Archive for April, 2006

Public Beta 2.2

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

Public Beta 2.2 (rev 1532)

  • [#4181] Fixed bug where screen fails to move with cursor to the right upon dragging
  • Show anonymous user when the last modifying user is unregistered
  • [#4170] Ctrl+End
  • [#4148] Improved performance of range operations (delete, cut/copy-and-paste, apply cell formatting &c.)
  • [#3848] Fixed sheet name acceptance and parsing bug
  • [#4159] Decimal number without leading zero (eg .05) now treated as a number
  • [#4168] Fixed number alignment bug

Public Beta 2.1

Monday, April 24th, 2006

Public Beta 2.1 (rev 1461)

  • [#4142] Minor enhancement on toolbar
  • [#4145] Find should be case-insensitive
  • [#4097] Cascading formula evaluation bug
  • [Cancel] button in grid mode

Public Beta 2

Friday, April 21st, 2006

EditGrid Beta 2 (rev 1431) is the second release targeted for trial use by public users. The focus of this release is on the user experience on the grid as well as features on the user workspace.

Notable new features include:

  • [#4134] Export a sheet on the public sheet list
  • [#3929] Pick formula parameter by mouse
  • Summation button on toolbar
  • Post to del.icio.us button
  • [#4100] Link to public sheet lists
  • [#3878] Trash, and restore deleted sheet
  • |My Workspace| revamp
  • [#4020] Find cell data
  • [#3804] Recover lost password
  • [#3914] Context (right-click) menu on the grid
  • [#3938] Change history tracking
  • [#4060] Email verification
  • [#3803] Use cookie to remember login
  • [#4084] Function picker
  • [#3949] Password protection on sheets

Also fixed in this release include:

  • [#4133] Graciously handle browsers which block the Print dialogue
  • [#4097] Cascading formula evaluation and pasting
  • [#4120] SUBSTITUTE() evaluation
  • Cross cursor in Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • [#4109] Formulae which return TRUE display “1″ instead
  • [#4110] OR() evaluation
  • [#4096] Improved decimal number precision
  • [#4112] CONCATENATE() spelling

Public Beta 1.2

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

Public Beta 1.2

  • Fixed UTF8 issue on URI

Public Beta 1.1

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
  • [#4089] Fixed failure of permlink for a username with an underscore (_)

EditGrid Announced Public Beta

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Now Open! EditGrid finally announced public beta!

The competition is keen here, with a number of strong players, including iRows, NumSum, Numbler, and ZohoSheet.

Thanks Omar for the first review! We will make EditGrid the best web spreadsheet.

Public Beta 1

Friday, April 7th, 2006

EditGrid Beta 1 (rev 1219) is the first release targeted for trial use by public users — both personal and corporate. The focus of this release is on the core features essential for business use.

Notable new features include:

  • Organisation account
  • [#4065] Per-organisation login page
  • [#3467] Eye-catching notification of changes from remote through RTU
  • [#4026] Permlink for exporting — try http://www.editgrid.com/user/personal/My_Timetable.xls !
  • Permlink for HTML version — see http://www.editgrid.com/user/business/Customer_Contact_List.html .
  • [#3948] Sheet owner can assign readonly or read-write privilege to co-editors
  • [#3933] Number formatting
  • [#3931] Show bounding box upon cut/copy
  • [#3839] Print button
  • Multiple sheet deletion
  • [#3473] Copy a sheet
  • [#4025] Change password
  • [#3988] Neat and simple colour picker
  • [#4004] Line break
  • [#3983] Export cell formatting
  • [#3975] Better warning against connection timeout, failed response or permission denied
  • [#3978] Support uploading Gnumeric, OOo Calc, Lotus 1-2-3 and CSV formats
  • [#3934] Select multiple cells by holding shift+arrow keys
  • [#3919] Status area
  • Support MSIE 7

Also fixed in this release are:

  • [#4053] Update formula value upon insert/delete row/column
  • [#4052] Fixed bug where a sheet whose name contains ” is inaccessible
  • [#3999] Location bar path of access
  • [#3855] Circular reference — now fixed using Strongly Connected Component (SCC) algorithm
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  • [#4022] Fixed bug where user appears to be able to change font face and size of a readonly sheet
  • [#4007] now works