== Upcoming (unreleased currently ;-))) release
Patch to disable optionally gamma-correction in graphics mode
(which is really unnecessary for LCDs) - reduces memory usage
and floating-point operations, which is critical for some handhelds.
Patch by D. Phaneendra Kumar <phani@picopeta.com>
Keybinding for opening new tab is added - Ctrl+T
DreamCast console support (framebuffer + joystick).
Patch by VINCENT C?dric <c-vinc02@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
Tabbar menu (right mouse button on tabbar). Contains 'New tab' and
'Close tab' currently.
No-proxy-for support, ported from ELinks.
== 030709 release
HTTP Proxy Auth ported from ELinks.
Tab operations speedup - now we open/close tabs a bit faster.
Default charset fixed, now we understand iso8859-1 as well as iso-8859-1.
Some things ported from 2.1pre11, including non-aggressive cache.
Mouse wheel support for textmode X terminals, ported from ELinks.
Two new options for tabs added - whether to switch to next or prev
tab on tab close and whether to make new tab active (ala Mozilla'
"Open links in background")
Hunt for memleaks; a lot of small fixes; some possible segfault cases
fixed.
Experimental support for '<meta http-equiv="Refresh"...', controllable
through two options - enable/disable and minimal refresh time.
Very primitive downloads manager (internal:downloads) uses it to show
you current state of your downloads; cache manager is now 'realtime' too.
Now new options system can be translated into various languages, like
all other links parts (it uses old options titles if possible).
== 030507 release
Major improvements in Links configuration sphere - all 'plain' options
moved to new options system; old one still controls terminals, driver
params, extensions and associations config. Will be moved too, of
course, please wait... Now Links2 and Hacked Links configurations are
nearly independent and may live in one dir (new options system uses
file 'options', old one - '(links|html|user).cfg').
JavaScript history bug (first introduced by long-time-ago-accepted
forward history patch by John) fixed. Patch by John too.
New (builtin) help system introduced. Now 'About' menu item points to
internal:about (it will be opened in new tab, don't worry). Very
primitive still, but has a great future - it is possible to generate
dynamic content, such as list of compiled-in features
(internal:features), global history (internal:history), cache
(internal:cache), key bindings (not yet, as soon as I'll port keys
rebinding...)
Ok, now we reread bookmarks only when they are changed on disk.
Bookmarks are saved on disk only when you change them and close
bookmarks dialog. And also, now it is possible to move bookmarks ;-)
Now Links is completely menu-driven (tm) - we just got 'background'
pull-down menu. It appears on right mouse button click outside
links/images/etc. It has usual (as in all other browsers) functions set
- back/reload/forward/stop/save as/copy current url/close. So you may
'drag' your document only by middle mouse button.
Smart Goto Url dialog implemented - it has a drop-down menu of all
possible targets where to open link (current window/new window/new
tab/new screen/...).
Hey, tabbed browsing is here! It works even in text mode! So now you
may open link in new tab instead of new window from 'open in new'
dialog. Also you may open link in new tab by clicking it with middle
mouse button or pressing Ctrl+Enter on it (this behaviour may be turned
off, of course). You may cycle through all your tabs with '<' and '>'
(Alt+Left/Right in graphical mode too) and close current tab with 'c'.
And tabbar is here too (can be turned off).
Save Form Data patch from John accepted and improved a bit.
Improvements in keyboard navigation - now CTRL+(LEFT|RIGHT|UP|DOWN) in
'standard' mode acts like these keys without CTRL in 'keyboard
navigation' mode.
Dummy JavaScript handler added for the folks who prefer not to compile
Twibright js engine (like me ;-)). This engine is moved to separate dir
(next step must be to delete it completely and replace with something
really working ;-))
Option to prevent local file overwriting is introduced (by default on).
Ported from ELinks. So (if turned on) it will ask you whether to
overwrite existing file, save new file with alternative name or cancel
downloading. Didn't checked well...
Minor bug in images "alt" attribute text displaying is fixed
(sometimes they were displayed in incorrect codepage - another
Twibright Bug (c) ;-))
Support for 'glinks' as symbolic link to 'links', acts as 'links -g'.
Fix for active image frame flickering.
== 030316 release
Keyboard navigation in graphical mode is here! (adapted from 2.1pre9).
You can turn it on/off by pressing 'K' (ministatus entry is added for
it too) or using new options system. Also we underline links under
mouse now ;-)
Some improvements are ported from 2.1pre9.
Inconsistency in '+/-' (closed/open) drawing in listedit is fixed.
PDF support (and pdflib dependency) is removed. Printing will be implemented
through postscript (not yet).
'Link' menu is restored in graphical mode.
Now you can turn blocking of images completely off (as it causes some problems
with empty lists). Default is off.
Minor change in input fields behavior in graphical mode - now ESC
escapes you from it. First step towards keyboard navigation ;-)
Transparency support for text terminals, configurable through new options
system (by default on).
Fix for pngconf.h compilation problem (hope it will work ;-). Patch by Witold.
== 030113 release
Default fontset is updated for new build system. You need to download it
again ;-). Font names are changed (due to copyright issues, idea by aludal)
to default-[medium/bold]-[roman/italic]-serif-[mono/vari].
Some additional files reorganization - now we haven't graphics/ dir anymore,
font/ and utils/ instead. All utils/ programs are included in main build
process (rasterizer, arrow and generate_font only; all other twibright stuff
look too hackish and unusable for non-czech people ;-)). Files arrow.inc (for framebuffer and svgalib)
and font_include.c are now generated automatically from utils/arrow.png
and font/*. If we haven't
font/ dir we'll try to download and untar it automatically ;-)
Some build process fixes - patches by Pasky, Witold and me.
Clipboard pasting is redone (inspired by Stanson' patch). Now copying/pasting
handling is completely outside of graphics drivers. Currently pasting is middle
mouse button (without shift, as it was completely useless) or Ctrl+V
(will be configurable as soon as I port keys rebinding ;-)).
Hey, can anyone write clipboard backend for gpm?
Now we draw an empty rectangle instead of a space for non-existent chars
Now it is possible to delete external fonts with font manager.
It is more or less usable now ;-)
External fonts saving order fixed - last added is still upper after
save/reload cycle
== 021225 release
New fontset released, with slightly modified format (structure names are
changed). Simple rasterizer fot unicode ttf fonts included (graphics/rasterizer)
to make builtin font pngs. system_font dir removed at last - we just
print empty space instead of ugly 'unknown-char-replacer'.
Font subsystem is modularized and simple FreeType backend is added
(old builtin fonts still here, of course, but I changed its format a bit -
so you need to download and compile new fontset!!!)
- so now you may use any unicode truetype font (Type1 etc will not work
most probably - they are not in unicode, AFAIK). Simple font manager
implemented - you may find it by pressing Ctrl+I (yes, it MUST be accessible
through menu, but not yet). Code is still very dirty and need to be
cleaned up.
Probably fixed bug with empty blocklist
Bug in options editing fixed
Content-Encoding (gzip and bzip2) support - stolen from ELinks, as usual ;-)
Configurable mini-status - you may turn on and see in the right-bottom
corner of your screen numbers of 'connecting' and 'running' connections,
status of images loading (on/off) and SSL status (secure/insecure)
Problem with multiline <select> fixed
Really configurable form colors - it was fixed...
Support for configurable Accept-Charset: and Accept-Language:
HTTP fields - useful sometimes ;-)
Global History support - without any dialogs currently, but it is
loaded and saved and used to change colors of already visited sites
(as in elinks, e.g. limited a bit - we don't update already rendered
pages...)
Fixed layouting bug with non-latin1 <select> - it was too wide.
Introduced strlen_utf8() for such cases.
Terrible bug with bookmark resaving (causing your bookmarks to
disappear sometimes) was fixed .
Compilation fixes related to pdflib.
== 021215 release
Simple printing support implemented... It is VERY simple - we make
PDF file (through pdflib) with text only (just a rectangles instead of images), and
with PDF internal fonts only (don't even try to print non-latin-1 texts!!!)
- but we have more-or-less correct layout and page breakings.
Full-text selection! Now it works perfectly (really there are some issues with
<input> tags, but all the others are ok)
Radiobuttons by Alexander Udalov, checkboxes by Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
and form buttons by me - Now we look like real graphical browser ;-))
Default fontset is updated - download it!
Now it is time to extend our functionality...
Ok, <hr> now works more or less sane - it shows correct sizes at least, but
still in pseudographics.
Simple mini-status - just a 2 numbers in a lower right corner, showing
current numbers of 'connecting' and 'running' connections. Will be
configurable, but not yet...
== 021210 release
Another useless UI improvement - no more text-alike buttons, checkboxes
and textfields - all of these are more-or-less graphical. Still ugly ;-(((
Waiting for artistic inspiration from someone else.
Default document colors and homepage url are configurable now.
It looks like options saving and loading works now ;-)) Of course, it is
still very ugly...
Let's give the first try for new options system - now toolbar buttons visibility
is configurable through it ;-)) No options saving/loading yet...
== 021208 release
I began to implement new options system - no results yet ;-)
Fixed listbox widget - now it is possible do edit lists with fixed
topology - options will be such list, where user can only change values,
but not names nor position ;-))
Fonts excluded from main package - you must download separate tarball
or use your current if upgrade
LDAP bookmarks support added - thanks John <martian202002@yahoo.com>
See contrib/ldap/README for details
Bug in X-selection paste code fixed. It was impossible to paste selection from
one window to another.
I've ported at last correct header date parsing from ELinks - so
now we have cookies saving support the same as in ELinks
Fixed backspace and delete in dialog fields - it didn't know anything
about UTF-8 internal representation
Reverted to old menu scrolling code - it works at least ;-)
Now we fork at startup of first graphical session to be more consistent with
the behavior of default 'remote links execution'.
Fixed bug with remote connections (default state of links, we try to open
new window of an existing instance if -no-connect not set) - new window
was opened by session with id=1, so if we close it we became blind ;-)
Oops, 'stop' didn't stop host lookups... Fixed.
== 021206 release
Now we have 'real' Stop button - it kills only connections of current
screen (I hope ;-)) Kill-all-connections is now in main menubar, near
kill-background-connctions, where it must be.
Fixed bug with Home button - there was unchecked mem_free() causing segfault
if you don't have WWW_HOME set
=== 021205 release
Now this buttonbar is more-or-less configurable. Without any
user-interface, of course ;-))) hope it will appear some day. It is
possible to turn buttons on/off in the beginning of view_gr.c
(int show_button_*=1/0). It uses symbols from internal font (located in
system-roman-serif-vari/ dir): \x2 - back, \x3 - history (single list for
path and future, it seems working ok and I will not change it without
serious reason) \x4 - reload, \x5 - forward, \x6 - bookmarks, \x7 - home
(homepage url is, of course, in your shell WWW_HOME), \x8 - Stop
(currently kills ALL connections in all windows including downloads, I'll
change it soon to more reasonable behavior, I hope). Currently we have
one char for one button - if you want to change it - change corresponding
#default's at the end of setup.h. There is no spaces between buttons on
toolbar, so you need to include it to pixmaps.
There is no way currently to change buttons order (except for changing it
in the code ;-)))
Also DirectFB backend is added - thanks Sven Neumann
=== Initial release:
- Lua scripting - ported from Links-Lua, not from current elinks code, but
the differences are not so sensitive, I hope.
- HTTP Auth - stable, ported form Elinks
- Blocking of images - my own code ;-). You may block images containing given
substring (of course, it is better to use regexps, but this way is
more portable). Just press '-' to edit the list of blocked patterns.
Info is saved to main config file.
- Cookies saving - simply saving, as I'm too lazy (and I really don't need it ;-))
to port correct http header parsing...
- Possibility to open new windows instead of new links instances in graphics
mode - new socket is created with name 'glinks' in links dir, instead
of 'links' for text instances, so they can work independently. After
that command 'links -g' works like 'mozilla -remote', simply opening
new instances from currently running one. But it has some limitations -
these new windows will open on the same display as original one...
- Url copying - some code from Ludvik Tezar' patch, but the backend is organized
more cleanly - there are two additional fields in struct graphics_driver -
put_to_clipboard and get_from_clipboard. Only X11 backend is functional
now, as I don't use others ;-)
- Some kind of selection for rendered text - it's just a quick hack really. Now
it is possible to select-and-copy-to-clipboard text line-by-line - you j
ust press left mouse button and move it over text parts (really -
over g_object_text structures) you want. These parts are visually selected
(invert style) of course during the selection. As the internal text
representation is UTF-8, there is a config option (accessible through
setup menu) to select codepage for clipboard. This sort of selection looks
strange for the first time, but it works and is very useful sometimes.
- Extended 'toolbar' - there are currently back '<-', reload 'R', bookmarks 'B' and
kill-all-connections 'S' buttons. Last function has also a shortcut - 'a'.
It kills ALL (not only background) connections. Also, ugly 'classical'
black-bar-on-white status bar was fixed ;-))
- Some small but useful improvements - support for <small> and <big> tags,
keybinding ("i") to turn on/off images, possibility to show HTTP
header ("|", as in Elinks)
- Extended set of fonts - italic support for variable width fonts, and
not-so-ugly-as-currently cyrillic characters set ;-)
