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- <title>What's New in Recent Versions</title>
- <body>
- <h1>What's New?</h1>
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- Things of note which are new in recent versions:
- <ul>
- <li>ArcWeb has gained its own GIF decoder so it no longer has to rely on ChangeFSI/gif2spr
- to provide image translation.
- </ul>
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- New in less recent versions (the further down the list, the older the feature/fix):
- <ul>
- <li>PrintWeb takes into account the current printer paper size settings (
- or defaults to A4 if <img src="#!printers" alt="!Printers"> isn't loaded
- <li>Frames via lists of links
- <li>Cookie support added
- <li>META and LINK tags are stored and can be viewed by clicking Adjust on
- <img src="#sm!help" alt="the small !Help icon"> on the toolbar or by clicking
- on the <em>More Information</em> button in the About dialogue box.
- <li>Preformatted text layout is much better
- <li>Authentication database much enhanced. Now features:
- <ul>
- <li>Storing of FTP passwords
- <li>Correct handling of multiple realms per HTTP server
- <li>All password information is encrypted in the Auth_DB file
- </ul>
- <li>JPEG plotting code more consistent (can handle JPEGs with non-default
- DPI settings
- <li>Client-side imagemaps (same document only)
- <li>FTP upload provides status updates
- <li>Interactive web page design
- <li>FTP upload
- <li>local: URLs can be made case-sensitive
- <li>Background image plotting should be much better now
- <li>Drag'n'Drop protocol now supported - so you can drag the URLs from the URL icon out to
- other places.
- <li>I've fixed a major fault in the global history handling which was causing random exits
- whenever the global history filled up.
- <li>Cache is more configurable (see its configuration window)
- <li>More resilient networking code - no obvious outward signs of this except a decrease in
- the number of failed connections to proxies, hopefully.
- <li>Image menu added so that you can export (most of) the images from web pages
- <li>DrawFiles are exported `cleanly' now, so Draw doesn't complain about some of the objects.
- <li>Width & Height attributes to the img tag are supported
- <li>Email sending no longer causes a weird silent exit, and the result of trying to e-mail is
- displayed in a dialogue box too.
- <li>New DNS Resolver code included to provide secondary cacheing, and to search out system
- variables contaning resolver configuration information when the resconf configuration file
- is not found.
- <li>ArcWeb now uses Dynamic Areas on a Risc PC (the amount of memory to claim is configurable in
- the <em>Memory</em> choices window)
- <li>ArcWeb can take advantage of Virtualise ® in order to make those dynamic areas virtual.
- Control of virtual memory is via the Virtualise frontend, or a simple on/off switch in the
- <em>Memory</em> choices window in ArcWeb.
- <li>ADJUST click on the Reload button just resizes the display
- <li>Image size detection fixed again
- <li>Shouldn't prompt you to confirm a quit if there are no windows open and no activity
- <li>Renderer should finally manage to multitask multiple renders, although this will use
- quite a bit of CPU time, I would have thought
- <li>Major memory leak fixed (1.5Kb per page viewed!)
- <li>Image sizes should be calculated better in non-square modes, so imagemaps will work better
- <li>Hot keys are detected on <select> menus and are not right justified by the Wimp any more.
- <li>Multithreading fixed so that structures belonging to one thread don't get
- deallocated by others whilst the other is still actively using the structure.
- <li><a href=bugreports>Debug information</a> sent to RAM:$.WebRegs if DumpRegisters variable is set.
- <li>A lot more information in the <a href="arcweb">user manual</a> pages.
- <li>Other misc fixes
- <li>Massive bug in message reception function fixed. This would have caused
- random Address Exceptions.
- <li>Anchors work again - they were broken in 1.27 and possibly before that too.
- <li>RISC OS 3.1 should no longer die when I delete windows due to the WindowManager
- bug. I have added code to defer window deletion until the Wimp does not have
- any icon slabbed in.
- <li>Nothing was being automatically run (even 'safe' types) due to me failing
- to read the top of PRM 1-310 regarding the fact that <tt>os_read_var_val</tt>
- <em>can</em> return an error, even if it succeeds.
- <li>gopher code rewritten to handle EOL correctly
- <li>Bug in email handling (caused a crash) fixed
- <li>Mouse pointer changes shape whilst over a hyperlink
- <li>spurious window openings and crashes when using dialogue boxes have been
- fixed (bug in RISC_OSlib)
- <li>History window has a menu to allow you to flush it
- <li>Won't open archives automatically, but will force you to save them before
- opening. This is a security feature as much as anything else
- <li>More modules included in the !System directory
- <li>The low memory handler contained a massive bug which resulted in the render
- of a page stalling if there wasn't enough memory for an image conversion.
- This could quite possibly have caused other weird errors for people who ran
- low on memory.
- </ul>
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- <hr>
- <address>
- Stewart Brodie
- </address>
-