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RapidWeaver 3.6 - Uhhh, no, not yet!
Monday, June 04, 2007 | Permalink
Well, RapidWeaver 3.6 was released
on May 24. Not too long ago, I was
discussing some of my biggest complaints
about version 3.5.1 with one of my friends.
I just looked thru the details for version 3.6, and
many of my complaints were addressed.
Wish and you shall receive,
apparently. Unfortunately it's $25 for
the upgrade, but I won't be paying for it
anytime soon - keep reading to find out
why...
Here's a few of my complaints about 3.5.1 that were fixed in 3.6 (yeah!):
- Pasting in links appear correctly but do not work
though they claim they're working on this and other fixes, and will release an update "soon."
One serious downside to all of this is that Realmac redesigned their website, so you can no longer get to the Online Manual for RapidWeaver 3.5. After discovering that and searching their website for a bunch of minutes, I find out that they have knowingly deleted the manual for 3.5 from their website FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS!!! Look at the post from Dan Counsell (founder of RealMac) - post #7 here. Yes, that's right, they deleted the manual for the version most people are using (3.5.x) and released a new version without a manual AT ALL!
How's that for encouraging loyal customers to upgrade? Also, it seems a fair number of people are having trouble with 3.6 (see RealMac's Questions Forum and Bugs Forum). Realmac better get things organized soon, or they're going to have a lot of frustrated RapidWeaver users looking for a new web development tool.
Way to go, Realmac Software. NOT.
Here's a few of my complaints about 3.5.1 that were fixed in 3.6 (yeah!):
- Application Updates
- Pages can now be dragged and dropped between documents
- Added a feature to enable code to be placed in the header
- Duplicating a page now also duplicates the page’s attributes, including the sidebar
- Publishing and Export no longer use excessive amounts of memory
- Blog Updates
- Archive posts by Year option added
- Support for Multiple categories added
- The title of the post is now linked to it's permalink page
- Images added in the sidebar of the blog now display correctly in the archives
- Pasting in links appear correctly but do not work
though they claim they're working on this and other fixes, and will release an update "soon."
One serious downside to all of this is that Realmac redesigned their website, so you can no longer get to the Online Manual for RapidWeaver 3.5. After discovering that and searching their website for a bunch of minutes, I find out that they have knowingly deleted the manual for 3.5 from their website FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS!!! Look at the post from Dan Counsell (founder of RealMac) - post #7 here. Yes, that's right, they deleted the manual for the version most people are using (3.5.x) and released a new version without a manual AT ALL!
How's that for encouraging loyal customers to upgrade? Also, it seems a fair number of people are having trouble with 3.6 (see RealMac's Questions Forum and Bugs Forum). Realmac better get things organized soon, or they're going to have a lot of frustrated RapidWeaver users looking for a new web development tool.
Way to go, Realmac Software. NOT.
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