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From: "Michael Polak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*** Keyboard navigation ***
I forgot to warn you, that Arachne's behaviour without mouse driver is
undefined. I must find some workaround. I think it should be relatively
easy, but I am not using low level functions, but some kind of library
to access mouse driver. But I know the low level too, so it should be
possible, somehow.
*** Arachne's usage of DOS Memory explanation ***
[+] means, that two XSWAP buffers are allocated, [?] stands for just one
buffer (which makes Arachne slow).
If you are online, PPPD driver consumes 65 KB of memory. If Arachne
isn't able to allocate two buffers when online, memory indicator turns
black (or red), and it says [?] (or [!!!]), which means, that Arachne
will get too slow (or even unstable).
You can compare page load times with [+] and [?]. They differ
dramaticaly. Currently I am not sure how to solve this in 16bit DOS
version - this problem won't be present in Linux, of course...
*** New buttton design ***
I was playing with font sizes for some time, and this is what
I like. I found the new fonts and button sizes better than
what Netscape (Windows or linux) or MSIE (Windows). It would be
relatively easy to make it configurable, but I really choosed the
alternative which looked best of all, believe me. BTW, even if it is
proportional font, Arachne uses slightly different method to determine
button width, which means, that with Arachne, you can use spaces in
<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE=" xx "> to align more buttons to the same
width, while in Netscape you can't do that.
*** BMP and PostScript sending by mail ***
It is intended for sending the print file to you Linux (or Windows)
account on your local network ;-) I don't expect anyone to send
megabytes of printscreens over internet;
I should probably explain this in titles of the boxes.
(I would like to implement standard lpr protocol later, because eg. our
Linux server in Arachne Labs has printer attached, and would be able to
immediately print BMP or PostScript files send over TCP/IP connection to
lp daemon; in fact, almost every Linux distribution is able to do this
immediately after instalation, without much configuring. But it is just
one of thousans features on my wish list, beside ICQ, copy & paste,
etc... and customers want me to accelarate JavaScripts instead :-(((
*** Other bug reports - eg. openbox.com ***
Thanks, I am immediately adding the fixes to mime.cfg, etc.
The only serious problem are the page like openbox.com
or www.atlas.cz, with overlapping tables. I am not sure what causes
this, I would need some very clean example: small, properly formated
and human readable HTML source, with only few tables, which would show
the overlapping bug. Then it would be easy to debug it...
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Michael Polak, xChaos software
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