Changes in 1.0.9 (December 23, 2008)

• Fixed creator editing in Firefox 2 in 1.0.8

Changes in 1.0.8 (December 22, 2008)

Functionality changed or added:

• Firefox 3.1 compatibility
• Improved character set support for non-XML import/export (RIS, BibTeX, etc.)
  • Better auto-detection of import character set
  • Manual override of import character set
  • All formats now default to UTF-8 export
  • Optional character set menu at export time
• Interface tweaks for collection and item views
  • Select All in items list in search results mode now only selects matching (i.e., black) items
  • Defaulting to last-viewed collection now works for subcollections
  • Collections list now auto-expands to subcollections before highlighting when pressing show-in-collection hotkey
  • Selected item row now stays in same position when changing sort column
• Word processor integration
  • Warn on insertion of fields that would be blank given current style
  • Added integration.realWindow about:config pref to force real window on Windows
    • Unlike default popup, real window may appear in background, but on larger monitors it can be placed off to the side and will retain its position.
• Restored bundled translator/style updating (Firefox 3 only)
• Allow translator/style schema version to be newer than XPI
• RIS translator now parses newline-delimited keywords (for compatibility with other applications)
• Added ”&nbsp;” to COinS <span> elements to prevent other programs from stripping them
• Disabled JavaScript and plugins in hidden browser used for some translator saving (may slightly increase saving speed)
• A list of enabled Firefox extensions are now included in error reports

Site/Import/Export Translator Changes:

• Translators added via repository since 1.0.7
  • Archeion
  • Archives Canada-France
  • Bibliotheque UQAM
  • Bibliotheque et Archives Nationale du Quebec (Pistard)
  • Blogger
  • Bracero History Archive
  • CARL/ABRC OAI Harvester
  • Canada.com
  • Champlain Society - Collection
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Civilization.ca
  • Cyberpresse
  • DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
  • ESpacenet
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • FreePatentsOnline
  • Gale - Cengage Learning
  • Getty Research Library Catalog
  • Glenbow Library
  • Globe and Mail
  • Google Patents
  • gulaghistory.org
  • Hamilton Spectator
  • Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
  • Internet Archive
  • Internet Archive Wayback Machine
  • KOBV
  • Le Devoir
  • Musee de Louvre
  • National Archives of South Africa
  • National Gallery of Art - U.S.A.
  • National Library of Australia (new catalog)
  • National Library of New Zealand
  • National Post
  • Old Bailey Online
  • Open Library
  • PEI Archival Information Network
  • Probing the Past
  • Project Gutenberg
  • SAE International
  • SPIE Digital Library
  • Scitation
  • Toronto Star
  • UBC Library Catalog
  • US National Archives Research Catalog
  • Unidade de Biologia da Conservação
  • Voyager 7
  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • YouTube
• Translators updated via repository since 1.0.7
  • ARTstor
  • Amazon.com
  • Ancestry.com US Federal Census
  • arXiv.org
  • BibTeX (pushed to Firefox 3 clients only)
  • BioOne
  • Common-Place
  • ERIC
  • Epicurious
  • Florida State (Endeca)
  • Google Books
  • IEEE Xplore
  • Informaworld
  • InnoPAC
  • MODS
  • NCBI PubMed
  • OSTI Energy Citations
  • ProQuest
  • Project MUSE
  • PubMed Central
  • Revues.org
  • ScienceDirect
  • Time.com
  • VTLS
  • Voyager
  • Zotero RDF
    • Fixed an issue in which imported subcollections could be empty

Localization:

• New localizations since 1.0.7
  • Ukrainian (uk-UA)
• Fixed issue that caused German 'de' locale to default to 'de-AT'
• Fixed error when using Serbian locale
• Updated all locales to latest available translations

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed file drag-and-drop in Firefox 3 on Windows
  • Multi-file drag is no longer supported on Windows
• Import/export
  • Zotero RDF
    • Fixed various errors on attachment import when directory with same id already existed
    • Fixed error replacing non-empty export directory
    • Exported child snapshots weren't imported if automaticSnapshots was disabled
    • file: URLs with Windows paths (e.g., “C:\Documents…”) caused imports to fail
  • Non-BibTeX files without explicit file extensions hung for a very long time on import
  • RIS
    • Place was exported using “CP” instead of “CY” in RIS translator
    • Fixed import of newlines in notes imported via RIS
• CSL/word processor integration
  • Alphabetize references in citations with multiple references when editing
  • Names using “et al.” were incorrectly being considered singular
  • Year suffix disambiguation didn't scale to more than one letter
• Reports
  • Reports sometimes displayed as blank (workaround for Mozilla rendering bug)
  • Fixed error when generating report that included an e-mail item
  • Fixed display of reports with invalid Unicode characters
  • Attachment notes were not displayed in reports
• Fixed a number of issues with annotations and highlights
• Fixed security hole in attachment loading
• Attachment/note tag popup didn't display in Firefox 3 if there wasn't enough space
• Workaround for “Could Not Save Item” errors when “Allow third-party cookies” is disabled (awaiting Mozilla fix)
• Snapshots were saved via translators on pages with associated files even if snapshot pref was off
• Don't strip periods in attachment filenames
• Access date displayed as UTC in middle pane on Windows
• Restored missing creator type drop-down icon in Firefox 3 on Windows
• Removed weird button effect on creator type drop-down in Firefox 3 on Windows
• Keep focus in creator field when when using two-field autocomplete
• Fix for long unbroken attachment titles persisting in the metadata pane
• Fix potential display error in metadata pane with numeric Abstract or Extra value
• Fixed error when trying to rename a linked URL with the “Rename associated file” button checked
• UTF-8 styles couldn't be installed via web
• Support character sets other than UTF-8 for RIS/Refer file intercept (fixes import from Chinese Google Scholar (which uses GB2312))
• Fixed pass-through of RIS/Refer files when no translator was found
• Handle pdfinfo or pdftotext failure more gracefully
• An error could occur if attachment metadata wasn't found in database
• Certain date strings could cause errors on entry
• Fixed note creation via browser content menu from iframes
• Fixed an issue in which copied text couldn't be pasted into notes
• PNG and SVG weren't treated as internally supported file types
• Fixed error saving pages where CSS <link> appears within <body>
• Restart prompt didn't show up when changing data directory in Firefox 3
• “Data directory could not be found” prompt wasn't shown on OS X when the previous setting pointed to a volume that no longer existed
• Don't show Reindex Item in context menu or refresh icon in info pane if PDF converter isn't installed
• Swapped buttons in File Not Found dialog, making Locate the default (fixes Close button triggering Locate window on Windows)
• Unicode characters in translator SQL weren't being read in correctly

Developer-specific changes/fixes:

• CSL
  • Values enclosed in double quotes now fail is-numeric test, and the double quotes are stripped on output to CSL
  • Fixed truncated default terms when using custom <terms> element
  • Added “sub verbo” locator
  • Mapped tvBroadcast and radioBroadcast to new CSL type “broadcast”
  • .csl.xml files are now accepted along with .csl
  • Fixed incorrect CSL matching when item data value was stored as integer
• doGet(), doPost(), and processDocuments() now support relative URLs
  • Fixes unAPI not resolving relative URLs in autodiscovery links
• Now converting all values to string in toArray()
• Added strToISO() to translator sandbox
• Renamed Zotero.Utilities.Ingester to Zotero.Utilities.Translate
• Added Zotero.getInstallDirectory()
• Avoid horizontal scrollbar in csledit.xul/cslpreview.xul