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Posted on 12-Sep-2004 19:46 GMT by Grzegorz Kraszewski15 comments
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SeventhSense, the ultimate website scanner has been updated with new features like HTTP proxy support, configurable numbers of threads and more. Many bugs have been fixed. Download from MorphZone. From the change log:

- BUGFIX: Fixed keyboard handling of GUI (missing MUIA_CycleChain here and there). Bug reported by Christian Rosentreter.

- BUGFIX: Version string was a bit malformed. Bug reported by Christian Rosentreter.

- FEATURE: Sites list autobackup. When the default sites list is saved, an old one is renamed to "sites.bak" first (old "sites.bak" is deleted). Feature suggested by Christian Rosentreter.

- BUGFIX: When a list is loaded into program, entries are checked for duplicated IDs. If duplicate ID is detected, user can skip duplicate or change ID. Bug reported by Grzegorz Murdzek.

- BUGFIX: When iconified SeventhSense displays now its own icon instead of default one.

- FEATURE: "Delete" function moved from toolbar to context menu.

- FEATURE: Checking can be stopped for every site separately with "Stop" option in the context menu.

- FEATURE: All check processes can be stopped at once with "Stop all" button.

- BUGFIX: SeventhSense could try to load a site in an endless loop in case of 40x HTTP response (but other than 404).

- FEATURE: User configurable number of simultaneously checked webpages.

- FEATURE: WWW proxy support.

- FEATURE: Option to automatically open an updated website in a browser. Feature suggested by Grzegorz Murdzek.

- BUGFIX: If there is no year in the date pattern, current year is assumed. Bug reported by Grzegorz Murdzek.

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Comment 1catohagen12-Sep-2004 18:33 GMT
Comment 2Grzegorz Kraszewski13-Sep-2004 05:14 GMT
Comment 3Grzegorz Kraszewski13-Sep-2004 08:07 GMT
Comment 4Marcus Sundman13-Sep-2004 16:52 GMT
Comment 5pab14-Sep-2004 04:11 GMT
Comment 6hooligan/dcsRegistered user14-Sep-2004 04:33 GMT
Comment 7stefkos14-Sep-2004 05:45 GMT
Comment 8Grzegorz Kraszewski14-Sep-2004 12:19 GMT
Comment 9Grzegorz Kraszewski14-Sep-2004 12:23 GMT
Comment 10Marcus Sundman14-Sep-2004 17:28 GMT
Comment 11Grzegorz Kraszewski14-Sep-2004 19:05 GMT
Comment 12Marcus Sundman14-Sep-2004 22:43 GMT
[MorphOS] SeventhSense updated : Comment 13 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Grzegorz Kraszewski on 15-Sep-2004 06:48 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Marcus Sundman):
Ouch! That can be very, very bad in certain situations. E.g. one might want to track some weather page which happens to display something with an image.

Images are not downloaded. Period. SeventhSense task is just detect page update. Then I can doubleclick on and entry and it will be loaded in the system default web browser. Also note it is (yet) impossible to have embedded HTML viewer in MorphOS app (there is a class but it implements incomplete HTML 3.0 so it doesn't count). So how am I expected to display the diffs? As plain text? Text with HTML tags stripped? It can be unreadable for many pages.

There are a lot of people who want to track a lot of different things for a lot of different reasons. It doesn't take very much additional effort to make a website tracker flexible enough for the majority of them, instead of just for very few specific cases.

Well, the most flexible way to detect what has changed actually is just look at the page. SeventhSense is just a helper, it says "well from all those 126 websites 11 has been updated so you should take a look at them". Using too much automation can lead to ommiting some updates.

However, it's your program, you may do whatever you want with it. I just think it'd be nice to have a good website tracker for MOS and/or AOS.

Well we just have different definition of "website scanning". SeventhSense is designed to tell the user which sites of her list are updated and should be viewed with a browser.

Nope. I just happen to be in the same business (although not for MOS/AOS).

And what is the program name?

Especially when you're on a dial-up, so that you can read them offline. You also want to see which news articles are new, right? It'd not enough to know that the main page has changed. It might have links to 100 news articles in different sections, so you really want to know which ones are new.

The topmost ones... As I see you concentrate on scanning "wikipedia-like" sites, where updates may be made at any place and at any time. SeventhSense is geared for news portals, where items are chronologically sorted. It can't handle all sites, you can always design one for which SeventhSense will be useless. Probably uisng of word "ultimate" was the reason which triggered all the discussion, I'll be more careful with this word in the future.
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