Release Notes: Alpheios Reading Tools Desktop Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox and Safari)

Release Notes: Alpheios Reading Tools Desktop Browser Extensions (Chrome, Firefox and Safari)

Version 3.0.1.82/83

This is the first release of Alpheios 3.0 that includes support for Safari. All 3.0 features are now available in the Safari Browser Extension as well as Chrome and Firefox. (See below for full details of the Alpheios 3.0 new features and enhancements.)
This is an incremental release for Chrome and Firefox and includes the following bug fixes:

• Improved handling of user session timeouts.
• Eliminated sticky word selection after deactivation and reactivation of the extension.
• Eliminated lexicon loading message when no lexicons were selected.
• Fixed inconsistent language selection behavior when changing languages using the toolbar lookup.
• Fixed locative ending errors in the Latin Noun Inflection Table.
• Back-To-TOC button in the Smyth Grammar is now functional.

Version 3.0

This is a major release. The user interface has been completely refreshed with a new design for compliance with web accessiblity standards.

New Features

• Alpheios Toolbar: the new floating toolbar provides quick access to word lookup and all Alpheios resources.
• Usage Examples (Latin only): search for usage examples of a word in the canonical Latin corpus from the Packard Humanities Institute.
• User Word Lists: all words you look up get added to your wordlist. Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your wordlist.
• Persistent Options Configuration: Create and login to an Alpheios user account to save your application preferences.

Enhancements

• After dragging the popup to a new location on the page, the location is retained between lookups (and sessions/workstations if you login to a user account)
• User configuration options can be reset to default values.
• A custom alpheios-word-node data attribute can be used on a page to identify words which contain HTML markup (such as in texts which use the Leiden markup conventions). See the FAQ for more information on how to take advantage of this feature.
• We have reduced output to the browser console, except when log level is set to verbose.