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- Known Bugs (PR5.0a4):
- x Asks if Palmscape should dial up even if the network was connected
- before Palmscape was launched.
- x Some of HTML-coded characters are mismapped.
-
- History:
-
- 1998/02/05 Palmscape PR5.0a4 released with MANY BUG FIXES.
-
- 1997/12/29 Created a Japanese version of Palmscape.
-
- 1997/12/23 Fixed a bug that might have caused a fatal exeption when using
- Palmscape PR 5.0a2 for the first time.
- Handling of the pen when pushing an hyperlink is improved.
- Fixed a bug that cause a fatal exception when downloading a
- HTML that only contains a META tag.
-
- 1997/12/22 Palmscape PR 5.0a2 released.
-
- 1997/12/21 Added support for <SELECT MULTIPLE> tag.
- Strings are now truncated using local rules of selected encoding.
- Table of history in `Open URL' dialog is displayed match faster.
- POSTed pages can be reloaded.
- POSTed pages in local storage can be opened using `Open URL'
- dialog.
- Fixed a non-fatal bug that in some cases did not remove source
- pages while reloading.
- <TABLE> tags are now handled as <DIV ALIGN=LEFT>.
-
- 1997/12/14 Fixed a bug that caused page location to move to the top under
- certain occasion when opening using `Back' or `Foward' button.
- Fixed a bug that mishandled tags within tags such as 'SCRIPT'
- and 'TEXTAREA'.
- Comments are now parsed as defined in HTML/2.0.
-
- 1997/12/12 Added scroll bar to the Textarea dialog.
- Improved event handling.
- Added a shortcut for `Clear Cache'.
- Now longer opens or lists hidden records in Memo when necessary.
-
- 1997/12/11 Fixed a non fatal problem that occured when no METHOD was specified
- within a FORM tag.
- Fixed a problem that created an incomplete POST entity when its
- length was longer than 256 bytes.
- Fixed a memory leak that occured when selecting `Memo' in `Open
- URL' dialog.
- Fixed a bug that inserted a set of unreadable characters when
- exporting documents without titles to Memo.
- All messages are now stored in the resource for future localization.
- Fixed a bug that misencoded space characters (\x20) to '%20' on
- submitting a form.
-
- 1997/12/09 Fixed a bug that cause `Disconnect' to fail if used for more than
- one time.
-
- 1997/12/08 Palmscape PR 5.0a1 released.
- Now sends `Referer' header.
- Now supports META tags including `Refresh'.
- Now supports TR tags.
- Improved UI for `Open Url' dialog.
-
- 1997/12/07 Fixed a bug that caused a crash when downloading a HTML file
- containing a NULL character.
- Improved algorhythm for `Back' and `Forward' navigation.
- Documents can be exported to MemoPad.
- Documents can be LOCKed so that they would not be removed
- on cache compactation.
- Improved navigation bar.
-
- 1997/12/05 Fixed a bug in handling of A HREF tags containing '&'s.
- Fixed a bug in handling of relative URLs.
- Fixed a bug that caused a fatal exception when opening an URL
- containing a port number.
- SELECT tags of which options do not fit in screen are scrollable.
- Fixed a bug that mistakenly handled MAXLENGTH attribute of a text
- field.
-
- 1997/11/23 Palmscape PR5.0a0 released.
- Support for FORMs.
- Import HTMLs in Memo.
- Navigation bar (removed menu items such as Open, Back, Forward).
- Improved downloading speed.
- Maximum document size is lifted from 32Kbytes to 64Kbytes.
-
- 1997/10/01 Title of the document is used in `Open URL' dialog and
- `Add Bookmark' menu.
- Fixed a bug in handling hyperlinks with relative URIs including
- anchors.
- Fixed a bug in handling the alignment of HEADER tags.
-
- 1997/09/29 Fixed a bug in handling of content-type. `No Mime-Type' alert
- would appear less frequently than before.
- Fixed a bug that cause a crash when downloading a large document,
- size of a page is limited to 32 Kbytes.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes mislayouted texts within a DIV tag.
-
- 1997/09/28 Now handles HTTP/0.9 type responses.
- Now does not hiide the contents of HEAD tag.
- Messages of authentication dialogs have become more accurate.
-
- 1997/09/27 Now shows an alert before connecting to the network.
- Fixed a bug in handling of HTML coded characters in the TITLE tag.
- Now hides the contents of these tags: HEAD, SCRIPT, JAVASCRIPT.
-
- 1997/09/26 Now supports HTTP authentication and proxy authentication.
-
- 1997/09/23 Now supports links within documents (A NAME tag).
- Palmscape.prc is linked back in "SMALL" mode.
-
- 1997/09/20 Parsing of HTML tags is MUCH faster.
- Fixed a bug in handling NOSHADE option of HR tag.
- Fixed a bug (enbugged on 9/17) that caused a fatal exception
- when downloading a large document (20KBytes~)
-
- 1997/09/17 Now uses a faster library.
- Parsing speed of HTML tags has been improved. Errorneous tags
- are handled better than before.
-
- 1997/09/16 Fixed a bug that caused a fatal exception when pushing `Page
- Down' key in `Open URL' or `Bookmarks' dialog but there is
- no scroll bar.
- Fixed a bug in `JP Auto-detect' module, that sometimes mis-
- determined SJIS charset as EUC charset.
- Now handles HTML coded characters starting with `' correctly.
-
- 1997/09/15 Fixed a bug in handling <LI> and <P> tags. <OL> tags are
- now displayed correctly, <UL><LI> tags are now aligned correctly.
-
- 1997/09/14 Fixed a bug in `Open URL' and `Bookmarks' dialogs. Screen
- images of these dialogs were sometimes incorrectly redrawn.
- Fixed a bug in `Bookmarks' dialog. After scrolling the list,
- items were incorrectly selected.
- Scroll position of the `Bookmarks' dialog will not be resetx
- after editing an item.
- Fixed a bug: `Go back' and `Go forward' sometimes did not work.
-
- 1997/09/13 Now bookmarks can be edited.
- Fixed a bug that caused a `Object not in form' exception
- when quitting the application from a `Open URL' dialog while
- downloading a document.
- Table of URLs in `Open URL' dialog can now be scrolled using
- scroll buttons.
- Shortcut for `Go Forward' has been replaced with a space key.
- Shortcut for `Go Back' has been replaced with a backspace key.
- Shortcut for `Stop Download' has been changed.
- Handles comments in <!-- --> style.
-
- 1997/09/12 Now only keeps only one version of the document for each URL,
- which was downloaded most recently.
- Now does not redraws the menu when downloading.
- `Open URL' dialog holds the last URL being input.
- Fixed a bug that caused a fatal exception while downloading.
- Fixed a bug that flushed history.
- Fixed a bug found in event handling.
-
- 1997/09/11 Fixed a bug that produced a `Chunk over-locked' error when
- trying to start downloading.
-
- 1997/09/09 Now cached documents are cleared from the least recently touched
- ones.
- Fixed a bug that prevented handling HTML encoded characters.
- Now stores preferences in a resource database.
-
- 1997/09/08 Modified `Open URL' dialog.
- Now the user is confirmed before clearing cache.
- Fixed a bug on handling cache.
- Fixed a bug that hid the scrollbar on some occasions.
-
- 1997/09/07 Improved history support.
- Structure of the preference has been changed (and thus requires
- a clean install)
- `Open URL', 'Preferences', 'Info' dialogs now have an `Edit' menu.
- Modified UI.
- Now has a `Open' button on the main window.
-
- 1997/09/06 Fixed a (potential but serious) bug.
- Added a download indicator.
- Added a Page::Info menu.
- `Shortcut' popup no more exists.
- Now uses a PalmOS2-style scroll bar.
- Fixed a bug that conjuncted returns in a text/plain document or a
- PRE tag.
- Now handles JIS X 0208 - 1978 (a.k.a. Kyu-JIS).
- Scrolling is much faster.
- Fixed a bug on handling a html encoded character.
- Now does not follow the link behind the selected menu.
- Now uses cached pages properly.
- Now has the ability to receive URLs from other applications and
- automatically jumps to the specified location.
-
- 1997/09/05 Palmscape is now built by CodeWarrior.
- No more "PSCommon Lib".
-
- 1997/08/29 Won't sleep while downloading.
- Now support text/plain documents.
- Handles IMG ALT tags correctly.
- HTML encoded characters within IMG ALT and TITLE tags are now
- decoded.
- Fixed a bug on handling "Pragma: no-cache".
-
- 1997/08/28 Now supports proxy servers.
- Now appends a header "Pragma: no-cache" when reloading a web page.
- Now decodes all HTML encoded characters.
- Host: header of the request is now RFC compliant.
- Improved handling of IMG tags, though not perfect.
-
- 1997/08/26 Now supports HTTP redirection (3xx status code).
- Now substitutes IMAGE tags without an ALT option.
- Fixed a potential memory leak.
- Displays a bit more detailed report when a connection error occurs.
- Added a "Disconnect" menu item.
- Now can access to the web sites with multiple IP addresses.
- Now checks the Content-Length header.
-
- 1997/08/25 Palmscape PR 3.1 released.
- Fixed handling of font related tags.
- Hopefully fixed a serious bug that caused a fatal exception.
-
- 1997/08/24 Palmscape PR 3 released.
- Now a user may modify size of the cache.
- Now a user may clear cache.
- Support for Japanese encodings (JIS, SJIS, EUC, and Auto Detect).
- Fixed a bug that caused a crash when connecting to a server.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
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- 1997/08/22 Palmscape PR 2.1 released.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
- Tuned downloading speed.
-
- 1997/08/22 Palmscape PR 2 released.
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