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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.

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...

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).