Major Loom release v61

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:45:54 GMT  <== Loom ==> 
From loom.cc/?function=news:

2008-02-17
New release of Loom software with many improvements:

  • You now claim an asset from a contact with a single click. Therefore the "Take" button has been eliminated, and only "Give" remains.
  • You can now add a new asset to your folder by copying and pasting a single piece of text. For example:

        id: 26ef701a952fe3d641a69bf859db71c2 scale: 7 precision: 3 name: Patrick GoldGrams

  • Tabs in folder interface now show as "Wallet," "Contacts," and "Assets" to reflect simplified terminology.
  • Each tab in folder interface now has a very thoroughly written context-sensitive Help link. Be sure to click Help as you run through the various tabs.
  • No more green dots. If you want more detail on something, click it. To avoid visual clutter, we often use links that don't appear as links until you hover over them.
  • When you disable history, the entire history display now disappears. Formerly it would still display your history without recording any new transactions until you enabled it again. We like the ability to hide the history altogether, cutting down on distractions and page load time when you really just want to move things around fast.
  • Lots of silky smooth user interface features and refinements.
  • A new feature in the Archive API, and consequently in the Content Management System, to guard against overlapping writes. Now if two people are editing text at a single location, or even uploading files to a single location, the system will detect if anything changed "under their feet" and not clobber the other user's changes. The system also gives a helpful message describing a simple recovery mechanism for integrating the overlapping changes.
  • Although the Vending Machine API is not yet implemented, the new feature of claiming an asset with a single click is the perfect lead-in to how vending machines will operate inside folders. Soon, two-way trades will be utterly simple and rock-solid in all respects.

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