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Description: AWEB APL PPC
Install: aweb.lha
Size: 11Mb 5
Version: 3.5.10
Date: 20 May 12
Author: Various
Submitter: Andy Broad
Email: andy/broad ology org uk
Category: network/browser
License: APL
Distribute: yes
Min OS Version: 4.0
AWeb APL Lite 3.5.10 for Amiga OS4.1
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This is a special update of AWeb APL Lite 3.5 (version 3.5.10) for AmigaOS 4.1
and above. It fixes an number of issues relating to screen with compositing
enabled and the posibilty to move windows off screen.

AWeb is a fast standards complient (by that I mean it complies to the standards
it supports, not that it supports all standards...) HTML4.01 browser for
AmigaOS.
It has a powerful AREXX based scripting engine, and in local mode can execute
commands from with html pages. This makes it very suitable for a documentation
viewer, or GUI for a scripts etc.

Standards supported include

HTML 4.01
ECMASCRIPT 3 (javascript 1.5) 
SSL 
DOM (minimal, lacking some (if not all) important modern functions)

plus FTP plugin gopher plugin and more ...


LICENCE

This software is released under the AWeb Public Licence, please read
the file apl.txt included in this archive for more information.

INSTALLATION

AWeb 3.5  may be installed by using the Installer script
provided. It is recommended that you back up any previous installations
of AWeb or install in a separate directory, but actually there should
not be any real problems.

Here is an overview of the new features and major bugs fixed in this
release. For a complete list in "fine detail" see the Changelog
included at the end of this document, or read the Release History
section of the on-line documentation.

CHANGES FROM 3.5.09 too 3.5.10

SUPPORT FOR SCREENS WITH COMPOSITING ENABLED

The double buffering tecnique used by AWeb broke when AmigaOS 4.1 came
out as certain assumptions about bitmaps etc were no longer valid.
In fact they were never valid and only worked by "luck".

SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS MOVED PARTLY OF SCREEN

Under AmigaOS 4.x windows can be pushed partly of screen, this broke the
layer setup code in AWeb as it inadvertantly assumed a layer would always
fit in the screen dimensions. Fixed


REMOVAL OF ASYNCIO

Asynchio is nasty. Asynchio is inefficient (unless your are using a floppy disk)
it's gone....

REMAINING ISSUES

Occasionally when scrolling a plain ext document, AWeb locks up. Still haven't
got to the
bottom of that one.

Thanks to all contributions from the members of the AWeb team over the years.

Andy Broad






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