1) text only version of Arachne homepage. Should look ok in 1.60 beta 2.
http://arachne.cz/text_index.shtml
(For Clarence Verge and other "typematic & monochromatic" users ;-)
2) "VFAT Yes" in ARACHNE.CFG enables long filenames in W9x DOS box
(tested to run in Windows 98 and "not to crash" DR-DOS 7.01; not known
to work with LFN drivers for noraml DOS...)
3) corrupted "mailto:" style links copying to clipboard and than adding
to Hotlist (minor, but unpleasant bug for everyday users)
4) multiple messages in INBOX can be marked by right mouse button and
deleted.
5) copy & paste is not perfect, eg. when typing text on line with
active block, the block margines do not follow cursor, etc. Copy & paste
is not tested too much and I do not suggest using Arachne for longer
mail messages or HTML pages withou making backup copies...
For more details, obligatory changes.txt follow:
Changes since release 1.50
--------------------------
Complete history can be found at http://browser.arachne.cz/download/history.txt
1.60 beta 2
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Release date: 16th March 2000
Bug fixes: Small bugs and typos in local HTML files and in MIME.CFG
Scroll history for all types cached pages works again.
Mouse initialization and Tab/Shift+Tab navigation when
no mouse driver is loaded.
Broken 16-color-VGA/EGA/experimental-CGA support was fixed.
AltSysFont (needed eg. for Cyrillic support) works again.
Missing background images on certain table or frames based
pages were fixed. It was happening when width of table
cell of frame was EXACTLY identical to with of background
image. Side effect of this bug fix is speed improvemnt.
Detection of corrupted GIFs was adjusted to be more tolerant,
so certain 16 color GIFs which used to be ignored are now
being displayed correctly.
Certain problems with multiple <TD ROWSPAN>1> cells were fixed.
Some minor problems with mouse initialization were (probably)
fixed.
Changes: ARACHNE.CFG variable FastJPEGs and pseudo-MIME-type
fastimage/jpeg are obsolete. They were replaced by MIME.CFG
macro "$j", which expands into optional "-colors 256" string +
content of ARACHNE.CFG variable JPEGargs.
Thanks to Bernie, Arachne is now shipped with 32bit version
of DJPEG by default. Alternative package with 16bit version
is available (with no-HiColor version of CORE.EXE)
The same stands for fastfile/* and LocalIcons; were replaced
by ARACHNE.CFG variable FILEargs and MIME.CFG macro "$f".
MIME.CFG should be more readable and logical now.
WWWMAN.EXE was changed because of that.
Different Cookie handling while redirection - not sure if
it will help or not, it is still not compatible with
certain sites.
Arachne now ignores all spaces at the end of URL, which
is what other browser do too. However, it is not documented
anywhere and it should be consider to be one of "dirty tricks"..
Mouse clicks in text fields are now used to mark and
manipulate blocks. See editor help and Arachne Hotkeys page.
Now you can select multiple e-mail messages or local files
with right mouse buton and then delete them using Del key.
Improvements: Slightly extended documentation of certain features.
Higher quality of JPEG conversion in "FastJPEGs" mode, and
higher speed of JPEG conversion even in HiColor modes (DJPEG.EXE
is same, but Arachne provides it with better command line
arguments). Arachne Packet Driver Wizard was finished - TCP/IP
setup was made more easy to understand for newbies.
Arachne now recognizes <FRAMESET [FRAME]BORDER="false"|"no"|"0">
tag for disabling borders of all frames.
Copy & paste in text input fields (<TEXTAREA> tag) was
finaly implemented.
1.60 beta 1 - "millenium pre-release"
----
Release date: 16th January 2000
Notes: 1.50 stable release was skipped due to release of new version of
WATTCP library.
Bug fixes: Installation utility was completely rewritten once again and
it should be more stable and usable now.
Many types of table rendering bugs were fixed - including
nested tables, multicolumn cells and table alignent.
(see new examples\tables.htm file).
Insight was upgraded to version 3.5, which fixes certain bugs
with attaching files and "Cannot create index file" bug.
(It was caused by TEMP variable finished by "\", which is
illegal. Both INSIGHT.EXE and CORE.EXE can handle this now,
but there is still some garbage screen output from ARACHNE.BAT)
Some of "infinite cycling" problems should be solved now (two
of them - one was "cycling in frames" bug, second was caused
by strange behaviour of some mouse drivers after initialization).
Table rendering should be faster (after removal of certain
unnecsary loops I found in my code) and more stable (after
finding that one global variable should be rather strictly
local in every function ;-).
Target for <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" ...> tag is "_parent",
not "_top" (this is not realy bug-fix, but rather "Netscapism" ;)
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" ...> now works even in fullscreen
mode, as well as screensaver timer.
Another Netscapism: underscore ('_') mustn't be converted
to hexa code in CGI query strings (why ???)
Mouse shouldn't be jerky any more, even on huge pages with
frames and table... at least if download was already finished.
There was error when accessing http servers on other port than
80 via proxy - it is fixed now.
Little bug in INSIGHT.EXE quoted-printable encoding was
fixed: ASCII codes <32 are no longer converted to "_".
If you leave "Organization" field in Personal Settings
empty, it will be completely omitted from outgoing e-mails
(no more "Organization: (null)" lines ;-).
"NoProxy4all" and "NoFTPProxy4all" ARACHNE.CFG variables
(substrings of host names for which proxy shouldn't be used,
eg. ".myprovider.com") were finaly enabled.
Bug in Tab/Shift+Tab navigation in frames was fixed.
Security was improved - Arachne's extensions to <INPUT> tag
(see AEXTHTML.TXT) are now allowed only in local documents.
Arachne now generates PPPDRC.CFG file for EPPPD.EXE in format
which allows spaces in usernames and passwords.
Quality of truecolor bitmap (BMP, "Fast JPEGs") rendering
in 256 color and 16 color modes (SVGA, VGA, EGA) was improved.
Output fields (INPUT TYPE="OUTPUT"> are no longer editable.
When HTML page contains "<OPTION>blah blah\n<OPTION>blah2..."
bug, the end of line is no longer converted to extra space.
Changes: Default target frame for mailto: HREFs is now always "_top".
Font for <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT"|"RESET"|"BUTTON"|"OUTPUT"> was
changed to get more Netscape-like look'n'feel. System font
(fixed width) is now used only for text input boxes.
Some design changes, and quite radical changes in HTML rendering.
EMBED tag was restricted to local files (will be reimplemented
later).
ASCII printing was made more usable - maximum number of
characters on one line is now strictly accepted.
Extra XSWAP optimization was enabled (see '?' hotkey).
Internal editor is now able to load virtualy any HTML file,
because long lines are wrapped at position of first space
which is found over 2/3 of maximum line length, which is
1024 characters. It means that HTML code of edited page
should be always compatible, because in HTML, line break is
treated the same way as standard space character.
Small Hotlist manager modification.
Improvements: Arachne 1.60 beta is based on WATTCP release "9911" which
should be faster, more stable, and it which supports DHCP.
<TD VALIGN="TOP"|"MIDDLE" (or "CENTER")|"BOTTOM"> was
implemented; default vertical alignment is now "MIDDLE".
Better frame implementation - <FRAME SCROLLING="No"> and
<FRAME BORDER="false" | FRAMEBORDER="0"> is now valid.
Optimization of overlays (improves performance if Arachne
is used without any disk caching).
F3 key (URL input prompt) can be used even in fullscreen mode.
When mail download or upload is invoked when user is offline,
simple floppy-mail exchange is possible (small MIME.CFG patch).
Form Feed (ASCII 12) character is appended to exported ASCII.
Insight 3.5 sorts folders in alphabetical order and it remembers
last used folder.
Mail message can be displayed either in Desktop page style
(often unreadable, because of background image) or as
Default HTML page style (readable - usualt black on gray)
ARACHNE.CFG variable is "MailIsDesktop Yes|No".
New extension to <INPUT TYPE=TEXT> and <TEXATAREA> tags:
<TEXTAREA ..ACTIVE> and <INPUT .. ACTIVE> will cause
the atom to get keyboard focus when page is loaded (useful
for mail composer, internal editor, Quick notepad...)
Optional PrintScreen handler is capable of saving screenshot
to BMP file. Works only in 256 colors and Hicolor modes.
Arachne is also able to print page to BMP (Ctrl+P hotkey)
and print-file dialogues were improved.
New screensaver-related surprises were added ;-)
Local file listings now use variable number of columns
(up to 8 columns in 1024*768 - use Reload button to synchronize
when you return back to 800x600 or 640x???)
New hotkey '?' dumps XSWAP debug information to screen
(ugly, but useful when complaining about speed, etc. - see
file xswap.txt). This is related to better XSWAP crash
diagnostics: please report full text of enhanced XSWAP
crash message to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Speed improvement: button animation is not complete - Arachne
doesn't wait for user to release mouse to start operation,
eg. submit HTML form.
<INPUT TYPE="RESET"> was finaly implemented - the page is
reloaded from disk, which resets all forms.
Number of HTML tables Arachne can handle is no longer fixed,
tables are now allocated dynamicaly and you can have as
many tables as you can stack in XSWAP memory manager (up to
several hundereds tables).
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Arachne Labs: http://arachne.cz/
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