Public Beta 14.5 (rev 4625)

• Various stability and performance improvements

Public Beta 14.4 (rev 4579)

• [#5087] Fixed critical bug where rapid mouse scroll crashes FireFox

Public Beta 14.3 (rev 4570)

• [#5548] Fixed bug on sheet object creation
• [#5538] Fixed bug where public user cloning a spreadsheet with MDF generates exception

Two weeks ago, Seth Godin asked for a websheet that could take a list of book titles and return the cover art from Amazon. The post also mentioned EditGrid.

Today, I’ve got some free time to re-visit this blog post. Is this possible? I asked one of my colleagues. “Give me an hour”, my colleague replied.

And here is what I have from my colleague. The resulting bookshelf is here:

And the spreadsheet:

http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/david/My_Bookshelf

And the XSL to transform the data in spreadsheet into the bookshelf:

http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/david/My_Bookshelf.covers.html.xsl

Right! This is a good showcase of EditGrid’s “My Data Format” (MDF) feature, which has been available since Public Beta 11 released in late August. If you would like to create your own bookshelf, follow these steps:

1. Login with your EditGrid a/c. (Register if you don’t have one.)
2. Click the following link to clone the spreadsheet. The XSL will be copied as well.

http://www.editgrid.com/tnc/david/My_Bookshelf.copy

3. Save it and input your set of information (you’ll need to give the cloned spreadsheet a name).
4. Your bookshelf is now ready via your spreadsheet’s permalink + “.covers.html”.

Yes, that’s how simple it is! You can easily mashup other web services using EditGrid as the data storage and transformation medium. EditGrid’s MDF has allowed a group of expert users to generate KML files for Google Earth.

MDF enables innovation on EditGrid. And there’ll be more!

P.S.

• We use Amazon’s web service to get the book cover image, so we add a link to link to the book in Amazon. Fair deal, right?
• If you would like to use a serious personal bookshelf service, we recommend Anobii, another Hongkong-based Web 2.0 service.

Public Beta 14.2 (rev 4559)

• Sheet object caching
• Fixed back-end memory leak
• [#5228] Fixed bug where HTML publishing cache is not up-to-date

Public Beta 14.1 (rev 4525)

• [#5408] Google Personalized Homepage integration — add EditGrid to your Google Personalized Homepage now
• [#5091] Pageflakes integration — add EditGrid to Pageflakes now
• HTML export and post-to-blog regression
• border redraw optimisation

As some of you may have noticed, EditGrid has become slower lately - It’s mainly because we have a big jump of users in recent months. We do notice it and feel as painful as you do. Our team has been working very hard recently to make EditGrid faster.

Today, we’re glad to inform you all that we’ve successfully deployed EditGrid into a more scalable architecture! It is just our first step, we’ve already planned several items in the coming days to further improve our performance/stability.

Thanks to all the support and we will continue making EditGrid better, faster and more stable!

Public Beta 14 (rev 4446)

The most notable new features in this release are:

• [#5299] Event-driven RTU — EditGrid users have grown accustomed to the RTU feature, whereby co-editors can see each other’s changes in 5 seconds. This re-written version of RTU now goes one step further — changes made by others are instantly updated on your spreadsheet subject to network latency. This will allow even greater responsiveness, and reduce risks of conflict. Currently available to personal users only.
• [#3913] Cell border — yet another frequently requested spreadsheet functionality now available.
• [#5276] IE performance enhancement — fixed a bunch of memory leaks in IE when using EditGrid.

Also deployed since this release is the Brazilian Portuguese version. Congratulations to all contributors to the Portuguese (Brazil) translation spreadsheet, as part of the EditGrid Localisation Project (currently offline - 2008-03-13).

Other new features include:

• [#5356] Support If-Modified-Since header for exports and chart images
• [#5226] Allow password recovery by email address alone
• [#5308] Recent charts list — available at http://www.editgrid.com/recent/charts/
• [#5339] Enabling word wrap would automatically expand row height if necessary

Also fixed in this release are:

• [#5444] Prohibit login with underscore for organisation
• [#5407] Enable text overflow for new spreadsheet by default
• [#5297] Can’t export past revision
• [#5405] Paste cross-sheet formula across spreadsheet appears to work but doesn’t persist
• [#5110] White cell background applied upon exporting
• [#5409] Search2Grid regression
• [#5310] Fixed bug where chart can’t show Simplified Chinese characters
• [#5401] Grid2Map regression