AWeb release history

AWeb-II 3.1

• Fixed bugs:
  • FTP didn't work with INet-225.
• Added support for JavaScript 1.1.
• Added support for secure connections by use of MiamiSSL.
• Added internal mailer (mailto:).
• Added internal newsreader.
• Added the autosearch feature.
• Added a search engine to the documentation.
• Updated strict HTML mode to support HTML 4.0.
• Added option to configure the keyboard.
• Added option for continuously running transfer animation.
• Arexx: added CHANOPEN and related commands to incrementally load a document.
• ...and many,many other things.

AWeb-II 3.0b (bugfix)

• Fixed many bugs:
  • AWeb could hang or crash (01000008, semaphore in illegal state) frequently.
  • Large paragraphs of text could be messed up.
  • Small images on a line by themselves could take up too much vertical space.
  • Scrolling horizontally, then going back would not display the document correctly.
  • Opening a new window could load the document again.
  • Reload of a redirected page when the redirection changed (like random Yahoo) didn't display the new page.
  • With image loading set to "maps only", other images already in memory weren't displayed.
  • Submitting a form from an unloaded image "button" didn't always work.
  • ... and more.
• Added support for image scaling for nontransparent images when using the internal (datatype based) decoder.
• Added support for RAmiga-C in text form fields (copy contents to clipboard).
• Added support for all Windows characters in the range 128-159.

AWeb-II 3.0

• Support for frames, table backgrounds, and more HTML features.
• Support for server push and client pull.
• Support for proxy authorization.
• Internal FTP support.
• A public plugin interface. Plugin modules can do their rendering directly in the AWeb browser window. The API (Application Program Interface) is available as a separate archive.
• Standalone images are now shown in the AWeb window, or using an optional external image viewer.
• More versatile cookie protection, and a cookie alert requester. Cookie save file is now in readable form.
• Largely enhanced Arexx command set.
• Clipboard support, including copy selected text from a page.
• Fully configurable user buttons.
• Fully configurable popup menu.
• New info window with HTTP transfer headers, meta information and links.
• Network status window shows CPS rate.
• New powerful hotlist manager.
• Enhanced cachebrowser with find functions and delete of multiple files.
• Search function highlights the text found.
• Improved greyscale palette.
• Menu item: edit HTML source.
• Menu items: load settings, save settings as.
• No-proxy and no-cache lists are now sorted and support pattern matching.
• ...and many, many other things.

AWeb-II 2.1

• Fixed many bugs.
• Completed HTML 3.2 support (tables, floating images, font size and colours, client side image maps).
• Added support for background sounds (based on datatypes).
• Moved the settings to a separate program with three windows.
• Added a persistent, disk based cache with a cache browser.
• Added the popup menu.
• Added search function.
• Added graphical print function.
• Now treats https: as http:
• Made the GUI button images and the transfer animation configurable.
• Added more default MIME types.
• ...and many, many other things.

AWeb-II 2.0, AWeb 1.2b

• Fixed bugs:
  • Enforcer hit when executing ARexx GET command
  • <HR> within list was rendered indented
  • Last MIME setting was saved twice in the settings file
  • <OL START=n> started with n+1
  • <OL START=32766> bullets became negative
  • Hit form text area 'E' button and let editor open overlapping window on same screen, then window wasn't refreshed if editor window was closed.
  • Didn't follow the "garbage in, garbage out" rule correctly on <P> tags within <PRE>. Fixed to treat <P> in preformatted text as two newlines.
  • Didn't send Pragma: no-cache when requesting a reload.
  • Displayed extra blank line between bullet and text for <LI><P>text</P>
  • If title in hotlist contains < or & then HTML hotlist didn't display correctly
  • Images weren't refreshed correctly when scrolled from underneath an overlapping window
  • HTTP response wasn't recognized when first block received was 1 byte
• Now sets the file comment to the URL when saving or downloading.
• Added SCREENTOFRONT and SCREENTOBACK ARexx commands.
• Added CACHE ARexx command.
• Added GET ACTIVEPORT ARexx command.

AWeb 1.2

• Fixed many bugs:
  • used to hang on "processing" with some gif images
  • moving or closing a window sometimes caused a system lockup
  • going back and forward through history sometimes showed wrong versions of a page, most notably with (search) form responses
  • when the temporary directory was PROGDIR:something, external programs didn't work
  • with long rows of images, images were displayed on top of each other
  • the output console window of spawned external programs couldn't be used for input
• Added localization
• Added backgrounds, text colours, centering
• Made all unloaded image icons external, and replaceable
• Added hierarchical hotlist
• Improved the window history
• Added user-configurable ARexx macro menu
• Added ALLOWCMD and GET SCREEN ARexx commands
• Added "tolerant" HTML mode, and made HTML mode a proper setting that is saved
• Added telnet: and news: support through external programs
• Added automatic TCP connection start/stop
• ... and many other very small changes

AWeb 1.1

• Fixed several bugs:
  • crashed on 68000 machines at some URLs like www.yahoo.com
  • sending forms with empty fields didn't work
  • loading MPEGs skipped 1 byte
  • crashed when typing beyond the border of a textarea form field
  • image memory cache limit didn't work
  • downloading image didn't save but started external viewer instead
  • shift-click on ftp link stopped AWeb
  • didn't adapt to different frame size for navigation buttons
  • GIFs didn't show up as transparent, or were messed up totally
  • some settings weren't saved correctly when changed
• Transparent GIF now works even if the GIF datatype used doesn't support transparency
• Now falls back to topaz if font not found instead of exiting
• Improved scrolling speed on simple refresh windows
• Added keyboard support for the settings window
• Added HOTLIST tooltype and argument
• Improved speed when navigating back and forward to large documents
• Now remembers form field values when going back
• Improved pre-loaded palette
• Now uses KEYPATH variable to locate key file
• ... and many other very small changes

AWeb 1.0

First release for general public.

AWeb 0.6alpha

This release was only for members of the Dutch Amiga Magazine BBS.

• keymap.library is now opened with version 37 (version 39 does not exist)

AWeb 0.5alpha

This release was only for members of the Dutch Amiga Magazine BBS.

• Added FORM and ISINDEX support
• Added ISINDEX support
• Fixed many bugs

AWeb 0.2alpha

This release was only for members of the Dutch Amiga Magazine BBS.

• Fixed redirection, which was broken in the initial release

AWeb 0.1alpha

This release was only for members of the Dutch Amiga Magazine BBS.

Limited initial alpha release