Version Notes for Allo

Added many more sentences and entries to Allo Latin.

Continued adding new nouns.

Fixed many minor visual errors–mainly with respect to mobile devices.

Added a bundle of new entries to test new features.

Fixed many minor bugs based on user feedback.

Refactored naming conventions for data used in layouts in order to support more languages in the future.

We spent some time assessing which languages were going to be included following the completion of Allo Latin in order to prioritize non Indo-European languages.

Platform improvements

• Prioritized loading of visual elements to reduce user wait-times
• Integrated other speed best-practices

Bugs

• Fixed issue with audio files not loading on mobile devices
• Fixed side-menu access overlay issue
• Fixed many other minor visual issues

Apple's release of iOS 13 introduced some interesting bugs that broke some previous features. This release focused on addressing those issues.

• Bugs
  • Refactored the word frequency rankings to display in a modal popup instead of the canvas menu
  • Fixed issue with overlapping elements on mobile devices
  • Fixed issue with popups not closing
  • Fixed various minor visual issues

In this release, we fixed bugs and fine tuned minor features.

• Features
  • Added L.A.S.L.A (1981) word frequency data to the Latin dictionary
  • Added pre-formatted citations for CMS on core grammar pages (notes and bib.)
• Improvements
  • Modified the size and layout of footnotes and bibliography entries for entries and grammar pages
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed issue with canvas menus overlapping over the entire viewport in mobile

In this release, we focused on minor improvements related to general website navigation.

• Drawer menu
  • Added color-coded language indicator to the top of the entire panel
  • Added ability to switch between languages on mobile devices
  • Added language icons
• General
  • Added notice indicators to pages when items are missing or coming soon
  • Added time-based redirect to the home page in our overhauled 404 error page (which we hope that you never see)
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed issue with icons not rendering with iOS
  • Fixed issue with the mobile drawer menu overlapping over other elements
  • Fixed various 500 error page endpoints

While this was not our most exciting release, it was important. We included bibliographic data to each definition entry.

• Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) notes and a bibliography
• Links to OMNIKA reader pages (if available)
• A Wikipedia-style superscript note system
• Page information data
• Citation data (CMoS, of course)
• Citation improvements to the Grammar pages as well, including new mobile scrollbars
• Bug fixes, et al.

This feature release included many new items that novice learners want to see.

• Examples of sentences (with Google and Yandex translator links)
• Latin word frequency statistics
  • See word frequency statistics from three sources: Dickinson College, L.A.S.L.A., and Paul B. Diederich's 1939 dissertation
• Grammar page improvements
  • Side menu for easy navigation
  • Bibliography with page links for referenced material
  • Many new table styles for important information types (like sentence examples)
  • Mobile friendliness improvements
  • And much more
• List alpha—browse terms by letter
• Part of speech categories—browse words by segment
• Definition entries
  • Expanded the number of entries to five per part of speech
  • Added multiple pages and a page menu to the canvas drawer with source pages
  • Re-sized cards to focus attention on important information first
• Other
  • Speed improvements
  • Mobile bug fixes
  • Search bar design fixes
  • Search auto-complete speed fixes (we have a lot more work to do here)
  • And much more

We are excited to move toward the beta release and hope that we can keep making speedy improvements.

The search experience was completely overhauled to include improvements, bug fixes, and important new features.

• Search bar (in header)
  • Dropdown auto-complete as you type
  • Reduced number of letters required to one
  • Made the search screen the full width of the viewport on mobile (like Google for iOS)
  • Added audio
  • Searching for terms now shows all principal parts (for nouns, verbs, and adjectives)
  • Darkened page upon search bar focus
• Search page
  • Added audio pronunciations for all entries (including icons to show play/pause status)
  • Made refinements to sizes of text in order to highlight the important information first
  • Changed layout (slightly) to give more room on the right side for a column of information
  • Re-styled the pagination at the bottom
• General
  • Added version tracking system improvements and rolled it out live
  • Minor refinements to the index and category pages for languages
  • Added a new open-source pronunciation generation tool to include audio for every term in the Latin dictionary

This release included a few other improvements and laid important groundwork for a major feature release (coming later).

This release added other bells and whistles to the non-dictionary site experience.

• Dedicated grammar page for each language
• Legal pages
• About pages
• URL consistency changes
• A new design for language index pages to include more colors
• A cleaner footer and smaller header items

• Mobile
  • Fixed issues with iOS overlapping content
  • Made each page fit nicely within all screen sizes
  • Removed mobile-intensive features from the viewport to speed up load times
• Definition entries
  • Added English derivative terms below the Wheelock's definitions
  • Moved source information icons to the right side of the entry card
• Bug fixes (too many to list)

This release graduates the website into 0.2.0 with the release of new features that are significant.

• View pages the sources without leaving the website through the new side canvas drawer
• Streamlined definition priority view to highlight the easy to digest content first
• Color coded part of speech columns on the side to provide context for the term
• Addition of principal parts in the entry headings for verbs, adjectives, and nouns
• Secondary pronunciation source via Wiktionary audio files
• A list of sources used in the dictionary within the index of the language (e.g., Latin)
• And many other minor items

A new canvas (right side) menu was added to switch between pages and languages. This also included a language switcher.

• Languages assigned to logos and colors in the switcher
• Mobile friendly switching of languages
• Per page indicators of the language in gray text (adjacent to the logo)
• New organization of items on the language index page
• Listing of features on the index page

Latin entries now include data from the Oxford Latin Dictionary. This addition provides new data fields as well.

• Color coded parts of speech indicators
• Modal popups to indicate the source (textual reference) of the definition
• Cover art for sources
• A limit of three definitions per part of speech, per term
• Direct links to the OMNIKA reader for viewing the referenced pages

This release involved adding many new and useful data fields for Latin dictionary entries.

• Audio pronunciations (mp3)
• Expanded number of definition entries per term
• Separated terms by part of speech
• Added functionality to assign single terms to multiple parts of speech
• Quick definition (1-2 words)
• Declension and conjugation number
• Noun gender
• And many more...

• Dictionary entries
  • New data fields for basic items for each dictionary term
• Usability
  • Collapsed the general layout into a smaller container (using the golden ratio, of course)
  • Created color contrast between cards and the background, along with other visual indicators
• General
  • Reorganized some entries and began import of edge case entries to begin feature development

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