3:17 p.m.
Hi,
The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability of
NetSurf 1.2. This is a bug fix and security release to NetSurf 1.1. It is
available for download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Here is a change log detailing the important changes in this release:
Core / All
----------
* Overhaul documentation in line with new website
* Many improvements to cookie handling
* Minimum font size option is now obeyed by form elements
* Add support for periodic reflow during fetching
* Fixes for positioning of floated elements -- NetSurf now passes
Acid1
* Bring support for <center> and align= in line with specification
* Updated SSL root certificate bundle
* Various fixes for form element default styling and interaction
with
CSS
* Rewritten, more tolerant, HTTP redirect handling
* Fix crash when tabbing into hidden form fields
* Fix background handling on <body> and <html>
* Permit <style> in <body>
* Relax restriction on location of @import rules
* Improve CSS colour handling
* Fix positioning of horizontal scrollbars within page
* Fixes for inline-block boxes
* Minor fixes to CSS parsing
* NetBSD support
* Fix GIF decoding to work correctly on big-endian processors
* New build system and many compiler warnings fixed
RISC OS-specific
----------------
* Fix crashes on images.google.com
* Fix intermittent crashing when clicking in URL-completion menu
* Fix search when input is '*'
* Fix Shift+Adjust clicks
* Permit disabling of interactive help
GTK-specific
------------
* Improve form widget support
* Improve support for core configuration options (memory cache
size,
proxy, etc)
* Fix unsightly flickering to white
* Fix non-ASCII text input handling
* Fix for caret positioning when clicking after the end of text in
form inputs
Also included are many and various smaller bug fixes, documentation
enhancements and updated translations.
Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release!
About NetSurf
=============
NetSurf is an Open Source web browser for RISC OS and Unix-like platforms
including Linux. For further information, please see the website at
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
10:28 p.m.
In message <693959c69d0d8b3d9affd6821e5d7d92(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
Hi,
The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate availability of
NetSurf 1.2. This is a bug fix and security release to NetSurf 1.1. It is
available for download from http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
Sorry but I don't understand the release system. I tend to download
the development versions every month or so and the one I have says
release 2.0. So is this more advanced that 1.2 or not?
regards
Andrew
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11:08 p.m.
In article <1d433d844f.Andrew(a)no.reply>,
Andrew <aw29009(a)gmail.com> wrote:
In message <693959c69d0d8b3d9affd6821e5d7d92(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>
John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate
> availability of NetSurf 1.2. This is a bug fix and security release to
> NetSurf 1.1. It is available for download from
> http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
I tend to download the development versions every month or so and
the
one I have says release 2.0.
It doesn't. It is, as you said, a development version. It is not a
release. It is called "NetSurf 2.0 (Development build)" or shortened to
"NetSurf 2.0 (Dev)" in the iconbar menu info box.
What this means is that it represents the current state of development
towards NetSurf 2.0, which will be the next release of NetSurf, after 1.0,
to contain any significant new features.
NetSurf 1.1 and NetSurf 1.2 are primarily bug fix releases for the NetSurf
1 branch.
All the bugs we've found and fixed on the way to developing NetSurf 2.0
are also fixed for the version 1 branch and released periodically as
NetSurf 1.x.
So NetSurf 1.2 is considered more stable and to have less bugs than
NetSurf 1.1 or NetSurf 1.0.
So is this more advanced that 1.2 or not?
Well the development builds contain new features that will not get into a
NetSurf 1.x release. Off the top of my head, these currently include
support for data URLs and the SVG stuff.
Generally, I suggest you use the latest development build most of the time
and keep the latest release handy, should you ever need it.
Hope this helps.
--
Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
5:31 p.m.
In message <4f8440c5b8tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org>
Michael Drake <tlsa(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
> So is this more advanced that 1.2 or not?
Well the development builds contain new features that will not get into a
NetSurf 1.x release. Off the top of my head, these currently include
support for data URLs and the SVG stuff.
Generally, I suggest you use the latest development build most of the time
and keep the latest release handy, should you ever need it.
Hope this helps.
Yes it does, thanks.
Andrew
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5:02 p.m.
On 22 Mar 2008, John-Mark Bell <jmb(a)netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
Hi,
The NetSurf developers are happy to announce the immediate
availability of NetSurf 1.2.
John-Mark
Many thanks for all your efforts, which have gone into NetSurf, over the
years, and which have produced such a remarkable application.
Thank you too for the pesonalised announcement of 1.2 - which I guess
was sent to those who had posted to the mailing list - a nice touch.
Tony
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