February 05, 2004

Minor update...

I'm not dead, I swear. I've been swamped with work from all corners of creation lately, and it the little spare time I have I've been trying to tackle Places support for all of you. Needless to say it is a massive pain (the way that IBM has the toolkit set up it is nigh unto impossible to do it without using the applet based API that they provide, which is ugly and not terribly useful). The main reason for this post is that the Mercury_0.2a.dmg link on the right now contains a link to a bug fix release of 0.2a apparently I lost my mind while writing some of the quit logic in Mercury. You should no longer have to force quit the application to quit it when not logged in to a Sametime server. I have also heard a number of requests for sortable columns, I have heard you but at the moment most of the requests I get are for Places and I'm concentrating on it. I won't rule out ordering showing up in some future release when I'm frustrated with Places and need to get something done. Thanks for your continued support.

Posted by developer at February 5, 2004 08:21 PM
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Just a quick question...I have noticed that when using Mercury over a low bandwidth, high latency link like mobile wireless (1xRTT) or over a highly congested link, that it seems like it is sending each character as I type it, so it takes forever to type a sentence. Is it sent in char by char or batch and am I seeing something else?

Posted by: Jonathan Donaldson at February 17, 2004 11:12 AM

i still have to force quit the app when i'm disconnected, even after downloading the latest version.

Posted by: raia at March 2, 2004 11:06 PM

So it's been over a month since we've had an update. How are things coming along?

Posted by: JW at March 12, 2004 01:32 PM

It looks like I also have to force quit even with 0.2a. Also, the About Mercury screen shows 0.2, not 0.2a, even though I installed 0.2a.

Posted by: Rob at March 26, 2004 01:06 PM

This is a great, and sorely needed application. Have you thought about starting a project in OpenNTF (www.openntf.org)? There may be some additional resources there to help finish what IBM hasn't bothered to start.

Thanks!

Posted by: Ed Maloney at March 30, 2004 10:39 AM