ANN: VMS Mosaic 4.0
- From: cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (George Cook)
- Date: 28 May 06 21:07:36 EDT
Release 4.0 of VMS Mosaic is now available at
ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/mosaic/mosaic4_0.zip
VMS Mosaic is a GUI web browser. It supports HTML V4.0 (including
tables and frames), animated GIFs, cookies, secure connections, etc.
It does not support Java, JavaScript or style sheets. A C compiler
is required to build it.
Executables built on VAX 5.4-3 and 7.3 and on Alpha 7.3-2 are
available at:
ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/mosaic/exe/
The executables are unlikely to work on versions of VMS older than
what they were built on, but they should work on never versions.
The most significant changes in this release are:
1. Support for additional HTML tags and attributes
2. Tooltip (aka balloon) help
3. Improved Postscript printing
4. Elimination of hangs due to broken https servers
5. Full support for additional & escape sequences (e.g. &trade)
via the Symbol font
The complete list of changes since release 3.9:
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o Added support for <FIELDSET>, <LEGEND>, <LABEL>, <OPTGROUP>,
<COL>, <COLGROUP>, <DEL> and <INS> tags
o Added support for <BUTTON> tags (text content only)
o Added support for LABEL in <OPTION> tags
o Added support for FRAME and RULES in <TABLE> tags
o Added detection of UTF-8 character set specified in <META> tags
o Added support and preference setting for MenuBar tearoff menus
o Added tooltip (aka balloon) help for the toolbar, cookie jar manager
and various menus
o Added tooltip support for TITLE in span, image, anchor and form tags
o Added preference and menu option to enable/disable tooltip help
o Added preference settings for tooltip foreground and background
colors, font face, shape and popup/popdown delay times
o Added Postscript printing of form text content and button labels
o Added Postscript printing support for the Symbol font
o Added Postscript printing support for SIZE and NOSHADE in <HR> tags
o Added Postscript printing of square and block bullets
o Added support and preference setting for duplex Postscript printing
o Added support for HTML tags as text in form text areas
o Added full support for &hellip, &mdash, &trade, &harr, &larr,
&rarr, &uarr, &darr, &lozenge, &prime, &Prime, &fnof, &clubs,
&diams, &hearts and &spades
o Added full support for UTF-8 encoded left/right arrows, em dash,
ellipsis and trademark
o Added feedback messages for images which are too large
o Added 32x32 and 75x75 pixmaps for the desktop icon
o Added detection of missing MOSAIC.DAT
o Added support for the XHTML <BR/> tag with missing space
o Added the LIBLITECLUE library
o Fixed slow drag scrolling of pages with lots of form widgets
o Fixed DCL qualifiers which didn't work with preferences enabled
o Fixed major GC (Graphics Context) leak and reduced GC allocations
o Fixed hangs caused by broken https servers doing keepalive
on redirects
o Eliminated progress meter flickering
o Changed to limit Mosaic's size preferences to the screen size
o Automatically rescales large images to the maximum pixmap dimension
preferences if they are set non-zero
o Fixed failure of frame loading to abort
o Fixed failure of animations in inline frames to abort
o Fixed size calculation problems with inline frames in tables
o Improved support for NOSHADE in <HR> tags
o Improved search text positioning in source view window
o Eliminated underlining and overstriking of leading spaces
o Reduced space between captions and tables
o Changed to display large option menus as scrolled lists
o Changed to not rewrite unmodified hotlist at exit
o Changed to allow form elements outside of forms
o Changed NOTRACE builds to use separate work directories
o Changed to ignore non-standard <NOINDEX> tags
o Colorized the Information and Warning dialog pixmaps
o Made minor changes to the Menubar to make it more consistant with
the Motif 1.2 Style Guide
o Replaced Topica with Yahoo Groups on the navigation menu
o Disabled mouse button 2 "drag and drop" on icons and form buttons
o Registers the "default" language procedure with XtSetLanguageProc
o Progress meter now works with Motif 1.1
o Eliminated use of Motif gadgets in the MenuBar
o Reduced by ten the number of types sent in http Accept: headers
o Eliminated all use of the caddr_t C type
o Various bug and memory leak fixes
o Various source reformating and cleanups
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Note: on lower performance systems, tooltip help will perform better
if the preference CLUE_ROUNDED is set to False.
George Cook
WVNET
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