TODO

• fix cancel
• enforce cache size limit and implement cache cleanup: LRU
• table layout bug: http://www.wissenschaft.de/
• fix caching of error conditions
• black on black bgimage (a bad-gif bug??): http://www.gattrix.de/
• bgcolor on form els shouldn't inherit bgcolor unless in table???
• in Thtml fix HtmlResolveUri() to stop chopping at space char
• fix busy with frames
• implement Regexp class in JS
• scaled animations??
• change multi-q to max at 2-3 then roundrobin add
• fix nslookup to handle multiple addresses
• fix onchange
• implement edit html to update page
• implement multi dns addr lookup in dns cache
• reload of local TML file not working
• last word in file with no trailing space not parsed (and first?)
• go-back goes back two links
• grabbed selection won't release to other apps
• printing of Text sources (like email) should offer print text only
• redirects not going to cache (bug?)
• fix hang of some emails

Release 2.0.0: Mar 6, 2002

• add notebook tab support to browsex
• major update for tml: support for remote apps
• add tktable option to tkhtml to intercept html TABLEs
• fix background image bug for transparent gifs not clearing screen.
• fix listbox (select multiple) to take focus
• html/text pages now all go in cache/0
• added a search cache option to BRX menu
• location pulldown is now sorted by most recent first, with dups removed
• limit location pulldown to 150 most recent on startup
• dynamic config can now save/restore: unfinished
• simple mail filters started
• fixed tml AE links in file:
• recursive CacheDeref check
• fix add to address book from mail reader
• fix to/from address formatting in mail reader
• fix web portal server bugs
• add cgi and gif support to portal
• change -urlget to always check net
• show url in title and view lists if title=={}

Release 1.6.0: Aug 26, 2001

• support extensions: add browsex.ini init script and -i arg
• windows version now includes sqlite
• updated to sqlite version 2.0.1
• swap font fixed/variable in preferences
• fixed GDUP (dynamic DNS) password bug
• add bell when new mail comes in
• fix meta encoding bug (windows only?)
• fix bad dns addr prompts once for each gif
• fix base address missing slash bug
• failed chmod resolver.sh now disables external

Release 1.5.0: June 16, 2001

• fix form encoding of UTF8 chars
• set textarea default bg to white and add scrollbars
• fix checkbox form bug
• TML: major update (2.0): prepend % to names plus cleanup code
• TML: add loop control constructs and implement inline refs
• fix long-line > 2000 chars hang/runaway memory alloc
• ignore 404 return code if data was returned
• hide image balloon at either click or Leave events
• elminate show page top when Tkhtml parses #label url (added -ypos to parse)

Release 1.4.4: May 25, 2001

• implement background= image support for table cells
• implement Cut&Paste of html
• implement building option menus from JS
• implement button form item: JS attached actions
• fix memory overwrite bug that caused JS crash
• display broken image for missing gifs
• fix image alt balloon display, broken by brx::toplevel
• add clear screen to external programs with leading pipe
• fix form reset
• fix dir browser option
• change cache init to not be after 1000
• Tkhtml now translates % width/height for images sizes
• Changed default browser string to be Mozilla prefix (server blowup)
• rolled back form select option value="" fix in 1.4.3. Was correct.
• add a cancel to UrlView
• fix pipeline queue depth check
• change http bad-servers to set q-depth to 1, instead of sep. sockets
• encode form image button with name.x in submit
• do update select multiple and add scrollbar to if > 10 items
• change SELECT OPTION to copy text if value= missing
• failed connection now deletes dns addr from dns cache
• fix JS FormSubmit from looping
• fix bug in tkhtml "token attr" when previously were zero attrs

Release 1.4.3: May 2, 2001

• Change form items to seperate creation from color setting
• add a 1ms delay in pipeline between requests
• round delay parameter to int in meta redirect
• fix form post bug with select: was substituting Text when value=""
• fix some form items not appearing (js related)
• fixed scaled transparent gifs from losing transparency: BLT fix
• make large cached gifs (>2000p) scheduled and add "update" to render text
• change cursor to hand when over submit buttons
• implement run command on image file in cache
• fix go to invalid page breaks relative links on current page
• change form items to be active: uses overrelief or bind

Release 1.4.2: Apr 30, 2001

• fixed http pipeline hanging on gifs upon reconnect
• major cleanup of the image handling code in image.tcl
• compile blt and vu into binary to get image scaling and tiling
• implement scalable images (except for animations)
• fix to address in mailer message body display
• make image cache work with scaled images of diff sizes
• add gamma correction image option
• fix image popup
• resize browser window now does a relayout for frames
• fix refresh in framed pages
• have JS window size not replace browser window size (add -subtype)
• misc javascript fixes
• suspend PRE tag when see start of TABLE
• defer set location until after UrlGet
• change prefs reset to restore prior to session
• fix checkbox form elements all being checked on load
• implement onload=javascript:...

Release 1.4.1: Apr 26, 2001

• clear selection after setting breakpoint: distraction
• fix tdb cmdline running
• enhance widconf to include pack/place config, + fix combobox sel bug
• add WebLogic to list of bad pipeline servers
• add http:badservers option to let users blacklist other servers
• add mail option to mail force server to be 8bit
• fixed PRE formatting inside TD so it doesn't become 1 long line
• added DDE and Registry into the link for Windows

Release 1.4.0: Apr 24, 2001

• fixed bug with javascript embedded inside a forms defn
• fixed Popup Image hang
• truncate colors at 12 digits
• rollback part of double-parse fix: broke go-back to redirect pages
• change browsex button to use UrlView to clear frames
• fix embedded tcl applets
• extend compiled tcl support to include embeded tcl applet
• set bgcolor now applies to all app bgcolors: tk_setPallete
• fixed redirects causing frames-clear to fail
• implement universal widget option settable via Shift-Control-B1
• fix location url entry and go-back with frames
• reduce http pipeline to 6 from 7 to eliminate gif stalls
• fix bug with Http::Disband popping up an error
• fix page status bug and always show DL time
• fix gif viewer
• always redirect stdout/stderr to debug log
• add an option to disable error tracebacks
• add an option to set trace level in mailer

Release 1.3.8: Apr 21, 2001

• fix serious pipeline bug that caused some gifs never to show up
• implement incremental updating of screen every .5 secs as gifs come in
• fix bugs with history/cache window

Release 1.3.7: Apr 20, 2001

• in mailto: add support for ?subject=&cc=&bcc=
• update status line for progress in mail body search
• change and also parameterize some mailer colors
• make focus go to location open new view
• fix goto #label (again)
• stop slide with #label from going to network
• improve location bar updating
• broaden keybindings to work also in entry forms and location bar
• fixed another frames getsize bug
• map out backslash in urls
• set cursor-busy when sending/receiving mail
• fixed form select-multiple
• add mailto ?subject support for inside mailer window to
• fix frames size calculation
• fix encoding to include /
• exclude unnamed fields from form submits
• fixed JS form problem by adding update before script eval in parse
• fixed font lists so variable only shows variable fonts, etc
• support colors given as integers
• run through procheck and fixed some bugs
• add support for sourcing compiled Tcl using Tclpro procomp

Release 1.3.6: Apr 12, 2001

• form layout cleanup: spacing, fonts and colors should now be much better
• fix overall color/font, esp. fontoverride and coloroverride
• fix cursor stuck busy (cause was redirects)
• eliminate redundent radio elements in form submit
• sort cookies in outgoing headers
• boost browser colors (for non-image) from 16 to 64
• fix duplicate form item: double parse caused by broken redirects
• implemented download image on click when download is off
• stop mail SaveAs from popping up new view
• file:/ now supports globbing like *.html in directory lists

Release 1.3.5: Apr 9, 2001

• fixed huge memory leak for background gifs: images not released
• fixed URL redirect loop problem ala www.faz.net
• fix nowrap TD option not taking width (eg. hotmail.com)
• fix bgcolor="" causing black on black text problem (eg. sourceforge
• fix table layout bug in http://www.spiegel.de/ (cause: HR SIZE=-1)
• fix embedded tcl (frink broke it)
• fix table width= causing too narrow columns
• add paste URL support to browser body window
• pipeline default enabled again, but not for Netscape servers
• fix alt-o open when used from frames
• redirects that are in cache don't go out to network
• add more header info to Page-Info.
• TDB: fixed paste in cmd window
• TDB: change to use an command entry box

Release 1.3.4: Apr 3, 2001

• release TDB debugger
• fixed console in TOBE (stdout still hooped on exec)
• ran code through frink to format and bracket all ifs
• fixed bug in frames with pv(locvar) undefined

Release 1.3.3: Mar 1, 2001

• disable pipeline http by default: some web servers barf
• javascript support for forms is now mostly done

Release 1.3.2: Mar , 2001

• release code to pipeline http requests
• more javascript support
• added German and French language bindings

Release 1.3.1: Mar , 2001

• change all http fetches to now go directly to disk/cache
• user defined mimetypes support is now done
• redid history to use tktable (just mail left now with mclistbox)
• rewrote forms to be zero not one based
• run through dmalloc to eliminate leaks

Release 1.3.0: Feb , 2001

• initial release with new javascript

Release 1.2.4: Jan 9, 2001

• cache speedup, no longer "flush"es writes.
• mailer now supports multiple open mail reading views
• slide back/forward should now correctly remember page scroll position
• fixed Tcl embedded apps
• fixed malformed index bug
• prefs/encoding now applies to pages, not Tcl system encoding
• zipview restrictions removed
• frames in mail window now work
• chg external dnslookup fails to not use server address

Release 1.2.3: Jan 3, 2001

• Fixed bug in editor startup
• Change portal password to not use passman
• Disabled passman by default
• Enabled support for builtin mail via portal

Release 1.2.2: Jan 2, 2001

• Option to disable images in printing (was crashing windows)
• Ignore background images less than 4x4: slows us down to a crawl
• Fixed Auth problem
• Fixed Duplicate parse

Release 1.2.1: Jan 1, 2001

The following are new features.

• Support for Dynamic DNS
• Web portal/server (http and https)
• Portal builtin commands like read bookmarks, mail, and exec commands
• Address Book

Release 1.1.2: Nov 24, 2000

The following are bug fixes.

• nested table widths were too wide
• multiple
  tags were not doing

• broken links no longer added to Url list
• reload was being ignored sometimes
• eliminate NULL byte from display (my.yahoo.com)

Release 1.1.1: Oct 29, 2000

• Fixed SSL which was broken by the new packaging.
• Fixed Urls where path was empty (eg. "?some=stuff")
• Reduced size of license screen so it fits into 640x480.
• Reorganized Preferences to fit in 640x480.
• Fixed hang: recursive call to encoding.
• Changed external DNS lookup to use sh script.
• Fixed directory display breakage.

Release 1.1.0: Oct 24, 2000

• Focusing to location no longer grabs the selection.
• Fixed offline mode. Cachecmp=never now tries cache first.
• Fixed history so it comes from cache.
• Eliminate network down hang.
• Limit checks on number of redirects.
• Fixed frame=100%,* bug.
• Fixed ftp download bug.
• Proxy now working properly.
• Tclhtml: modified Tkhtml to compile subset without Tk.
• Packaged as a single standalone binary
• Can view a zip archive of html content: html, gifs. (ala PDF)
• Netscape bookmarks import (in File/Util menu).
• Config option for changing Meta key to Control from Alt. There is still no general keymap editor.
• Option to set a limit on the max number of images.
• Long menus, multi-columned menus and cascades. Fixed menu key shortcuts.
• filter URLs by href option for http.
• filter Image by href option for http (eg. Ads like doubleclick).
• Dialog to change selection/find background color.
• Passman: a password manager for logins. This option caches userid/passwords in an encrypted file and automatically substituting them when you type the PassMan password.
• A simple editor with Undo, and support for encrypted files (ie. so you can edit the PassMan file).
• Encryption options include either DES, or XOR (aperiodic).
• The NGS Javascript compiler is now included with BrowseX 
• An initial Tcl outline of a DOM has been implemented, but is too slow to be practical, so a faster C version is in the works. ie. Javascript is not working, yet.

Release 1.0.x: Sept 29, 2000

Beta Release. Package renamed to BrowseX . Everything changed.

PDQ Alpha 1.09

• NEW: take snapshot to directory of current page and images
• NEW: windows alpha version release
• NEW: buggy expand replaced by TML
• screen refresh was intermittently broken
• cursor was stuck as a hand
• printing to postscript
• images use size hint so screen rearrange required less often
• redirected images were not always appearing (ie. doubleclick.net)
• cookies were broken for deep subdomains
• frame target= in base tag now working
• animate gif was broken for some gifs

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