commit 29c82be0c24dcf08125d3fe289b61ea9f1832bbf Author: Alan Dipert Date: Mon Mar 8 05:55:21 2010 -0500 init diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96d4bfb --- /dev/null +++ b/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,1321 @@ +See document FEATURES for canonical list of features. + +From 2.5 to 2.6 +............... + + o Inline JPEGs are supported. + o mailto URLs are supported. + o Improved Usenet support, including threaded newsgroup listings and article + posting. + o Common Client Interface now supports POST to server, SEND + BROWSERVIEW and QUIT browser protocol functionality. + o PostScript printing and saving optionally includes URL and page number as + page header. + o Minimal group annotation support. Set the annotationServer resource + to the URL of your CGI annotation server. + o The URL text field is now editable. Pressing Enter within the text field + causes Mosaic to open the displayed URL. + o Load to local disk can now be activated on a one-time basis by holding down + the shift key while clicking on a hyperlink. + o HTTP header Referer now contains a document's parent URL (for hyperlinks + that are clicked-on with the mouse pointer, only). NCSA httpd 1.4 can log + the Referer field. + o HTTP header User-Agent now uses a slightly different format, for + consistency with other platforms: + User-Agent: NCSA_Mosaic/2.6 (X11; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4m) libwww/2.12 modified + o resource *maxNumCCIConnect added to restrict number of cci clients + communicating with the browser. + o comment card for user survey introduced in this version. + o Added additional entity support + o On reload, added support for a cache proxy. If resource + reloadPragmaNoCache is set, Mosaic will send an additional header notifying + proxy not to use cache. + o Added support for older NNTP servers. + o Code has been Saber tested. + +From 2.4 to 2.5 +............... + + o Added Common Client Interface (CCI) support. + o Added X resource cciPort and command-line flag -cciPort. + o Mosaic creates the file $HOME/.mosaiccciport listing the active + CCI hostname and port number in the form host:port. + o Added nested hotlists, with Copy, Insert, Up, Save, and Load options. + (thanks to Gilles Bourhis). + o Hotlists are now stored in HTML as nested unordered lists. + o Binaries are now linked with the latest, greatest, HDF (Hierarchical + Data Format) library. + o Added -kiosk command-line flag and Boolean X resource, kiosk. + o Also added -kioskNoExit command-line flag and Boolean X + resource kioskNoExit for kiosk mode without the close button. + o Added defaultFontChoice X resource. + o Added experimental editor hook to File menu. + o Added editCommandUseXterm resource. + o Added child signal handler. + o For security reasons, changed /bin/rm system calls to unlink(). + o Added limited HTML table support. + o Added support for HTML superscript and subscript + tags, allong with supSubFont X resource. + o Forms may now have multiple submit buttons by including a NAME + attribute in INPUT elements of type SUBMIT. + o Fixed comment parsing, so that HTML mark-up can exist inside + comments. Comments should begin with + o Mosaic no longer displays text inside the section of an + HTML document. + o Added underline support. + o Fixed case-sensitivity forms bug. + o Fixed some forms core dumps + o More verbose error messages + +From 2.3 to 2.4 +............... + + o Fixed really embarassingly dumb bug that made widgets names appear + next to toggle buttons on forms. + +From 2.2 to 2.3 +............... + + o Fixed security bug in telnet URLs. + o Fixed bug with dithered images inverting on some displays. + o Fixed bug with non-direct-WAIS clients core dumping on WAIS URLs. + o Fixed bug with uninitialized gatewayed for proxy gateways. + o Fixed memory overrun in PEM_AUTH code. + o Fixed loss of small messages in PEM_AUTH code. + o Fixed improper defaults for VerticalScrollOnRight. + o Fixed more GIF decoding core dumps. + o Fixed mispelling of XtSpecificationRelease in gui.c + o Fixed 24bit handling bug that caused some displays to switch red and blue. + o Added names to child widgets in forms. + o Added autoconfiguration of MOTIF1_2 based on XmVERSION and XmREVISION. + o Made dialogs rise to the top when selected a second time. + o Added 24bit DirectColor support. + o Added 16bit TrueColor support. + o Changed dithering to Floyd-Steinberg dithering. + o 2 color images go to black & white on monochrome, instead of dithering. + o FORM now uses ENCTYPE and ENCENTITY to submit encrypted if PEM_AUTH + defined. + o New menu under "Options" to always request enrypted if PEM_AUTH defined. + +From 2.1 to 2.2 +............... + + o Fixed bug in unrecognized URLs that have whitespace at the beginning. + o Fixed bug with transparent color GIF89 images. + o Fixed more inlined image parsing code dumps. + o Fixed odd extra flashing in documents accessed after form documents. + o Fixed socket leak in interrupted I/O. + o Fixed bug in whitespace terminated entity '&' escapes. + o Added Frans Van Hoesel's latest postscript changes. + o Added Frans Van Hoesel's extra font support. + o Speedups in GIF decoding, thanks to David Koblas. + o Improved handling of monochrome displays. Detect mono without needing + the -mono option, and dither inlined images. + o Added