Goliath Version History

  • 0.1 - September 7 1999. Initial implemenation of DAV library. Support for read-only display of web sites, HTTP authentication and proxy servers.
  • 0.15 - September 28, 1999. Fixed problem in underlying DAVLib preventing DAVLib clients from using the Sharemation server. Added New WebFolder, Import File and Refresh View features.
  • 0.20 - January 8, 2000. Added Rename and Delete functionality, Drag&Drop upload support, better error handing and notification, progress dialogs with cancel mechanism for delete and upload, use of OPTIONS to determine server's DAV ability, a new event messaging mechanism, and misc. UI fixes.
  • 0.30 - January 29, 2000. Extended Drag&Drop upload to recurse folders. Implemented Drag&Drop download; folders are recursed and dragging to Trash will download to Trash and then delete from server. Added the ability to save and load connections to and from document files; this adds a primitive bookmarking capability. Document Icons now render their icons directly from the creating applications; creator and type are determined from Internet Config file mappings.
  • 0.30a - January 30, 2000. Rebuilt 0.30 source code with version 1.5.2 of DAVLib
  • 0.30b - February 3, 2000. Rebuilt 0.30 source code with version 1.5.3 of DAVLib. Now compatible with Microsoft IIS5, MyDocsOnline.
  • 0.5 - March 29, 2000.
    • First cut at Lock/Unlock functionality.
    • New preferences dialog.
    • Added mechanism to store client obtained locks persistently.
    • Added a mechanism to allow users to specify URL parameters when downloading items via HTTP GET from a WebServer.
    • fixed URL Encoding bug where filenames with spaces (and other characters) were handled incorrectly.
    • Misc. UI Tweaks
    • added text to header specifying how many items are in the display
    • Added lockowner column.
    • Columns are now resizeable and the column widths are saved in connection documents.
    • Window size and location is stored in connection document.
    • Cmd-delete to delete selected files [like finder].
    • balloon help for Menu items. New Apple based user guide.
  • 0.7 - August 8, 2000.
    • Many UI enhancements and bug fixes
    • added support for proxy authentication
    • Duplicate Functionality
    • Support for Apache mod_dav executable property
    • New property display UI
    • Rudimentary editing capability
    • Initial port to Carbon API
  • 0.81 - October 3, 2001
    • Initial support for Apple's iDisk services.
    • Fixed bugs connecting with the WebRFM server.
  • 0.82 - November 23, 2001
    • Fixed a bug authenticating with the proxy servers.
  • 0.9 - March 10, 2002
    • Added features to encode resource forks with the Apple Double encoding.
    • Fixed assorted UI bugs: date now sorts properly, cleaned up UI refresh, added option to case-insensitive sort, Window menu operations will no longer resize progress dialogs.
    • Fixed problems with MacOS 8.1 compatibility introduced in version 0.8-dev. Removed most use of Pascal strings; should fix problems users were seeing with long collection resources.
    • Rewrote preferences dialog - now uses a tab control and contains global proxy settings.
    • New UI to make opening of Apple iDisk easier
    • Made app more OSX savvy.
  • 0.9.1 - June 13, 2002
    Fixes some minor bugs including:
    • can't save on Classic with some systems
    • upload with menu items doesn't work properly
    • fix problem where using the specia File menu item to open an iDisk turned off handling of Resource forks.
    • Mouse/Scroll-Wheel support on Mac OSX
    • Live window resizing on Mac OSX

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Last updated on 03/10/2002