Mercury Release Notes

Version 88, in beta

• UI changes to make better use of recent jAlbum core updates (custom skin icon, scrolling panels).
• More efficient routine for excluding unsupported objects.
• Internal code improvements (replaced an old code hack for metadata display with some proper Javascript).

Version 87, Sep. 3, 2023

• Option to use a relative URL for the favicon.
• Redirected help links.

Version 86, Aug. 29, 2023

• Option to render the theme image in grayscale (i.e., black and white).
• Improved feedback on the Make New and Make Old buttons in the individual image settings.

Version 85, Aug. 15, 2023

• Option to both inflate thumbnails when hovered, and also make them grayscale.

Version 84, Aug. 13, 2023

• Option to display metadata in a popup window, rather than as part of the caption text. This is the default setting, so review the setting if you're remaking an older project.
• jQuery update.

Version 83, Jun. 9, 2023

• There is now an option to have the skin treat solo web locations in folders differently. If this option is selected, and the skin encounters a folder that has only a single web location in it, and nothing else, it produces the usual folder thumbnail. But the folder thumbnail, if clicked, doesn't open the folder - instead, it goes directly to the target of the web location.

Version 82, May 27, 2023

• If you want to display non-EXIF metadata, the custom metadata fields now accept "or" entries for the tag, using a pipe separator. If you enter, for example, Iptc.Creator | Iptc.By-line, it will return the first one it finds in the image's metadata.
• More concise metadata extraction coding.

Version 81, May 20, 2023

• Option to specify the bottom padding on the title bar when the parallax or full page theme image is chosen. The less padding there is, the lower the title bar appears on the theme image.
• Some CSS adjustments to the title bar.

Version 80, May 10, 2023

• Parallax theme image coding extensively revised. This was necessary to avoid a catastrophic bug in iOS/Safari. The meaning of the "height" setting for the parallax theme image has changed. It now refers to the percentage of the viewport height that is occupied by the theme image when the page is loaded. It defaults to 100% (i.e, the full page). The minimum is 50% - less than that, and the parallax effect becomes largely invisible, and isn't worth using. In addition, the theme image crop focus in the jAlbum Explore window is now sensitive to the height setting. When opening a saved project, you may find it necessary to adjust the crop focus.
• Positioning of title bar handled differently when using either the parallax or full page theme image.
• If a full page theme image is chosen, it can either scroll with the page, or remain in a fixed position.
• Theme image bounds revised.
• Because of these changes, when an existing project is updated, all subdirectories must be processed. Do not tell jAlbum to process only updated subdirectories. There is no need to do a forced remake of the images, however.
• Some minor bug fixes.

Version 79, Apr. 25, 2023

• Some restructuring of the theme image options.
• Small adjustment to the display of thumbnail captions.
• Forced creation of the output res directory, to avoid a rare jAlbum core bug.
• Updated version of jQuery.

Version 78, Mar. 26, 2023

• Default image bounds change.
• Changed help links to point to new hosting site for the user's manuals.
• Compiled to Java 14, to maintain some backward compatibility. The skin was using Java 8 for this purpose, but that will soon be deprecated.

Version 77, Mar. 8, 2023

• Revised colors in Forest style.

Version 76, Feb. 4, 2023

• Option to use a repeated texture image file as the theme image. Please read the user's manual entry about this option.

Version 75, Jan. 24, 2023

• Improved display of the theme image and title bar on phones.
• Changes to the metadata camera icon.
• Various CSS and code tweaks.

Version 74, Dec. 14, 2022

• Improved thumbnail hover behavior, particularly when using overlays (for videos, web locations, and folders), and proper thumbnail hover behavior when using "new" overlays.
• Some minor UI and CSS tweaks.

Version 73, Dec. 10, 2022

• Option to display the image thumbnails in a vertical masonry layout.
• Layouts that use fixed-shape thumbnails with captions overlaid on the image no longer rely on the justified gallery script, which is ill-suited to that purpose.
• Some changes in default texts.
• Forced HiDPI thumbnails.
• More selective CSS generation.
• Addition of a flag to correct some jAlbum core misbehavior regarding resource files.

Version 72, Nov. 17, 2022

• Option to have thumbnails inflate when they're hovered (the current behavior), appear in grayscale when they're hovered, or neither.
• Forced inclusion of photographic data if map support is chosen.
• Small increase in recommended image bounds.

Version 71, Oct. 15, 2022

• Code cleanup.
• Fix for a bug when telling the skin not to put HTML breaks in top info text.

Version 70, Oct. 12, 2022

• Some CSS changes.
• A fix for a bug that prevented the generation of an info page.
• A fix for a bug that prevented the use of floated folder thumbnails.

Version 69, Oct. 5, 2022

• Google fonts are now copied to the album, so there are no calls to Google from the album page. The pages load faster, and it avoids GDPR problems.
• Improved thumbnail layout on phones.
• More robust handling of unusual file names for user-added title bar logo and info page images.
• More efficient caching of user-added files (i.e., those that are not album objects).
• Code cleanup.
• Updated version of jQuery.
• Converted from BeanShell to Groovy scripting.
• Fix for a bug that caused image metadata to be displayed on a Youtube slide page.
• Fix for an ancient bug involving a void map page variable.

Version 68.1, Sep. 4, 2022

• Fix for a bug in the theme image logo.
• This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 27/28.

Version 68, Aug. 29, 2022

• Option to use two different WOFF files in a project.
• Some minor default settings changes.

Version 67, Aug. 24, 2022

• Option, when using the Custom style, to specify the color of the thumbnail caption text and background when the caption is displayed as an overlay on the thumbnail image.
• Option, when treating an image as a panorama, to specify whether the image is initially centered in the viewport, or starts with the scrollbar on the left side of the image.
• Fix for a small bug involving image preloading when using WEBP output.

Version 66, Aug. 3, 2022

• Option to identify individual images as panoramas. The maximum image width is modified from the project settings for image bounds. If the project image bounds are, for example, 2000 by 900 pixels, this image, when scaled, will be bounded by 50000 x 900 pixels. The slide page is responsive to the height of the viewport, but the visitor can scroll left and right to view the entire image. Upon page loading or resizing, the panoramic image is automatically scrolled to its center. On a phone, swiping left or right will pan across the image, rather than advancing to the next or previous slide.

Version 65, Jun. 20, 2022

• Multiple coding changes to prevent cross-skin contamination by a careless skin developer. Among other things, all of the CSS attributes have been renamed. When you load an older project, the skin will update any custom code you have included. When you first remake an album that was created with an older version of the skin, you must not choose Process only updated subdirectories. Doing so will produce a badly broken album.
• More thorough cleanup of unneeded output files from earlier versions or from experiments with my other skins.
• Other code cleanup.

Version 64, May 31, 2022

• Some default settings changes.
• The skin's "hints" file now turns off the generation of JSON files, which are not used by this skin.
• Minor CSS tweaks.

Version 63, May 2, 2022

• The skin now supports audio clips on slide images. This version of the skin can be used with jAlbum 27, but to make use of audio clips, jAlbum 28 is required.
• The skin now allows SVG files to be used as title bar logos, info page images, and background images (in the Custom style).
• Simplified, faster processing of title bar logos and info page images.
• Improved storage of non-album object files added to the project by the user (logo images, WOFF files, info page images, background images).
• CSS and other code improvements.

Version 62, Apr. 14, 2022

• You may now specify a maximum width for page titles and slide captions. Allowing the thumbnails and slide images to occupy most of the width of a large monitor is fine, but allowing titles and captions to spread that far makes them difficult to read.
• The maximum width of text placed above and below the thumbnails is now expressed as a pixel count, rather than as a percentage of the page width. Values in prior projects are converted upon loading.
• Better handling of long captions on floated thumbnails.
• Changes to the skin's slide responsiveness script to improve the display of videos on small phones.
• The skin now warns you if you include Google maps, but don't provide an API key.
• The skin now disables jAlbum settings that may not be used or are irrelevant in this skin.
• Small change to the skin's hints.jap file.
• Small bug fixes.

Version 61, Mar. 25, 2022

• The skin now uses the jAlbum core routines to generate folder thumbnail images, rather than creating them itself. This is more robust, and considerably more efficient. The prior settings for folder thumbnail height and aspect ratio are no longer needed - you may set the folder thumbnail dimensions directly, under Settings » Images » General » Image Bounds » Folders. When older projects are loaded, the skin calculates the correct setting for these bounds. When an older project is made again with this version, the now-unneeded skin-generated thumbnails are removed from the output.
• Option to use a semi-transparent overlay on folder thumbnails.
• A small adjustment to the on-image navigation.
• Some minor CSS cleanup.

Version 60, Feb. 24, 2022

• Simplified credits line, without jAlbum and skin version numbers - site visitors don't care about versions. If you need to know what version you used to create an album, look at the page code - detailed information is present in a <meta> tag in the <head> section.
• Simplified font stacks.
• This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 25/26.

Version 59, Jan. 24, 2022

• Option to restrict display of the credit links to the top level of the album, if they're included.
• Option to include ALT attributes on thumbnail and slide images, for search engines. If this option is chosen, an entered title for a folder or image is used as the ALT attribute. If no title has been entered, the file name is used. If this option it not chosen, the ALT attribute is still present (it's required for HTML validation), but is empty.
• Minor code cleanup.
• Fix for a bug in the sizing of the generic PDF icon when using fixed shape thumbnails.

Version 58, Dec. 18, 2021

• Increased maximum page width, to accommodate large monitors.
• Default page width, thumbnail bounds, and image bounds increased.
• The bundled ConstrainRatioFilter class has been removed, in favor of the version distributed with the jAlbum core.

Version 57, Dec. 6, 2021

• You may now specify the desired aspect ratio (width divided by height) for displaying each PDF in a project. Values less than 1.0, like 0.8, sometimes work best for material that is shown on portrait-mode pages. Values greater than 1.0 work best for scanned material that is in landscape mode.

Version 56, Sep. 14, 2021

• Simplified handling of credits line.

Version 55, Sep. 3, 2021

• Switched to newer form of CSS rgb specification.
• Better cleanup of unused files for Google maps.
• Processing sequence changed.

Version 54, Aug. 15, 2021

• This version takes a different approach to solving the compromises necessary to produce a justified gallery of non-fixed shape thumbnails. It now sets the target row height equal to the thumbnail image bounds height, sets a maximum row height 20% higher than that, and avoids out-of-focus thumbnails by using HiDPI thumbnail images. The default thumbnail image bounds have been reduced, to compensate for these changes.

  But an existing album that was not using fixed shape thumbnails will now display the thumbnails considerably larger unless the image bounds are reduced by one-quarter to one-third.

  If your project had 360x240 thumbnails, and it does not use fixed shape thumbnails, resetting the bounds to 270x180 will approximate the layout of the existing album. These changes will involve at least one reprocessing of all the images in an existing project, unfortunately.

• When choosing fixed shape thumbnails, you now have the option of displaying the thumbnail caption (if any) superimposed on the thumbnail image, or below it.
• Floated thumbnails are now always shown with a colored thumbnail surround. If you insist upon eliminating this (which produces a terrible-looking page), you can choose the Custom style and set the surround color to match the body color.
• More selective CSS generation.

Version 53, Aug. 2, 2021

• Thumbnail captions are now line-clamped by default, to a maximum of two lines of title and two lines of comment. The user can override this. On mobile devices, the line-clamping is forced.
• Some color changes.
• Custom style additions and deletions, most involving the colors for text link hover in various fields.
• Default image bounds increased.
• Heavily revised index page responsiveness scripting.
• Several efficiency improvements.
• Minor code cleanup.

Version 52, Jul. 22, 2021

• Revised video thumbnail overlay, and a new web location thumbnail overlay.
• Simplified criteria for the "new" indicator.
• All icons replaced with newly-created, cleaner SVG's. At typical display sizes, most do not appear different, but the files are smaller, and they scale better.
• Some default settings changes.

Version 51, Jul. 14, 2021

• Revised custom cursors for previous/next hover on slide images, for both fat and thin icon styles.
• UI compiled to Java 8, for the sake of users stuck with the 32-bit version of Windows 7.
• This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 22/24.

Version 50, Jul. 8, 2021

• Option to use a thin icon set.
• CSS improvements.
• Reorganized UI panels.
• Some changes for cross-skin variable naming consistency.

Version 49, Jul. 2, 2021

• Blue style added.
• Simplified logic for including a download icon.
• Improvement in PDF display.
• Revised breakpoints for phone display.

Version 48, Jun. 20, 2021

• Option to limit the title and comment shown on a thumbnail to two lines each, with the overflow being replaced by an ellipsis. The full title and comment are still shown in the slide caption.
• Cleaner keyboard navigation scripting.
• Fix for an incompatibility between jAlbum chained directories and the skin's "loop slides" option.
• Minor code cleanup.

Version 47, Jun. 11, 2021

• Option to limit the spread of the navigation icons to slightly beyond the edges of the thumbnail table, even when the theme image extends to the edges of the viewport.
• Automatic removal of output theme images that aren't needed because of settings changes.
• Fixes for bugs in the "top of page" icon and in the routine for retaining scroll position when using a parallax theme image.
• Minor code cleanup.

Version 46, Jun. 6, 2021

• Theme image options expanded to include fixed height, parallax, full page, or none.
• Theme image and title bar layout revised.
• Support added for maps, metadata display, and PDF's.
• Extensively revised user interface.
• Control over the opacity of the dimming layer behind the album title and description moved from the Custom style to the main album settings.
• Some color adjustments.
• Fix for a slide page titling glitch.
• More efficient generation of folder thumbnails.
• Several options removed to accommodate the new theme image options, including a fixed, non-scrolling title bar, color gradients on the page body, and the option to show a theme image on the info page.
• Some code cleanup.

Version 45, May 13, 2021

• Faster routines for excluding unsupported objects and forcing the use of original GIF's.
• Some default settings changes.
• Removed some old debugging code.
• Some code cleanup.

Version 44, Apr. 5, 2021

• Chained directories enabled. The jAlbum core has been modified to confine the chaining to sibling directories, so the navigation is no longer hopelessly confusing.
• Updated jQuery.
• Fixed a bad help link.

Version 43, Mar. 24, 2021

• Simplified border options.
• A CSS change to prevent a visitor from inadvertenly selecting images and icons and turning them blue.
• An adjustment to the slide page image resizing lower limit.
• Some refinement of the navigation icons.
• Some code efficiency improvements.

Version 42, Mar. 6, 2021

• Simplified web location opening option.
• A fix for a bug in the scroll position memory function.

Version 41, Mar. 1, 2021

• An index page now retains its scroll position when returning from a folder or from a slide page.
• Minor code cleanup.

Version 40, Feb. 25, 2021

• Option to place the slide image caption to the left or right of the image, rather than below it. The text will, if necessary, wrap around the image. You may specify the maximum page width and the proportion of the width taken by the image. The images are responsive, but if you place a large amount of text on the object, a vertical scrollbar may become necessary to view all of the text. On a smartphone, the caption is moved below the image.
• Improved positioning of slide caption when putting the title and comment on the same line, and when comments are verbose.
• Fix for a minor bug in the slide page meta description tag.
• Minor code cleanup.

Version 39, Feb. 21, 2021

• Google font calls updated to latest API.
• Several tweaks to help load pages that use Google fonts more quickly.
• Plugged a small logic hole in the panel for entering folder-specific settings.

Version 38, Dec. 11, 2020

• Theme image is now preloaded in order to speed page rendering.
• On a video slide page, the video now resets when it's finished, displaying the poster image again rather than the last frame of the video (which is often a black screen).
• The YouTube embed code now includes an attribute to prevent the display of related videos at the end of play, except for videos from the same YouTube channel.
• Support for WOFF2 files added (higher compression than WOFF).
• Some unneeded code removed.

Version 37, Nov. 28, 2020

• Option to use a full page theme image.
• Google Analytics code insertion moved to top of <head> section, per current Google guidance.
• Small adjustment to maximum theme image width.
• Corrected application of a box-shadow to theme images.

Version 36, Nov. 3, 2020

• Download icon moved from slide caption area to slide title bar.
• Corrected handling of the title bar logo so that an animated GIF may be used.
• Revised CSS for the info page image so that if you choose to display it larger than a typical thumbnail, it is fully responsive on small displays.
• Corrected handling of the info page image so that an animated GIF may be used.
• Automatic cleanup of unneeded files in the hidden project/.jalbum directory.
• Simplified slide responsiveness script.

Version 35, Oct. 19, 2020

• Syntax highlighting in the Info Page body text and Code fields, to help prevent HTML and CSS errors.
• More efficient handling of GIF's that are included in the project.
• Updated help links from settings panels.
• Removed the now-unneeded base.css file.
• Minor code cleanup, default settings changes, and bug fixes.
• User interface compiled to Java 14.

Version 34, Aug. 22, 2020

• Some changes in the Dark and Light style colors.
• This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 17/21.

Version 33, Jul. 22, 2020

• Some minor changes to deal with jAlbum 21 better. However, users should not use the HTML editor introduced in jAlbum 21. It is incompatible with the skin, and may damage any existing HTML you have used in titles and comments.
• Improved warning dialogs.
• Some default settings changes.

Version 32, Jul. 8, 2020

• More selective generation of CSS and copying of navigation icons when the skin is being used to create a master album.
• Some small user interface improvements.

Version 31, Jul. 1, 2020

• Some small user interface improvements (long combo boxes).
• Simplified version control.

Version 30, Jun. 20, 2020

• Removed some obsolete declarations from the Justified Gallery CSS (a validation issue).
• Settings panel revisions to avoid scrolling on laptops.

Version 29, May 26, 2020

• Extensively revised handling of navigation icons on small displays.
• Navigation icon size limits revised.
• "Top of page" icon now included on info page.
• Option to enter folder-specific top and bottom info text (text that appears above or below the thumbnails), overriding the album-level info text content. See the user's manual section on Image & Folder Settings. Support for external topinfo.txt and bottominfo.txt files removed.
• More consistent use of CSS classes and id's.
• Update Justified Gallery.
• Updated jQuery.
• Corrected warning message window location.

Version 28, May 11, 2020

• Option to use two different Google fonts in an album.

Version 27, May 3, 2020

• Option to alter the size of the overlay on video thumbnails.
• Option to show an overlay on web location thumbnails.

Version 26, Apr. 27, 2020

• Folder thumbnails are now always shown in a separate section on the page.
• There is no longer a folder overlay icon on folder thumbnails.
• The small video overlay icon has been replaced by a larger, centered, semi-transparent overlay, similar to the one shown on thumbnails in the jAlbum Explore view. This can be disabled.
• The navigation for returning to the thumbnail page from a slide image now uses the "up" icon, rather than the "index" icon. The "index" icon is used only for returning from an info page.
• If the album has a link to an external homepage entered under Album » Settings » Pages, that link is now also included on the info page, if the album has one.
• All pages produced by the skin now include an HTML lang attribute. It's helpful for search engines, for browser translations, and in some cases for choosing correct typography. It defaults to the language you have chosen for jAlbum, but you may choose another. See the Misc settings tab. If the language code for the predominant language in your album is not in the list, you may enter any of the standard codes manually.
• Simplified handling of icon colors. They are now always color-matched to the neighboring text.
• Improved handling of very long captions on slide images.
• Spellchecking extended to info page title and text.
• New style, Chocolate.
• Adjustments to the colors in some styles.
• Some code cleanup.
• A fix for a bug involving fixed-shape thumbnails and undersized images.
• A fix for a bug in the spacing of floated thumbnails.

Version 25, Mar. 29, 2020

• Option, when showing folder thumbnails in a separate section, to place them after the image thumbnails, rather than before.
• Simplified handling of thumbnail sizes when fixed shape thumbnails are selected. This will have the effect of making fixed shape thumbnails larger than they were in prior releases (they'll actually be shown at their correct size now), so you might want to adjust the thumbnail image bounds downward in an existing project.
• Some changes to default settings and to settings limits.

Version 24, Mar. 15, 2020

• Option to float the thumbnails, with their captions appearing to the side of each image. Thumbnails can be floated left or right, caption width and alignment can be selected, and a colored thumbnail surround may be chosen. On a small display the float is removed and the captions are centered below the thumbnails.
• Some default settings changes.

Version 23, Mar. 1, 2020

• The skin now accepts YouTube links in the simple "share" form that YouTube provides: for example, https://youtu.be/Bj-7LxpF9dA. The more complicated "embed" forms of the URL are still accepted, as well.
• Adjusted threshold for appearance of the "top of page" icon.
• More selective timestamping of output files.

Version 22, Feb. 15, 2020

• Improved positioning of download icons on slide pages.
• Corrected handling of image display limits when choosing Link to originals or Use original, both with and without specifying HiDPI images. The skin can be used with jAlbum 17 or better, but for making albums with original images coupled with HiDPI images, jAlbum 19.3.2 or better is required.
• Corrected handling of video, YouTube, and Vimeo display limits when choosing Link to originals or Use original.
• Simplified packaging of Javascript files.

Version 21, Jan. 31, 2020

• Default setting change.

Version 20, Jan. 18, 2020

• Swipe detection removed from info page. This produced only a slight benefit for mobile visitors, while interfering with other functionality on the page.
• Improved handling of links in user-provided titles, comments, etc.
• If the skin is used to create an "album of albums," it doesn't generate or load unneeded image-handling scripts and icons.
• Some code cleanup for more efficient album creation and easier maintenance.

Version 19, Dec. 21, 2019

• Option to autoplay videos removed. This is now blocked by all major browsers.
• Updated TouchSwipe script.

Version 18, Nov. 14, 2019

• Option to loop slides. If selected, hitting "next" on the last slide returns to the first slide, and vice-versa.
• Swipe detection removed from slide pages for videos. This worked only in some browsers on some platforms, and caused usability problems in others.
• Color gradients on the page body restored on mobile devices. This was removed in version 16 because of problems with Chrome for Android. Chrome 80 fixes the bug.
• Meta "robots" choices on the Misc tab clarified to remove ambiguity.
• Some changes to the settings tab layouts.

Version 17, Nov. 1, 2019

• An updated version of the jAlbum ConstrainRatioFilter.
• Default setting for thumbnail constrain aspect ratio set to true.
• Modified internal handling of the values for the ConstrainRatioFilter, so they can be targeted with user variables.

Version 16, Sep. 17, 2019

• Improved handling of title bar logo images.
• Gray and Tan styles added.
• Color gradients on the page body misbehave badly in some mobile browsers, including Chrome, so the skin now removes the gradient on small displays.
• Simplified handling of body background images. Support for full-page background images (as opposed to small, repeated texture images) removed from settings, though still possible with custom CSS.
• Better positioning of download icon on small displays.
• Some corrected small display breakpoints.
• Spell-checking added to selected input fields (requires jAlbum 18.5 or better).
• Minor CSS fixes.
• Some default settings changes.

Version 15, Sep. 3, 2019

• Reworked positioning of thumbnail captions when using fixed shape thumbnails.
• A fix for unwanted thumbnail spacing doubling when using fixed shape thumbnails.
• A fix for unwanted border doubling when using zero thumbnail spacing.
• Some pre-processing eliminated and replaced with dynamic layout adjustments upon album viewing.
• Option for inclusion of a title bar logo image, and to make it a link to the album home or to an external site.
• CSS breakpoint adjustments.
• Minor code cleanup.
• This is the last version that is compatible with jAlbum 15/16.

Version 14.1, Aug. 25, 2019

• A fix for a CSS error that sometimes prevented image thumbnail caption display.

Version 14, Aug. 20, 2019

• Thumbnail layout improvements.
• Some minor tweaks to the slide page responsiveness script.
• Some default settings changes.
• Changed About tab link to release notes.
• Removed some unnecessary CSS.
• Last traces of IE-specific code removed.
• A warning popup is provided if you try to use jAlbum widgets, which are not supported in this skin.
• Some resource scripts combined for faster page loading.

Version 13, Aug. 6, 2019

• Adjustment of CSS breakpoints for small displays.
• Revised slide page responsiveness script.
• Option to hide body opening and body closing material on small displays.
• Warning dialogs if the skin turns off chained directories or excludes unsupported objects.

Version 12.1, Jul. 23, 2019

• Fix for a navigation icon bug.

Version 12, Jul. 17, 2019

• Option to hide the title bar text on a slide page on small displays. This was the default, but you can now opt, instead, to have the title bar text truncated so that it doesn't line-wrap.
• Simplified handling of slide page responsiveness on small displays.
• Minor cleanup of YouTube and Vimeo query strings.
• Updated jQuery.
• Support for external video hosts other than YouTube and Vimeo withdrawn.

Version 11, Jun. 11, 2019

• Non-validating "controlsList" attribute removed from media players. Changes in Chrome make it unnecessary.
• To improve page rendering speed on slow connections, a font display attribute has been added to calls to Google Fonts.
• Minor bug fixes.

Version 10, May 12, 2019

• Option to provide a download icon in the caption area for images and/or videos. The size of the download icon may also be controlled independently.
• Choosing Link to originals via scaled images is now permitted, since the newly-introduced download icon can be tied to the original images (i.e., display the scaled image, but let the visitor download the full-sized original).
• Improved positioning of navigation icons on slide pages.
• Revised handling of slide page layout when Link to Originals is chosen.
• Default dimensions for YouTube and Vimeo videos changed.
• Maximum dimensions for YouTube and Vimeo videos increased.
• Some small code improvements.

Version 9, Feb. 25, 2019

• Option, when not using fixed-shape thumbnails, to constrain the aspect ratio (width divided by height) of the thumbnails, with a minimum of 0.5 and a maximum of 2.5. This prevents panoramic images and exceptionally tall, skinny images from producing thumbnails with extreme aspect ratios, which tend to distort the thumbnail table layout.
• Completely revised method for handling folders that don't have a representing thumbnail image. This includes the ability, when using the Custom style, to specify the background color behind the generic folder icon; preset styles use a color-matched background.
• Improved handling of thumbnail images that are smaller than the user settings require.
• More selective copying and loading of resource files.
• More selective CSS inclusion.
• More efficient folder thumbnail sizing.
• Method for excluding unsupported objects altered to accommodate processing sequence in latest release of jAlbum.
• Album generation is aborted if you choose non-fixed-shape thumbnails, but also choose thumbnail image bounds that have an aspect ratio (width/height) that is less than 1.0. The justified gallery of thumbnails is fundamentally incompatible with portrait mode image bounds.
• Default for video autoplay set to false.

Version 8, Jan. 17, 2019

• Option to choose alternate navigation icons for the "site home" and "album home" links.
• Revised default and upper limit for theme image width.
• More selective generation of navigation icons to output directory.
• User-provided URL's are now automatically encoded, unless they contain the "%" character, in which case it is assumed that they have already been encoded.
• Updated import variable exclusion list.

Version 7, Jan. 1, 2019

• Revised navigation options and icons. If a URL and text are entered under Album » Settings » Pages » Link to homepage, a "site home" icon is shown on each page of the album. If Link to album home is selected under Mercury » Layout » All Pages & Index Page » All Pages, an "album home" icon is shown on each page of the album below the top level, which takes the visitor to the top level of album. As before, an "up" icon is shown on each page of the album below the top level, which takes the visitor to the level immediately above the current level.
• Support for chained directories withdrawn. These were causing unfixable navigation problems on small devices.
• Improved positioning of titles and navigation icons on small displays, including a fix for one bug that would sometimes make a navigation icon inaccessible.
• A fix for a bug with the "top of page" action in Safari.

Version 6, Dec. 21, 2018

• Option to display a "top of page" navigation icon when the visitor scrolls down through the thumbnails. The size and opacity may be chosen, and when using the Custom style, the color of the icon and its background may be chosen. If you open a project created with a prior version, and were using the Custom style, the skin will use its "best guess" for colors for the icon and background, but you should check them before making an album.
• CSS box shadows made more subtle, and less opaque by default.
• A change to avoid unnecessary processing of subdirectories.
• Some small color adjustments.

Version 5, Dec. 5, 2018

• Option to specify a font variant - either "normal" or "small-caps" - for all text elements.
• Some page geometry tweaks.

Version 4, Nov. 20, 2018

• Improved display of large thumbnails on small devices.
• Option, when using non-fixed-shape thumbnails, to keep thumbnail captions always visible, rather than showing them only when the visitor hovers his mouse on the thumbnail.
• Simplified border selections.
• Simplified video dimension handling.
• Corrected fade-in for various page elements.
• A custom patch to the JustifiedGallery script to correct a margin problem on small displays.
• Some minor code improvements, including elimination of redundant thumbnail classes.
• Support for external HTML text files removed.
• Changes to some default settings.

Version 3, Sep. 20, 2018

• Additional control over title and description colors when using the Custom style. If you have an existing project that used the Custom style, the skin will make an educated guess about the correct choices for the colors that may now be specified, but you should inspect the title colors on the Custom tab when re-opening that project.
• Color settings for text and icons that overlay a theme image moved to the Custom tab. The preset styles default to white text and almost-white icons. If you have an existing project that used one of the preset styles, but on which you had changed the theme image text or icon colors, you will need to switch to the Custom style to make those changes.
• Font settings for text that overlays a theme image moved to the Fonts tab.
• Some reorganization of the Fonts tabs.
• Changes to keyboard navigation.
• CSS changes to the non-banner style title bar to eliminate unnecessary vertical scroll bars.
• CSS changes to the info page to improve the layout when the text is not extensive.
• Small adjustments to the slide page margin responsiveness.
• Info page scripts moved from inline to minified file.

Version 2, Aug. 30, 2018

• Some tightening of HTML and Javascript coding.
• Correction of a CSS page layout bug.
• Minor fixes in the UI and the documentation.

Version 1, Aug. 6, 2018

• Initial release.
• Produces fully responsive albums with swipe support.
• Supports theme images and banner-style title bars.
• Option to use fixed-shape thumbnails or fully-justified, non-fixed-shape thumbnails.
• Option to display folder thumbnails in a separate section, with larger thumbnails and in an aspect ratio different from that applied to the regular thumbnails.
• Supports JPG's, PNG's, GIF's (including animated GIF's), MP4's, YouTube videos, and Vimeo videos. The display of each of these objects is fully responsive. Web locations produce thumbnails that link directly to their target locations or files. These are not part of the album's slide show.
• Slide images are shown on separate pages (i.e., not using a lightbox script).
• On a small display (like a phone), the slide image display is designed to maximize the space dedicated to the image, without cropping it.
• Support is provided for Google fonts and WOFF files, and for a separate information page.
• Allows the user to insert custom CSS and HTML from within the user interface.
• Produces valid HTML5/CSS3; supports all current browsers.