MacWeb Developer NotesMacWeb Developer NotesThis document contains Developer Notes for the following releases of MacWeb:
This document also contains Acknowledgements.
1.00A2
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1.00A2d5
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* Fixed bug in wwwConfirmMessage -- it wasn't including args in message.
* Fixed bug in View Suffix Info -- MIMETypesM wasn't getting init'd.
* Fixed bug in loading of Suffix and MIME info.
Reported by Henry Rzepa (h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk).
* Fixed bug in MIME "UseURL" filename option.
Reported by Henry Rzepa (h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk).
* Fixed bug in EOL conversion.
Reported by Henry Rzepa (h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk).
* Added support for http server status 301.
* Changed HTAppVersion so it's now init'd from the VERS resource.
* Removed Children entry from Navigate menu.
Reported by Thomas Gunter (tgunter@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu).
* Changed (command) keys for Helpers (M), Suffixes (;), and Search (').
Reported by Thomas Gunter (tgunter@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu).
* Modified MacWeb so it can now Quit when the Console window is exposed.
Reported by Thomas Gunter (tgunter@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu).
* Changed hotlists to allow Macintosh menu escape characters *iff* the
menu string begins with a semi-colon (';');
* Modified setting of News host to properly reinitialize.
1.00A2d4
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* Modified ftp parsing code to handle slightly different flavors of Unix (or
at least Unix-like) ftp servers.
Reported by Michael Newbery (Michael.Newbery@vuw.ac.nz).
* Added a file filter to the SFGet dialog presented the Add MIME Info dialog's
"Select..." button.
Reported by Michael Newbery (Michael.Newbery@vuw.ac.nz).
* Changed button names to "More Options" and "Fewer Options".
Reported by Adam Elman (elmanad@rescomp.stanford.edu).
* Removed "Suffixes..." and "MIME..." buttons from Edit MIME and Edit Suffixes.
Reported by Adam Elman (elmanad@rescomp.stanford.edu).
* Changed default MIME type for EditMIME->New from "????" to "type/subtype".
* Fixed list display bug in GetTypeD (in the case that the list isn't used).
* Moved icons in Gopher menu listings *inside* anchor definitions. (You can
now click on them to traverse link!)
Reported by Michael Newbery (Michael.Newbery@vuw.ac.nz).
* Fixed crashing bug in EditMIMED's "New...".
Reported by Henry Rzepa (h.rzepa@ic.ac.uk) and Michael Newbery.
* Fixed crashing bug in GetType and GetTypeD.
* Modified EditMIMED to initially enable "Convert EOL" checkbox correctly.
1.00A2d3
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* Fixed a bug in the buffering code shared by ftp, gopher, and nntp.
Reported by Michael Newbery (Michael.Newbery@vuw.ac.nz).
* Added hotlist sorting.
Reported by John C. Mallery (JCMa@reagan.ai.mit.edu).
* Fixed bug in drawing of elements nested within PRE.
Reported by John C. Mallery MIME and MIME->Helper GUIs for clarity.
Reported by Adam Elman (elmanad@rescomp.stanford.edu).
1.00A2d2
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* Changed default size of PRE font to be -2 relative.
* Modified code that adjusts line height from font to allow a leading
of no less than 2.
Reported by Jim Harrison (Harrison.Jim@tmc.tulane.edu).
* Fixed bug in Edit Styles dialog. It wasn't updating "Size Is Relative" info.
Reported by Jim Harrison (Harrison.Jim@tmc.tulane.edu).
* Fixed bug in saving of MacMosaic hotlists.
Reported by Steve Goldstein (goldstein@nsf.gov).
* Added UseURLOption to MIME info.
Reported by Ralph Muha (rmuha@tiac.net).
* Modified HTParseSocket so it's smarter about when to use HTCopy and
HTCopyNoCR.
Reported by Laurie Gelb (laurie@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu).
* Fixed bug in redirection resulting from POST submission method.
Reported by Kevin Morris (finicky@rescomp.stanford.edu).
* Modified LoadURL so it'll use the URL filename as the default.
* Added call to DoSaveHotlist in DoOpenHotlist.
Reported by Laurie Gelb (laurie@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu).
* Added the Suffix->MIME and MIME->Helper GUIs.
* Fixed bug with manual helper launching.
Reported by Gordon Riall (griall@agcom.tamu.edu).
1.00A2d1
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* Fixed "Write to NIL" error.
Reported by Eric Binova (ericb@baker.dartmouth.edu).
* Increased the HTML parser's MAX_NESTING.
Reported by Jim Bob Howard ().
* Reversed ordering of FORM name=value pairs to be compatible
with existing browsers.
Reported by Karel Strasters (karel@ph.tn.tudelft.nl).
* Modified HTLoadGopher so it handles macbinhex type correctly.
Reported by Chris Garrigues (cwg@mcc.com).
* Modified HTLoadGopher so it uses MIME type inferred by file
suffix (instead of presuming text/plain).
Reported by Mark Borges (mdb@noaacdc.colorado.edu).
* Modified anchor/image loading so they only occur on mouse *up*.
Reported by Adam Engst (ace@tidbits.com).
* macHTML.c was modified to apply character translation to Titles.
Reported by Jorma Paananen (Jorma.Paananen@th.tele.fi).
* Modified MacWeb to submit proper application and library information.
Reported by Paul Burchard (burchard@geom.umn.edu).
* Fixed IMG initialization bug (for half-baked IMG specifications).
Reported by John C. Mallery (JCMa@reagan.ai.mit.edu).
* Modified translator registration code so it assigns a quality of 1.0
(instead of 0.5).
Reported by John G Dorsey (jd5q+@andrew.cmu.edu).
* Fixed "missing text at end of document" bug.
Reported by J. Douglas Dunlop (dunlop@ists.ists.ca).
* Modified video/mpeg and video/quicktime MIME info to set Launch bit.
Reported by Shouichi Matsui (matsui@denken.or.jp).
* Modified DoSearch so previous search text is left in tact.
Reported by Lynn Brock (lbrock@prosaix.com).
* Fixed bug in lone TEXT INPUT so submits FORM.
Reported by Ken Bates (bates@cscns.com).
* Fixed FORM formatting bug (menus overlapped with following items).
Reported by George H. Brett II (George.Brett@cnidr.org).
* Modified style of FORMs to begin and end on a new line.
Reported by ????.
* Fixed bug in GIF reader dealing with extraneous data in file.
Reported by Carl Snow (carl@smart.lib.purdue.edu).
* Modified MacWeb's response to FTP failures.
Reported by Clay C. Ross (cross@seraph1.sewanee.edu).
* Modified SaveAs so selected type is retained (until next launch).
* Made PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End keys work!
Reported by Richard Johnson (Richard.Johnson@colorado.edu).
* Added IMG alignment options "middle" and "top".
Reported by OS (OSoliman@utkvx.utcc.utk.edu).
* Fixed bug in maintenance of Temp Docs Folder Preference.
Reported by Adam Engst (ace@tidbits.com).
* Fixed bug causing truncation of text in SELECT Lists.
Reported by James A Landay (landay+@cs.cmu.edu).
* Fixed DL's so when nested they *display* nested.
Reported by Jim Harrison (Harrison.Jim@tmc.tulane.edu).
* Modified line calculation of images to check cache as appropriate.
BIG win!
Reported by .
* Fixed bug in sock_close_all.
* Fixed bug in SELECT HTML dumper.
Reported by Frank Simon (terra@nordwest.germany.eu.net).
* Fixed bug in "wrap" of words containing extended characters.
Reported by Claude Boucher (boucherc@nbnet.nb.ca).
* Modified "Error Launching Specified Application" warning so it now
uses a dialog and queries the user about deleting the temp file.
Reported by Eric A Perlman (eperlman@kn.pacbell.com).
* Fixed bug with autoloading images of pages retrieved via search,
query, or ismap.
Reported by Dave Garaffa (d-garaffa@ski.mskcc.org).
* Modified macHTSaveAndExecute so it uses the URL filename as the
default filename (*only* when prompting the user).
Reported by Chris Garrigues (cwg@mcc.com).
* Modified HTFTP.c so it can parse VMS ftp listings.
Reported by Garrett Fitzgerald (GFitzger@nyx.cs.du.edu).
* Modified macHTEImage.c so in the absence of a file suffix in the
IMG SRC path, the image type GIF is presumed.
Reported by Russ Wright (wright@lbl.gov).
* Fixed "disappearing TextArea" bug.
Reported by Michael J. Kobb (mjkobb@apple.com).
* Modified HTML parser to handle \n's better (for contained PRE).
* Modified LI numbering to account for more than 2 digits.
Reported by OS (OSoliman@UTKVX.UTCC.UTK.EDU).
* Added System 7 check to initialization.
Reported by Michael Newbery (Michael.Newbery@vuw.ac.nz).
* Streamlined "set color pixel" code (used by GIF inlining).
* Fixed bug in resetting offscreen radio buttons.
Reported by Roy Smith (roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu).
* Modified default hotlist loading to attempt, in the absence of a hotlist
preference, to load the hotlist resource from MacWeb itself.
Reported by Patrick (pks@sys.uea.ac.uk).
* Added HTML comment to beginning of html files generated by MacWeb.
* Modified "spin loop" to accommodate Application Menu selections.
Reported by Ralph Muha (rmuha@tiac.net).
* Modified "spin loop" to accommodate ZoomIn/Out selections,too.
* Set watch icon while "parsing" files from the local disk.