// Class representing info about a news item. function UnityNewsItem (title, desc, dateadded) { this.title = title; this.desc = desc; this.dateadded = dateadded; } /* template new UnityNewsItem('', '', new Date(2003, 0, 1)), */ // Array of news items. var unityNewsItems = [ new UnityNewsItem('Development Status Memo', 'Unity development is currently on hold. Get full details here.', new Date(2005, 9, 14)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2.0.2 Minor Update Now Available', 'A new minor update to Unity 2 Multiuser Server is now available. The update includes bug fixes, new features, and dramatic performance improvements for Professional customers. For full details see the server change history.', new Date(2005, 8, 23)), new UnityNewsItem('French translation of Unity 2 UClient Docs', 'As a way to learn Unity, Amaury Balliet tranlsated the Unity 2 UClient documentation into French. Thanks for the great effort Amaury! I\'m sure your translation will be greatly appreciated by French-speaking Unity developers!', new Date(2005, 6, 25)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 3 UClient Draft Docs Posted', 'The updated Unity 3 (Metro) documentation is now available. This update is a significant improvement over the level of documentation previously available for UClient, and should be useful even to Unity 2 users.', new Date(2005, 4, 1)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 3 UPC Documentation Posted', 'Documentation and reference for the UPC messaging protocol we\'ll be using in Metropolis (Unity 3) is now available. While the documentation is based on the new Metropolis UPC format, it largely applies to Unity 2 as well. As we progress with the development of Metropolis (Unity 3), we\'ll be posting more documentation and examples.', new Date(2005, 1, 14)), new UnityNewsItem('uBrowse, shared web browsing app released', 'uBrowse, the latest example application for Unity 2 MDK is now available. Try browsing with groups of friends or sharing links with co-workers during conference calls.', new Date(2004, 4, 5)), new UnityNewsItem('collab releases uAdmin for Pocket PC', 'Thijs Triemstra recently adapted the Unity 2 Multiuser Server admin tool, uAdmin, for Pocket PC. Get full details here.', new Date(2004, 3, 13)), new UnityNewsItem('collab.nl wins award at flash in the can', 'Congratulations to Thijs Triemstra for his amazing work on www.collab.nl. collab won first place in the "experimental" category at the Flash in the Can awards show. In collab, Thijs combines Unity and Macromedia Flash Communication Server to create a community for sharing and interacting. Features are added regularly...Thijs recently added support for ALICE (a psychotherapist computer chatbot), chat translation, geographic location detection, shared whiteboard, and inline web services such as checking the world\'s population and inserting a random quotation.', new Date(2004, 3, 13)), new UnityNewsItem('New Demo App: uSharedPointer', 'A new demonstration application is now available to licenced UClient owners. Entitled uSharedPointer, the application shows how to broadcast the position of a user\'s mouse pointer to all other connected users. See uSharedPointer in action here.', new Date(2004, 2, 7)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity Avatar Chat Now Shipping', 'Chat with movable characters in Unity\'s latest App Pack, Unity Avatar Chat. Features include: dozens of characters, speech bubbles, thought bubbles, emoting, idle notification, automatic backgrounds, "is typing a message" notification, stored user preferences, multiple chat rooms, and highly configurable settings.', new Date(2004, 0, 30)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2.0.1 Minor Update Now Available', 'A minor update to Unity 2 is now available. The update includes bug fixes, minor improvements, and the ability to serve policy files directly from Unity to movies running Flash Player 7.0.19.0 and later. Policy files allow cross-domain connections to Unity and connections to ports under 1024. (Prior to Flash Player 7.0.19.0, cross-domain connections required policy files to be served over HTTP, and connections to ports under 1024 were completely forbidden, even with a policy file.) For more details on what\'s new in 2.0.1, see Unity 2 Multiuser Server Release Notes and UClient for Macromedia Flash Release Notes. Licenced Unity 2 owners will be sent instructions on obtaining the upgrade for free.', new Date(2003, 11, 31)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Earns Macromedia\'s Site of the Day Recognition', 'On September 18, 2003, Macromedia recognized Unity 2 by awarding it Site of the Day. Macromedia writes, "Developer Colin Moock uses Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 to build a development framework for creating multiuser business and experimental Flash applications."', new Date(2003, 8, 18)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Now Shipping!', 'Unity 2 is now shipping! Grab a trial version here or order your copy here.', new Date(2003, 8, 12)), new UnityNewsItem('Announcing Unity 2', 'Unity 2 is nearly ready to ship! Get tons of information about the new version at the new Unity site.', new Date(2003, 8, 9)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Beta 1 Now Available', 'Unity 2 Beta 1 is now available fore download. Unity 2 is 99% feature complete. Try out the new database hooks for storing shared data per user or per room. Use the supplied MySQL implementation or write your own to any data storage system.', new Date(2003, 6, 30)), new UnityNewsItem('uMiniChat in Public Beta', 'The first application in the uChat suite is now in public beta. Drop by and say hi!', new Date(2003, 6, 25)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Database Persistence Now Functional', 'Drop by and register your name in this first example of Unity 2\'s client login and permanent data storage capabilities. The database used in this example is mySQL. If all goes well, we\'ll post beta 1 in a few days!', new Date(2003, 6, 25)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 App Development Tutorial Posted', 'The four part uSimpleChat application development tutorial is now available. Learn how to create a multiuser application with Unity 2.', new Date(2003, 6, 25)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Alpha 4 Released', 'The latest build of Harmony is available for download and testing. The final feature-set is near completion. This build includes a highly exanded admin tool for managing and visualizing the server\'s namespaces, rooms, clients, and attributes.', new Date(2003, 6, 10)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 2 Alpha 3 Released', 'Public invitation: help alpha-test Unity 2, the second version of moock.org\'s xmlsocket server. Unity 2 features an extensive object-oriented ActionScript API for creating multiuser Flash applications. Spawn rooms, manage users, save and share per-room or per-client data, and invoke methods remotely all with ActionScript. Tutorials and documenation are now available.', new Date(2003, 4, 13)), new UnityNewsItem('Final update to Unity 1 released', 'The final version of the Unity 1.x series has been released. Unity 1.1.1 features a faster socket reader, some minor server-side API changes, and a connection bug fix. The upgrade is free to registered owners of Unity 1.', new Date(2003, 4, 8)), new UnityNewsItem('Harmony Client API, Tic Tac Toe, GuestBook, and uTulip exhibition posted', 'Read first-draft client-side API documentation and try out the new Harmony example applications.', new Date(2003, 2, 24)), new UnityNewsItem('Harmony (Unity 2) chat app demo posted', 'See the first working demonstration of the upcoming new version of Unity, code-named Harmony.', new Date(2003, 1, 27)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity powers multiuser game: Junglewar', 'Junglewar is a real-time strategy game, produced by GBT to promote the PC and XBox game Vietcong. great interface, tons of fun action. For more info on Vietcong, see ign.com\'s coverage or gamespot.com\'s coverage.', new Date(2002, 11, 15)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity powers Star Trek Nemesis movie site chat', 'Unity was used to build the chat feature for the website of Star Trek: The Next Generation\'s last motion picture, Nemesis. The site is no longer live.', new Date(2002, 11, 5)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity powers multiuser game: Battle for the Sudan', 'Play the stratego-style multiuser game, Battle for the Sudan, created by big spaceship and innofinity for the miramax movie the four feathers. the game is powered by moock.org\'s Unity socket server.', new Date(2002, 7, 20)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 1.1.0 now shipping', 'Unity 1.1.0 is a minor update to Unity 1.0. Free to registered Unity 1.0 users, the upgrade includes stability improvements, multi-cpu support, some new features, and bug fixes.', new Date(2002, 10, 22)), new UnityNewsItem('Unity 1.0 now shippping', 'With great pride and joy, we hereby announce the official launch of Unity 1.0! Sincere thanks to all who participated in the beta program.', new Date(2002, 2, 29)) ];