Things have settled down a bit now that I am a month into my new day job. I have been reading up on loads of low level EFI and UNIX stuff until recently. The last couple of days have been all Cocoa development. I found my groove and made very good progress on that part of my porting project. It also got the juices flowing for getting back into Hana. I have been so overwhelmed with the transition that finding time to get the one major bug fixed and the new features implemented has been very hard. And when I have, I have found motivation severely lacking.
Today I sat down and got some code written. I have one feature about 33% implemented. It is a new preference that can also be set by Web-App. Of the features being added, this is a power-user feature. I hope to get it done this weekend and then move on to the other features. I am shooting to complete coding and major debugging by the middle of May. I will then test it for a week or two before releasing it.
In other news, being a Mac developer at my day job has me eligible to use Hana every day at work. And I do. My employer does not have their Microsoft Exchange server set up to support Entourage, so I have to use Outlook Web Access. Which is not very good, but I do like having it available in Hana without being worried about quitting Safari and losing my session. One of the features that I was planning to add and one suggested by a customer like you is a timer to automatically refresh the page. This is the next feature to implement. I need this BAD.
Lastly, you may have heard of Fluid. Fluid, like Hana is an browser meant for specific work. This cateogory of software is called Site Specific Browsers. Hana being a Tabbed Multi SSB. I am drawing lots of inspiration from Fluid for Hana 2 and have tentatively chosen to not add a feature to implement a similar feature in Hana. Instead, Hana 2 will feature an option to open a Web App as a Fluid SSB. Anyway, if you are using Hana to access ONLY one web-app, you might check out Fluid. It is very slick and currently free. Check it out here.