Twitterpate Update #1
Just a brief update on twitterpate development... An assortment of bugs related to how dates were handled have been fixed. Time stamps and relative times may have previously appeared inacurate due to timezone issues. Additionally, relative time stamps will now update in real time and thus always properly reflect the accurate time. Links in tweets now have a target attribute on them, meaning they will properly open up in a new tab or window depending on your browser's settings.
There is a known issue that I have not had time to deal with which involves the auto-delivery for dates which were not present on the page when you load the page. This is especially noticeable if you leave your browser open and midnight arrives. Things will appear to simply stop delivering, when it fact the page just doesn't have any place to put the new tweets. As soon as I get some free time I will fix this issue and update twitterpate.
I've added some experimental thumbnail displaying for twitpic images, but admittedly I'm not satisfied with how these are rendering. If you have some advice on what to do here I'd really appreciate the feedback.
If you double click on the "reply" icon next to a tweet, it will now fill in your status box for retweeting the post. I think at some point it'd be best to have a separate icon for this action, but on the other hand I'm trying to avoid cluttering the interface as well. If users find either the double click action annoying or elusive I'll look into changing this.
If you click on a tweet's avatar that will now trigger the reply-action, this parallels what a number of desktop twitter clients do. This was suggested to me by my friend Jon Kohlmeier, and seems like a good idea all around.
I'm looking to possibly include url shortening in the tweet box. If I do it will be entirely optional and I hope to offer more then just tinurl. My gut right now tells me to utilize the same services that TweetDeck supports, but I'm curious if anyone has any other feedback on the matter?
I'm also looking for some type of graphic/header/banner for twitterpate. I'm not a graphic designer by trade, so I've been searching through other's work and have sent out some requests. If you're interested in helping me at all, drop me a line on my contact page.
Lastly, if you hadn't noticed... Twitterpate has now moved to http://twitterpate.info
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