xF1 Today in History

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- Adds a sidebar that displays a historic event that occurred on the current date

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Adds a sidebar that displays a historic event that occurred on the current date.

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Installation:

1. Download todayInHistory_1.0.0.zip and unzip it.
2. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder to your server. History folder should go under library/ i.e library/History
3. From your Admin Control Panel, go to the "Install Add-on" page.
4. Upload the addon-todayInHistory.xml file....

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Support for custom history events:

• Added support for adding custom history events through the admin section

Note:
Priority field not used at the moment, in cases where multiple history events with the same date occur, the one to be displayed is randomly selected from the set.

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[Gad]

Nice one

 

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Heisenberg updated

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This update adds the capability to fetch history events on the server side. If you haven't declared custom events for a specific date, the default fallback is to fetch an event for the date from an external server, traditionally this was done on the client side but due to the external resource not supporting https some browsers prevented the fetch from happening, this fixes the issue by moving the fetch to happen on the server when the response is being prepared.

This approach has some...

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