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- Here is a list of the features added to the various versions of WebSurf.
- The order inside the list is that in wich the real improvements have been
- made, not an order of matter for these.
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- New features in version 1.2 - February 10, 1996:
- - Special characters recognition, such as é or ©
- - Slightly enhanced speed;
- - A phrase can now spread over two or more lines;
- - The bar indicator is now proportional to the size of the document that has
- been loaded;
- - A minor bug when loading another page has been fixed;
- - Clever memory management: when the program runs out of memory, you are
- asked wether you want to stop loading or forget the top of the page;
- - Option to start or resume loading;
- - WebSurf speaks Italian and Norwegian;
- - Shortcut for Exit changed to Psion-X for English, Psion-A for Norwegian,
- and Psion-B for Italian;
- - You can choose the size of the loading indicator;
- - Title has been separated from the document, and can be seen with a menu
- command;
- - Anchors: WebSurf knows HREF and NAME attributes of the anchor <A> element.
- Press TAB to follow a link that appears as inverted text. Note that the
- only links that can be followed are those which are inside the document
- itself, for example <A HREF=#Title>title</A> leads to
- <A NAME=Title>Here is the target</A>. When there are more than one link
- on the screen, you are asked which one you want to follow, otherwise you
- are automatically brought to the only existing one. There can be an
- unlimited number of links in a document;
- - A manual is now there to help you to get the maximum from WebSurf, it has
- been made in HTML format.
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- New features in version 1.3 - April 6, 1996:
- *Improvements
- - More special characters known, like ë
- - Support for EM and STRONG tags;
- - Support for CITE, CODE, KBD, SAMP, VAR and TT tags;
- - Added Ctrl-Psion-Arrow to go to the beginning/end of the document, Space bar
- to page down;
- - "Busy" message when reading title of the document or a comment;
- - Support for the <CENTER> </CENTER> tags;
- - Support for the ALIGN tag into a <P> specification, for example
- <P ALIGN=RIGHT>;
- - The TAB (chr$(9)) is interpreted as a space, according to the HTML
- standard;
- - Added an option to forget everything and continue loading;
- - Added a border to the main screen, so that WebSurf has the look of
- "standard" apps of the S3a;
- - When a <P> tag is found, a line is skipped, and no more space is left
- in the begenning of the first line;
- - When the IMG tag is found, the text indicated by ALT="" is displayed
- after a special symbol (a cross between two brackets);
- - Added a "Reload" option to the "File" menu;
- - Added the ability to set the size of the erased part when out of
- memory;
- - Changed the loading indicator color: black border, filled with grey;
- - Added a "monospaced font" option to the "Preferences" dialog, so that
- you can override the type of font that should be used;
- - WebSurf now speaks Swedish.
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed a problem when a line break occured inside an HTML specification;
- - Fixed a bug appearing when there was no title for the document, and the
- user asked what it was (vicious?!?);
- - Better handling of shortcuts involving the Shift key;
- - Fixed a problem occuring when there was no " around the ALT= specification
- for the IMG element;
- - Fixed a problem when WebSurf was facing *long* comments, i.e. <!-- ... -> ;
- - Fixed the overlapping characters problem in long headlines;
- - Fixed a problem when a special character was found inside an HTML
- specification (vicious?);
- - Fixed a problem occuring when you stopped WebSurf from loading a page
- during an error message, and decided after it to continue;
- - When the text inside the ALT= specification of the IMG element is longer
- than the line, it now spreads over the next one.
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- New features in version 1.4 - April 17, 1996:
- *Major improvements
- - Support for links to other pages;
- - Word wrap;
- - Saving of preferences;
- - Support for PIC format pictures (no grey plane, because it would eat
- far more memory than anybody have...);
- *Minor improvements
- - If there are consecutive spaces, only the first one is taken into
- account, as in the HTML specifications;
- - In the preferences dialog, added the ability to choose how the text for
- an image should be rendered: [Text] or [x] Text;
- - #xxx; special characters handling;
- - When choosing between links, the inverted text is shown, not an esoteric
- reference...;
- - When WebSurf changes files, the name under its icon on the system
- screen is updated in consequence;
- - When you press 'Help', the Manual.htm file appears, provided it is
- present;
- - Improved the manual, using new WebSurf features;
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed the blank screen problem after an out-of-memory error;
- - When a preference is changed, the file is reloaded only if necessary;
- - The program doesn't end anymore when the selected file isn't there;
- - Fixed the problem causing a paragraph to be aligned on the right when
- it was followed by the </CENTER> tag;
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- New features in version 1.41 - April 27, 1996:
- Special version which tries to fix the problem that appeared in v1.4,
- i.e. a freeze when you're playing too much with 'Back' and TAB.
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- New features in version 1.5 - May 16, 1996:
- *Major improvements
- - The 'freeze' problem is now really fixed;
- - The back command can be used as many times as needed: WebSurf
- remembers each page you visited since you started the program;
- - Ability to use any Series 3a document as a target for a link, e.g.
- you can link a word to a WRD document or a WVE file;
- *Minor improvements
- - Support for links and references to other directories;
- - Animation in the status window while WebSurf is loading a page;
- - URL command in the 'Document' menu, to see the adress of the file
- you're viewing;
- - WebSurf now speaks German;
- - Ability to show/hide the status window using Crtl-Menu;
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed the problem preventing the auto shut off feature to work.
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- New features in version 1.6 - July 2, 1996:
- *Major improvements
- - Support for nested lists, whether they are unordered, ordered,
- menus or definition lists;
- - Added a 'Links' option to the 'Document' menu, which allows to see all
- URLs of links on the page;
- - Added an 'Edit' option to the 'File' menu, allowing you to edit the
- HTML page and automatically come back to WebSurf - was said to be
- 'very handy' by a beta tester;
- - Support for tables (at last!) with headers;
- *Minor improvements
- - WebSurf remembers the zoom and status window states you used last
- time;
- - Rough support for the <PRE> tag;
- - Support for the <DIR> tag;
- - Support for <DL>, <LH>, <DT> and <DD> tags;
- - Support for links of type file.ext#offset though the #offset is
- ignored;
- - Support for the <ADDRESS> tag;
- - Support for a & caracter which doesn't mean there is a special
- character;
- - Support for <H4>, <H5>, <H6>, </H4>, </H5> and </H6> tags - these
- are all handled as a bold paragraph;
- - Took off the exit nag screen;
- - Better handling of comments;
- - The program has been noticeably accelerated;
- - Support for the ALIGN specification in headers;
- - Added some special characters;
- *Bug Fixes
- - Now this feature really works: if there are consecutive spaces, only
- the first one is taken into account, as in the HTML specifications;
- - Font tags aren't ignored anymore in headings;
- - Fixed a problem when there were links inside the page AND to other
- pages, causing the links to be misunderstood;
- - Fixed the problem when there was too many heterogeneous elements
- between <CENTER> and </CENTER> tags;
- - Fixed the problem when a paragraph was aligned on the left while it
- should be a little more on the right (<P> inside a list, for example);
- - Fixed the problem causing some headers to be splitted into two parts;
- - Fixed a problem appearing sometimes in word wrapping.
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- New features in version 1.61 - July 3, 1996:
- - Literally boosted speed;
- - Recognises most tables without problems.
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- New features in version 1.62 - July 4, 1996:
- *Major improvements
- - Added strong error handling when dealing with tables, which now
- mean that you can see almost any HTML page correctly;
- *Minor improvements
- - Added a busy message while decoding a table;
- - Ability to choose a link from the 'History' dialog, this idea was
- stolen from HTML Viewer;
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed the problem wich didn't allow to exit while a table was being
- decoded;
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- New features in version 1.7 - August 30, 1996:
- *Major improvements
- - GIF support. Uses a cache so that the same GIF isn't processed twice;
- *Minor improvements
- - Still some speed improvements;
- - Attributes of the kind <A HREF = "#a"> are now recognised (the space
- wasn't understood correctly);
- - Support for the (useless ;-) ) <BGSOUND> tag with its LOOP and SRC
- attributes;
- - Support for attributes of previously understood tags:
- . TYPE in the <OL> tag which let the author choose the numbering
- type between 1,2,... / A,B,... a,b,... / I,II,... and i,ii,... ;
- . START and CONTINUE in the <OL> tag, allowing the author to choose
- where the list counter starts;
- . PLAIN in the <UL> tag, making the list not to be bulleted;
- . NOSHADE and SIZE in the <HR> tag;
- - Support for links to *.html: WebSurf will look for *.htm;
- - Added an animation for the 'about' dialog;
- - Option to follow a link from the 'links' dialog;
- - Changed the windows handling - the only result noticeable by the user
- will be the screen updated only every second when loading;
- - Automatic deletion of preference files from previous versions
- (necessary because they're different);
- - Optional window showing the title for the current file above the
- screen;
- - Turned the preferences dialog into a menu with sub-dialogs;
- - Configurable shortcut for the 'Back' command (Esc or left arrow key);
- - Configurable shortcut to follow links (Tab or right arrow key);
- - Added Dutch and Welsh;
- - The same URL won't be added twice consecutively to the history file;
- *Bug Fixes
- - In tables the border was put when the specification was <TABLE BORDER=0>
- but not anymore;
- - Fixed the 'no exit shortkey' when WebSurf spoke Irish;
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- New features in version 1.71 - September 5, 1996:
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed the bug which stopped the program if you were updating
- from an earlier version;
- - Fixed the problem which didn't allow to use the TAB key to follow
- a link;
- - Fixed the problem which raised various errors as
- 'Error in WebSurf/New [...]';
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- New features in version 1.72 - September 7, 1996:
- *Bug Fixes
- - Fixed the problem which arose when you wanted to follow a link and
- there was more than one on the page;