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- IBrowse Demo release 7a (0.105)
- -------------------------------
-
- This is the seventh official demo release of IBrowse.
-
- Note about proxy servers:
- Enter your proxy host as http://host:port in the preferences. If you proxy supports
- ftp and gopher you can enter http://host:port in the http and gopher strings too.
- (Note: http://)
-
- To install and run Ibrowse do the following:
- Delete all old IBrowse related files. (You may save your hotlist)
- Dearchive it where you want it. (A dir will be created)
- Start it and start prefs to configure where you want to have the cache dir.
- (If you are afraid of hd crashes, you can have the cache in ram: until you
- believe that IBrowse is stable!)
-
- Since this is a demo release, some functions are removed:
-
- It can only open 4 network connections.
- You may only have 1 window open.
- Mailto interface is disabled.
- + a couple of more that you'll like when you see the final release...
-
- The last demo release created lots of problems to some people and most of them
- was their own faults. You should _not_ copy any libs out of the IBrowse dir.
- And you _must_ remove all old files, libraries etc from the last demo. Failure
- to do so will most likely result in the 'Cannot open url message'
-
- The progressive image decoders should now be stable on OCS/ECS/AGA/CYBERGFX systems.
- It should work on any screen depth in CyberGfx.
-
- Many people have contributed to this release with many useful bugreports.
- Thank you very much!
-
- I have put together a sample prefs file with the most common mime types
- configured. I have used multiview as the main viewer, but you can change it to
- whatever you like. Please note that the 'External w. Pipe' mode isn't
- implemented yet.
-
- If you don't like the spinning anim or if you thinks it takes too much time,
- you can use the other one supplied in '/Images' rename the old and copy
- def_TransferAnimationNM#? to def_TransferAnimation. It is a static picture.
- If you thinks it uses too much colors, you can replace it with a custom
- picture. (Check the files and you'll understand. Do also check the .info files
- because they contain size info)
-
- IBrowse should now be stable when you abort loading in all cases. If you still
- have problems, please let me know asap.
-
- Please not that you do not have to copy any libraries from the IBrowse dir. If
- you do so, you'll most likely see problems in the future (like you did with
- the v0.67 release)
-
- The most important changes from R3a are:
-
- Removed (hopefully) the crash on exit bug.
- Added 'Ask user' method for unknown mimetypes.
- Pressing a link while holding shift down now downloads the file to disk.
- Aminet dirs should now be shown correctly even if you press 'back'
- Made 2 image dirs. 1 with the old ones and one with the new ones. Choose the
- one you like most.
-
- The most important changes from R4a are:
- - Added AS225 support. (See ReadMe_as225 for details)
- - Removed stupid crash bug when aborting pageloading / download binary.
- - Implemented a progressive JPEG decoder.
- - Added the TextArea form element.
- - Added IsIndex.
- - Reworked the images for the nav. buttons. If you have your own buttons, please
- look at the Images/def_Navigation for an example of how to create new ones.
- - Reworked the gui abit. You can now drag all button bars and place them where
- you like them in the window. You can also turn of various GUI parts.
- - Splitted prefs in 2: General Prefs and Network Prefs
- - Put the imagedecoder in a shared library. If you use datatypes only, you don't
- have to have 80k of unused code loaded.
- - The hotlist is saved in html format now.
-
- The most important change from R5 are:
- - Form contents is saved when you move around.
- - You can search for text in a document (it is abit limited thought)
- - Document remembers what you were reading if you switch page.
- - Pressing RMB over a link or image will bring up a menu with some selections
- (eg. Save to disk, view in external viewer. Note that you need to have a viewer
- configured for this to work.)
- - Implemented most sorts of tables. Table Frames, Frame Sizes etc. are used now.
- - Added better proxt support. Now you can use proxys for ftp and gopher.
- (Just write 'http://some.host:port' in HTTP/Gopher proxy strings.
- - Added NoProxy. Just enter the host you don't want to use proxy on.
- - Added possibility to save preferenses with a unique name.
- - Added lots of missing HTML3/NHTML tags. (Like <font> <basefont> etc.)
- - Changed the font handling to use less memory. (Fonts are only opened if they
- are needed
- - Fixed the imagedecoder to work on all cybergfx screens.
- - Cross checked the form parser. FutureNet now works ok.
- - Added transparent support for AmiTcp/IN225. (MLink users, see ReadMe_MLink)
- - Fixed stupid eating chipmem bug. (Again:(
- - IBrowse can now read IBrowseR4 hotlists correctly. Sorry about this problem.
- - Added 28 days of evaluation. You can now use the IBrowse demo in 56 days.
- Sorry that I couldn't upload a new demo before the old one expired.
-
- The most important change from R6a are:
- - No more crashes when you try to authenticate yourself at web pages
- - Handles multiple submit buttons better
- - Handles tables better
- - Implemented shortcuts. You can define a shortcut for every hotlist entry
- which you can type instead of a real url.
- - Handles Client Side Image Maps better now.
- - Added some ARexx commands:
-
- The most important change from R7 are:
- - Added telnet support.
- - www.host.com urls now works again without trailing /
- - Textarea's works again.
-
- Note:
- Some people have reported problems with IBrowse and the new 24bit datatypes.
- I have found that the problem is in many cases a bug in the KS3.1 rom.
- If IBrowse fails with a guru 8000000B this is most likely caused by this. In
- that case, please try to show the picture with multiview. If that fails too,
- it is not IBrowse fault. Afaik this only occurs on 040 based machines running
- KS3.1 To correct this, there is a patch on Aminet: 'util/boot/MathPatch.lha'
- (Which fixes crashes from other programs aswell that uses math functions)
- Happy browsing!
-
-
- Stefan Burstroem
- for Omnipresence Intl.
-
- ps. Every time you find a page that is not visible, try 'Show source'
- In most cases it is a badly formated comment that eats the rest of the page.
- If you find any pages with this, please email me the url.
-
- Known Bugs:
- - Simple refresh window will result in strange refreshing of some GUI elements
- (sliders, string gadgets etc.) This is a bug in MUI and it is fixed in future
- releases.
- - If you select the TextArea element and try to use Sliders, the window won't
- react. This is a bug in MUI and we are working on a solution.
- - Viewing inlined images in external viewer behaves strange.
- - Some tables are layouted wrong. (Esp. tables with img align=left|right in them
- - Menu item 'Quit' can cause crashes sometimes.
-
- This is a small list of implemented things / fixed bugs:
-
- Old changes:
- -s- <Img width=x height=y> partially works now. The image size is used, but the image
- is not scaled if that is needed. Anyway, this reduces lots of flicker on some pages.
- -s- Fixed Transparent gifs problems on native AGA/ECS screens
- -s- Fixed problems with <center> and Images.
- -s- Implemented history check for visited pages.
- -s- Made all asl windows open on the same screen as their parent window.
- -s- IBrowse now uses the fonts configured in the preferences.
- -s- Added support for <hn align="left|center|right">
- -s- Added a simple Arexx port. Currently the only supported command is:
- GotoUrl Url
- -s- Added a border around delayed images that has a predefined size in the html source.
- -s- Fixed problems with urls that doesn't end with a '/'
- (eg. http://www.omnipresence.com')
- -s- Fixed long standing refresh bug if you went from a page with backgroud to a page
- without.
- -s- Now Ibrowse doesn't leave any files in t:
- -s- Made all form elements user their font's baseline when aligning objects on a line.
- -s- Implemented forms support. I have not had possibility to test it on the net, but I
- will as soon as I get online again.
- -s- Added Delay image loading,Ignore background tags and Ignore link colors.
- -s- Started on a builtin inline gif decoder. The only thing left is the color mapping.
- -s- Iproved the parser. Tables are layouted ~3 times faster now.
- -s- Added an ip address cache to http.library. It caches the last 16 used hosts.
- -s- Added a small netscapism: typing 'host.domain[:port]/dir/file.html' in the url gadget defaults to:
- 'http://host.domain[:port]/dir/file.html'
- -r- Added more nice url parsing. ftp.host will become ftp://ftp.host. (note:
- http://ftp.host is unaffected.
- -s- Added support for <img alt="text">
- -s- Added possibility to run IBrowse when the network is down. If socket.library couldn't
- be opened or if the network was unreachable, the cache (if any) is used instead.
- 20-Jan-96
- -s- Made it possible to cancel in the download file selector.
- -s- The transfer animation class now checks the icon associated with the anim to get
- the size of the anim. Supported tooltypes are: WIDTH=<nr>,HEIGHT=<nr>,FRAMES=<nr>
- This allows users to create own animations eg. to get a nice animation on a
- 640x256 screen. If no icon exists, it guesses the values from the bitmap size.
- 21-Jan-96
- -s- Cached images are now decoded with the builtin (incremental) decoder
- -s- Changed the source window font to a fixed width font to increase readability.
- 25-Jan-96
- -r- Added TempDir in prefs structure. Defaults to "T:".
- 27-Jan-96
- -s- Reload now doesn't add an entry in the history.
- -s- Added font fallback. topaz/8 is opened if the font was unavailable.
- 28-Jan-96
- -s- Added authentication support.
- -s- Added proxy authentication support.
- 30-Jan-96
- -s- Made sure that IBrowse work with MUI3.2. (Changed 1 refresh method)
- 31-Jan-96
- -s- Added support for RĂ¼digers NoCache list.
- 1-Feb-96
- -s- Removed _all_ references to 'IBrowse:'
- 2-Feb-96
- -s- Fixed so external viewers delete their files when they quit.
- -s- The Delayed look for a presized image is now always exactly as big as it should.
- Text and icon is chopped of if necesary.
- -s- Added support for <a name= >
- 3-Feb-96
- -s- Added support for transparent gifs on native screens. CyberGfx still needs some work.
- NOTE: TGifs looks ugly on background. I have not found a suitable solution to this yet.
- -s- Found a suitable solutions to tgifs on backgrounds. It is slow as hell though.
- -s- Improved handling of alt text and def images in pre sized images.
- -s- Changed behaviour for <a> to decrease the number of pages that causes problems
- -s- Added tgif support for cgfx, I hope this works.
- 5-Feb-96
- -s- Bumped http.library to v2 to avoid confusion in demo releases.
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused images not to be freed.
- -s- Fixed odd memory access on 68000's in ibconfig.c
- -s- Made sure that the prefs window fits on a 640x256 screen w topaz/8
- 6-Feb-96
- -s- Removed stupid bug that made datatypes decoders crash.
- -s- Removed stupid bug that caused datatypes not being able to decode images.
- -s- Sgnorkfx. Fell asleep over my compuer.
- 7-Feb-96
- -s- Setting frames to 1 in the animation makes the anim stand still (and use no cpu power)
- -s- Removed a bug that caused the default homepage not to be used.
- -s- Added error message when ibprefs.library couldn't be opened.
- 8-Feb-96
- -s- Improved the color remapping alot. Now Ibrowse uses a calculated palette. Before
- it used the (not so good) palette from Brilliance. As a side effect, there are now
- 69 free pens on a 256 color screen.
- 11-Feb-96
- -s- Added scaling support for nointerlaced gif pictures
- 12-Feb-96
- -s- Added scaling support for interlaced gif pictures
- -s- Implemented Flush Image Cache
- -s- Fixed sizes in strings in forms.
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused string buffers in forms to be 1 char too short.
- 14-Feb-96
- -s- Added support for <base href= >
- -s- Added the 'SPEED' tooltype to the animation icon.
- 17-Feb-96
- -s- Added an 'Ask user' option as a download method.
- -s- Hopefully found the free mem twice on exit bug.
- 18-Feb-96
- -s- The 'Underline links' prefs option is now used.
- -s- Added possibility to configure the task priority of the various threads.
- -s- Shift click on a link will download the link to disk.
- 19-Feb-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused IBrowse to crash if a specified path didn't exist.
- 21-Feb-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused IBrowse to crash when aborting save to disk
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused IBrowse to crash when flushing the image cache sometimes.
- -s- Added an error code instead of a crash if the dest file for save to disk couldn't be opened
- -s- Links are now visible on aminet again!
- 23-Feb-96
- -s- Removed a stupid bug that caused IBrowse to crash when aborting page download
- 24-Feb-96
- -s- Fixed a wrong asl type in askuser window.
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused enforcerhits if add to hotlist was selected from the menu
- -s- Fixed some nasty bugs in the imagedecoder that could make it crash etc. on interlaced pics.
- 25-Feb-96
- -s- Merged def_<navigation> images into def_Navigation Remapping is now 4 times faster.
- -r- Removed the "Save Hotlist" Menu again. Hotlist Class will handle this automatically
- now and saves the hotlist when it has been changed. (when adding an entry, when closing
- the window, and when disposing the class)
- -r- Minor layout changes in downloadinfo and prefs classes.
- -r- Prefs class is now split into two windows: General and NetWork. You can edit one window at
- a time only. The menuitems get disabled when a prefs window is open.
- -r- The hotlist is saved as a html file now.
- 26-Feb-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused crashes if the def_images were not found.
- 28-Feb-96
- -r- Hotlist gets closed after selecting a link with doubleclick.
- 3-Mar-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused gifs not to be downloaded completely
- -s- Improved the cache system alot. If IBrowse crashes or if you reset without exiting,
- IBrowse will rebuild the cache list next time you run it.
- -s- Added the tags <strong> (as bold) and <em> (as italic)
- 12-Mar-96
- -r- D&D in window groups works now.
- 13-Mar-96
- -r- Added possibiliy to drop URLs into the HTML display.
- 15-Mar-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused <select> without size to crash.
- 17-Mar-96
- -s- Added support for <caption> in tables.
- 23-Mar-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused cycle gadgets in forms to give wrong results
- -s- Removed the 'not freeing chipmem' bug again.
- -s- Moving back and forth on pages now remembers the last position.
- 24-Mar-96
- -r- Cursor scolling of the html display is possible again.
- -r- Disabled nhtml checkmarks since they are not used at the moment.
- -s- Rewrote the Datestring handling to work even if the system is localized.
- 29-Mar-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused the text to be invisible if the first 2k of a page didn't
- generate any html elements. (eg. pages with java scripts)
- -s- Now sending Referer: header when accessing pics. Fixes problems with some counters.
- 30-Mar-96
- -s- Reworked the link selection functions. They are faster and more reliable now.
- -s- Form contents is saved now.
- 3-Apr-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused old hotlists to be read wrong.
- 8-Mar-96
- -s- Implemented dynamic font handling. Fonts are only opened when they are needed.
- 15-Mar-96
- -s- Fixed a bug that caused METHOD_POST to malfunction sometimes.
- -s- Fixed access to www.VIScorp.com. Stupid www server they have!
- 16-Mar-06
- -s- Added popup menus to save images, load links, load images etc.
- -s- The file HOME:.signature is now imported (if it exists) in the mailto window.
- 24-Apr-96
- -r- Added Wait... vars to HTML Data.
- -r- Updated ARexx port: GOTOURL loads the URL current window
- -r- Added NEWWINDOW arexx command.
- 26-Apr-96
- -r- Added shortcut handling in hotlist class.
- -r- Length of titles in the history is limit to 50 characters now.
- -r- Added possibility to hide groups/entries in the hotlist menu.
- -r- When IBrowse finds a hotlist in a format that it cannot read, it will not
- save the hotlist to preserve the data in that file.
- -r- Added mime types image/gif and image/jpeg as defaults for the prefs.
- 30-Apr-96
- -r- Exchanged the pens of imageframes.
- -r- When turning off delay imgeloading, all images are loaded automatically now.
- 03-May-96
- -r- Changed default for H4 font, so that it is smaller than H3.
- 11-May-96
- -s- Rewrite the url parser again. I hope this conforms better to the standard
- than the old.
- -s- Improved handling of masked bitmap on native screens.
- 14-May-96
- -s- String gadgets are now not wider than the window.
- -s- Uses optimized cache file now. Old cache files are still read ok. (I hope ;)
-
- And lots of more...
-
- These were just some of the changes made. If you still find bugs, please send
- them to ibrowse-bugs@omnipresence.com
- Suggestions can be sent to:
- ibrowse-comments@omnipresence.com
-