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style changes

After several requests, the titles have been made left-justified. This required some restructuring of the page elements so that the necessary styles could be applied (it’s harder than it should be to create fixed-width layouts without using tables). All the sorting routines had to be tweaked to accomodate the changed structure.

You may also notice:

• The “Releases on DVD” part of an unreleased title’s availability is now removed. This keeps the release date text from bleeding into the star column. (I think the text used to be different, something like “Available on …”)
• The BOB function seems to have benefited from the structure changes. In IE, BOB appears in the proper place. In Firefox, the horizontal position is still incorrect, but now it appears to the far left. This is an improvement though, as now the BOB now won’t appear over the current cursor position. Update: since first posting the change the BOB now appears to be working fine in both IE and Firefox, so perhaps Netflix tweaked their positioning code a bit.

As usual, if you’ve previously used the Manager you may need to to a cache reset to see the new features properly.

Full instructions on installation and usage is located here.

ratings and sort enhancements

herrin of viewwerx.com has provided code to add the ratings icons into the Manager. This was the last bit of movie data from the default Netflix queue that was missing. Also, the text buttons for TOP/END/X have been replaced with arrows from the Netflix Top 100 page and their standard remove icon, giving the Manager a sleeker look. A big thanks to him for all his contributions.

Position indicators have been added to the left of the title as a small, semi-transparent number. The numbers are updated as you re-order the queue. (v2.1b)

There are also some sorting changes:

• Sorting can now be done using the new ratings. They are ordered from most mature to least.
• Title sorts now try to handle bonus disc anomalies. If a title starts with “Bonus Material:”, that text is moved to the end of the title. This is to keep bonus discs after the main movie disc. Also “Sp. Ed.” is sometimes used on bonus discs, but not the main disc. This text is expanded to “Special Edition” when sorting.

As usual, if you’ve previously used the Manager you may need to to a cache reset to see the new features properly.

Full instructions on installation and usage is located here.

The Thumbnail Image Grabber update is now available, at version 0.51. This version adds support for MSN, Flickr, and PBase.

View the program’s page for complete instructions and the download link.

update

The Netflix Queue Manager sorting capability has been expanded. In addition to the star sort, you can now sort by title, genre, and availability. The collating sequence for availability is Now, Short Wait, Long Wait, Very Long Wait, then unreleased.

Also, a new page has been added to provide installation and usage information for the Manager. If you are trying the Manager for the first time, refer to this page for complete details.