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- <html><head><title>Hints'n'Tips for using ArcWeb</title><body>
- <h1>Hints'n'Tips</h1>
-
- There are several features which have been added over the months but for one
- reason or another haven't been mentioned anywhere. I don't expect
- <em>all</em> my users to be psychic, so here's a list of some of them.
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>Drag'N'Drop
-
- <p>The widespread use of Drag'n'Drop protocols throughout ArcWeb means that
- various places can support the arrival of URLs - eg. the Hotlist window. If
- you drag a URL to the hotlist window, it will prompt you for a title, and add
- the object to the hotlist. You can also drag URLs from web pages to other
- windows for E-mail address books (if you drag ADJUST then you lose the
- mailto: off the front too and end up with just the e-mail address).
-
- <li>Adjust clicks
-
- <p>If you click with the <em>ADJUST</em> button on a link, then it will be
- opened in a new window. From version 1.58, this new window opens
- immediately, so you can choose more links from the original page whilst
- waiting for the other ones to arrive.
-
- <li>Font choices
-
- <p>I have found that preformatted text looks a lot better if you set its
- aspect ratio to 84% when using Corpus. You can change this in the Font
- Configuration window. Don't forget to set all 4 types of Preformatted
- text to the same, otherwise it'll look weird, though! The changes will
- not take effect unless you Save Options, and the reload the program.
-
- <li>Screen real estate
-
- <p>If you have a low resolution display, then I suggest that you turn
- off the "Show URL in toolbar" option in the Browser configuration window.
- New pages will not have the writable icon containing the current URL
- displayed in them, thus releasing more of the vertical display space
- for the page itself.
-
- <li>Link activation
-
- <p>If you wish to load the destination of a link to disc (for example, if it
- is some kind of binary archive), then you should hold down <em>SHIFT</em>
- when you click on the link. If you wish to force ArcWeb to reload an object
- then you can hold down <em>CTRL</em> and this acts as if you had gone to that
- page and then clicked Reload. You can use these in combination, so <em>SHIFT
- CTRL</em> means reload to disc.
-
- <p>This technique also works in the URL icon at the top of the browser
- display window.
-
-
- <li>Automatic scheme modification
-
- <p>When you are typing a URL into one of the writable icons in either the
- Open URL dialogue box, or in the URL icon at the top of a display window,
- you need not specify the protocol being used. For example, if you enter
- <bq>www.demon.net</bq>then this will be automatically rewritten for you
- to<bq>http://www.demon.net/</bq>(http will be guessed because the hostname
- starts <em>www</em>. Other autoinserted schemes include ftp, gopher &
- wais.
-
- <li>Relative URLs
-
- <p>You can also type relative URLs into those icons. If you do, they will be
- resolved as if the document had contained a link with that destination (so if
- the document had a <base> tag, it would be resolved relative to that,
- rather than the URL under which it was retrieved (which may have been
- different)
-
- <li>Resizing display
-
- <p>If you resize the window, then the page is not reformatted to fill the
- new size (this could take a long time to do). To make it redraw, click
- ADJUST on the Reload icon. Alternatively, click
- the mouse button in the URL icon at the top of the window, and press
- RETURN. Both of these will rerender the diagram.
-
-
- </ul>
-
- More will be added here, as I remember and people prompt me!
-
- <hr>
- <address>Stewart Brodie<br>June 27th 1996</address>
-