Status Update: Week 42

Well I started this week working on Scriptish, but I felt that I needed a break after working on it nearly every day for the past few weeks, so I spent about half the week working on a few other things.

Mozilla Lab's Prospector add-ons, which they announced two weeks ago, caught my attention and I started doing a little hacking on one of them; after spending some time using 2 of the currently 4 prospector add-ons I can tell you that I really like them, because they each focus on solving a single, particular, searching UX/usability issue in the context of the browser, and they're restartless!

Done

Scriptish

• Released Scriptish 0.1b5 on the 19th.
• Replacing the status bar icon with a frequently requested toolbar menu-button (It's a button & a drop-down menu), which is added to the add-on bar when Scriptish is installed for the first-time, or when Scriptish is upgraded from a version less than or equal to Scriptish 0.1b5.
• Added a ID field to the new script window.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

• Created some GitHub spice for compare urls (issue #9).

MDC

I noticed that there wasn't any documentation on em:bootstrap on the page describing install manifests, so I added something basic with a link to more information.

Mozilla Labs: Prospector - Find Suggest

• Performance tweaks.
• Bug fix when using the find bar on a blank page, which causes an error to be thrown (issue #1).
• Sorting words with equal frequency alphabetically (issue #3).
• Changing the regular expression used to split words (issue #4).
• Requiring words to be 3 characters or longer (issue #2).
• Making the suggestion limit a user preference (issue #7).

Next

Well I still want to get Scriptish 0.1 out the door soon, but I've decided not to rush it, I'll probably have another beta out in a week or so without many more changes than those that I have already made on top of 0.1b5 (like adding the toolbar button), let that swirl for another week or so, then release Scriptish 0.1.

The Prospector add-ons have caught my interest so I'll spend some time this week contributing what I can.