The browser window

The browser window is the most important window of AWeb. It is the place where World Wide Web pages are displayed. On top of the window there are some gadgets.

Scrolling the page

You can scroll the window contents horizontally and vertically, provided the size of the document is larger than the window.

Of course you can use the scroll bars and arrow buttons to scroll, but AWeb also understands the following keys:

cursor up/down (both cursor keypad and numeric keypad) scroll up and down over a short distance.
shift + cursor up/down (cursor keypad) scroll up or down a page.
PgUp, PgDn (numeric keypad) scroll up or down a page.
Space, Backspace scroll up or down a page.
Home, End (numeric keypad) jump to the beginning or the end of the document.
cursor left/right (both cursor keypad and numeric keypad) scroll left and right. This is only possible if the document contains an image or preformatted text wider than the window, because otherwise AWeb will keep the text formatted to fit within the window width.
shift + cursor left/right (cursor keypad) scroll left or right a full page width.

Following links

One of the most important features of the World Wide Web is the ability to include hyperlinks in documents. A hyperlink is displayed in another colour, and by default underlined. You can change the colour and the underlining in the Browser 2 page in the settings requester.

Images that are also links have a frame drawn around them. If you have deselected the link underlining in the settings requester, then this frame isn't drawn.

Click the text or image to follow the link, i.e. retrieve and display the document "behind" the link. The URL (network address) of the document that is linked to, is shown in the status indicator () when the mouse pointer is over the hyperlink.

Inlined images

A document can contain inlined images interspersed with the text. If an inlined image is not (yet) loaded, AWeb displays an icon for that image. You can select if you want images to be loaded immediately or not using the image loading chooser in the settings requester.

AWeb displays different icons under different circumstances. You can tell AWeb to use your own images here.

This icon depicts an unloaded image. Click it to load the image.

If an unloaded image is also a link to another document, there is a diagonal line through the image. Click in the upper left half of the icon to follow the link directly, or in the bottom right half to load the image.

This icon depicts an unloaded clickable map. Because a clickable map is always also a link to another document, the diagonal line is here too. Click on the bottom right half to load the image. Once it is loaded you can pick a spot from the map.
You can click in the upper left half of the icon to follow the link without map coordinates. Servers should recognize this as a request to a text-only version of the page.

If an image cannot be loaded for some reason, this icon is shown.

For an inlined image, a so-called ALT-text can be defined. This is a text that can be displayed if the browser doesn't display the image. Of course, AWeb understands this ALT-text and will display it instead of the icon imagery. With ALT-text, unloaded images look like this:

ALT-text Unloaded image.

Unloaded image that is also a link or a clickable map.

Downloading

Instead of following a link and display the new document, or loading and displaying an inlined image, you can download a document or an inlined image. To do so, hold the Shift key while clicking the link or image icon. The document or image is retrieved, and a standard save requester will pop up to let you specify a file name.

If the document or image is already in cache, it will only be saved, not retrieved again over the network.

Note you can also save a displayed image in this way. Just press the Shift key and click the image. This will work even for background images (only if background images are displayed): just shift-click somewhere in the background and you will be asked for a filename to save the background image.

If the image is also a link, shift-clicking the image could be abmiguous; therefore AWeb will save the image in this case. If you want to download the document "behind" the link, you can either
select Cache / Flush images in current from the menu, and shift-click the upper left half of the icon, or
click the image to load and display the document, and then select Project / Save as HTML from the menu to save the document.

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