Changes in V.08 alpha of August 15, 2002:
- Extended menu bar, the current charset
encoding can be seen and changed at menu
title "View". Also de/increasing of the
display font is available there.
- Menu entry "Info.." will show now some
basic information about the active frame.
- Right mouse click now opens a popup menu.
- Improved algorithm for line breaking to
avoid splitting of text lines at wrong
positions.
- Implementation of memory caching of images
avoids multiple loading of the same image.
The pseudo URI "about:cache" now shows
detailed information about cached images.
- Implementation of
attribute.
- Bugfix tags inside links breaking
colouring.
- And many more ...
Changes in V.07 alpha of July 24, 2002:
- Reworked configuration code, new keyword
FONT_SIZE in the cfg file sets the base
font size in point (default is 12pt). If
the environment variable HOME is set the
cfg file will first be searched at the
places $HOME/defaults/highwire.cfg ->
$HOME/highwire.cfg -> $HOME/.highwire .
- Improved handling of text wrapping around
images and tables, also
flag is
handled now.
- Implemented HSPACE image attributes.
- Frame targets _top, _self, _parent are
recognized properly now (_blank still not
working).
- Margin settings of and are
implemented now (default is 5px).
-
tags are now correctly calculated in
position and size.
- Very first implementation of CSS attribute
STYLE of some HTML tags.
- For .. and
the color and the
background-color can be set with the CSS
style attribute.
- Reworked parser and text storing code for
faster parsing and reduced memory usage.
- Lots of smaller glitches fixed.
Changes in V.06 alpha of July 07, 2002:
- Bugfix in the GIF image reading function.
Due to a miscalculated value for vertical
scaling this function could cause crashes
by corrupting memory.
- First implementation of text wrapping
around images that have ALIGN="LEFT" set.
- Implementation of the VSPACE attribute for
images.
- Links to target frame "_top" are working
correctly now.
- Fixed drawing of table background and cell
borders.
- Fixed redraw bug if the window was covered
by other windows.
- Scrolling works now also if the window is
not the top window (without topping it).
- If a file type can't be determined by the
file's extension a simple check is done to
see if the file contains HTML (eg. for php
extension).
- Added handling of 'about:' and 'mailto:'.