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Features report
Important features you should be aware of are highlighted with a red background (well, pink actually, in order to keep the text readable).
Also see the roadmap page.
DO NOT convert this page until you've read what you're interested in—many of the explanations will be messed up and they will become very difficult to follow!
New features in Converter 0.7.1
This release features minor bug fixes, although a known bug still persists.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| bug fix | proper date/time format parsing | January 3, 2008, 09:19 AM | This was previously being converted to absurd values; currently it is being ignored, as it should be (there's nothing to convert). Unfortunately there still is a date/time format being improperly converted (e.g. January 3, 2008, 09:19 AM GMT), but that requires a significant rewrite and I didn't get a chance to do that yet. |
New features in Converter 0.7.0
This release brings significant stability improvements, several bug fixes and one new conversion.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| capability | Nm --> ft-lb and in-lb | 44 Nm | Thanks to Dave for suggesting this! |
| bug fix | 10 cm = 0'3-30/32 | 10 cm | Thanks to chc for reporting a problem with fractional representation of Imperial values. |
| capability | regression testing | test page | This is something I've been planning to do for a long time, and never got around to doing it. The page linked to in the previous column is automatically recognized as a regression test page by the code, and it basically tests itself against that set of predefined situations. That should help me avoid a lot of bugs in the future. |
| capability | smarter unit matching | n/a | The algorithm which picks out measurements to be tested from the context or the page has been improved; this should avoid all sorts of potential problems in more awkward situations. |
| minor improvement | not converting HTML comments | n/a | Previous versions of the code were parsing through HTML comments as well; that behaviour has been suppressed for a marginal improvement in processing speed. |
| improvement | fixed contextual conversion for miles per gallon | 10 mpg | Converting the value in this example in contextual mode (in the popup menu) used to result in an ugly line with some "undefined" values. That has been fixed. |
| minor bug fix | infrequent format fixed | disabling "Converter 0.6.2" stops FF from freezing | That's part of robaal's report of the problem which has been fixed in version 0.6.3. Converting that example in versions previous to 0.7.0 used to result in "062 inches" being converted. The new engine recognizes that's not a number, and doesn't convert it. |
New features in Converter 0.6.5
This version features one relatively minor improvement.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| capability | the military time format is now supported |
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The military time format seems to be more widely used than I originally assumed -- now the Converter supports it. |
New features in Converter 0.6.4
This version features one bug fix and partial support for superscript notation.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| bug fix | numbers formatted with multiple periods are supported again |
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This bug has been reported by Mr. Stoltz. Trying to convert the string in the example produced unexpected results in version 0.6.3. That problem has been fixed (try selecting the text in the example and right-clicking). The problem was caused by the implementation of the bug fix in version 0.6.3. |
| capability | limited support for the <sup> (superscript) tag |
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The measurements in the examples are written using a different notation in HTML then what the Converter supported so far (they are using the <sup> tag: 10 m<sup>2</sup>, 10 in<sup>3</sup>).
The support for this format is limited in two ways:
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| minor improvement | cubic cm and in are better supported and shown nicer |
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This really is just a minor technical thing -- the previously unsupported unit³ format is now supported, and instead of being shown as unit^3 in the converted format, it's now shown as unit³. |
New features in Converter 0.6.3
This version only features one bug fix.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| bug fix | long strings of numbers don't freeze the browser | 1234567890123456789012 | This bug has been reported by robaal the same day as this release. Trying to convert the string in the example took an unreasonable amount of time (several seconds on my Athlon 3000+), during which Firefox was completely frozen. That problem has been fixed (try selecting the text in the example and right-clicking). |
New features in Converter 0.6.2
This version only features a couple of new conversions, mostly related to the automotive industry.
| Type | Feature | Example | Comment |
| capability | cm3<-->in3 |
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Cubic centimeters are now converted to cubic inches -- and vice-versa. |
| capability | mph --> L/100 km | 10 mpg | Miles per gallon (both US and Imperial) are now converted to liters per 100 km. Unfortunately the reverse is not true, beacause "L/100 km" might mess up the constraints already in place for units of measurement; to be perfectly honest though, I haven't tested this assumption -- it might work after all. Promise: will check it out if you guys need it (but do let me know if you do). |
Older feature reports can be found here.
