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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>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.co.uk</bq>then this will be automatically rewritten for you
to<bq>http://www.demon.co.uk/</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
the mouse button in the URL icon at the top of the window, and press
RETURN. This will rerender the diagram. You could press the Reload
icon, but that would force the page to be reloaded from its source.
</ul>
More will be added here, as I remember and people prompt me!
<hr>
<address>Stewart Brodie<br> April 24th 1996</address>