Significant Changes Since the 1.0 Release

• Improvements and Bug Fixes
  • Improved the preferences interface.  Users of the Pearl Comments hosted service only need to enter their organization ID, user name, and password.  Also, leading and trailing spaces are now trimmed from fields where they are not appropriate.
  • Fixed a bug where selections within frames and iframes were ignored when adding comments.  Now if a selection is made within a frame, the selection is preserved and the comment is associated with the frame's document (which means that the comment will not show up on the Current Page tab when the frame container is viewed).
  • A warning is now displayed when you attempt to delete a comment that is currently being edited.

Known Issues

• On systems running older versions of Windows, you may get an "authorization required" error because Internet Explorer does not prompt for your user name and password.  In this case, you must enter your user name and password and check "Remember my password" in the Pearl Comments Options dialog.
• Due to a bug that Microsoft introduced in one of their security fixes for Internet Explorer, some releases of Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) do not allow authenticated requests to be sent.  If the Pearl Comments sidebar recognizes a problematic version of MSXML, it will display an informative message.  Refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base articles for more information (article 887606 points to a fix that you should download):

• Occasionally, the selection associated with a comment may be off by one character.  In addition, sometimes the selection associated with a comment created in Internet Explorer is not displayed in the Mozilla-based browsers (and vice-versa).  Please send us examples of pages where you observe these kinds of problems.
• Spell checking is not implemented.
• The About Pearl Comments dialog box does not retrieve server information (it always displays "Information not available.")