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v 3.9.2 - 1/22/2008 10:52:55 PM

Eric

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The major feature here is a significant upgrade to the Dymo label printing functionality:

HIGHLIGHTS

Print labels from FireFox (new) or IE on Windows.
No longer required to download and run BARCODE.EXE. Templates are fetched from the web.
Better printing performance—no more recalibration between each label.
Support for new dual barcode labels with a tear-off tab. Really cool!

Please see the rewritten FAQ which details everything: http://www.cellartracker.com/ow.asp?BarcodeProcedures

DETAILS

Rewrote all client-script in JavaScript instead of VBScript, ensuring that IE support still works.
Added a new user-agent flag for FireFox for Windows. Show the Dymo buttons for this and IE.
Label printing script uses FireFox-friendly XPCOM object.
Re-worked validation code to detect IE/ActiveX/template or FireFox/XPCOM/template.
Reworked BINLABEL.ASP in the same vein as PRINTLABELS.ASP.
Added a new options dialog so that users can choose their template drive and default label template. Also expose the bin and price display settings in this dialog.
Reworked code to respect these new options.
Fallback to URL based loading of all template files if local templates are not installed
Use the new Start/EndPrintJob methods for better performance.
Create a template file for the new LazarLabel™.
Directly host unzipped templates on the server for default case.
Updated client script to set the second barcode when the LazarLabel is the default.
Repackaged BARCODE.EXE with this new template file and update on server.
Worked up a new FAQ page on the Wiki to discuss UPS versus CellarTracker barcoding. Breaking out installing instructions including a link to the XPCom install.

In addition to the label upgrades, I have made a number of other recent changes:

Some UI bug fixes around wishlist editing.
Upgraded the Wiki to MSXML6 for better security, reliability and performance.
Troubleshooted and mitigated a denial of service issue where malformed WikiText could bring the webserver to its knees.
Shifted to WebGarden hosting in IIS and enabled a number of recycling options. (At first before uncovering the aforementioned denial of service issue, I assumed there was a memory/resource leak. That was not the case in the end, but I kept these IIS options running.)

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Cheers!
-Eric LeVine