Mentoract™ Reader Release History

Beta version 0.82 build 20060504.
- Fixed java.util.ArrayList error resulting from change in XPath processing.
- Fixed stylesheet loading error.
Beta version 0.81 build 20050221.
- Re-enabled linked stylesheet and local style support.
- Re-enabled OEB out-of-spine content.
Beta version 0.80 build 20050129.
- Rewrote pagination functionality and upgraded to Java 5.0.
- Added default style for XHTML <cite> element.
- Removed predefined layouts.
- Moved display setting storage to preferences (e.g. the registry on Windows).
- Implemented XHTML ordered and unordered list contextual marker rendering based upon nesting depth.
- Fixed page break views to be invisible.
- Added recognition of MIME media types for the WAV (audio/x-wav), MP3 (audio/mpeg), and Ogg Vorbis (application/ogg) content types.
Beta version 0.76 build 20020531.
- Fixed bug that incorrectly calculated CSS relative font sizes such as those for headings.
- Brought back hyperlink support for non-OEB XHTML content.
- Implemented new modularized hyperlink framework to allow pluggable hyperlink functionality for different XML vocabularies.
- Brought back support for nested inline styles.
- Added support for CSS page-break-after: always.
- Allowed caching of audio clips.
- Added support for WAV, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis audio formats.
Beta version 0.75 build 20020421.
- Added applet audio support.
- Fixed bug that prevented embedded sounds from being played twice.
- Improved applet and other component handling; components and applets are now only created when needed.
- Added RDF property discovery for XML documents.
- Added enhanced image viewing user interface.
- Added RDF-based document property browsing.
- Converted OEB publication loading to use XPackage natively, even for OEBPS 1.x publications.
- Fixed bug that would not display images and other empty elements wrapped in anonymous block elements.
- Changed document-building process to be more implementation agnostic for later DOM plugability.
- Replaced style application engine with one that is generic and dynamically re-applicable.
- Allowed element structure to more accurately represent original content, using runtime style-based rendering rather than content manipulation.
- Replaced hard-coded OEB code with generic namespace-based XML vocabulary loading.
- Corrected bidi code back up to the level of original Swing support for custom glyph painting.
Beta version 0.60 build 20010810.
- Corrected inline styling of runs within tables.
- Fixed foreground and background attribute rendering of inline style runs.
- Added CSS styling of tables.
- Stopped several benign exceptions related to repaginating and information loading timing.
Beta version 0.59 build 20010714.
- Fixed bug that ignored HTML/OEB <br> elements.
Beta version 0.58 build 20010710.
- Added decorative spine.
- Fixed loading of images and applets relative to their owner document locations.
- Fixed skipping of CSS comments, media rules, font face rules, and at rules while parsing.
- Fixed parsing of multiple CSS values with quoted strings, such as font family lists.
- Added automatic fallback for image-based <object> elements.
- Added automatic inclusion of out-of-spine OEB documents.
Beta version 0.57 build 20010625.
- Added initial support for Question and Test Interoperability (QTI).
- Added initial support for the CSS em length.
- Added support for elements with css display: none.
Beta version 0.56 build 20010610.
- Added fractional text metrics layout for more accurate positioning.
- Added rendering of horizontal rules.
- Added context-sensitive bookmark and highlighted annotation removal.
- Added highlighted annotations.
- Added context-sensitive word definitions linked to the web.
- Added context-sensitive bookmark insertion.
- Added context-sensitive image viewing.
- Added context-sensitive popup menus.
Beta version 0.55 build 20010602.
- Aligned numbered list markers.
- Reduced size of the disc list item marker.
- Added ability to display images that are link targets.
- Added a new lightweight, intuitive XML format for configuration and data files.
- Add automatic backup and recovery for configuration and data file access.
Beta version 0.54 build 20010509.
- Added automatic bookmark saving capability.
- Fixed bookmark menu page number update after repagination.
- Added bookmark menu text display.
- Added bookmark naming capability.
- Fixed bug that would continue processing mouse clicks after hyperlink traversal (e.g. displaying images after page turns).
- Fixed a bug that would prevent loading an XML DTD from an HTTP URL from inside a zip file.
Beta version 0.53 build 20010504.
- Fixed a bug that did not hide applets when repaginating.
- Fixed bug that did not correctly paint images after loading in some cases.
- Fixed bug that preventing highlighting in certain cases.
- Added hard-coded DTDs for certain public IDs, reducing network access and guaranteeing DTD avaialility.
- Added DTD caching for faster multi-document loading.
Beta version 0.52 build 20010429.
- Added case-insensitive search and search again capabilities.
- Added bookmark location indications.
Beta version 0.51 build 20010426.
- Added capability to browse to external links using a browser.
- Added underlining.
- Added background colors.
- Improved table layout.
Beta version 0.50 build 20010408 (first beta version).
- Created new pagination algorithm which uses less resources and allows interaction during pagination.
- Added zoom capability.
- Added list item marker painting.
- Added superscript and subscript capability.
- Changed image and font caching to allow memory freeing when needed.
- Added progress bar.
- Fixed table width calculation bug.
- Added margin support.
- Added preliminary keep together functionilty with CSS page-break-after: avoid, initially applied only to header elements.
- Added blockquote margins.
- Added better quality image reduction.
- Changed main frame actions so that the book always receives focus back.