Welcome to Arena beta-1

Arena beta-1 is a prerelease that comes with bugs and shortcomings. Its primary purpose is to be a testbed browser for HTML3, style sheets and the W3C library of common code. Binaries for beta-1e are only available for a limited selection of platforms at this point, but source code is available if you want to compile for yourself.

Prerelease beta-2 is now available

Arena Links

• Arena status page
• An historical tour of HTML3
• HTML3 specification
• Frequently Answered Questions
• Command Line Options
• Inspiration

Style Sheets

• Form-based style sheet editor.
• Web Style Sheets background material
• A case study of style sheets. Includes rendered gif images for non-styled browsers.
• Charles Peyton's test pages
• A sample document that shows indent, leading etc.

New Stuff

• A very experimental style sheet editor has been implemented using forms.
• Arena now supports the new PNG graphics format (Thanks to Dave Beckett (D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk) who is responsible for all PNG code in Arena!) More PNG images
• 16-bit support (Thanks to Greg Roelofs (roe2@midway.uchicago.edu)!)
• Button 2 shows the URL of the targeted document.
• History popup menu on button 3. (Thanks to Janet Boltjes!)
• Correct handling of HTML comments (Thanks to Michael Van Biesbrouck (mlvanbie@valeyard.csclub.uwaterloo.ca)!)
• A new command line option to use own colormap: arena -cm.

Release History

27/11/95:

beta-1a released.

8/12/95:

beta-1b released.

21/12/95:

beta-1c released.

17/01/96:

beta-1d released.

8/02/96:

beta-1e released.

Bugs

• inline images use the "sandy" background instead of the document's background
• forms are starting to work better.