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New versions - Knife Steel Chart 4.5 and Graph Builder 4.0 went online today.
You will need to clear browser cache in order to get correct new functionality. Normally Shift+click on Reload does the trick, although in some cases you may have to clear browser cache manually. Please clear browser cache before reporting an error.
Main effort was to improve the performance of the steel chart, and improve keyboard support.
Bulk of javascript and some of the server side code was rewritten. Overall performance improved between 20-30% for load and initial rendering. Table layout was changed to fixed type to improve rendering as well.
Still, for the full chart performance is low, unless you're using really powerful computer IE9 and IE10 have hard time scrolling and take long time to render full table.
Same advise as before, use settings dialog to set up more manageable setup. Chrome, Opera and Firefox are more or less ok.
Keyboard shortcuts were designed Windows platform, some of them won't work on Macs. I'll see what i can do later on.
Search has been changed in the steel chart, from ver 4.5 keywords are searched not for strict match but as being part of the alloy name as long as they keyword doesn't contain special characters( * and ? ). E.g. Searching "154" will return all the alloys containing 154 in the name.
Character masks * and ? are still supported. E.g. D? returns all alloys starting with the letter D and having any single character after it.
Finally, if you are on the slow comp and can't access http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php you can use http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php/aisi link to load the chart and set up your settings and do searches. AISI at the end can be substituted by any supported standard name - W-nr, din, SIS, EN,GB,BS, etc...
You will need to clear browser cache in order to get correct new functionality. Normally Shift+click on Reload does the trick, although in some cases you may have to clear browser cache manually. Please clear browser cache before reporting an error.
Main effort was to improve the performance of the steel chart, and improve keyboard support.
Bulk of javascript and some of the server side code was rewritten. Overall performance improved between 20-30% for load and initial rendering. Table layout was changed to fixed type to improve rendering as well.
Still, for the full chart performance is low, unless you're using really powerful computer IE9 and IE10 have hard time scrolling and take long time to render full table.
Same advise as before, use settings dialog to set up more manageable setup. Chrome, Opera and Firefox are more or less ok.
Keyboard shortcuts were designed Windows platform, some of them won't work on Macs. I'll see what i can do later on.
Search has been changed in the steel chart, from ver 4.5 keywords are searched not for strict match but as being part of the alloy name as long as they keyword doesn't contain special characters( * and ? ). E.g. Searching "154" will return all the alloys containing 154 in the name.
Character masks * and ? are still supported. E.g. D? returns all alloys starting with the letter D and having any single character after it.
Finally, if you are on the slow comp and can't access http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php you can use http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelchart.php/aisi link to load the chart and set up your settings and do searches. AISI at the end can be substituted by any supported standard name - W-nr, din, SIS, EN,GB,BS, etc...
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