Webite 1.50 release notes
23-Jan-2000

This is a source snapshot release!!!.

• New 'drag-to-scroll' option for the viewer window.
• Dragging a DrawFile 'image' to Webite's window renders it as it does for GIFs and JPEGs (PNGs don't do this though).
• Updated configuration front-end to cope with new options.
• New URI dispatcher for mailto: and telnet:// URLs.
• Newer directory structure for source files.
• [fish] tag (!) removed from WebSrc.
• Info window, options window, OLE and mini-mailer code removed from ProtoclSrc.
• Fixes/updates to the included HTML documentation.
• JPEG and PNG images now work properly with RISC OS 3.1.
• Webite calls JPEGToSpr, PNGToSpr, DrawToSpr and (optionally) ChangeFSI by itself.
• New image helper - DrawToSpr.
• TermiteEmu is built into the browser, but TermiteIP can still be used if desired (assembly option).
• The BSD sockets code properly checks for a DNS resolver module.
• Added a new option - 'MailMethod', for pointing Webite to a suitable location for it's text/work files from mailto: forms.

Essential items to do before release:

• Acquire session management routines from Termite Internet source code for addition to WebiteSrc. This will allow multi-windows, fetch-to-disc downloads and autoexec filetypes to work.
• Finish disc cache index program.
• Stop using AcornURI and use ANT's URL protocol instead (it's easier!).
• Fix the 'Out of memory during HTML to Drawfile conversion' errors - see the jonribbens.txt file for further information.
• Find out why ftp:// URLs leave connections open...

  Less essential items:

• Modify Wimp Extension's FileType library to be aware of PNGs. This would enable dragging a PNG file to Webite's window (for rendering). Sadly, this requires the source for Wimp Extension, which we don't have.
• Open new browser windows at/in a specified size/location.
• Optional 256-colour icon set (Ursula-style). Mmmnnn!
• Finish 'View source...' menu option.
• New bookmarks code - 'Add bookmark' would create a URI file, and 'Bookmarks...' would Filer_OpenDir a specified directory. Webite would need to recognise double-clicks and drags of URI files.
• Support (optionally) drag-to-scroll in the main browser window.
• Cookie support.
• Better 'mailto: form' action - build in SMTP-sending code to do away with the messy text/work file business.
• Plugin protocol support (for Java, Shockwave and RealAudio).
• Optional ImageFS support.
• Make Webite respond to AcornURI calls for HTTP, FTP, Gopher etc.
• Support image align=left|right (see jonribbens.txt).
• Animated GIF support. This requires changes to the assembly language GIF decoder which is built into the browser, and code to animate the image (a handy 'how to' could be the blinking code).
• Proper frames and tables support (aarrgghh!). Frames may not be too bad, because the nested Wimp should make it simpler. Tables, however... :-/
• JavaScript interpreter (impossible!).
• Use the Wimp sprites instead of !Webite.Sprites[22/24].

  From Jon's original list:

• Click adjust-back should open new window (moderate)
• Check cache expiry when adding a new entry and it's full (moderate)
• If fetch started with CTRL don't use proxies (easy)
• Add Ctrl-G to toggle images (easy)
• HTTP-Equiv: Refresh (moderate)
• Store form contents in page histories (difficult)
• Create new subsections and files at current mouse ptr position (moderate)
• Allow editing of bookmarks entries (moderate)
• Allow adding of link in window to bookmarks (easy)
• Allow dragging of bookmark entries to text editors (moderate)
• Auto-scrolling of bookmarks window (moderate)
• Click ADJUST on Home should open new window (easy)
• Highlight selected bookmark (moderate)
• Auto-extend authentication area if server and domain are the same (difficult)
• HREF attribute for ISINDEX (easy)
• Support 'nowrap' attribute (easy)
• Support [sub] (moderate)
• Support [sup] (moderate)
• Determine JPEG image sizes by file contents (like old GIF) (difficult)
  [ RW has some BASIC code to do this ]
• Improve #name scroll position setting (moderate)
• Horizontal rule enhancements and 3D-ness (moderate)
• Internal-unknown image on decode failures (moderate)
• Save out page as text option (difficult)
• Copy history list to new sessions (moderate)
• Pre-fetching (moderate)
• Line breaking only on spaces in original document (impossible)
• Printing (difficult)
  [ Possibly just automate 'PrintWeb and Draw'? ]

This releases of Webite is classified as freeware. It may be freely re-distributed in it's supplied form. All of the supplied software except for PNGToSpr and JPEGToSpr may be re-distributed in any form.

All of the code originating from Termite Internet is Copyright 1995-1997 DoggySoft Ltd. Huge thanks are due to them for releasing the sources in the first place, and allowing this free re-release. In particular, I would like to thank Jon Ribbens, Ben Dooks and Dickon Hood for their massive help.

Thanks are also due to Alex Macfarlane Smith, for the TermiteIP to BSD sockets work, WebProxy, and lots of fiddling with the sources.

A portion of the image helping code, and most of DrawToSpr is Copyright David McCormack, and many thanks to him for allowing it to be modified and included. His disc cache viewer code is also used. Thanks again.

The image helper makes extensive use of advanced JPEG and PNG components courtesy of R-Comp (these are used with permission and originate as part of the WebsterXL web browser).

Major parts of the configuration desktop front-end, and the and the alternate Sprites22 were created by Michael Curtis. Thanks to him for allowing these items to be included.