WenSuite history (12/12/97)

Date format: DD/MM/YY

05/05/97 v1.70b

PPP Link now active

07/07/97 v1.70d

Dialer commands %w and %r added
Many TCP/IP bugs fixed

12/05/97 v1.70e

PPPTRACE.LOG saved in the WenSuite main directory
Management of the HTTP header
Trace of the IP restored
DNS temporary cache installed (CACHE.DNS)
Fonts pop-up bugs corrected

14/05/97 v1.70f

Cache management now implemented
Usage of the "If-Modified-Since" method
Image-submit-buttons are transformed into classic submit-buttons (previously not displayed)
No more overflow of text in the history window in some cases

16/05/97 v1.70g

The uninterpreted tags are no more displayed
The bug causing crashes afer several pages loaded is removed
The "contact" and the "connect" phases of the HTTP are now separated
History and Bookmarks menus are now only one
A new menu allows the managemant of the mail/news (not active)
The bookmarks are now active
The history is now active
On Falcon/TOS 4.01 the color ressource is now loaded
The visited links are signaled in the info bar (not for local access)

23/05/97 v1.70h

It is now possible to specify an IP adress of 255.255.255.255 if the provider dynamically allocates the adress 0.0.0.0
Some spaces after tags are now preserved
Picture sizing is enabled
History also includes non HTML documents
Visited links (online) are displayed in a different color
With TOS<4.01 or monochrome display, the 3D objects are drawn with a black border for an better look
Color definition "#RRGGBB" is correctly interpreted even with less than 6 digits
No animation if the WEB window is not on top

27/05/97 v1.70i

Table bug of the 1.70h version is corrected

28/05/97 v1.70j

Problems of the english mono ressource (used if tos<4.0 or colors<16) are fixed
The default fonts are now initialised to system font
It is now possible to select the system font in the fonts pop-up

30/05/97 v1.70k

Bug causing the lost of the DNS on a too late UDP/IP packet is fixed
The MSS and MRU are now really computed and displayed
The icons of the english mono toolbar are correctly ordered
After a deconnection, an URL access don't try to go online

09 jun 97 v1.80a (not released)

text_color,bg_color... are managed in monochrome display
Color palette is initialized for each page read (useful in multitasking)
The german ü is corectly decoded as ü
The syntax é now displays é and not Į like before (eacute is for the example)
Now 5 display sizes are available
The horizontal scrollbar corresponds really to the width used by the page
The "echo_request" PPP command is now implemented
The current cache, mail and news directories are displayed and saved into the INF file
The fixed size of the page can be greater than 999 pixels

13 jun 97 v1.99z (not released)

NEW HTML COMPILER INSTALLED FOR TESTING, 2 TO 3 TIMES FASTER !!!
No background filling if a background pic is displayed
The dynamic allocation of the IP adress is changed, it may be mecessary to change between 0.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255
The unavailable pics uses the space given by the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters
It is now possible to directly specify an IP adress rather than an URL in the URL selection box
An distant URL can be saved in the preferences, it will be taken from the cache at startup
The scripting languages listings are no more displayed in the body the HTML document

18 jun 97 v2.00 beta (not released)

NEW HTML COMPILER
New format for the preferences file WENSUITE.INF, now ASCII and editable
Support for recursive tables (limits: 32 levels of recursion, 256 colums per table, 32768 pixels height)
The white side of the HTML 3D boxes are now draw as dotted line for better visibility in mono mode
History and index functions don't add anymore their self-generated pages to the history

04 jul 97 v2.00a

Debugging of the HTML compiler, especially the recursive tables
New shortcuts for web,mail,news,ppp link and url access
The DNS cache is not deleted during startup (soon unactiveable)
4 display modes are now available in monochrome selectable PREFERENCES/DISPLAY
The activation of the background pics display is separated for mono, 16 colors, and 256 or more colors
Better color approximation for BODY colors and FONT COLOR in 16 color mode

11 jul 97 v2.00b

A bug causing some crashed PPP packets is removed
New serial input routine for support of high modem speeds in Falcon big video modes
It is now possible to enter several URLs with the URL dialog box with a correct response
Access to online URLs from Index or History is available

21 jul 97 v2.00c (first commercial release)

A bug causing some bombs during online HTTP access is removed
Images used as hypertext links are now sensitive in all their surface
Better support for graphics cards like ET-4000 and NOVA
The file MIMETYPE.DAT allows the definition of not displayable files
Serialisation is installed

23 jul 97 v2.01a

Bug causing bombs in the modules is removed
The progressive display is now supported in version 2 (previously supported with the old v1 compiler)
Percentage progression and animation has been reinstalled and improved
A bug causing some bad creation of CACHE/MAIL/NEWS dirs is corrected

30 jul 97 v2.01d

The back and forward commands now works online
Better support for PRE and non HTML text display
The tables display has been improved
The PPP-LCP authenticate option has been added

18 aug 97 v2.10a

The NEWS are implemented as a test version
The window magager CLIC-IT has been improved
Better support for interlaced JPEG images and partially crashed JPEG images
Faster 68K JPEG decoding

02 sep 97 v2.10b

Correction of the PPP NCP phase for some providers (enter 0.0.0.1 as IP adress)
The TEMP and FILES directories are created during startup

04 sep 97 v2.10c

The error report window now works (temporally only for newsgroups)
The newsgroups POST command is ok (need for an external editor)

10 sep 97 v2.11a

Typing RETURN in a Ftext doesn't display anymore the CR character
Now if there is nothing to display and the DIR module isnt present the WEB window is correcty drawn
The DIR module is corrected and so the drives links are active
The bug of the v2.10c is corrected, the window scrollers dont hang-up the program
The error report window now displays the HTTP messages
The error report window also display the transfer rate in input and output
The last font of the pop-up is selectable even if there is less than 12 fonts

12 sep 97 v2.11b

A bug causing a hang-up during some news reading is removed
A bug procucing timeouts and crashed packets with big TCP/IP packets is corrected
An important bug causing crashes when an image of a HTML page is null size is removed
A bug causing a concatenation of URLs in online mode is corrected
The HTTP "302 Moved" message is now interpreted

25 sep 97 v2.12a

A selection problem of the fonts pop-up appeared in the v2.11 is now removed
The HOME and SHIFT-HOME keystrokes are now managed
The news TCP/IP connection is now disconnected in case of problems, so another connection is possible
The ISO8859-1 charset is now installed (active for online web, mail and news; atari charset for offline html)
The news messages are now formatted in HTML format
New buttons in the PPP-LINK adress dialog box allows the connection with some problematic providers

03 oct 97 v2.12c

Better table display when recursive tables
If a file is unavailable an error message is displayed rather than a directory display
It is possible to post news (but problems with big messages)

07 oct 97 v2.12d

Better clipping of the display allows a faster scrolling on big pages
The mews messages doest not use the background of the web page anymore
The width and height of the last displayed document (web/mail/news) does not modify the others

09 oct 97 v2.20a

Clic-IT now supports new customs indexed dialogs
The new indexed dialogs involves a significant reduction of the ressource size
The reduction of the ressource size involves the creation of a unique ressource for mono & color
There are now 3 options dialog boxes, for more settings (some are not active)
A modification in PPP-Link needs to select again PAP or CHAP if they where previously selected
You can get additional credits about the program by opening an empty HTTP URL

13 oct 97 v2.21a

The auto retry of the TCP/IP connection for a HTTP access is now functionnal (most servers now responds)
Enhancement of the usage of the HTTP "if-modified-since" method for faster web access
The posting of big messages in news is now possible
Correction of a bug that disables the news server after an interruption (ESC or timeout)
It is now possible to prepare news messages offline and send them later (max 999 messages)
The selection of the external editor is now allowed, a command string is also editable
The From field of a posted news includes now gets the real name of the sender

15 oct 97 v2.21b

A bug (maybe caused by GDOS) reducting the display to the smallest font is removed
The links inside of a table are active again (bug introduced in the v1.99z)
The tables provide a better replacement of the sub tables
A bug in the news causing a return to the top of the messages list after a nessage read is removed

22 oct 97 v2.25a

New PPP/IP negociation method, 99% good connections now!
The MANUAL UPDATE now works!
HTTP timeouts and retrys have been improved
TABLE BGCOLOR don't ever modify the BODY BGCOLOR
Sometimes the news text size was too big, it is now corrected

23 oct 97 v2.25c

The Web/Mail/News windows can now be saved in opened or closed state
Better display of the indexes in mono display or TOS<4.0
First attempt to get mails
It is now possible to suscribe to new newsgroups
Disconnection from the provider is now possible

27 oct 97 v2.25e

Correction of a display bug of the OK and CANCEL buttons of the HTML forms
The menu entry EDIT/FORCE HTML allows the display in HTML of documents with bad extension or mimetype
Editing of a message now don't display the header fields
It is possible to make a news response to a message (ISO-8859 accents are supported in the two ways)
The ISO-8859 accents are also displayed in the message list
The HTML ISO-8859 accents encoded with &#nnn; are correctly decoded
Enhancement of the tables display, less perturbations
The HIDDEN FORMS are now no longer displayed
The mails are retreived, decoded and the inbox is displayed
It is now possible to make a reply to a news message
A selection problem of the icons is removed (maybe introduced in the v2.20a)
A display problem of the indexes in mono mode is removed (introduced in the v2.20a)
A bug causing crashes with big tables is localized, now the compilation stops but don't crashes
It is now possible to get MAILS

30 oct 97 v2.25f

A better parsing of the WENSUITE.INF file suppresses bugs if some fields are empty or with spaces
Adds to the documentation: How to configure mail and news

02 nov 97 v2.25g

The new mails are marked and their number is indicated in the info bar
The mail/news background is now white and don't ever corrupt the web page background
The speed of the fonts pop-up is now controlled for a better selection
The fonts pop-up don't flash when they are in top or bottom of the list
The disconnect phase in PPP Link is faster
It is now possible to inconify web/mail/news windows with TOS>4.04
The texts of the title bars of the windows are now correctly separated for each window
The process display of the compiler is not displayed for mail and news window
The [CTRL]+[<-] and [CTRL]+[->] allows to switch mail and news datas
It is possible to use [SPACE] to go to the next message in mail and news (also available online)

03 nov 97 v2.25h

Correction of a news bug causing the lost of the messages if an interrupt occur (maybe introduced in the v2.21)
The sliders have been improved, no more problems of selection with some TOS versions
The position of the mail window is maintained when the displays are switched
It is possible to add and E-Mail adress to the directory list
It is possible to get a message without reading it by holding [SHIFT] pressed during the mouse click
Two more buttons are added to PPP Link, it is now possible to exit PPP Link simply by pressing RETURN
Clicking on an adress of the directory prepares a new mail
The scroll speed of big pages have been improved (but must be improved more)
First tests of sending mail

17 nov 97 v2.30a

Better detection of the begin and the end of the comments
Rewriting of the PPP send/receive routines (PPP Link v1.10a)
Modifications to the PPP structure: faster TCP/IP handshakes
Implementation of the PPP compression methods ACFC, PFC and ACCM
Adaptation of the TCP/IP receive window to the data flow
Display of the news message download progress (in lines)
Support of the <META HTTP-EQUIV REFRESH> tag
The external images of a HTML page (eg. counters) are now loaded
The secondary DNS is now managed
Suppression of some control characters in the MAIL/NEWS info line
Faster display: 2 to 40 times faster (depending on the size of the page)
Managing of the MIMETYPE.DAT file
Usage of the DIRECTORY module if wildcards characters are entered
Better support of the big pages
It is now possible to directly enter an IP adresses as an URL
The progession percentage is now always displayed during the page download
In mail/mews message list, the real name is extracted from the e-mail adress
Correction of the TCP/IP bug causing "TCP/IP open error" message
More error messages are displayed for a better understand of the problems
The HTTP "Host" parameter has been added for compatibility with some servers

20 nov 97 v2.31a

MAIL posting is now active
A bug causing some "DNS resolve error" is removed
Better support of the mouse clics on inactive windows
A bug causing some bombs when consulting cached WEB pages after disconnection is removed

06 dec 97 v2.32a

The last header of a newsgroup is discarded in case of an interrupt
The "mailto:" and "news:" URLS are now active in WEB and open the corresponding window
It is possible to click on a URL present in a news message (opening the WEB window)
The mail&news signature file is now active
The buttons reactivity under Magic has been reestablished
A bug causing bombs sometimes in HTTP has been removed
A bug causing bombs sometimes during a window opening has been removed
A bug causing bombs sometimes during PPP disconnection has been removed
The pages of the current session are now read on the web the first time only
It is now possible to go to the news, disconnect, connect again, and return to the news

12 dec 97 v2.32b

Correction of a bug of the temporary cache
Correction of a bug in the news witch may cause bombs and problems to register to new groups
The HTTP "301 Moved" message is now interpreted
Selection of the size of the mail and news listing font
The partial reception of a newsgroup is now possible, the limit is editable
The TAB, UP and DOWN keys allows the displacement in the WINDIALS
The bug of the miscing of the windows title bars is removed (may be a gem bug)
All the text messages are now in the ressource file, international versions are possible
Better function of the mouse clic, no selection with the button hold down
The Re: subject is no longer truncated to the first accentuated character
It is now possible to extract an email adress from a mail or news message to the directory

v2.32c

The WEB window title bar is now updated as soon as the TITLE is read
The modules directory has been enhanced

WARNINGS:

The pages with more than 32768 pixels height don't display properly (temporally)
Border for pictures is not drawn
Some type of forms are not supported
No imagemaps (temporally)

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