Last Blocks Beta

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Hopefully this will be the last blocks beta, but there are no guarantees. It's not done until the bugs are gone.

Come and get it. Hint: The discount from Screen Casts Online is running until the end of the month.

The change-list is just too long for this blog and my finger is broken (see below) so I'm not going to type the whole thing. Here is some of the cooler new stuff:

  • Totally changed image blocks. They should now be much better behaved.
  • Image block orders margins and backgrounds should work just fine.
  • Transparent png files should behave as expected if your Image format is set to PNG or Original.
  • Option drag to duplicate blocks
  • borders and margins properly resize their contained content to match the generated HTML (image blocks too!).
  • blocks can hide/show/scroll overflowing content or flex the block to the height of the content.
  • more registration annoyances (limited to four blocks for non-register users -- currently just an annoyance, in the future the limit will be hard).
  • Two crashing bugs fixed -- while switching between pages and when deleting some blocks.

    One caution: Since image blocks changed so radically, their storage format changed. Older Blocks files should read in correctly, but there could be some issues. Reimporting your images wouldn't be a bad idea. And once you've saved a file from Blocks beta 9, it will not open in earlier versions.
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