishes
  • Improved publishing performance for some types of website
  • Resolves an issue where the Favicon was uploading to the wrong location, halting further publishing
  • Avoid publishing unnecessarily large images for the Photo Grid's Gallery feature
  • Resolves an issue with links to and from the homepage
  • Fixes an issue with Firefox not displaying RSS feed in browser
  • Stop publishing cutting off too early for some very small sites
  • Fix publishing of Neo News' Green variation
  • Text Editing:
  • Text shadow is supported
  • Addresses a number of issues with editing text imported from Sandvox 1 documents for the first time, including:
  • Import external scripts as Raw HTML objects
  • Improve selection behaviour of HTML objects when set not to cause wrap
  • Treat tags in Raw HTML objects as valid
  • Import inline custom HTML as a Raw HTML object set not to cause wrap
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Documents save properly on Leopard
  • Addresses a number of issues with upgrading Sandvox 1 documents, including:
  • Import commenting system settings
  • Import videos at an appropriate size
  • Prevents a crash from unnaturally huge Contact Form email address
  • Improved performance when dealing with enourmous collections
  • Many built-in designs now support larger images with the sidebar hidden
  • Popup site menus use regular non-breaking spaces, resulting in better wrapping
  • Resolves an issue where the window title field in the page details area would report its count as zero characters
  • Reflect pages' Draft setting in the Site Outline immediately
  • Display AIM status when preferences are set not to load data from the internet
  • Resolves an issue where adding a page caused Sandvox to get jammed loading
  • In truncated summaries, include objects set not to cause wrap
  • Handle image filenames with special characters in them
  • Resolves an issue where the HTML source view sometimes emptied out as soon as it appeared

New in Sandvox 2.0.3 Build 23542 (May 20, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • RTL text support
  • Publishing Improvements:
  • Resolves an issue where publishing the same image twice, but at different sizes would often stop one of them from appearing correctly once published
  • Fixes a crash caused by a missing media file
  • RSS feeds were often causing full-size copies of images to be uploaded undesirably, slowing publishing down
  • Scaled versions of images are cached, so publishing doesn't have to regenerate every image anew each time
  • Publish custom JPEG page thumbnails as JPEGs rather than PNGs
  • Importing Sandvox 1 documents:
  • The "Edit Raw HTML" menu has been enabled for imported text pages. Trying to use it will ask if you'd like to update the text for Sandvox 2
  • Addresses a number of issues with upgrading Sandvox 1 documents, including:
  • Import videos so that the video itself is actually visible
  • Import custom thumbnails for External Links
  • Addresses a number of issues with editing text imported from Sandvox 1 documents for the first time
  • Links:
  • Improvements to custom colored links
  • Resolves an issue trying to remove an image link
  • Correctly publish images that link to pages in the site
  • Improvements to link editing UI
  • Other Bug Fixes:
  • Thumbnail images are cached, so editing indexes from the second time onwards is considerably faster
  • Photo Grids only display the title of a page if it's visible on the page itself
  • Stop the HTML source view occasionally appearing blank
  • If unable to generate a truncated version of a page's content, fallback to the full content
  • Fix for Twitter status links using "undefined" as the screen name
  • Fix to display of AIM/iChat status on published website

New in Sandvox 2.0.2 Build 23410 (May 14, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • Expanded choice of filename extensions
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Maintain original page modification dates when importing Sandvox 1 sites
  • Addresses a number of issues with upgrading Sandvox 1 documents
  • Resolves an issue where trying to publishing would crash mid-way through
  • Improves performance when loading page thumbnails
  • Relax the rules on what should display in the Web View as "Invalid HTML"
  • Addresses a number of issues with editing text imported from Sandvox 1 documents for the first time
  • Display page and object titles in their natural alignment, rather than tending towards the left
  • Resolves an issue where sometimes internal page links could not be established
  • Resolves an issue where some special characters in a graphical title would cause it not to appear
  • Link to new introductory screencast
  • Resolves an issue where changing placement of a focused object would sometimes fail
  • Makes sure to always group consecutive callouts together
  • Disallow links within the Site Title since it's already a link
  • Correctly handle undoing or redoing change to an inline object's caption

New in Sandvox 2.0.1 Build 23347 (May 11, 2011)

  • Addresses a number of issues with upgrading Sandvox 1 documents
  • Resolves an issue where document sometimes was unable to save
  • Unexpected tags in Raw HTML objects are ignored, rather than displaying as "Invalid HTML"

New in Sandvox 2.0 Build 23315 (May 10, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • There is no longer a distinction between “Regular” and “Pro” editions of Sandvox. Everybody gets Pro features.
  • No more page “types.” Lay out text, images, video, and other objects on the page as you see fit. Plus, we still have a bunch of templates to get you started building a page.
  • Massively improved editor UI:
  • Selecting an object works much closer to traditional desktop publishing apps. Click once to select an object; click again to start editing inside of it, e.g. Text Boxes
  • Images and other objects can be resized
  • Objects can be dragged around to adjust their position, with full controls available in the Wrap Inspector
  • Drag and drop support is heavily improved. e.g. drag a file onto a media placeholder or index and Sandvox will cleanly handle it for you
  • Indexes are far more configurable; they can be moved around the page, like any other object. And we've expanded the layout choices available
  • Completely revamped Inspector. There are now six segments, giving more precise control of your website, and a cleaner layout. The rightmost segment is for options specific to the object currently selected.
  • The sidebar is more flexible, allowing you to specify exactly which objects appear on a given page if needed.
  • We have a handful of new designs, and also introduced a number of color variations to our classic designs. The Sandvox 1 bonus designs pack is now included, free, with the app
  • Brand new Design Chooser:
  • Conveniently groups design variations together
  • Filter to show only designs of a particular category
  • If the design supports it, site menu can be laid out hierarchically
  • Photo Grid sports a Gallery option for a beautiful JS display of your pictures big and bold and bright.
  • Integration with Twitter and Facebook:
  • Show feeds from Twitter
  • Add a “tweet” or “like” button to your content
  • Use Facebook as a commenting system
  • Each page includes its thumbnail (if there is one), so that websites linking to the page (Facebook, Digg, Yahoo, MySpace, etc.) display that thumbnail
  • HTML5 page generation. The goal is to make sure that your multimedia website is compatible with as many devices as possible, including iPhone/iPad, and both Mac and Windows.
  • There is a new code injection option for adding site-wide CSS; extremely handy for customizing a design. (Before, you had to insert your custom CSS into the head area of every page.)
  • Overhauled Raw HTML editor:
  • Validates your code as you type, then use the toolbar item to get more detailed info on validation
  • Specify the type of code; e.g. PHP will not attempt to be previewed in Sandvox, but will instead appear as a little "PHP" placeholder
  • Brand new Cocoa plug-in API; look for great plug-ins coming from us and third-party developers.
  • Sandvox is free to try for sites of up to five pages. Anything outside that limit will be published as a placeholder until a Sandvox license is purchased
  • Improvements:
  • We've put the page details area down below the web view, instead of in the lower left corner as it was in Sandvox 1.x.Keywords have moved into the Page Inspector, as they are not actually very important to search engines. The extra space means the page’s full URL can now be displayed.
  • Commenting system and Google integration now live in their own sheets, for easier setup.
  • Tidied up preferences window.
  • Using the Inspector, you have a lot more control about what pieces of a page (titles, sidebar, logo, etc.) will be shown. For example, it's more valuable to your site if a page's title is hidden, rather than having no title at all.
  • A regular page can be converted into a collection, and vice-versa.
  • YouTube videos use the most up-to-date embedded Flash/HTML5 player; border, border colors, and HD options are no longer supported.
  • Smarter logic for automatically adding pages to the site menu.
  • Sandvox does a much better job of keeping HTML tidy while you type.
  • The publishing system is more efficient, so all files in the site are only re-published if needed (previously, this capability only applied to pages and media files).
  • Improved page loading performance when using many of our built-in plug-ins.
  • Many other subtle UI improvements for a healthier, more energizing website building experience.
  • Sandvox is now a signed application, which means in future updates, the Keychain should stop asking you if you want to re-give Sandvox access to it
  • To aid custom HTML, jQuery is available on every page.
  • Other Notes:
  • Link editing has moved into the Inspector, including when linking an image to a larger version of itself.
  • Sandvox 2 documents have a new extension: .sandvox
  • Opening an existing .svxSite document will prompt you to upgrade the document, saving it to a new location. (Your original .svxSite document is left untouched.)
  • You can no longer edit the Raw HTML making up a text area, since that would conflict with the new flexibility over object positioning. Instead, insert Raw HTML objects within the page text as needed and enter your markup there.
  • Edited HTML imported from existing documents will be left as-is, but the first time you edit the page, it will be cleaned up, resulting in a mix of regular text and Raw HTML objects. You can force this cleanup to happen at any time with the "Format > Advanced > Tidy HTML" menu command.
  • Removed support for JS-Kit/Echo comments.

New in Sandvox 1.6.8 Build 19145 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Removed references to homepage.mac.com from the host setup, due to Apple discontinuing support for this service. Any sites published to MobileMe will have to use web.mac.com or web.me.com going forward.
  • Removed references to wish lists (and similar) from the Amazon element; this is no longer supported by Amazon.com. Manually-built product lists are still supported.
  • Updates to help pages
  • Debug menu items for repairing corrupt documents
  • Bug Fixes:
  • MobileMe account information is now updated instantly in host setup
  • update to latest version Sparkle for fixes
  • Fixed translations of "Created by Sandvox" badges
  • Make sure file extension of published files are formed properly
  • Stop writing log message about empty home page filename
  • Dix style clearing in Flickr pagelet
  • Fix to accidental change in Aqua design that was causing site menu to be left-justified, not centered
  • Fix to last row in flickr pagelet thumbnail
  • Better escaping of International Domain Names; the 1.6.7 update didn't cover all the cases we wanted.
  • Better handle mystery problem of MOM file not being found in the main bundle
  • Better handle unusual file extensions
  • Only put Disqus comments markup in HTML if pages in the index have comments

New in Sandvox 1.6.7 Build 15381 (Jun 29, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • added a Writing Direction menu item, available in Leopard (OS X 10.5 and above)
  • Bug Fixes:
  • improvements to Flickr pagelet
  • improvements to QuickLook thumbnail generation
  • improvements to date handling in RSS feeds
  • Sandvox now properly escapes HTML comments
  • Sandvox now correctly publishes collections with no children but with archiving turned on
  • Sandvox now recalculates the video size when changing the source of a video
  • changing Media upload location is now properly handled
  • Download Page does its best to use the preferred upload path when in an RSS feed
  • publishing does a better job at encoding IDNs in header links
  • improvements to publishing and publishing error handling
  • improvements to iMedia Browser

New in Sandvox 1.6.6 Build 12244 (Jan 19, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Sandvox now uses dashes instead of underscores for page title separators, to help with SEO. (It also better coalesces multiple punctuation marks.) This only affects newly created automatically generated file names, and only pages, not media.
  • Updated Help documents
  • Updated to latest Sparkle
  • Contact form now uses correct HTML5 email type, which will help with iPhone email input
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where a custom banner would not show up in a document with an apostrophe in its file name.
  • Memory cleanups
  • Fixed a problem where text within tags was getting output HMTL-escaped, and it shouldn't be!
  • Fixed an issue where trying to loading a missing media file into the WebView when it did not need scaling would fail.
  • Tweak to the contact element that will only allow safari to resize textarea's vertically
  • We are now able to read firefox cookie file (for help with loading registration code) even if Firefox is running
  • We have updated to a newer version of Sparkle
  • iMedia browser works around known bug in Apple iPhoto of slideshows with ampersand in the file path.
  • iMedia browser: improved parsing of aperture libraries on external volumes
  • Improved display compatibility with JS-Kit/Echo commenting system
  • Fix links to home page from archive pages
  • Fix problem linking to external page with funny characters in its URL
  • Fixed a problem where editing an existing link to a local page would instead remove the link
  • Work around invalid extensible property archives by resetting to nil and logging
  • Better parsing of charset from string data

New in Sandvox 1.6.5 Build 10991 (Oct 28, 2009)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • fix to SFTP login/password code (reverts to 1.6.3 behavior)
  • Fixed issue where some WebDAV connections were failing to authenticate
  • Fixed the "flipping" window that is part of the iMedia browser; it had some problems under Snow Leopard.
  • Brazilian portuguese localization updates
  • "Nib" files have been stripped to compact overall download size
  • More consistent handling of finding attachments in _Media folder
  • Fixed error message that was happening when dragging the splitter at the bottom of the document window
  • New Features:
  • added new hidden preference, DisableMediaMountsVolumes, to force Sandvox to not search for media on disconnected server volumes (only to be used if directed by Karelia Support)

New in Sandvox 1.6.4 Build 10549 (Sep 16, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Full Snow Leopard compatibility
  • Brazilian Portuguese localization
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Snow Leopard compatibility tweaks to both Sandvox and iMedia Browser
  • compatibility update to Amazon List page/pagelet; Amazon changed requirements for applications to retrieve data
  • fixed issue with Sandvox hanging while opening registration window if Firefox is currently running
  • fixed issue with JS-Kit/Echo where sometimes an extra "0" would appear at the top of a collection summary page
  • fixed issue that compromised graphical text generation in rare cases
  • Site > Export will no longer overwrite the Sandvox document if it's in the export folder
  • fixed issue with Raw HTML editor where interpretation of HTML comments would add extra spaces between the comment delimiters
  • added new hidden preference, DisableQuickLookThumbnail, to improve Sandvox performance in some Mac configurations: defaults write com.karelia.Sandvox DisableQuickLookThumbnail -bool YES
  • QuickLook thumbnails are automatically disabled on Tiger for performance reasons (plus, Tiger does not support them)
  • "Paste Link" menu item functionality restored
  • fixed issue with Link panel so that insertion works even if no text is selected
  • fixed issue with show/hide state of editing markers not being preserved between sessions
  • fixed issue where garbage collector was reclaiming embedded images from custom summaries
  • the "Duplicate Pagelet" menu item has been removed
  • iMedia Browser now uses iTunes 9 icons
  • updates to Sandvox Help

New in Sandvox 1.6.3 Build 10224 (Jul 21, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Safari 4 compatibility
  • preliminary Snow Leopard compatibility
  • Bug Fixes:
  • fix for importing documents as new pages by dragging them into the Site Outline
  • fix for Host Setup enabling Continue button before all connection tests are complete
  • fix for Link panel issue where % would be improperly escaped in URLs read from the active browser window
  • improvements to Movie Page RSS feed
  • improvements to media handling
  • improvements to MobileMe publishing

New in Sandvox 1.6.2 Build 10051 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Collection Index pagelets now allow descriptive text above the index list (restoring the 1.2.8 behavior).
  • Designs can now specify a custom logo image size in the Info.plist.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • For for issue where moving a page in the Site Outline when set to appear in the Site Menu could sometimes cause the page to be deleted.
  • Fix preferences controller to properly deal with update preferences.
  • Fix for issue where pages that contained Continue Reading links would always be marked as needing to be republished after every launch.
  • Fix for issue where particularly large contact forms could heavily impact performance.
  • Fix for issue where creating a document whose filename contained a non-URL-valid character, such as ?, would stop media from being copied into the document.
  • Fix for issue where JS-Kit inserted 0 at bottom of collection pages without indexes (Republish your entire site to correct this.).
  • Fix for issue on Tiger where dragging a page in the site outline immediately after creating it would cause an exception.
  • Improvements to RSS Feed pagelet and feed publishing; RSS feed URLs were incorrectly generated with certain hidden preference settings.
  • Custom summaries are, once again, editable in the raw HTML editor.
  • Comments are now excluded from QuickLook thumbnails.
  • Fix to rare cases where changes in some text blocks are never saved.
  • Fix for issue where home page was not included in site menu.
  • Now using the OSX 10.5/QuickTime 7.2 API for getting the proper dimensions, taking aspect ratio of a movie into account, when querying for the dimensions of a movie from a movie page or pagelet. This is so that an anamorphic movie returns the proper playback size, not the pixel size, which we don't want.
  • Adjustments to CSS to prevent overflow scrollbars in some designs when using Disqus.
  • Publishing window would remain open if the command key was held down. It is supposed to do so if both command and option are held.
  • Design chooser thumbnails are no longer uploaded with the design during publishing.
  • Minor adjustment to German localization of Host Setup.
  • Compatibility adjustments for Snow Leopard.
  • Fix to SFTP publishing.

New in Sandvox 1.6.1 Build 9727 (Apr 15, 2009)

  • Improvements to publishing:
  • Fix for issue where main.css was not being uploaded on Tiger systems.
  • Fix for issue where Archive pages would always be published regardless of changes.
  • Fix for issue where File Download pages were not publishing properly.
  • Fix for issue where publishing a scaled version of an external media file would sometimes erroneously substitute a ? placeholder named “_Media”.
  • The inspector is no longer active during publishing.
  • Fix for issue where closing a document immediately after making a change in some editing fields would not save that change.
  • Fix for issue where changes from Search and Replace in raw HTML editor would be lost by activating the main document window immediately afterwards.
  • Improvements to Discover Plug-ins window.
  • Fix for issue with Digg pagelet.
  • Improvements to RSS handling:
  • Fix for RSS feed enclosures being accidentally turned off for Image pages in 1.6
  • Download Pages now show the downloadable as attachments in any associated RSS feed.
  • Fix for issue with RSS Badge connected to home page complaining that home page had no RSS feed.
  • Improvements to JS-Kit comment integration:
  • Implemented workaround for issue with JS-Kit's comment-count script inserting 0 at the end of index pages.
  • Implemented workaround for JS-Kit's use of overriding floats causing spacing problems, particularly in IE.
  • Updated to latest version of iMedia Browser:
  • Improved library loading performance.
  • Double-clicking on an image in the photo browser will open up the image with the default image-viewing application. Holding down the control key while double-clicking will cause the original (unedited) version of the photo to be opened, if available.
  • Music browser now allows you to use the space bar to pause and resume the selected track.
  • Music browser now allows you to search by title, artist, album, or genre by holding down the popup menu on the magnifying glass icon in the search field.
  • Lightroom folder parsing has been added for Lightroom 2 users who prefer to work with Folders rather than Collections.
  • Lightroom parser now uses user-modified images rather than original masters.
  • Updates to most designs for 1.6.1 and improved IE compatibility, as needed.
  • Updates to localization.
  • Updates to Sandvox Help.

New in Sandvox 1.6 Build 9603 (Mar 26, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • Added new fields in page detail view (the area in lower left corner of document window, now resizable) for setting window title and meta description of a page; these can be customized to improve listings in search engines. Text entry fields show a counter to keep track of length; they turn red when the length exceeds the limit that will cause Google to truncate (65 for the window title; 156 for the meta description).
  • Updated and simplified the publishing sheet as part of a major update to the publishing system.
  • Added “Discover Plug-ins” menu item to the Sandvox menu. Choosing this opens a window to find and download new plug-ins (mostly designs, but also page/pagelet types). Items can be purchased by clicking on the arrow buttons to view their web page; free plugins can be directly downloaded and installed. Plugins with newer versions available than what are currently installed are highlighted.
  • Publishing now automatically registers moderator email with JS-Kit, eliminating that fraughtful step required in version 1.5.4. You set the moderator email using Site Inspector.
  • Added hidden preferences to change JS-Kit behaviors:
  • JSKitReverseOrder, when set to YES, lists comments in reverse chronological order
  • JSKitDisableAvatars, when set to YES, hides avatars from comment postings
  • JSKitDisableThreading, when set to YES, disables threading of comments
  • The Disqus comment system is now available via the Site inspector. (Enter the “short name” of your site as registered with Disqus.)
  • The IntenseDebate comment system is now available via the Site inspector. (Enter the account ID (very long string of letters and numbers) corresponding to “idcomments_acct” in IntenseDebate’s “generic install” instructions for your site.)
  • Index pages now show “comment count” of entries automatically, with a link to the full entry, for all comment systems, rather than showing comments in-line. Comments are now seen only in the complete weblog entry page.
  • Added “Submit to Site Directory...” menu item to Site menu; this opens a web page where you can submit your published website to a directory of Sandvox-built sites.
  • Pages automatically generate the new “canonical” URL tag introduced by major search engine companies on Feb 12, 2009. Each page now inserts this to help search engines determine the main, preferred URL for a page. This will help search engines realize that variations of URLs (e.g. with or without “www.”, or with or without index.html) are actually the same page. This information comes right out of the host setup settings, so the Sandvox user doesn't need to do anything special to enable this feature.
  • The Option key will change the “Publish” toolbar item into “Publish All.” You can also add the “Publish All” item to the toolbar permanently via View → Customize Toolbar...
  • Renamed and re-ordered publishing menu items. New keyboard shortcuts, including returning command-E to its rightful owner in the Find menu. (“Export” is now command-shift-E.)
  • New collection preset, which just has a Raw HTML page as the index page type. This allows you to create an index page where the page type is Raw HTML, not Rich Text.
  • When a trial license has expired, the user is warned appropriately.
  • Invert position of code injection for the bottom of the document body, so that you can do something in the site-level code injection at the beginning, then something 'nested' for the specific page, and then do the un-nesting at the end body injection for the page, and then un-nest at the end body injection the site level. (Example uses: caching and buffering using PHP).
  • Installing plugins by opening plugin file from the Finder now moves, not copies, that file (unless the source of the file is not writable, such as a disk image).
  • The Contact Form no longer chooses destination address automatically: you must make an affirmative choice so you are fully aware of which email address will be used for receiving emails.
  • Renamed “View Published Site” menu item to “Visit Published Site”; added “Visit Published Page” menu item that visits the page currently selected in the site outline.
  • “Publishing Transcript” has been added to Help menu to help diagnose any publishing errors.
  • Publishing can now be effectively paused. If you hit Stop and then later re-publish, Sandvox will resume where it left off, truly publishing only the changed items.
  • A small progress indicator is now displayed on Sandvox dock icon during lengthy operations like publishing and page importing.
  • Amazon List is now also available as a Page type.
  • Added a hidden preference, FTPDataConnectionType, to allow the Active connection type to always be used.
  • Added a hidden preference, ExportShouldReplaceExistingFile, that reverts Export to 1.5 behavior (files are overwritten in place, rather than creating a new folder).
  • Change to how new RSS feeds are published: new feeds are now published as index.rss rather than index.xml. This maintains standards compliance but should increase compatibility with some hosting providers that would provide an RSS feed when a web page was requested!
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Major improvements to media system and image scaling. Scaling now happens asynchronously and on-the-fly, with cached results. During publishing, scaled media is generated asynchronously, which improves repsonsiveness in the program.
  • Major improvements to publishing engine. It now delays connecting to server until it determines there is actual new content to be published. It no longer blocks during long uploads.
  • Many fixes to FTP publishing.
  • Fixes to publishing engine to handle relative paths properly.
  • Improvements to publishing engine for RSS feeds.
  • Implemented date localization for Archive pages and Archive Index pagelet. (Previous versions used system default rather than site language preference.)
  • Fix for long-standing issue where text typed into the raw HTML editor window that didn't match the window's main font was invisible (affected mainly customers working in Japanese).
  • Favicons are being properly generated again.
  • Fix to Host Setup Assistant to better handle relative paths.
  • Fix for issue where Sandvox would become confused about document metadata and refuse to open document.
  • Change to only allow creating a Link List pagelet by dragging a URL to the pagelet area; dragging a URL to the Site Outline now properly creates an External Link page.
  • Updated document window label to “Meta Tags/Keywords” to clarify the multiple purposes of these words.
  • Now appending month and year to meta information for archive pages so that they are unique, rather than copies of the parent page, so that Google will not flag them as duplicate content.
  • Adjusted the Contact Form so that the input fields are more consistent in their widths.
  • RSS feeds are properly limited in length once again to the number of entries on the index page, sorted by date (use Collection inspector to change number of entries)
  • Update to page-bottom (footer) HTML structure so that newly created, as well as older, Sandvox sites will display the footer properly. (Note that some designs will only display a single line of text in the footer; other designs allow the footer to expand into multiple lines.
  • Compatibility fixes to many designs.
  • Made the list-joining code be less aggressive in re-submitting failed signup requests. If a second attempt fails, it will not try again.
  • Fixed the problem reporter for resending saved problem reports that were stored in an older format.
  • “Browse...” in Setup Host now automatically begins at Document Root, if specified; it now works for iDisk.
  • Fix for improper escaping of some URLs in RSS feeds.
  • Improvements to document migrator (for Sandvox 1.2.* documents).
  • Fix to remove orphaned site menu items.
  • Fix to update page modification dates for RSS feed and Google Sitemap.
  • Plugins, including designs, are now sorted without regard to initial punctuation.
  • Maximum height restrictions on in-line images have been removed.
  • Change to raw HTML editor to be more permissive when pasting in certain CSS tags. Pasted HTML will be a bit more literal, but will remove some annoyances where pasted code was lost after editing.
  • Fix for issue where unwanted, invisible pagelets were sometimes created by Sandvox that would upset both previewing and publishing.
  • Fix for issue where publishing to a site with an unusual URL scheme would sometimes cause the Web View to appear empty.
  • Fix to action menu in Amazon List inspector.
  • Fix for issue where External Link pages were not respecting “open in new window” setting if included in a collection.
  • Re-ordered CSS output so that design-specific CSS comes after general, plug-in based CSS, allowing designers to override without specifying “!important”.
  • Updates to Sandvox Help.
  • Many other bug-fixes too numerous to mention!
  • Known Issues:
  • Designs have been checked for overall compatibility with the newly-released Internet Explorer 8.
  • We have identified an incompatibility with the Safari 4 Public Beta with regard to pasting embedded images in both this and earlier versions of Sandvox. We are hoping that Apple will resolve this before their final release of Safari 4; otherwise we will prepare a work-around in the near future. If you experience problems with pasted-in images disappearing after switching pages in Sandvox, we recommend you de-install the Safari 4 Beta for now, or else work around this issue by using drag and drop to embed your images in text pages and pagelets.
  • Due to a change that was implemented to resolve some ambiguities with how different designs handled content entered in the footer area, some third-party designs may require updates for full compatibility with Sandvox 1.6. We have notified all third-party design providers so that they can issue updates soon. Check SandvoxDesigns.com or the Discover Plug-ins window to keep up-to-date on any additional designs you have installed.

New in Sandvox 1.5.4 Build 9259 (Jan 20, 2009)

  • New Features:
  • added automatic support for the JS-Kit comments service to the Site Inspector (this supercedes Haloscan, though Haloscan will continue to be supported for pre-existing sites with a valid Haloscan ID) please use the Site Inspector to (re)activate the appropriate comments system for your site: JS-Kit for new sites, JS-Kit or Haloscan for older sites already registered with Haloscan
  • Sandvox now warns when a timed trial license has expired
  • Bug Fixes:
  • fix to RSS Feed generation (URLs with extra parameters should now be properly escaped) if you were experiencing this issue, please republish your entire site to make sure all RSS URLs are updated correctly
  • improvements to Contact Form (Contact Form no longer chooses the destination address automatically)
  • fix for exception with document migrator that appeared in 1.5.3
  • HTML validation results should now load in the Web View properly
  • restored hidden preference to turn off Autosave defaults write com.karelia.Sandvox AutosaveDocuments -bool NO
  • duplicated pages are now inserted directly after the page that is duplicated, rather than at the end
  • Sandvox now handles multiple screens properly
  • fix for window flicker on older systems
  • fix for issue where dragging a page to the very end of a collection was being ignored
  • fix for issue where a failed Save As would attempt to recover a non-existent backup
  • External Link and File Download page types didn't make sense as a home page type so they have been removed from the options for creating a new document
  • fix to Firefox cookie-reading methods
  • fixes to problem reporter: Sandvox no longer attempts to send invalid problem reports, but does resend valid reports that had been created with an earlier data format
  • updated several page/pagelet elements to be more HTML compliant
  • extensive Help updates
  • localization updates

New in Sandvox 1.5.3 Build 8981 (Dec 10, 2008)

  • Maintenance release.

New in Sandvox 1.5.2 Build 8833 (Nov 5, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • Autosave is now performed on a background thread. Backups/snapshots are also run in the background when autosaving.
  • Title List and Download Page indexes now support navigational arrows.
  • Saving a backup or snapshot now brings down a sheet with a progress indicator.
  • Sandvox now reads Firefox cookies in order to auto-detect registration code when purchased from the browser.
  • Added new hidden preference DisableSecureUploadCache (the default for this is NO so that uploadCachePath uses the more secure NSTemporaryDiretory() but setting this default to YES will change uploadCachePath to use ~/Library/Caches which should result is shorter, less obscure paths for uploading).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Improvements to Amazon List.
  • Improvements to automatic naming of Archive Pages.
  • Improvements to banner image cropping.
  • Improvements to Collection Index pagelet.
  • Improvements to Contact Form (allow email field to be hidden, default message text is now honored).
  • Improvements to Continue Reading link editing/generation.
  • Improvements to drag-and-drop of media.
  • Improvements to Export.
  • Improvements to Format menu validation — Clear Styles should now work again.
  • Improvements to image handling.
  • Improvements to memory management.
  • Improvements to Page Archiving, page archive naming.
  • Improvements to Photo Grid Index.
  • Improvements to QuickLook previews.
  • Improvements to Raw HTML page output with the 'Fill Entire Page' option selected.
  • Improvements to Sitemap.
  • Improvements to text editing.
  • Improvements to Undo.
  • Improvements to various designs.
  • Improvements to #next-photo and #previous-photo navigation links in photo albums.
  • "&" characters in URLs are now properly encoded.
  • Better handling of non-ASCII text on Archive Pages.
  • Better handling of summaries of External Link pages.
  • Changing a File Download page's contents now updates the underlying file name accordingly.
  • Clicking an internal link now opens that page in Sandvox, rather than switching to the default browser.
  • Collection contents are now published to the new, updated path if the collection's file name is changed.
  • Empty collection titles are now handled properly.
  • Export now handles paths with non-ASCII characters, such as option-f.
  • File Download pages now properly handle content without file extensions.
  • General Collections now respect the "link to timestamps" option.
  • Indexes now load plug-in specific CSS.
  • Performance improvements when reloading Web View.
  • Re-enabled editable summaries for certain page types.
  • Sandvox now passes a baseURL into WebKit when applicable to allow relative paths for Pro users.
  • Stability improvements to autosaving on Tiger (OS X 10.4).
  • Stability improvements.
  • The Web View now reloads ignoring the cache, allowing changes to underlying CSS to be reflected immediately.
  • Updated to latest iMedia Browser.
  • Updates to help.
  • Updates to localization.
  • Updating a page's title now updates the title of any related archive pages.
  • Upgrading a Sandvox document to a new version now only republishes those pages where absolutely required.

New in Sandvox 1.5 Build 8148 (Sep 4, 2008)

  • Major improvements to media processing, making it easier than ever to create and publish multimedia and media-intensive sites.
  • Improvements to all pagelets, now 19 to choose from, including an enhanced Contact Form and a brand new YouTube pagelet.
  • seven all-new designs, plus enhancements to other designs, bringing the total to 50 included designs.
  • New blogging features, including a Collection Archives pagelet to better manage and display older entries, automatic navigation links between entries, and "continue reading" links to better manager longer entries.
  • Inspector improvements to allow editing of multiple pages simultaneously.
  • improved compatibility with Apple's MobileMe service and site hosting.
  • A new document format to make management and publishing more streamlined; and
  • new Code Injection points that give Pro Edition users greater power to adjust design and content.

New in Sandvox 1.2.7 (Mar 26, 2008)

  • More than 40 site designs available (with viewport settings for optimized display on iPhones)
  • Customizable banners that let you personalize your site
  • A comprehensive and completely integrated Help feature with more than 200 articles, including step-by-step "How do I...?" pages
  • Localization for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages
  • The snapshot feature cleanly saves your work in progress, and a "draft" mode that excludes selected pages from publication
  • Improved Flash file support
  • Seventeen pagelet types for adding sidebars and callouts; Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Flickr pagelets
  • "Code Injection," improved HTML editing, and Google Webmaster tools (Pro Version)

New in Sandvox 1.2.6 (Jan 8, 2008)

  • More than 40 site designs available (with viewport settings for optimized display on iPhones)
  • Customizable banners that let you personalize your site
  • A comprehensive and completely integrated Help feature with more than 200 articles, including step-by-step "How do I...?" pages
  • Localization for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages
  • The snapshot feature cleanly saves your work in progress, and a "draft" mode that excludes selected pages from publication
  • Improved Flash file support
  • Seventeen pagelet types for adding sidebars and callouts; Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Flickr pagelets
  • "Code Injection," improved HTML editing, and Google Webmaster tools (Pro Version)

New in Sandvox 1.2.5 (Nov 22, 2007)

  • More than 40 site designs available (with viewport settings for optimized display on iPhones)
  • Customizable banners that let you personalize your site
  • A comprehensive and completely integrated Help feature with more than 200 articles, including step-by-step "How do I...?" pages
  • Localization for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages
  • The snapshot feature cleanly saves your work in progress, and a "draft" mode that excludes selected pages from publication
  • Improved Flash file support
  • Seventeen pagelet types for adding sidebars and callouts; Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Flickr pagelets
  • "Code Injection," improved HTML editing, and Google Webmaster tools (Pro Version)

New in Sandvox 1.2.4 (Nov 7, 2007)

  • More than 40 site designs available (with viewport settings for optimized display on iPhones)
  • Customizable banners that let you personalize your site
  • A comprehensive and completely integrated Help feature with more than 200 articles, including step-by-step "How do I...?" pages
  • Localization for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages
  • The snapshot feature cleanly saves your work in progress, and a "draft" mode that excludes selected pages from publication
  • Improved Flash file support
  • Seventeen pagelet types for adding sidebars and callouts; Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Flickr pagelets
  • "Code Injection," improved HTML editing, and Google Webmaster tools (Pro Version)

New in Sandvox 1.2.3 (Oct 3, 2007)

  • More than 40 site designs available (with viewport settings for optimized display on iPhones)
  • Customizable banners that let you personalize your site
  • A comprehensive and completely integrated Help feature with more than 200 articles, including step-by-step "How do I...?" pages
  • Localization for French, Italian, Danish, German, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese languages
  • The snapshot feature cleanly saves your work in progress, and a "draft" mode that excludes selected pages from publication
  • Improved Flash file support
  • Seventeen pagelet types for adding sidebars and callouts; Amazon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Flickr pagelets
  • "Code Injection," improved HTML editing, and Google Webmaster tools (Pro Version)