http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/index.html W3Browse is a text-based web-browser and e-mail-client. The most important changes that have been made to the application are summarized for each version of the software. 2005-11-20 en-us Alexander Krebs Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Alexander Krebs <aleks_at_aksware_dot_de> http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20051120 2005-11-20: The "Save Document" dialog now allows to override certain server-supplied field values and to use such a set of new values as a basis for determing an (alternate) content handler for displaying a document. 2005-11-20 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20050603 2005-06-03: The format of the configuration file is now based on RDF/XML. The default name of the file has been changed to "w3browse.rdf". Now, it is also possible to modify the list of (external) applications that should be used to convert or display different kinds of documents. Finally, a slimmed version of w3browse called "w3bview" is now available. 2005-06-03 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20050428 2005-04-28: The web page editor has been extended and now also allows to edit RDF documents by the help of a text-based syntax that is very similar to "Turtle", an extension of N-Triples. 2005-04-28 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20050302 2005-03-02: The handling of form elements in WML documents has been improved and now also allows the form data values of many simple and stateless WML formulars to be submitted. Other new features include the ability to display all cards of a WML deck at once and to display HTML and WML documents within the same viewer window. Finally, the transition to an RDF-based configuration of w3browse and its components has been started with the "e-Mail Application". 2005-03-02 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20041207 2004-12-07: The hypertext rendering engine is now able to recognize many empty fragment anchors in HTML documents and transform them to more useful values. Furthermore, the id attribute of heading elements and definition terms is used to create fragment anchors if such elements do not already contain an anchor. A similar treatment has been implemented in the handling of HTML documents by the web page editor. 2004-12-07 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20041114 2004-11-14: The parsing of HTML tables does no longer depend on a preprocessor that transforms table elements to other kinds of elements. The major benefits are an improved error handling by the parser and the ability to mark and color the header cells of tables. For further information and other changes see the dialog "Browser Settings". 2004-11-14 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20041102 2004-11-02: The hypertext rendering engine has been improved in order to display linearized tables in a more compact way (no empty lines between adjacent rows enforced) when the "compact" vertical spacing mode is in effect. Also, a section about some formatting rules has been added to the documentation of the dialog "Browser Settings". 2004-11-02 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20041023 2004-10-23: The "Goto Menu" has been extended and is now able to display several kinds of title lists, i.e. "Section Titles", "Anchor Titles", "Hyperlink Titles" and "Image Titles". 2004-10-23 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20041015 2004-10-15: The dialog "Save Document" has been reorganized and now also provides a filesystem browser for selecting a target directory. The navigation within the documentation of w3browse has been improved and other parts have been reviewed and updated. 2004-10-15 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040930 2004-09-30: The description of the transparency of color components has been clarified in the documentation of the dialog "Color Settings". 2004-09-30 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040918 2004-09-18: The handling of color attributes for hypertext elements has been extended in order to allow particular color components to be transparent, see the dialog "Color Settings". The menu structure of viewer windows has also been reorganized and is now distributed over three separate menues which can also be invoked by the help of a menubar that is located directly above the main subwindow. 2004-09-18 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040818 2004-08-18: The progress in saving a document to a file is now shown within another dialog that is created by the "Save Document" dialog. Some menues such as the "Main Menu" and the "Setup Menu" (previously named "Tools Menu") have also been reorganized. 2004-08-18 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040718 2004-07-18: Some minor improvements of the web page editor have been made, including the recognition of e-mail addresses in the textual representation of HTML documents and a better handling of utf-16 in general. 2004-07-18 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040630 2004-06-30: The processing of requests has been extended in order to allow "internal" and "external" resources to be accessed with the same request context. "Internal URLs" have been introduced and are now used to access the so-called "Internal Applications", which by themselves have been extended by various new "Administration Tools". These tools include a simple Wiki-like text-based editor for HTML and RSS pages. 2004-06-30 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040521 2004-05-21: It is now possible to invoke the "e-Mail Application" automatically on startup of the application. Additionally, several new sections have been added to the documentation: The subsections "Document Cacheing" and "Keyboard Shortcuts" have been added to the section "Viewer Windows", and a section about "Form Submission" has been introduced. Some other sections have also been updated. 2004-05-21 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040511 2004-05-11: The handling of fonts has been extended in order to allow the use of Unicode encoded system fonts instead of the supplied ones, which is especially useful for X Window System based GUI systems. See the dialog "Screen Settings". 2004-05-11 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040425 2004-04-25: The hypertext rendering engine has been improved in order to be able to handle "compact" definition lists. Furthermore, the possibilities in selecting a vertical spacing mode have been extended and now include a so-called "packed" mode, in which almost all empty lines between text blocks are avoided. See the dialog "Browser Settings". 2004-04-25 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040314 2004-03-14: The navigation between the different documents that are contained in the local history of a viewer window has been simplified by the introduction of two additional buttons named <Back> and <Forward>, and a keyboard shortcut for <Back>. Also, the keyboard shortcut for the "History Menu" has been changed to ^W, which is more accessible than ^QM. 2004-03-14 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040214 2004-02-14: It was not possible to fetch any documents at all due to a stupid bug in the dialog "Fetch Documents" which has been fixed. The bug was introduced in version 20040201. 2004-02-14 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040208 2004-02-08: Some minor details such as numbered items of RSS feeds as well as certain updates of the documentation have been made. An extended syntax for e-mail addresses has been introduced, which is now also recognized by w3browse. 2004-02-08 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040201 2004-02-01: The major improvements concern the handling of XML, which is now also used for the configuration files and which makes it possible to recognize and process RSS feeds. 2004-02-01 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040111 2004-01-11: The MS-Windows CE (Pocket PC) version is now also able to resolve DNS hostnames into IP addresses and vice versa, but only one DNS lookup can be active at the same time. 2004-01-11 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20040107 2004-01-07: The "e-Mail Application" now maintains an index of the message-ids of all received and sent messages. The index is used to resolve the message-ids found in the "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" header fields and refer to the corresponding message files. 2004-01-07 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031230 2003-12-30: The ability to send and receive e-mail messages has been moved from the dialog "Open Mail Window" to the "e-Mail Application" itself. All tasks including the definition of mail accounts can now be performed there. The sole purpose of the dialog is to specify the base e-mail directory. 2003-12-30 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031214 2003-12-14: The possiblity to send HTTP "Referer:" header fields has been added. This feature can be enabled within the reorganized dialog "Request Settings". 2003-12-14 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031205 2003-12-05: The possiblity to import e-mail messages from "mbox" formatted files has been implemented. Instead of specifing a pop3 server, the filename of an mbox file whose contents should be imported can be given. 2003-12-05 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031126 2003-11-26: It was not possible to send any e-mail messages at all due to a stupid bug which has been fixed. Only the versions 20031109 and 20031102 are affected. 2003-11-26 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031109 2003-11-09: A pop-up menu for the local history of viewer windows has been added that allows to switch between the corresponding documents. Additionally, the possibility to search within the built-in help system of w3browse has been introduced. 2003-11-09 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031102 2003-11-02: Fragment identifiers of URLs for HTML documents are now evaluated, finally after a long struggle with this matter. Also, the handling of "new" versus "same" viewer windows and their interaction with informational content has been reworked. 2003-11-02 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031021 2003-10-21: Visited hyperlinks can now have a different color than non-visited links, see the dialog "Color Settings". Another main topic was the introduction of the possibility to display documents within the "same" rather than a "new" viewer window, which is assisted by a local history. 2003-10-21 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20031009 2003-10-09: The display of meta information about a document has been extended to show also the contents of <meta> and <link> elements. The documentation of these features and for the display about form elements have also been updated. 2003-10-09 http://www.aksware.de/w3browse/changes.html#20030812 2003-08-12: First public release of the software including a comprehensive built-in documentation, but without initial support for SSL/TLS. 2003-08-12