Managed to get a few more features going one of which fixed something that was annoying me.

It was annoying to me to continuously having to click in the message text area to put the cursor in there. And when clicking on one of the buttons to manipulate the text (adding bold, italics and/or underline tags to your text) the cursor would be outside of the text area so you would have to click on the icon to put the tag into the textarea and then click in the textarea to resume typing your message. I've added JavaScript to the body tag to keep the cursor in the textarea and added a line to each Javascript function which will always return the focus to the textarea after clicking on the manipulation button. So far two testers have verified that it was working properly but we will have to keep on testing it but it should work in any newer version browser. Anyone using a browser that doesn't support this feature will have to continue clicking in the textarea box each new message that they type and when they click a text manipulation button.

And then I added the ability to save a conversation. Each IM window with your conversation with a different pal now has a disk icon you can click to save your consersation with that person. Clicking the disk icon will open a window which in the background saves your entire conversation as a text file in a temporary directory and a link will open the text file in another window. This text file may open in Notepad (or another text editing program your system has set as the default) or it will be opened by the same browser you are using for the IM system. In a text editor you can go to File -> Save and select where you want to save it and what you want to call it. In a browser you'd most likely do File -> Save Page As... and then you'd also select where you want it and what it should be named. You can then view the conversation any time that you want on your harddrive. Even if you aren't connected to the IM system or even the Internet for that matter. Each temporary saved conversation text file will be deleted whenever you log out.

There are a handfull more features that I want to add. But not a whole lot and none of them are very extensive. At this point I will consider The Mercury System to be out of the programming stage and fully in the testing stage.

Stay tuned for more updates.

SAVING conversations?!?!?!? *GASP* Awesome. :)
» randomjunk on 2006-09-23 02:13:17

Yes!
In an attempt to offer every single feature that desktop IM applications have, we offer the ability to save conversations to your harddrive. Eventually, meaning in a future version, it will allow you to save the conversations to the server. But this is after I create different levels of users. Not necessarily everyone should be able to save conversations to the server because eventually the file sizes will really add up.

This is another one of the new features that will have to be tested this weekend!
» etheracide on 2006-09-23 02:21:23

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