Global Moxie

The "Couture" beta update supplies a bevy of Big Medium bug fixes, including several fixes for the style editor under Internet Explorer.

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

Upgrading from 2.0b30 or b31?

If you're upgrading from v2.0b30 or b31, you can update to the new version by uploading only the following files, which you should upload in "plain text" (or "ASCII") mode:

In the moxiebin/Modules directory (upload in "plain text" mode):

• BigMed.pm
• BigMed (entire directory)

In the moxiedata/templates/cp_templates directory (upload in "plain text" mode):

• screen_build_menu.tmpl
• shell_cp_bottom.tmpl
• wi_prompt_slider.tmpl

In the moxiedata/templates/site_templates/HTML directory (upload in "plain text" mode):

• wi_byline.tmpl
• wi_related.tmpl
• wi_relatedlinks.tmpl

In the moxiedata/support directory (upload in "automatic" or "binary" mode):

• assets (entire directory)

In the bmadmin/img directory (upload in "automatic" or "binary" mode):

• `bigmedium_logo.gif
• `bmheadlogo.jpg

In the bmadmin/css directory (upload in "plain text" mode):

• bigmedium_cp.css

In the bmadmin/js directory (upload in "plain text" mode):

• bigmedium_cp.js
• bm-build.js
• bm-config.js
• bm-css.js

After uploading the files listed above, browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site's moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

The Nitty Gritty

Here's what's new in Big Medium 2.0b32:

Style editor fixes

• Fixed bugs that prevented IE6 from firing up the style editor under several different conditions.

• Fixed bug that prevented bold/italic/underline buttons in the style editor from getting displaying the correct values when switching to a new style element.

• Fixed bug in style editor that prevented preview updates when switching between keyword and unit view for font sizes.

Site importer fixes

• Fixed bug in site importer that prevented subsequent editing of navigation links in the style editor.

• Fixed bug in site importer that prevented subsequent editing of navigation links in the style editor.

• Fixed bug in site importer that caused badly formatted background-image styles for imported sites.

• Fixed bug in site importer that allowed inactive sections from v1 to be included in image navigation.

Misc fixes

• Fixed bug in progress bars that could cause them to stall out in Firefox and Safari.

• Fixed bug that prevented the page-building menu from appearing after a page build is complete on the "Rebuild Pages..." screen.

• When setting priority value for a page or design element, you can now type a specific value as an alternative to using the slider.

• Fixed permissions issue that could cause some Big Medium support files, images and icons from displaying properly after adding a new site.

• Added ability to use alternate URL formats for servers that do not properly support path_info URLs.

• Fixed thumbnailing bug for servers running under older versions of Image::Magick.

• Fixed bug that broke the option to prevent a section's quicktease widget from displaying links already on the main section page.

• Fixed crashing bug on servers running Perl 5.6.0 for some form submissions in the control panel and in email to a friend.

• Fixed crashing bug in article menu when the site has a page that's not assigned to any sections. Also fixed the importer to prevent import of pages without sections.

• The rich-text editor now defaults to Markdown for Safari, OmniWeb and other browsers that do not support WYSIWYG editing.

• Fixed bug that prevented a handful of Big Medium files from being removed when a site is deleted from the Review/Delete Sites screen.

• Reduced "more" icon sizes down to 12px to avoid line-height issues in link text.