Just a little side note: After a beta-release and some dojo.offline preview releases (including dojo 0.9) in July Dojo 0.9 has finally arrived. For everybody who’s not up to date: Dojo 0.9 completly breaks backward compatibility and tries to break new ground. This should mean:

• Much smaller and therefore faster and more concise
• No more multi-platform support (after realizing that the browser is and will be the most important platform for dojo)
• No more API-magic

I personally appreciate this new direction. Dojo 0.4 really was slow concerning the page load (also with custom builds). Dojo really forced developers to write long names (dojo.event.topic.subscribe). And Dojo was really big and hard to overlook. But has Dojo 0.9 adressed this issues successfully? Continue reading »

Last Friday we’ve released a new build of Mind42. Beside many bug-fixes it includes one new major feature: Position offsets!

Noticed the new gray positioning-icon right to the nodes on mouse-over? Using this handle you can add offsets to the nodes. This means that by dragging the node down, a placeholder will be added above the node. The effect of this is, that there will be space between the selected and all above nodes, and that the selected node will move down a little. The same goes for dragging the node up a little, just vice versa. This is exactly the system Freemind uses, so hopefully many users are already familiar with this system. Of course we would be pleased to get some feedback on this!

Finally here’s a list of the rest of enhancements and bug-fixes:

• Fixed collaboration with images
• Fixed wrong rendering of children nodes after drag & drop resorting
• Fixed connection status indicator bug
• Fixed enhanced color picker for IE
• Added “Collapse All” button in the published view
• … and some other minor changes …

Feedback as always appreciated!

A new build for a new month. This builds changelog features:

• New visual style for the menu popups
• Enhanced inline editor
• IE performance enhancement
• Enhanced linking (new: Email addresses and other mind maps)
• Some bug fixes

Hopefully you’ll find the changes usefull

Something else: Rich McIver pointed me to an article called No More Hard Drive! 100 Free Software Apps to Go Online-Only. Many useful browser applications are listed there, and we are honored that mind42 is one of them.