BiDi Mail UI Version History

29 versions

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Version 0.14.1 201.9 KiB Works with Thunderbird 115.0 - 115.*

Regression fixes over v0.14.0:

* Stopped messing up the message subject label by corrective recoding.
* Avoid throwing an exception when the 3-pane window has no message displayed
* Skipping useless corrective recoding of the weird header-in-body tables (don't worry, you don't see them as a user anyway)
* No longer trashing the console with debug messages about chrome injection/overlaying

Version 0.13 109.9 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 102.*

Compatibility: Now compatible with Thunderbird versions up to 102.

Bug fixes:

* Switching paragraph direction from the main menu now working again
* Fixed issue with prompting new user for a choice of default charset

Version 0.12.1 109.7 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 91.*

* Bug Fix: No longer failing to bring up the preferred character set dialog (and resulting other failures).

Version 0.12 109.7 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 91.*

* Compatibility: Compatible with Thunderbird 78., 91.1 and likely all 91. versions.
* Compatibility: Not compatible with Seamonkey 1.x, Toolkitized Seamonkey (2.x).
* Compatibility: May be compatible with Thunderbird 68.* .
* Now separating the user's preferred display charset in Thunderbird from the user's preferred single-byte charset for the mis-decoding correction of BiDi Mail UI.

Internal changes (no user visibility):

* Now using preference"extensions.bidiui.mail.display.preferred_single_byte_charset".
* Removed some not-really-package-specific utility code in favor of standard Javascript facilities and the Preferences.jsm module
* No more need for the paragraph splitting/merging code, Thunderbird does this for us these days.
* Updated the extension loader ("WindowListener") version to 1.56
* Reworked the extension's build script
* Removed the bidimailui-preftree.xul file, an unused remnant of Seamonkey support.

Version 0.11rc1 109.4 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 78.*

* **Compatibility**: Compatible with Thunderbird 68, 78 and probably all beta versions in-between.
* **Compatibility**: No longer compatible with Seamonkey 1.x, Toolkitized Seamonkey (2.x)
* **Compatibility**: No longer compatible with Thunderbird 30...67.
* **Fix:** Was using an identifier instead of a string, messing up some of HTML message composition support
* **Fix:** Was missing an XHTML sub-namespace for the preferences/
* **Fix:** Issues mostly (wholly) resolved the issues with setting the direction on new paragraphs.

Internal changes (no user visibility):

* No longer using JARs within the XPI
* Reworked the directory structure
* Dropped some files only in use by previous TB versions (but not all files for now)
* Using John Bieling's "WindowListener" from [here](https://github.com/thundernest/addon-developer-support/), as an extension loader; see [this guide](https://github.com/thundernest/addon-developer-support/wiki/Using-the-WindowListener-API-to-convert-a-Legacy-Overlay-WebExtension-into-a-MailExtension-for-Thunderbird-78) regarding how to use it.
* Now using service getters provided by `Services.jsm` and `MailServices.jsm` whenever possible.
* Now logging using a plain and simple `console.log()`.
* **Fix:** Was adding stylesheets to documents as children of the root element rather than the head element.
* **Fix:** Now creating non-XUL for style elements for appending rules without a link.
* **Fix:** Passing correct parameters to reply-body direction detection.
* **Fix:** No longer using editor.setParagraphFormat().
* **Fix:** No longer using the now-gone interface nsIEditorStyleSheets to append stylesheets.

Version 0.10.1 79.4 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 73.0

* **Fix:** Was using an identifier instead of a string, messing up some of HTML message composition support
* **Fix:** Was missing an XHTML sub-namespace for the preferences/
* Extension homepage link now points to the GitHub repository.

This is probably the last version to support Seamonkey 1.x, Seamonkey 2.x (suiterunner) and Thunderbird versions below 68.

Version 0.10.1b2 79.4 KiB Works with Thunderbird 65.0a1 - 73.0

* Fix: A bug in the message composition code which has some either surfaced just recently or has somehow started manifesting more frequently.
* Website switched to https://github.com/eyalroz/bidimailui/ - since MozDev is going to be taken down soon.

Version 0.10 79.3 KiB Works with SeaMonkey 2.0a - 2.50.*, Thunderbird 31.0a1 - 68.*

Relative to 0.9.8:
* Compatibility: Thunderbird version upto 68.*, inclusive. This actually involved quite a lot of changes under the hood.
* Compatibility: Seamonkey compatibility _should_ have improved, but this has not been effectively tested.
* Fix: Seamonkey preferences dialog was trying to load a no-longer-existent function.
* Preferences for the extension are now named "extensions.bidiui.mail.some_pref_name" rather than "bidiui.mail.some_pref_name
* Now avoiding the Error Console message about an error with a "contentaccessible=yes" line in chrome.manifest

Version 0.10.0b2 79.3 KiB Works with Thunderbird 24.0a1 - 68.*

* Thunderbird versions up to and including 68 are now supported.
* Some under-the hood changes, mostly modularization of bidimailpack-common.js

Version 0.9.9b3 77.4 KiB Works with Thunderbird 2.0 - 60.*

Version 0.9.8 77.6 KiB Works with Thunderbird 3.0 - 52.*

- Now explicitly setting direction of HTML tables.
- New extension icon
- Extension now works (appears to work, anyway) with Thunderbird 38.x (some contentaccessible chrome was masked by other chrome with the same URI).
- Other bug fixes, including some issues caught by the AMO validation,

Version 0.9.7 73.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 2.0 - 24.*

- Fixed a bug where the paragraph spacing preference was not put into effect in new messages.
- The preferences dialog allows choosing whether the Enter key inserts a new paragraph (which can have its own direction) and inter-paragraph spacing, or just a line break.
- Fixed a bug with the Ctrl+Shift direction change logic.

Version 0.9.6 73.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 2.0 - 13.*

- Compatibility: Dropped official support for Mozilla Suite 1.x, Seamonkey 1.x and Thunderbird 1.x
- Compatibility: Resolved version 0.9.5 compatibility issues with Thunderbird 2.x
- Reduction of the processing time required by the extension (significant in long complex messages).
- Better detection of mis-decoding in certain situations.
- Now correcting charset mis-detection also for message subjects.
- Can now insert Unicode Left-to-Right Marks (LRM) and Right-to-Left Marks (RLMs) using keyboard shortcuts, rather than requiring a mouse right-click (which would often mess up the caret position). The shortcuts are Ctrl+Shift+R and Ctrl+Shift+L.
- When composing HTML messages, the composition window now always defaults to Paragraph Mode when you open it.
- When composing HTML messages, the vertical paragraph margins are now set globally using CSS.
- Working around Thunderbird's default behavior of sending HTML messages as plain text if they don't have any "special" formatting - that makes our HTML composition capabilities useless...
- Fixed a bug of busting the status bar in most themes with Thunderbird 5.x
- Minor improvement of charset misdecoding detection logic.

Version 0.9.5 79.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 5.*

* Internal changes in conformance with addons.mozilla.org requirements.
* Charset misdecoding correction now attempted as best possible on all replies
* Misdecoding correction now includes message subject lines.
* Internal changes for exposing the extension's functionality for use by other extensions.
* Direction of new paragraphs no longer reverts to the document direction, but rather preserves the last paragraph's direction.
* Significant speedup in loading & display of long uniform-direction messages (with a slight cost in loading & display of long mixed-direction messages).

Version 0.9.4 76.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.2a1pre

* Can now switch directions using the Ctrl+Shift key combination (although we can't tell between Ctrl+RightShift and Ctrl+LeftShift).
* Compatibility: Thunderbird 3.0rc1, recent Seamonkey 2.1.x trunk versions (with customizable toolbar).
* Now affecting HTML elements with pre-set direction set via dir attribute.
* Now affecting HTML blockquote element directions.
* No longer ignoring ISO-8859-6 charset as a relevant Arabic encoding.
* Resolved issue with formatting toolbar buttons being duplicated (but now, the indentation, numbering and bulleting buttons are not direction-corrected).

Version 0.9.4 76.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0.*

Version 0.9.2 76.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

* DIV elements in HTML messages will from now on have their directions set by our autodetection.
* Fixed a problem with charset misdecoding detection on trunk builds.
* Direction setting buttons, which had become busted in 0.9, work correctly again.
* No longer complaining about the choice of ISO-8859-8-I as the default charset preference.

Version 0.9.1 74.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

Character set selection dialog bug fixed.

Version 0.9 74.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

- Direction is now auto-detected for each paragraph separately.
- When reading a message, user can choose between 'autodetect directions', 'flush all paragraphs left' and 'flush all paragraphs right', using a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut.
- Completely reworked message charset correction logic; now correctly setting the charset in many more cases.
- Ability to correct the charset of messages with multiple MIME parts in different charsets, and even text in different charsets within the same MIME part.
- Basic message direction now preserved when doing 'Edit as Draft...'
- Version release procedure changes.
- Users whose default charset isn't windows-1255/6 are prompted about the limited functionality in this situation.
- Text direction detection logic improved: More cases correctly identified, somewhat better performance.
- Arabic locale is now the general 'ar' rather than the specific 'ar-SA'.
- Now decoding numeric HTML entities in messages, e.g. ס becomes the Hebrew letter 'Samech'.

Version 0.8 55.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

* When you manually set the direction of a message, this setting persists, so that if you view another message and come back to the first one, your choice of direction still applies.
* Composed message direction setting now also applies to the subject input box.
* When setting RTL direction, the message will now be aligned to the right edge of the window, not the the 80-characters-from-the-left vertical line.
* Now setting direction of every div element within a message separately.

Version 0.7.4 55.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 2.0.0.*

Version 0.7.2 37.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 1.5.0.*

Version 0.7.1 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 1.5 - 1.5.0.*

Version 0.6.7 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.5.0.*

Version 0.6.6 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.0+

Version 0.6.5 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.0+

Version 0.6.4 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.0+

Version 0.6.3 35.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.0+

Version 0.5.2 25.0 KiB Works with Thunderbird 0.7 - 1.0