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- 1 - 4. _B_u_g__F_i_x_e_s 4.1 _C_o_s_m_o__C_r_e_a_t_e Cosmo Create encompasses the functionality of the previously released WebMagic application. The following WebMagic bugs have been fixed in Cosmo Create. +o The HTML output from WebMagic often contained very long lines. The HTML output from Cosmo Create is now formatted around a 72 column page with indentations as appropriate. +o Printing from WebMagic when run on low resolution displays would produce incorrectly formatted output. This has been fixed. +o WebMagic would use a large number of colors from the default system colormap. This would leave certain applications unable to run due to lack of colors. Cosmo Create now uses a 24-bit visual by default and thus no longer consumes such large numbers of colors. +o WebMagic would change or lose certain HTML source constructs. Cosmo Create goes to great lengths to preserve the original HTML contents regardless of whether it understands the constructs. This includes the preservation of all unrecognized elements and attributes (except unrecognized attributes on font markups such as B, I, FONT), the preservation of the contents and location style sheets, scripts and comments. +o WebMagic would lose empty NAME anchors. This has been fixed in Cosmo Create. When an empty NAME anchor is encountered, it is placed around the markup immediately following the anchor. +o WebMagic would misorder font tags when used near anchor tags. This has been fixed in Cosmo Create. +o WebMagic would apply HTML escapes to URLs. This would cause URLs with +o WebMagic would get confused when parsing a file with HTML attributes that contained certain HTML escape sequences (e.g. "). This has been fixed in Cosmo Create. +o Horizontal scrolling now works correctly for large images. - 2 - +o Background images now scroll. The following Cosmo Create 1.0 bugs have been fixed in Cosmo Create 1.0.1. +o Cosmo Create 1.0 recognized only an uppercase </SCRIPT> tag as terminating a script. Cosmo Create 1.0.1 terminates a script without regard to the case of the </SCRIPT> tag. +o Tables are redrawn less often, greatly increasing editing speed and reducing flashing. +o Editing tables is more stable. +o To insert a paragraph before or after a table, you can now click to the left or right of the table and just start typing. The paragraph will be inserted automatically, without requiring the use of the "Add Paragraph Before/After Table" items in the Format menu. +o Text in table heading cells (<TH> tag) is now displayed bold. +o Cosmo Create 1.0.1 is better at handling preformatted text within table cells. The following Cosmo Create 1.0 bugs have been fixed in Cosmo Create 1.0.2. +o A '/' character is no longer appended to the CODEBASE attribute if it already ends in a '/'. +o The document modified status is maintained correctly when turning "Alternate HTML" on and off in the View menu. +o Adding a row at the end of a table that is at the very end of the document no longer causes Cosmo Create to crash. +o Horizontal rules inside table cells are now sized correctly, and they no longer incorrectly migrate outside of the cell. +o Invoking separate copies of Cosmo Create in rapid succession without using the -runmany flag no longer results in the crashing of the program or display of the wrong files. - 3 - +o A security hole existed in the Perl script output by the Cosmo Create Forms Tool. The hole was caused by the use of the Perl eval function with a user supplied variable. This function provided an alternate means of specifying variables in the script but was not required. Since it is a security hole it has been removed. Scripts based on previous versions of Cosmo Create will have the security hole and should remove line number 33 in the original script. The line to be removed reads: eval("\$$key = \"$value\""); Refer to all form variables using $form{'varaibleName'}. (485966) The following Cosmo Create 1.0 bugs have been fixed in Cosmo Create 1.0.3. +o Cosmo Create would sometimes crash when updating the WYSIWYG editing window from the source editing window. This has been fixed. +o Certain attributes of an anchor tag would be lost if the anchor tag enclosed an image tag that referenced an image map. This has been fixed. +o Cosmo Create running in an Asian locale (e.g. Japanese) no longer incorrectly parses pages with non-breaking space characters (i.e. ). However, pages containing other ISO Latin 1 characters outside the ASCII range should not be processed by Cosmo Create in an Asian locale. This limitation is placed on Cosmo Create by the character encoding schemes used for Asian locales. +o Empty VALUE attributes on form OPTION or INPUT tags are no longer removed. Empty VALUE attributes are display as fields with "" as the value. To create an empty VALUE attribute, specify "" in the value field. +o Cosmo Create no longer renders ALIGN attributes in tags that do not support the ALIGN attribute (i.e. PRE, ADDRESS, BLOCKQUOTE, DD, DT, LI, OL, UL, MENU and DIR). The attribute value is preserved in all cases. Similarly, the user interface no longer allows right justification of paragraph styles that do not support the ALIGN attribute. - 4 - +o Content fetched from the web into Cosmo Create now preserves the file extensions in the local file cache. This preserves the mime types of the content permitting correct previewing and other processing. +o The <CENTER> tag is now properly balanced when used with the <PRE> tag. +o Cosmo Create now uses the correct font, ming, when run in the Traditional Chinese locale (zh_TW.ucns). Previous version of Cosmo Create incorrectly used the song font. +o Cosmo Create no longer drops the MAXLENGTH attribute when processing a TEXT INPUT tag. In addition, the MAXLENGTH setting now limits the number of characters that can be entered into the text field. +o Cosmo Create no longer crashes when given an image map with a hotspot that does not have an anchor associated with it. +o The contents of XMP, PLAINTEXT and LISTING paragraphs are now displayed WYSIWYG and are no longer converted to PRE pragraphs. Since a number of formatting options on the GUI have no meaning in an XMP or PLAINTEXT paragraph, selecting one of these options will simply cause a beep. +o The SMALL and BIG tags are no longer converted to FONT SIZE tags. Note that there is no GUI support for specifying these tags. +o Relative font sizes specified within headings are now displayed at the correct size. Note that there is no GUI support for specifying relative font sizes. 4.2 _C_o_s_m_o__P_a_c_k_a_g_e 4.2.1 _G_e_n_e_r_a_l +o There is now a "Directory" packager, so if your content refers to a directory, you will no longer get a FATAL error during the discovery phase. From the Directory preference panel, you can select which file is used as the "index" of the directory. Please see the help system for more information. +o Several large memory leaks were fixed. Cosmo Package should use much less memory and is a lot less likely to - 5 - cause you to run out of swap space. +o In Cosmo Package 1.0, saving your package could invalidate the filenames used in a preview started before you saved. Now, those filenames will remain valid until you "Restart" the packaging process or do a "Save As". +o Prior to Cosmo Package 1.0.2, HTML between <pre> and </pre> tags was not treated as HTML. This meant that any URLs between those tags would not be discovered for packaging or patched during packaging. This has been fixed. +o Prior to Cosmo Package 1.0.2, malformed URLs of the form "//News" caused memory to be corrupted, possibly killing CosmoPackage. This corruption has been fixed. (479316) +o Prior to Cosmo Package 1.0.2, mappings were not displayed correctly when opening or restarting a previously saved package. This has been fixed. (480509) 4.2.2 _H_T_M_L +o Prior to Cosmo Package 1.0.2, all attributes whose names began "SGI_" were stripped during packaging. This included attributes intended for the SGI CosmoPlayer. Now, only attributes from the following set are removed: SGI_ASPECT_RATIO, SGI_BACKGROUND, SGI_BACKGROUND_INVALID, SGI_CLASSID, SGI_CLASSID_INVALID, SGI_CODE, SGI_CODE_INVALID, SGI_COMMENT, SGI_DATA, SGI_DATA_INVALID, SGI_FULLPATH, SGI_HEIGHT_FIXED, SGI_HEIGHT_UNFIXED, SGI_NATIVE_SRC, SGI_SETHEIGHT, SGI_SETWIDTH, SGI_SRC, SGI_SRC_INVALID, SGI_URL_CMD, SGI_WHITESPACE, SGI_WIDTH_FIXED, SGI_WIDTH_UNFIXED. 4.2.3 _V_R_M_L +o In some situations, the VRML packager was not able to convert movies and sounds. This would result in a message stating: "Can't figure out whether the file "someMovie.mpg" has audio and/or video tracks." This has been fixed. Since this bug has been fixed, when you see this error message, the troubleshooting steps it recommends are more likely to be useful. +o The packager now discovers and corrects urls used within the bodies of PROTOs. - 6 - +o By default, VRML files will be gzipped in new packages.