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- Changes since release 1.67
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- Complete history can be found at http://browser.arachne.cz/download/history.txt
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- 1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release) revision 3
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- Release date: 22th January 2001
- Bug fixes: user interface, HTML table and frameset rendering, and
- memory allocation
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- 1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release)
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- Release date: 20th January 2001
- Bug fixes: Certain malformed URLs were able to crash Arachne - fixed.
- Table layout bug fix - multiple right-aligned tables were
- overlapping each other. Fixed, together with some other
- object alignment problems.
- Animations are disabled when pop-up input field is active.
- Various bugs related to image download were fixed.
- Changes: Default icon layout for 640x480 and 800x600 modes changed.
- Yet another slight change in cookie handling (still not finaly)
- Improvements: Implementation of "Proxy-connection: keep-alive" magicaly
- accelerates loading of frequently accessed pages with many
- images if you are behind HTTP proxy on fast local network.
- (I thought "Connection: keep-alive" works for proxies too,
- but proxies always must have something special...)
- "Page Information" Page (= hotkey) now tries to provide
- list of embeded objects (like stylesheets, images, etc.)
- Experimental Cascading Style Sheets (CSS-1) implementation
- - see examples/css.htm (<LINK REL="stylesheet">, <STYLE> ).
- Stylesheets are damned Microsoft's invention and I started
- playing with them only because I needed to test certain
- mechanism with will be shared by JavaScript engine. After
- playing with JavaScript, I have noticed, that many Opera
- or MSIE enhanced pages implement many nasty CSS tricks, which
- are maybe good for testing, but which are extremely hard
- to implement if I want to keep css implementation under 2 KB.
- Aaaaghhrrrr !!!!! Anyway, CSS is controled by arachne.cfg
- variable CSS Yes|No, and it is default only for two sample
- Arachne profiles for faster PCs - other users have to turn
- them on manualy using Options | Preferences.
- New small icon based layout, simillar to original small
- icon GUI layout, was added - so you can now choose from
- four layouts with icons and one fullscreen layout.
- Clarence Verge and L.D. Best contributed to documentation.
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- 1.69 stable for DOS
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- Release date: 11th December 2000
- Bug fixes: Setup now actually runs in fullscreen mode.
- Connection: keep-alive now actually works.
- Memory leaks on pages with forms were totally fixed (Arachne
- now doesn't allocate conventional memory for HTML page at all).
- Tables shouldn't grow incredibly wide any more (eg. CNN.com
- in Arachne 1.68).
- "+" is valid e-mail address character, so it is no longer
- allowed as separator on TO:, CC: or BCC: field.
- Opensource mail viewer Insight was upgraded to version 3.69.
- Insight 3.69 creates more intelligent DOS filenames for
- both named and unnamed attachments and handles CC: header
- field properly (includes it in replies and forwarded mails, etc)
- Arachne should be able to follow URLs with & entity, as
- well as malformed URLs with URI (filename) starting with "../".
- find: pseudoprotocol was repaired.
- Improvements: Arachne 1.69 requires 2 KB less DOS memory then 1.68.
- In new screen layout, you can see full document title on
- status bar if you move mouse over partial title.
- New Tips & Tricks box was added to PPP dialer setup screen
- (Clarence will definitely hate that option, I am sure ;-)
- <TABLE BACKGROUND> tag implemented (see new EXAMPLES\TABLES.HTM)
- (Unfinished: Table and cell backgrounds cannot be transparent
- yet - this will take slightly more time than <TABLE BACKGROUND>
- which took cca 3 minutes to implement, BTW it is still not
- supported in Opera 4.x ;-)
- <BLOCKQUOTE> rendering was improved to conform Netscape
- rendering (==empty line in front of blockquote).
- Arachne message composer is now able to insert Bcc: field
- to outgoing message (warning: it is not guaranteed, that Bcc:
- will be removed from message header - some SMTP relays are
- known to remove these fields automaticaly, some not).
- New ARACHNE.CFG variable Editor allows you to specify external
- HTML editor (external message editing is planned for future)
- It is not possible to search internet just by typing one or more
- words to URL input field (same as find: pseudoprotocol).
- Changes: Google.com was choosed as prefered search engine for Arachne.
- Maximum hostname length in URL was increased to 48 characters.
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- 1.68 stable for DOS
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- Release date: 3th December 2000
- Improvements: New "small icons" screen layout (use F5 to change layouts)
- Wheel mouse support via patched CTMOUSE 1.8 beta 8 (you have
- to load SYSTEM\DEVDRVRS\CTMOUSE.EXE instead of your mouse driver,
- and only Microsoft Intellimouse protocol is supported - works fine
- eg. with Genuus Netscroll+ mouse).
- Implementation of HTTP/1.0 "Connection: keep-alive".
- Faster image download (as result of main loop optimization).
- Bug fixes: Installation process now doesn't overwrite existing HOTLIST.HTM
- Changes: Setup now runs in fullscreen mode to avoid user confusion.