John Dyer

I was almost finished with some fixes for 3.1.1(including problems inside repeaters and programmatically declared FTBs), but I caught a bad flu this weekend... and my primary dev machine is down. The motherboard failed and a Dell tech won't be out until Tuesday. The FTB updates aren't yet checked in yet, so I'm hoping the HD on the dev machine is still okay.

For all those waiting for fixes, sorry for the delay.

FreeTextBox 3.1.1 will be released next week with a few more fixes in regards to resource management. There is a also a Firefox bug when switching between HTML and Design Mode pointed out by the guys over at Telligent.

In other news, Opera 9 now supports rich editing (even better than Safari) so Opera support is on its way!

We've finally been able to put up some demos of our new online education video player interface. Our first version used Windows Media, but for the 2.x line, we decided to go with Flash video because we had more control over the interaction and it works in more environments (outside of Win/IE). Here's a screenshot (click for full size):

Some the player features are:

• Access to all videos from all courses through one interface (classes are divided up into "Units" which have videos)
• Smooth scrolling transcripts
• Slides auto-exported from Powerpoint
  
• Multilingual (traditional Chinese will be online this spring)
  
• Printable transcripts and slides

We have three sample clips up:

• BE101 - Bible Study Methods
  
• WM101 - Intro to World Mission
  
• ST101 - Intro to Theology

Our streaming provider is still NineSystems.com. They continue to have awesome service and great pricing.

FreeTextBox 3.1 released today. Change log:

• Fixed: Gecko deleting all when large images are in the HTML
• Fixed: ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 support for internal resources. No web.config changes. Just use the dll.
• Fixed: ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 designer support