Release notes for HV
New in Version 1.4
- PCX images with the same size as the screen (e.g. topcards) are now
displayed in full screen mode. They were rescaled before.
- HV is now more flexible in handling white space. Before, things like
"SRC =" (instead of "SRC=") were not recognized.
- Ctrl-T temporarily switches to text mode. Any further key switches back
to graphics mode. This seems to be handy for DOSSHELL users.
- Many bug fixes
New in Version 1.3
- Added the hot list.
- Fixed bug that sometimes caused the "Retain" option not to work
properly.
- A jump to a link within a not yet indexed file now waits until the file
is indexed before the jump is executed.
- Improved the way the program behaves if the index files cannot be created
for any reason.
- Bug fix: þ and ð now work properly.
- Compiled with PAL library version 1.1.
- Relative file names using ".." are now handled correctly in links.
- Bug fix: The GIF image display routine "deavoured" file handles.
- Added support for the <CENTER> and the <U> tags.
- Added support for tables. Tables are converted to a link. If the
link is selected, 123 is started and the table data is shown in 123.
Note that this only works if SysMgr is loaded, there is enough memory to
start 123 and the version of 123 on your HP is speaking english.
New in Version 1.2
- Current directory is now saved between two sessions
IMPORTANT: If you used the Retain option
before, please delete the file C:\_DAT\HV.ENV.
- Added support for entities of type &#nn; where nn
is the ASCII code of a character to be displayed.
- Rearranged the function keys so that they are more similar to the built-in
applications.
- Added support for inline GIF images.
- Added NoGIFs option for HV.CFG.
- Updating the index does not create a new history entry anymore.
New in Version 1.1
- Inline GIF-Files are now replaced by links so that they can be viewed
using an external viewer
- Support for external viewers:
the user can specify extensions and
corresponding actions in the configuration file.
- The history can now be saved between sessions
- The open dialog lets you enter a file name or (new) choose from a list
of already visited files
- The ESC key now has the following effect: as long as there is a "back"
document, it brings you to that document. Otherwise, HV is quit.
- HV now recognizes most entities such as ä etc.
- The ISO Latin 1 character set (used by most WWW documents)
is now supported and the default for HV. However, HV is configurable for
the IBM character set if you only create and view
documents on your HP.
- Searches are now interruptable
- Improved search speed significantly
- The index files can now be put
in a user specified directory (instead
of the same directory where the viewed document reside).
- Added additional checks to ensure the index files are not obsolete
- The tags <ADDRESS>, <BLOCKQUOTE>, <CITE> and <MENU>
are now supported.
- Some minor bug fixes
To be done for a next major release
- Support for WWW access via ppp
(only local files can currently be accessed)
The following things are not implemented (yet)
- inline JPEG-images (only GIF, PCX and ICN supported)
- any attributes of any tags (such as "align", "alt", "rel" etc.)
except the "src" attribute in images and the "href" and "name"
attributes in anchors
- URLs may only contain a file name and a "#" part, but not a
server name nor an access type
- no support for list nesting levels > 2
- headers <h5> and <h6> are treated the same as <h4>
headers
- forms
- the following tags:
- all tags in the header except <title> (are they used by anything?)
- <listing> (never encountered)
- <plaintext> (never encountered)
- <samp> (never encountered)
- <kbd> (never encountered)
- <var> (never encountered)
- <dfn> (never encountered)
- <strike> (never encountered)
- <dir> (never encountered)