The MicroView website on sourceforge.net got an overhaul today;  we're using sphinx now to produce the main website and MicroView online help.  If you have a moment, let us know what you think!

Over the past few years, the future of MicroView on the Mac platform was a bit grim: the only available binary was 32-bit, PPC-only, and relied on the Carbon compatibility layer. Performance was lacklustre compared to Windows and Linux releases. With the release of OS X Lion, the original distribution of MicroView on Apple hardware reportedly doesn't run at all. Jumping forward to today, however, the story is somewhat different - we've successfully ported the majority of the open-source components of MicroView to a 64-bit Intel Mac platform running OS X Lion 10.7.3. There's plenty more to do to stabilize the platform, but the majority of the technical hurdles have been crossed. See attached: a picture is worth a 1000 words.

The open source branch of the MicroView project hasn't seen any development activity for a long time now, and it would be easy to write it off as one of countless other abandonwareprojects on sourceforge.

We think that's too bad, and would like to take steps to reinvigorate the site - that's why we're pretty excited about our progress recently on a mid-range development project. While there's lots more to do yet, have a look at the snapshot here to see where we stand, and why we're excited.  Notice anything new? (you can ignore the red development-mode bar; dig deeper).  The first commenter to get it right wins a $20 gift certificate from Amazon.