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Removed 'The Onion' link from some Hotlist files. Time showed that the site wasn't entirely Family Friendly (TM)... Removed Shift Control (it's gone offline now), and corrected the Telegraph URL from ...the-telegraph...

to just ...telegraph...

StrongHelp manual generator now tries to work out the number of lines in
the table on the root page more intelligently.

Plug-in support extended to handle Shockwave. Quite a lot of underlying
work for this, including a pseudo cache system for temporary files.

Bug in redraw routines: they plotted background images within table
cells, when nothing should have been drawn. Oops. When background images
in cells are properly supported, this can get sorted out.

Tweaked vertical plot position of HRs (up to 4 OS units too high before due
to rounding).

Various Res file bits and pieces, Ursula build taken up to v1.26 beta
for release on the Browser site. *Note* not all resources are up to date!
This will be done after AW97.

Added support for background alpha PNGs.
Passed support_object flag through to HTMLLib.

Res files sorted out a bit, to add the Proxy option to the Choices dialogues
and fix the position of the menu popup in the Others pane.

Bogus comment in Global.h showed up when trying to build the Customer
variant (SINGLE_USER undefined); fixed.

Various fixes in the code required for Shockwave support (many invalid assumptions about the OBJECT tag structure). Not finished yet though.

Played around with signal handling 'n' all that to try and get sensible
errors reported for aborts etc. using code by KBracey. Need a ROM patch
for _swix on RISC OS 3.7 upwards (or a local fixed copy of _swix),
otherwise should sort out most of the problems seen (mostly 'no stack
for trap handler' errors and a distinct lack of a register dump).

Plug-In view on redraw / ASAP choices now work as they should (ASAP
was previously broken).

Version numbers in Messages incremented to 1.25 (23 Oct 1997).

For Plug-In support, created new source file RMA.c/h to handle RMA
claims and releases, in an attempt to ensure leakage never happens.
As such, this source is *slightly* more advanced than that in the 1.25
AW '97 build, though functionally identical. Well, that is, at least
you can confirm zero RMA leakage with '-debug LMem' in TRACE builds now!

Intend to do a consistency check on comment syntax in all sources
shortly - I need to rebuild my StrongHelp manuals; can't keep track
of all of these new functions...

fetch_get_raw_data will notice if up->fetching is zero and return a 'finished' status rather than trying to continue reading data for the fetch. Fetches should never fall through that far but at least it will cope if they do.

3D table borders are now supported. 2D borders are used if the
inter-cell spacing is too small to fit the borders in (display resolution
dependent) - the external table border is 2D if the internal borders are,
else 3D. For cellspacing of 0, internal table borders must plot over the
outer edge of pixels inside the cell; for all greater spacings, the
borders take up all or part of the gap between them. The external border
will always fit around the outside of the cells, including the
cellspacing value in the gap between the outer cells and the border.

Anti-alias colour for placeholder ALT text was incorrect. Fixed.

I'd changed 'point' to 'points' in some of the Font Choices dialogues;
now changed back to 'point'.

The routine to find out how large an otherwise unsized object or image
placeholder based on its ALT text has been centralised in Reformat.c,
so that the image and object routines can both access it without
code duplication (this means non-image objects will now have the correct
size if they contain ALT text, rather than assuming a standard default
size as before). ALT text in images that were also objects was never
plotted either, though the placeholder size would have been correct.
This has been fixed.

Main.c, so the last log was incorrect; Navigate menu items wouldn't have
been greyed out. Probably a(nother?) CVS update screw up on my part; now
fixed. This sort of thing is happening far too often...

Font manager would crash in system font or if a font face was not found
in the previous release - that hacky business of returning weird font
handles when system font is to be used instead ensured a rather less than
valid array reference on behalf of fm_claim_basic_typefaces.

Added in a few more calls to the 'check the button bar' routines, to
ensure that things like Stop are greyed/ungreyed when needed.

Cellpadding code could lead to rmarg overlapping lmarg, or the sum
being greater than dwidth, or something like that (!) in the reformatter.
Anyway the results were unpleasant; this has been sorted out by range
checking right and left margins w.r.t. display width in the relevant
section of the code.

People who specify 'td width = 2000' in tables expecting to get something
sensible now do, though I was half inclined to leave it alone... I can
only assume that they don't know about % specification or it didn't
work in their browser at authorship time, and the huge width served as
an attempt to get the table to fill the available window width. Anyway,
the table reformatter spots when the maximum width a cell requires is
less than half of what it asks for, and ignores the width specifier if
this is the case.

Sorted out Res files, including fixing position of 'bytes' label in one of the Choices dialogues (I'd missed it out of a selection when everything else got moved down a bit). Unfaded Enc_Chinese menu entries, made sure text labels were wide enough for system font, changed 'Apply' on Choices dialogue to 'Set', and added ^K to hotlist keyboard shortcut lists.

Print Setup (i.e. Print dialogue) buttons all set to 'local', so the
stupid Toolbox doesn't close the dialogue and lose the caret before I
can see if it was in there to start with...

256 colour hotlist sprites taken back to standard 16 colour versions,
since there's a significant speed penalty on slower machines. The
testbed browser still has the 256 colour versions so the designs aren't
completely lost.

Changed access settings to exported builds to wr/r - lr/r was really getting
on my nerves whenever I wanted to try something temporary out.

View source, save source and print handlers would all try to work if
there was no source to act on - despite the fact that toolbar buttons
would be greyed out form them. This is fixed.

The Navigate menu has components greyed to match the toolbar state,
when opened. It isn't kept up to date dynamically, though this shouldn't
really be a problem (reopen the submenu...). As part of this, finally
sorted out conditions for the Stop button to be greyed, or the
GoTo/Go/Stop tristate to be at 'Stop' versus 'GoTo'.

Deferred reformatting is now disabled for external image fetches.

Browser-local client pull flag removed; hitting the Stop button simply
cancels any null handlers working for it. That way, client pull switches
back on in passing at the next fetch (it was never really switched off).
So to stop client pull, hit the stop button at any point.

Done CELLPADDING attribute; cellpadding field in reformat_cell (Global.h)
is redundant since the table token is accessible from there, and so it has
been removed. CELLSPACING support also added.

Implemented font size choices.

Altered new directory handler to create new directories at the end of the list if the pointer was past the end of the list of items.

Now handles PARAM tags. Sorted out Plug-In bug that was related to Java setting a 0 by 0 graphics window before calling Wimp_Poll (fixed in Java).

Implemented queue for Plug-Ins so multiple broadcasts aren't sent for
several Objects in one data chunk.

Added Docs directory with some documentation in it. More things to keep
checking for stylistic consistency, horray ;-)

Corrected !Run[D] for Ursula build to need AcornURI but not TaskModule
(URI handler needed for !Mail to pick up mailto: links).

Added display_height field to browser_data, analogous to display_width,
to cope with % sized objects by width and height (see how HRs are
handled in Redraw.c for an example of how it was always fairly easy
with width, but not height until this addition). Though you do have
to reload to get a new size; reformat isn't enough. Must see to this
some time...

Fixed bug where basic typefaces were claimed *before* the Choices file
had been read. For unusual Choices settings, this could create some
'interesting' problems now and again. This was part of narrower scope
work in the Choices code to allow font changing without leaking font
handles (now done; fm_shutdown only ditches fonts, it keeps internal
structures - must then call  fm_lose_fonts for all browsers to get the
bitfields up to date, then rewrite the typeface definitions and reclaim
basic fonts). Noticed that fm_claim_basic_typefaces would claim multiple
instances of the same font if there were several cases of the same font
mapped to different typeface styles - fixed.

Implemented PlugInControl settings, but not SupportObject (fully).

Places where ModeChange should be called in image_fill_background marked, but commented out (because of problems with flex moving when redirected to a sprite).

A few more tags added to Trace.

Minimal support for font choices added, fixed problem with colour changing with browsers with no background colour specified.  Options for Objects implemented.

Minimal support for font choices added, fixed problem with colour changing with browsers with no background colour specified.  Options for Objects implemented.

So I added it again.

More reformatter code bugs fixed; this one regarding width of items. Any kerned string was overestimated (causing redraw bugs and caret position problems in forms, apart from other minor bits elsewhere) and the default size of a writable icon wasn't especially clever.

Crude Plug-In support; just about manages Java, but can't fetch on
behalf of Plug-In (for example). Had to change the default file access
URL construction to be 'file:/' instead of 'file://', or local file
fetches that reference Java applets won't work. This is in its very
early stages, and is being checked in mostly so that various Choices
issues can be worked on.

!Run[D] files updated for new fetchers and GopherFetcher; protocols list in Controls updated for Gopher. Debug builds now require 2760K rather than 2560K. Font$... variables set if not already, in anticipation of font

Choices work.

Additional bits in Choices section of Res file tidied and some name
changes (e.g. Netscape -> Navigator(TM)). Frames support option added
to Choices.

Grouped 'support_frames' under the Fetch Controls section and added
support_object in Global.h; appropriate entries placed in the Choices
files, and are read at startup. At present, though, only the frames
support flag is implemented.

For some reason, Menu was the button to use on history popups if you
wanted to show URLs instead of descriptions (or vice versa, depending
on Choices settings). Now, Select and Menu will show the Choices
defined setting, and Adjust will show the opposite.

History menus are built backwards, so local histories have the most
recently visited pages at the top. Global history has still no real
order to it, but this may be arranged later.

Customer name changed to Customer by request.

Customer browser now gets its own resources (SYSTEM=Customer), but
otherwise is unchanged, with the Ursula build now giving the
'spinning acorn' with a Bookworm-style toolbar. This is used for the
Desktop !Browse build.

!Sprites[22] files updated to include GIF, JPEG and PNG sprites;
!Run[D] files and !Boot files set appropriate File$Type_xxx variables.
Sprites in all sprites files have been checked for unnecessary palettes,
which have been removed where present.

Stopped various displays being redrawn unnecessarily when cancel is pressed in main choices dialogue.

FRAMES_SUPPORT #define removed.

Optimised fm_token_font_info().

Added support for LI tokens with text (for ordered lists).

Now outdents bullets from indent value, rather than indenting bullets by
the indent value and further indenting text. May need to look at default
Choices files because of this.

Limited the margin to always be non-negative.

Added MimeMap module support. OBJECT routines now use this to determine if the item is an inline image, and if so pass it to the image routines.

At present, support relies on a (correct) content type.

Choices now allows gadgets to be in any subwindow with some limitations which are addressed in the header file.  Also there is no longer a concept of named subwindows.

Res files had component 0x29fc in frame gadgets for Choices - that's meant to be the 'fake page' display. Sorted that out.

Got rid of unnecessary #define in Choices.h; the gadget autodetect
for the colour choices took its place.

Unsized objects now default to the same dimensions as unsized images.

Calling HtmlEndParse at the end of html_get_next_token and setting up->context to NULL was wrong; fetch_fetcher would end up recalling html_get_next_token later which would then call HtmlParse even though the document parse had just finished! The HtmlEndParse call has now been moved to fetch_stop.

Altered reformatter to claim fonts inside a browser, rather than
claiming them for nothing and losing them afterwards.

Got rid of TAG == TABLE and ISBODY tests, replacing with tagno == TAG_TABLE.
Removed all references to TD, TH, TR and TABLE in the style word.

Big steps forward in vertical white space handling as a result of improvements in HTMLLib in this area ( -> all versions now 1.22 beta-2).

As a result, the 'last_space' field in browser_data struct has been
removed. Note that this relies quite heavily on setting of the PCDATA
bit in the 'style' field of an HStream and the automatic collapsing
of (for example) multiple P tags inside HTMLLib.

Trace.c improved to recognise various bits in the 'style' field of an
HStream structure.

Phoenix defaults altered to a more 'standard' set of choices; Trinity
as the serif font, with a slightly larger default font size. This is
because there's a good chance it might get released to a wider audience
than Acorn internal (though the animation and icon bar sprites will
have to change before then...).

MiscDefs updated for new SWI numbers in HTTP module; !Run[D] files thus
updated to require HTTP 0.42 or later. At this point, all earlier
modules are not backwards compatible in terms of direct calls to the
HTTP module, though this only affects cookies_process_cookie at present.
At the same time, checks for System$Path, InetDBase$Path, and setting
of Inet$MimeMappings if not already defined have been added to the Run
files along with RMEnsures of Resolver and MimeMap.

Object and PlugIn c/h pairs created to handle OBJECT, EMBED and APPLET,
and the RISC OS Plug-In interface respectively. Not part of the build
process yet. Addition of 'odata' field in browser_data struct and
definition of chunk CK_OBJB for memory_set_chunk_size() are in support
of this.

Fixed problem that affected some internal URLs, most noticably loading external images, where up->fetching was set to zero when it should have been left at 1 (see fetch shutdown code at about line 1670 in FetchHTML.c).

*This* is the source that will be sent to PSI, not the previous release as
stated in the log, though Customer were sent a browser based on this
previous code.

!Run[D] files updated to require FTP 0.14, and ensure that the Resolver and MimeMap modules are present. Paragraph tags can now affect images and other such objects - previously they only worked on text (this was noticed for a DIV element containing one image, which was preceeded by a P element but didn't have any white space above it).

This is the source that will be released to PSI, and builds the Customer
!Customer and internal !Phoenix releases at about 5:00pm on 10/03/97.

Redraw routines now allow tables to be indented with body text. Some page
layouts rely on this.

Dropping on the lower half of an open, empty directory will now drop
inside it rather than after it.