We spent several hours yesterday beta testing at Western Reserve Academy, courtesy of Ms. Kathryn Mueller, Chen Laoshi, and the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The students that used Skritter liked it, but had a whole …
Ludicrous Speed
We made some significant improvements to the speed of the app today. First we fixed the program so that it no longer slows down over time. Before it would always slow down gradually, especially on …
Improves children’s attractiveness by up to 20%!
I’ve uploaded what should be a fix for the intermittent freezes of the Flash app that require a reload, like when it pauses and won’t load the next word, or when you write a squig …
The feedback is delicious
Thanks for all the feedback, brilliant beta testers! The way you all are catching bugs and thinking of stuff we haven’t, well, it warms my heart. 谢谢,你们! For stroke recognition problems, please, just keep writing …
Beta!
We’re now in beta! We’re telling our friends, you can tell your friends–they’ll probably kiss a baby, they’ll be so happy. There’s a lot of Skritter yet to come, but it works now and we …
Internet Explorer fixed
I fixed Internet Explorer 7. Scott “fixed” IE 6 — it isn’t pretty, but it works. Other browsers should all be golden, too, and you can finally use keyboard shortcuts in IE, Linux, and Mac …
Oh man, I guess I need lunch now
There, there’s the Oberlin first-year vocabulary. I’ve also fixed the way a lot of strokes draw, so things should be prettier. Please, send feedback if there are strokes still being drawn uglily.
New Everything
Lots of changes! The site’s been redesigned and there are new front and home pages. The site’s new look, ‘Bluey’, was designed by George, as have been all our designs. The old styles Inkblot and …
New Lists
I grunt happily, producing new vocab lists! We now have the first level of the 汉语水平考试 (HSK) characters, which is a general-purpose character list you can study if you’re not using a specific textbook, or …
Squigged out
We mauled on the new strokes today, generating enough squigs so that the burritos can swarm again; the kitten is back. Thanks, everyone!