On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 19:57:59 +0000, Michael Polak wrote: > ted olausson wrote: >> > I may release 1.71 "UE- user edition" as it is, but I don't want >> > to do it before I have some nice looking Arachne copy of Arachne to >> > offer at the same time. If someone can send me complete package (not >> > just patches, because applying patches requires lot of disk space, lot >> > of testing, time, etc) without Clarence's "color enhancement", it can >> > help me a lot.
>> I suppose many of us regular users only cares about CORE.EXE >> So could it alone be released as soon as possible?? > There are almost no important changes in core.exe alone... "almost no important changes" ???? Did you read the new changes.txt ???? Well, here it is for the whole world to see. (the release date will now need to be changed) ;-) Changes since release 1.69 -------------------------- Complete history can be found at http://browser.arachne.cz/download/history.txt 1.71 stable for DOS (*First co-op compilation!*) ---- Release date: August, 2002 This is the first release of an Arachne version with changes and fixes wholly supplied by the Arachne-Development Team. Michael Polak has made this possible by setting up an ftp system accessable by anyone wishing to contribute, rewarding contributors with free registration keys, and giving his stamp of approval to one of the many possible compilations. When reading the following please remember that these minor changes to a great piece of work could not be possible without the existence of Arachne in the first place. Thank you, Michael ! All coding changes to core.exe are solely the result of many hours of love and unpaid effort on the part of Glenn McCorkle, without whom DOS Arachne might as well be dead. He has given us the long awaited user selectable https2http patch that gives us access to most https sites if we don't actually need the https service. He has given us a fix for the runaway download bug present in the last versions. He has provided an IgnoreJS function which the user can enable to cause Arachne to ignore ALL content inside <script> tags - something we thought she already did ! Valid HTML inside the tags will also be ignored. He has made it just as easy to use LSPPP as EPPPD with Arachne, and either of them may now be loaded low or high without problem. He has modified Arachne to provide both upper and lower case commands to LSPPP and other programs which need them. He has fixed the incorrect rendering of CSS colors pointed out to us by David Gunnells. He has incorporated several fixes suggested by Sergey Sokoloff - known as Mithgol the Webmaster. For users of the keyboard cursor, at my suggestion Glenn has changed the cursor step size to 8 pixels from 10 - giving 80 positions across the screen now in 640 mode. He has also modified the horizontal panning step size for us keyboard users (shiftHome/End) from 1/2 screen width to 1/8 screen width. And he has made it possible to pass ANY arachne.cfg keyword thru the DGI using the new mime.cfg variable $k as a prefix - obsoleting $j (and really a lot more). And I also got Glenn to change the default filename for file insert (the cntrl+R function) to Quickpad.txt from textarea.txt. Paste that page of text as easily as the single line afforded by cntrl+V ! Finally, at my suggestion and with critical help from Bernie, Glenn has re-instated the textarea.tmp save - allowing us to implement a more friendly mail compose function. You can now exit and return to compose without losing your work ! The "CC" and "Subject" lines will still need to be re-entered, but we will fix that in the next release. ;-) Glenn has also modifed Insight to pre-select the Reply-to option when answering a "list" posting and provided automatic "CC" and "BCC" field fill-in when editing and/or resending a previously composed message. Glenn has fixed the problem the old WWWman had with the new cache index format. Changes: Veteran users will notice a number of cosmetic changes, mostly minor color shifts, added to mark the expansion of the development effort to a team. We hope you like them. Some spelling errors have been fixed and options added to several setup files. You can now choose to use the very fast older style dialpage for instance. You can now change video modes, e.g. color depth, resolution and VESA / card-specific VGA on the fly. We have added a "Force Binary" switch to Arachne's internal FTP upload. We have added a new directory for "Exported" materials. You won't see the "lock" screen anymore if you accidentally restart Arachne while shelled out. You now have a choice of four different dial pages. See conf_ext.ah. ZBMs are now officially part of Arachne's bag of tricks, but you must make sure PKzip is in your path. ;-) For debugging new .DGIs, arachne.bat now will write TRACE.log if the environment variable TRACE=on is set. You now have the option of clearing the history list when you clean the cache. This will prevent the last page from re-loading. See opt_misc.ah to set DelHistory Yes in arachne.cfg. Anything else will disable it. Glenn has insisted that I take the credit or blame (as case may be) for these changes, so send problem reports to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. A total of 65 files have been modifed to some extent, with 11 new files added and 1 deleted. Fixmem.exe has been replaced by fixmem.com. A fair amount of effort has gone into making all the changes compatible with previous versions back as far as possible. For example, everything but ClearCache is compatible with Arachne 1.62. Management and suggestions by the Minimalist - Clarence Verge. Much thanks to Bernie Eriksson for his assistance at the end. Known BUGs remaining: Pulldown menus don't work if the screen is shifted sideways, and if a pulldown overlaps the scrollbar, activation will crash Arachne. There may be other old bugs left, but we don't think there are any new ones. 1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release) revision 3 ---- Release date: 22th January 2001 Bug fixes: user interface, HTML table and frameset rendering, and memory allocation 1.70 stable for DOS (CSS release) ---- Release date: 20th January 2001 Bug fixes: Certain malformed URLs were able to crash Arachne - fixed. Table layout bug fix - multiple right-aligned tables were overlapping each other. Fixed, together with some other object alignment problems. Animations are disabled when pop-up input field is active. Various bugs related to image download were fixed. Changes: Default icon layout for 640x480 and 800x600 modes changed. Yet another slight change in cookie handling (still not final) Improvements: Implementation of "Proxy-connection: keep-alive" magicaly accelerates loading of frequently accessed pages with many images if you are behind HTTP proxy on fast local network. (I thought "Connection: keep-alive" works for proxies too, but proxies always must have something special...) "Page Information" Page (= hotkey) now tries to provide list of embeded objects (like stylesheets, images, etc.) Experimental Cascading Style Sheets (CSS-1) implementation - see examples/css.htm (<LINK REL="stylesheet">, <STYLE> ). Stylesheets are damned Microsoft's invention and I started playing with them only because I needed to test certain mechanism with will be shared by JavaScript engine. After playing with JavaScript, I have noticed, that many Opera or MSIE enhanced pages implement many nasty CSS tricks, which are maybe good for testing, but which are extremely hard to implement if I want to keep css implementation under 2 KB. Aaaaghhrrrr !!!!! Anyway, CSS is controlled by arachne.cfg variable CSS Yes|No, and it is default only for two sample Arachne profiles for faster PCs - other users have to turn them on manualy using Options | Preferences. New small icon based layout, simillar to original small icon GUI layout, was added - so you can now choose from four layouts with icons and one fullscreen layout. Clarence Verge and L.D. Best contributed to documentation. 1.69 stable for DOS Check at: http://browser.arachne.cz/download/history.txt -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm http://www.thispagecannotbedisplayed.com/
