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Gloss
Gloss is a better way to browse the ColdFusion 9 reference. You get the same great content, but can customize your experience with page bookmarking, inline comments, and personal notes. Plus, you can use the search feature to find what you’re looking for quickly…without wading through Adobe’s entire knowledgebase.
So go ahead, give Gloss a try and find a better way to browse the ColdFusion 9 docs.
Gloss News
- 6.11.2011: Upgraded ExtJS backend from 3.3.1 to 3.4.0. Beyond providing some nice performance improvements, this release also added IE9 support to ExtJS, which allowed Gloss to drop the Chrome spoofing it was using to get Gloss to run under IE9. So now Gloss has 100% native support for IE9.
- 4.23.2011: This one is big: Gloss is now available for IE9!! It runs fast and smooth, providing the same great Gloss experience in IE. Hooray!
- 4.21.2011: A nice little update to the Search feature. First off, if you manually expand the Search panel, the field will now gain focus automatically. Second, you can use CTRL+S to auto-expand the search panel and give focus to the field from wherever you are in the app. Enjoy
- 2.14.2011: Happy Valentine’s Day! Today’s release is really big. It represents a nearly entire rewrite of some major components of the JS backend of Gloss.
- For Chrome users, your existing bookmarks, notes and settings will be migrated seamlessly to a WebSQL storage system. This is quite a bit less clunky than using localStorage exclusively, and will hopefully allow for some cooler and more robust stuff down the road. Firefox and Safari users will still get most of the same great Gloss experience, but it will be on a slightly different track moving forward than will be the Chrome interface.
- Added “History” for Chrome users. The idea of this is if you were just on a page, accidentally navigated to a different, but want to jump back immediately, you can just browse in your history, and your most recently-visited pages will be surfaced on the top. This is still a work in progress, so I welcome feedback on how to make it more useful–for now, it’s pretty much just a hammer.
- Added “Gloss News” for all users. As new updates are added (like this one!), you’ll see a news item available in the Gloss News section, and you can review the updates there. For Chrome users, you’ll get fancy Webkit Desktop notifications whenever a new update is available
- Squashed a few bugs.
- That’s it for this update–please let me know your thoughts, and any feedback you have for how the tool can be improved is much appreciated!
- 1.26.2011: Based on feedback from several users (yes, I do listen! ), reworked the search interface a bit. The previous model did not allow for keyboard navigation or item selection; the new version, however, has remedied this.
- You can now tab out of the search field to the first result, and then tab to subsequent results.
- When a search result is highlighted, you can use Enter or Spacebar to load the search result page
- 1.22.2011: Added some important fixes and some new stuff
- Fixed search to retrieve partial matches, as well as to better sort results by relevancy (still a work in progress)
- Added “Permanent Links” to each article (located in the toolbar in each page’s header). Now you can save a link to a page in Gloss without having to either browse for it or have a Gloss bookmark
- Got rid of unsightly anchors in URL.
- Added better-looking scrolling of page content for anchor “jumps”
- 1.20.2011: Gloss launches! Yippee! Look for the mobile version coming soon
FAQs
Q: Why doesn’t Gloss sync bookmarks, notes, etc. between instances of Chrome?
A: Right now, Gloss uses localStorage to store these details. Very soon, this will be upgraded to use the db mechanism that can be used in Chrome to sync data across browser instances.
