Archive for June, 2006

Public Beta 6.3

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Public Beta 6.3 (rev 2660)

  • [#4606] Currency format for 0 decimal place
  • [#4610] Advanced number formatting for Mozilla FireFox 1.0

Public Beta 6.2

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Public Beta 6.2 (rev 2632)

  • [#4284] Advanced number formatting — now fully support date, time, currency and custom format string.

Public Beta 6.1

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Public Beta 6.1 (rev 2619)

  • [#4586] Fixed severe relative references update bug upon row/column insertion/deletion
  • [#4579] Fixed false security warning when loading grid in Internet Explorer with organisation account
  • [#4578] Granted write authorisation properly to password-protected spreadsheet
  • [#4563] Fixed bug where FireFox appears to load the page for ever when opening EditGrid in iframe
  • [#4577] Fixed IE runtime error
  • [#4571] Fixed wrong MIME type at download multiple spreadsheet
  • [#4570] Shift+Home|End keystroke sequence
  • [#4565] Message history order

Public Beta 6

Monday, June 26th, 2006

We have added many unique features starting from EditGrid Beta 6 (rev 2565), in addition to many useful spreadsheet functionalities. The most notable new features are:

  • [#4336] [#4484] Remote data — get live updated stockquote and forex on your spreadsheets!
  • [#4457] Basic API — see EditGrid Labs for more!
  • [#3681] Drag-and-fill values and formuale
  • [#3695] [#4171] Many more useful keyboard hotkeys, including [#4415] Ctrl+Shift+PgUp|PgDn for switching between sheets
  • [#4149] Smarter version control. This entails the following changes:
    1. Auto-saved versions are now treated as temporary. The system keeps at most 20 auto-saved versions for every spreadsheet.
    2. User can “mark” an auto-saved version by providing a description. The system keeps all “marked” versions.
    To allow you to preserve and migrate past versions, all versions saved before this change are made “marked” for the time being.

Other new features include:

  • [#4397] Download multiple spreadsheets at once
  • [#4500] Select post-to-blog and sheet properties on menu at |My Workspace|
  • Show Edit Lock status on public sheet list
  • [#4434] Implemented cursor per sheet (previously only supports cursor per spreadsheet)
  • [#4359] Enhanced HTML export
  • [#4157] Administrator message in grid mode
  • [#4326] Support URL data type
  • [#4396] Send spreadsheet by email

Also fixed in this release are:

  • Ask for confirmation at rollback to previous revision
  • Disabled caching for post-to-blog in iframe mode
  • Fixed leftward/upward scrolling malfunction
  • [#4540] Fixed post-to-blog JavaScript mode malfunction
  • [#4542] Fixed number formatting persistence issue
  • [#4535] Warning for uploading unsupported file formats
  • [#4446] [#4486] Rest toolbar button states and formula bar upon leaving current cell or applying cell formatting
  • [#4481] Disabled delete sheet where there is only one
  • [#4435] Fixed bug where rollback fails to clear newly created sheet
  • [#4291] Fixed bug where a manual-input time value is formatted as a date
  • [#4402] Fixed add to bookmark malfunction
  • [#4403] Edit Notes at Sheet Properties
  • [#4404] Fixed share to users malfunction at Sheet Properties

Public Beta 5.3

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Public Beta 5.3 (rev 2396)

  • Enabled response compression to further reduce traffic load
  • [#4488] Fixed bug grid shows bottom of the grid upon insert column after delete all rows
  • Database command optimisation
  • [#4475] Fixed bug where Clear Contents at context menu appears to work on a read-only spreadsheet posted to blog
  • Fixed bug where a row/column insertion/deletion overflows the usable grid area

Public Beta 5.2

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Public Beta 5.2 (rev 2296)

  • [#4451] Fixed style persistence issue
  • [#4448] Clear All really clears all formatting
  • [#4412] Style change RTU
  • [#4344] Fixed resize problem for posting EditGrid Lite to blog

Public Beta 5.1

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Public Beta 5.1 (rev 2274)

  • Improved post-to-blog performance for large spreadsheets
  • [#3907] Highlight a row/column
  • [#3014] Cut/copy-and-paste a row/column
  • [#4238] Fixed bug in FireFox 1.0.7 and 1.0.8 when highlighting long cell content in the formula bar
  • [#4208] Improved handling of email verification requests
  • [#4401] Clear Contents and Clear All (accessible from context menu)
  • Better handling of null passwords at sharing with password
  • Fixed link at function picker
  • Fixed bug in Camino where context menu does not work on sheet navigation
  • [#4430] Allow user with read privilege to access sheet properties
  • [#4330] Enhanced style handling at back-end
  • Performance improvement at the front-end for row/column insertion/deletion
  • [#4347] Import all styles fully
  • Fixed bug in IE where styles are not shifted upon row/column insertion/deletion
  • [#4411] Allow user with read privilege to post to blog

EditGrid Post-to-Blog Function Launched!

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

A demonstration is better than a thousand words. Here is what you can do with the new feature. If you like the following spreadsheet, feel free get one at http://worldcup.editgrid.com. Enjoy!

Web Spreadsheet by EditGrid.

Public Beta 5

Monday, June 12th, 2006

In continuation with our development philosophy, EditGrid Beta 5 (rev 2202) blends new features unique to the web with back-end improvement to support conventional spreadsheet functionalities. The most notable new features are:

  • [#2707] [#4334] Create more than one spreadsheet under a workbook — right-click at |Sheet 1| to create/rename/delete a spreadsheet
  • [#3560] Post to blog — go to Sheet Properties and see how it works!
  • [#4105] Stockquote robot for currency exchange
  • [#4325] Stockquote robot for world major indices

Other new features include:

  • Show |My Workspace| at top navigation bar to logged-in users
  • [#3799] Allow user to name and save a new sheet in grid mode
  • [#4185] Optimised width of row headers
  • [#4303] Allow copying on spreadsheets with read access
  • [#4179] Allow search engine to cache HTML version of public-readable spreadsheets
  • [#4329] Allow user to opt-in to receive news and announcements
  • [#4236] Fast switching between grid mode and sheet properties
  • [#4146] Graphical user interface for sheet locking in |My Workspace|
  • [#4233] Revamped user removal mechanism for organisation accounts
  • [#4101] System messages to registered user
  • [#4108] User can now configure his/her own time zone
  • [#4304] Send email to invite friends

Also fixed in this release are:

  • [#4314] Re-activated rollback to previos revisions
  • [#4322] Formula display error upon row insertion
  • [#4351] Improved performance of loading Home page
  • [#4143] Quick login button for logged-in user to switch to another account
  • [#4373] User with read privilege can view revision history
  • [#4390] User with write privilege can rollback to a previous revision

Public Beta 4.1

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Public Beta 4.1 (rev 2073)

  • Improved grid loading time by 75% by trimming down JavaScript bundle file size
  • [#4318] Import safeguard: restrict import file size to 1MB
  • [#4315] Fixed email spreadsheet link
  • Fixed bug on import with an empty string in UTF-8
  • [#4305] Fixed bug where range formatting would apply style of first cell to rest of the range
  • [#4302] Fixed bug where colour is not imported correctly
  • Fixed bug where line-break is not displayed correctly
  • [#4247] Context menu in FireFox with certain extensions installed