Russ Key 1.5.3

Short-term goals for the Russ Key extension

* Allow the users to type in TextArea and Text HTML fields in Russian without having the russian keyboard installed. Use phonetic keyboard layout for typing, so English A will correspond to Russian A on the keyboard. - Released in versions starting from 0.1
* Allow the users to transform translit text into normal Cyrillic to avoid the headache of reading Russian words typed with Latin (English) letters. - Released in versions starting from 0.2
* Provide the same functionality of Russ Key extension in Thunderbird. - Released in versions starting from 0.4
* Now supporting FireFox1.5. - Released in versions starting from 1.0.0
* Now supporting IFrame in designMode (this is used in GMAIL for example.) - Released in versions starting from 1.1.0
* Now supporting ThunderBird in compose message window. - Released in versions starting from 1.2.0
* Better TB support, new user menu, splitting functionality of keyboard-toggling and translit transformation into two menu items, support for simultaneous multiple edit fields in the same window. - Released in versions starting from 1.3.0
* Supports English to Russian and Russian to English translations via altavista. - Released in versions starting from 1.3.1
* Supports In Progress status icon, asynchronous language translations, fixes ThunderBird status bar icons. - Released in versions starting from 1.4.0
* Supports 3 translators and a working round-robin fail-over mechanism. - Released in versions starting from 1.4.4
* Allows user to define shortcut keys via settings dialog. - Released in versions starting from 1.4.5
* Supports edit field background color change, adds SAVED status to the settings dialog. - Released in versions starting from 1.4.6
* Allows the user to remove the status-bar icon, has update version counter, only tries to update twice for every 100 opened windows. - Released in versions starting from 1.4.9