So we finally sold some kwikwai, which is great, but our users went and found plenty of nasty bugs. Not so great.

It’s our pleasure to announce release 1.0r415 which should squish most of the known bugs, in particular compatibility with IE7 and a nasty issue where kwikwai would stop returning accurate CEC messages after a while. While we’re at it, we also improved a bit the web GUI. Of course, we have full release notes.

One major change in this version is that kwikwai now embeds its API specs. You can access them, along with the release notes, using the (new) Documentation tab. Since the APIs are likely to evolve, how to best ensure one has the documentation that corresponds to its software version than to embed the documentation in the device ? Consequently, we will remove the documentation from the wiki (but provide a link to the latest version).
For now the APIs are basic raw HTML — you’ll have to bear the early 1990′s look while the fairies conjure some colorful css styling to spruce the docs in the next release!

And, yeah, you know where we are if ever, you know, some minor detail was overlooked by our QA department…

IBC, Europe’s largest professional broadcast show, happens yearly at about the same time it starts to become necessary to pick up the leaves in the garden. So we flew to Amsterdam to leave the picking to someone else, have beers and attend the event (in that order.)

3D

3D was everywhere. There is no doubt the industry as a whole is convinced 3D will rule the world. The hope is that we all exchange our new equipment for newer equipment, only now 3D capable. We’re not convinced, personally, but since this likely implies more HDMI-CEC will be around, we’re all for it. He he…

Think different

The other trend we noticed is the standardization of services and messages. Everybody is essentially doing and saying the same thing, and it revolves around positive buzzwords such as “cutting-edge”, “award-winning”, “turnkey”, and “flexible”.
Buzzword bingo, anyone?