WEB WEAVER Shareware RELEASE NOTES Copyright 1995-1997 by McWeb Software ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What's New! in version 97g (version 97.5) - The Page Properties dialog box was enhanced to include a button for importing page colors from another Web page. This makes it easy to use the same colors in many documents without having to re-pick the color schemes. -The Page Properties dialog box has also been updated so that it remembers the properties of the page you are working on. When you open the Page Properties dialog box, the current page settings are displayed so that you can edit them. - Word wrap was added (the ability to turn it off and on). Web Weaver always had word wrap. - When inserting images or embedded objects the relative directory is automatically inserted with the filename so users don't have to manually insert it. - There is no longer a 32K limit for file size. - A color picker was added. The eyedropper button located on the toolbar opens the color picker. - Link verification was added to Web Weaver. Only local links (on the user's hard drive) can be verified. An add-on called Site Mongrel can be purchased for site management and analysis as well. - Users can now edit HTML tags that have already been inserted into their documents. Just place your cursor in between the tag brackets < > and right-click. Then select Edit Tag and the appropriate dialog box will appear allowing you to edit the tag. - Colorizing the HTML tags in documents is now twice as fast as before. - CTRL-F is now the keyboard shortcut for Find. - A right-click pop-up menu was added to the side file menu. Selecting a file from the side menu and right-clicking the mouse on it results in a menu offering the choices to view file properties, verify links, or perform other file management functions. - The FTP Client and Graphics application buttons were added to the toolbar. - The code for an HTML non-breaking space ( ) was added to the menu and given the keyboard shortcut CTRL-N. - JavaScript HTML tags were added to the Java menu item. - Several dialog boxes had the HTML attribute TARGET added to them. This allows the user the option of targeting specific frames. - The Delete command was removed from the Edit menu. - The "Open Web Page" button on the side file menu was removed. Double- clicking on any of the HTML files will open them. - Sample templates were added. They can be accessed by selecting the "FILE/NEW" menu item. - Directory and Interactive Lists were removed. They are not popular forms of HTML lists. - The Table Wizard has been enhanced to be more of a step-by-step process. Also, Table tags are inserted using TABS to make the HTML code more organized on your page. - The Form wizard has been enhanced and now comes with its own CGI script for processing forms. - Comments are now colored grey on the Web Weaver text box. - The box that asked if you wished to create a new document or open an existing one has been removed. We figured you could make that decision without the help of an extra box. What's New! in version 97e - A Global Find and Replace function that makes replacing text in multiple files easy. What's New! in version 97 - An additional Frames wizard which has pre-made templates to make Frames easier than ever!! - FTP and Imagemapper buttons have been removed from the toolbar to make room for more frequently used commands. Buttons for inserting horizontal rules and a button for adding a second browser for previewing are added to the toolbar!! - UNDO and Select All have been added to the menus. - Linking to browsers is now an automatic feature. This means that you no longer have to save your document and Alt-Tab between Web Weaver and your browser to view it. You can simply click a button and your browser (IE or Netscape) will appear with the updated page (even without saving it first). What's New! in Web Weaver 95d - Advanced features were added to the Inline Image dialog box. These include imagemap declarations and AVI video properties for inserting video clips. - Print menu item is now functional. Choosing Print will open the specified application (e.g., Notepad, Write, etc.) in order to print the HTML document from that opened application. - A "fixed directory" item has been added to the Inline Image box and the Page Properties box to provide a quick way to insert the full path and filename of the image being chosen. This waythe links to the images will always work regardless of the location of the HTML file which has links to them. - A DTD DOCTYPE tag has been added to the default startup "new" document to alert browsers that the document is an HTML 3.2 document and that it should be interpreted as such. - META tags have been added to the "Advanced" section of the Page Properties dialog box. These allow the HTML document to specify it's description and keywords, and to make the HTML document have the ability to refresh itself or jump to another page after a specified time has expired. - A Frames wizard called Frame Maker has been added. Since recent versions of Web Weaver 5.2 the NOFRAMES tag has been added to the output of the Frame Maker. - When the Preferences dialog box is opened, all existing preferences are displayed in the appropriate text boxes. - The "working directory" (set in the Preferences box) now works properly when set. When opening or saving HTML documents the "working directory" is shown by default to provide quick and easy access to the directory which you specified as your "working directory". If you access another directory (save to another or open from another) this causes the working directory to change to the current directory for the next time you are saving or opening. - The Math menu items and the Attributes menu items have been removed. McWeb software feels that these were too specific as well as unnecessary menu items. Also, all of the attribute menu items for forms and tables were removed as well. - New keyboard shortcuts have been added to Web Weaver. These include CTRL-T
CTRL-R CTRL-D - The Backgroud/BGcolor menu item has been renamed to Page Properties because it controls more than just the colors of the Web page. - The HTML Stripper has been improved to handle carriage returns, Headers

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tags and more to provide you with a more accurate strip. - The Font format dialog box has been enhanced to graphically display the effects of the different font formats (e.g., the bold item is actually bolded to demonstrate the effect that selection would have on selected text). - The PNG image format has been added to the image selection dialog boxes. This format is supported in the HTML 3.2 specification. - List dialog boxes (bulleted, numbered, etc.) have been revised to provide a more intuitive way to create lists. One button was removed and the others were programmed to give the list dialog boxes a more step by step approach. What's New! in version 5.1 - New start-up screens that ask the user whether they wish to start a new document or open an existing one. If 'New document' is chosen then the dialog box for setting background colors and properties opens for user input. If 'Existing document' is selected, an 'Open File' dialog box appears for the user to select the file they wish to open. The user can also set Web Weaver so these start-up dialog boxes do not appear. - When you open the Options/Preferences dialog box the existing settings are shown. Also, when you change a preference and click "OK" to accept the settings they are automatically updated without having to restart Web Weaver. Also, if Web Weaver encounters a problem it will ask you if you wish to investigate your settings. - Internet Explorer tags and Java tags are included in dialog boxes for Marquee, Fonts, Background sound, Applets and applet parameters. More IE and Netscape tags are supported in the Inline Image dialog box including Runtime video insertion, client side image maps, and an input box for the directory where the inline image will reside is now included. - When entering Background colors/properties the cursor can now be located anywhere in the current document, and the codes will be correctly placed inside the tag. - The inline graphics dialog box now has a much improved Align tag preview along with an explanation of what each Align attribute does. Also, the inline image dialog box has a more organized look. - Tooltips for each button on the button bars explain what each button does. - The Find/Replace function has been improved. - Larger buttons are used on the button bar for ease of use. - Tooltips are now available in Web Weaver 5.1. - A dialog box for the creation of HTML code for client side image maps is now available. - Your favorite and most commonly used URLs can be placed in the INI file and Web Weaver will allow you to access them easily with pull-down boxes in the Hypertext and Inline Image dialog boxes. - The location and size of the Web Weaver main window is memorized on exit so when you start Web Weaver up the next time it will be as you left it. - A Close All menu item has been added to the Window menu. This allows the user to easily close all the open documents at the click of a button. If the user has made changes to any of the documents, Web Weaver notifies the user for each modified document and asks if the user wishes to save the changes. - Clicking on the current time display at the bottom of the Web Weaver main window will result in the time and date being inserted into your document. ********************************************************************** What's New! in version 5.0a - Improved menu layout - Most code is in alphabetical order for easier finding. - The HTML 3.0 menu item has been removed because it would have made it more confusing to find the HTML tag that you wanted. All HTML 3.0 tags are included in the Insert menu item. - HTML tags have been separated into their correct categorical menu headings such as: Physical Style Tags; Logical Style Tags, Paragraph/Text Elements, etc. - MUCH MUCH MUCH! more HTML code, both HTML 2.0 and 3.0, including Math tags, Attributes, more special characters, etc. have been added to Web Weaver. Over 100 menu items in all. - Now when you open a document, Web Weaver maximizes it to cover the whole Web Weaver screen. - Most dialog boxes now have Help! buttons on them for context sensitive help on that particular item. - Dialog boxes also have a sleek new look. No more bold text headings, smaller buttons, leaner, etc. - Special characters now have input dialog boxes for easier insertion, and include math variables, vowels, and various characters. - Includes imagemapping software Map THIS! and provides a menu item to link to that software. - Link to FTP Client option on the menu bar. - Improved HTML Form entry dialog box(FORM MAKER) providing a preview of each type of form input. - HTML 3.0 Tables are now supported. TABLE MAKER makes it very easy to insert tables into your HTML document. - Background and BGColor settings dialog box are now combined and now include tags for visited link and active link colors. Also, the text labels(Linked text, Visited text, etc.) for each type of Web text change to the color that you have chosen. Color boxes adjacent to the lables also display the color you have selected for the respective Web page text color. - Options and preferences settings dialog box that will update the INI file automatically. Settings include: Working directory, Image directory, Working Font, Fontsize, Browser path/name, FTP client path/name, and ImageMapper path/name. - Toolbox settings dialog box that automatically updates the INI file. - Web Weaver opens with a default template which includes the necessary tags to create a "grammatically correct" HTML document - Allows the user to open a user-defined template to start a document - Date & Time menu item, inserts the current date and time into the document - ISMAP tag, FIGure tag, and Alignment preview box are added to the Inline Image dialog box - An insert button is added to the Inline Image box so the user can insert inline image attributes into the document without having to create an entire Inline Image tag (e.g., Align=Top) - Align options in Inline Image box are in a list box format to minimize the size of the dialog box. - Attribute menu item added to the Insert menu allowing the user to insert common HTML attributes. - Built in Tutorial for beginners. - Web Wizard provides an easy way to create a simple HTML document - User can now specify the name of the stripped file when stripping HTML tags from a document - The Web Weaver icon has a transparent background. - More buttons on the screen for easier access to FTP client, browser, etc. - The HTML Stripper has had a few bugs fixed in it. It used to skip some characters, but now it parses all characters. - More sample images and backgrounds are included for your use. __________________________________________________ Bug Fixes/Improvements since Web Weaver 5.0: - OK, OK. Here's the FINAL story on

,

, and
. I used to put carriage returns in front of or behind these tags because I thought it would be easier to input them until I started getting frustrated. From now on, when you enter a

,

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tag it will be inserted EXACTLY at the position of your cursor, and your cursor will end up on the right side of that code. The exception is

which has changed to

. The cursor will end up between the tags if no text was selected before inserting the

tag OR the cursor will end up to the right of the end tag

. The main thing is that you won't have to guess where to put your cursor to get these tags into the correct positions. - I fixed the Align attribute in the Inline Image dialog box. It wasn't inserting the Align attribute into the document. That's all better now. -The toolbox no longer disappears behind the Web Weaver screen, and when you close the toolbox and re-open it the toolbox items will still be there. Also, minimizing Web Weaver now minimizes the toolbox, and maximizing it will restore the toolbox. - The Form Maker now has the Select and TextArea input types included. Also, Form Maker now includes a Input Type preview so you can see what each type of Input Type will look like. - The browsing for image filenames was changed so that only the filename (not the path) is inserted into the text box. Also, there is a choice of having the lowercase letters changed to all uppercase with the click of a button. - Visited link and Active link text colors were added to the Background/BGColor dialog box. Also, in version 5.0 when a user clicked CANCEL in the color selection dialog box the HEX code would be placed in the BGColor text box anyway. This is now fixed. Also, only a maximum of six characters can be typed into these BGColor boxes. This reduces the error if you happen to type more than 6 by accident. - The Cut and Copy buttons were switched so that they matched industry standard conventions (like Microsoft Word). - In the hypertext input box, you can now press when typing in the Link box and the HTML code will be placed in the document. Before you had to type in the Link box and then click OK. - The Align radio buttons have been switched to a List Box to minimize space. - The Save As dialog box used to read 'Insert File' after you inserted a file. This has been fixed. - When maximizing a document in version 5.0, the Web Weaver title bar would read: 'Web Weaver 5.0 - [Untitled:1] - Filename.htm'. This has been fixed so the 'Untitled:1' is no longer there. - The shortcut key for Enlarge Font has been switched to CTRL-N. Now the Center tag has the CTRL-E shortcut key. - In version 5.0, when exiting Web Weaver, the Windows task list reported Web Weaver as still running. This has been fixed. There's still a problem with printing. I couldn't program Web Weaver to format the pages in order to print them without cutting off text. Therefore, I have arranged it so you must open Write/Notepad or any other word processor of your choice to print your documents. You can still pick print from Web Weaver and Web Weaver will execute the program you wish to print from. Also, the toolbox stays on top of all windows still, so if you open another application you will have to close the toolbox in order to get the full view of the newly executed app. ********************************************************************************************* ********************************************************************************************* What's New! in version 5.0 - Multiple Document editing is supported in this version. - A recent file list of 4 files is listed at the bottom of the File menu item similar to most commercial word processor's recent files list. - User defined toolbox is included, allowing 5 user defined buttons to be assigned. - Right click pull-down menu is available which is similar to most word processors including Cut, Copy, Paste, limited Undo, etc. - Find/Replace capabilities. - More HTML and Netscape code including MailTo, Background Colors, and Background Wallpaper. - Fonts dialog box is supported for using any system fonts in your text window. - Code for Forms are included in the Form dialog box under the Insert/Form menu item. - Interactive Menu Lists and Directory Lists are added to the Insert Lists menu item. - Eventually HTML 3.0 Tables will be supported and also an Options box which will allow the user to change browsers to link to, working fonts, working directories, etc by automatically changing the INI file. Bug Fixes/Improvements since Web Weaver 4.0b: These fixes improve the functionality of Web Weaver and make it more similar to conventional editors/word processors. - Along with the multiple document editing comes a File menu more similar to conventional software. Save As, Save, Close, and Exit all work in the conventional way. When you have edited a file and choose Exit, Web Weaver asks if you wish to save the file instead of asking "Are you sure you wish to quit?" Print is still being worked on even though it works. - Removed the horizontal scrollbar from the text windows so a hard return will not have to be hit in order for you to get to the next line. Otherwise you could keep typing and the line of text wouldkeep running off the page. - Switched the positions of the Cut and Copy buttons to mimic the configuration of Microsoft Word. - When pressing the

button or menu item the insertion of the "

" is preceded by a carriage return. Before, a carriage return came after the "

" was inserted. It is common HTML practice to type "

" at the beginning of a new line and then directly following it with the text of the new paragraph. The change of this button/menu item makes this more intuitive. - The

insert code was also changed so that a carriage return precedes AND comes after the "
". This makes it easy to press the
button when at the end of a sentence, and the cursor will feed to the next line, insert "
" and then feed to the following line. - Selected text in the editor window is automatically placed in the Anchor box when the Anchor menu item is chosen. - Graphics menu item is now called Inline Image. - The Align feature in the Inline Images box is fixed so that doubleclicking in the background of the box clears ALL values. Also, previously both Netscape and normal HTML Align values could simultaneously be chosen when there should actually only be one choice for insertion. This is fixed so that the Align values can only have one selected choice. - Netscape Item types in the Numbered List box is fixed so that doubleclicking won't cause errors during insertion. The clearing of the values used to accidentally clear the Start value which would cause an error if you tried to insert. - The Address code was placed in the Paragraph/Text Elements and MailTo code was added to the Netscape Extensions menu item. - Browse buttons added to the Inline Images box and Hypertext box. - The ability to type in the desired input in dialog boxes like Hypertext, Inline Image, Anchors, Lists and hit the key to say "OK" instead of having to type then click on OK to submit the input. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________