This file indicates the new features you can find in the latest versions of Amaya.

Amaya 2.0

3 May, 1999

Extensions 2.0:

• First implementation of a multi-document, multi-level Undo/Redo command.
• WAI guidelines on Image and Maps.
• COLGROUP and COL elements are accepted and can be created within TABLE elements. The rendering is not implemented yet, though.
• CSS properties "left-margin", "top-margin", and "display: none" are now interpreted.
• Amaya is now able to load, edit, print and save CSS files and plain text files.
• The entry "Style Sheets" in the menu Style allows one to
  • link a CSS file using the standard Amaya paragdim: Click to select the target or display a form allowing us to type the URI. The corresponding LINK element is automatically created and CSS properties are applied to the document.
  • open a CSS file used in a document.
  • open a CSS file used in a document.
  • disable CSS properties of the CSS file.
  • enable or re-apply CSS properties of the CSS file.
  • remove a CSS link.
• After a "Make Book" the document is automatically switched to the Read-Only mode. This will avoid the user to edit it or save it by error.
• Publication thru the net now uses the HTTP/1.1 etags and conditional headers to avoid the lost updates problem..
• The 409 HTTP error message (conflict) is now shown in a popup window.
• Added DEFLATE content encoding support under Windows.
• First support of disconnected browsing mode thru the libwww cache.
• Command SaveAs allows you to save a document in XHTML, following the specifications and guidelines of the latest XHTML draft.
• Adding new menu entries:
  • Back and Forward: navigation commands
  • Editor/Browser mode: setting Amaya mode (read only or read/write)
  • Amaya at W3C: link to the http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html page from the Help menu.
• Implementing a new policy of colors allocation.
• First version of Preferences configuration menus.
• The Verfiy each PUT with a GET option is now turned off by default
• It's now possible to browse with a simple-click or a double-click. By default Amaya uses the double-click, but it could be switched to simple-click in the General preference menu.
• Using the Publishing preferencesmenu, it's now possible to choose the default name for saving URLs that end in "/".
• New version of the Thot API:
  • Changing of TtaAddButton and TtaChangeButton to merge Windows and Unix dialogue API.
  • New functions: TtaGiveNextElement, TtaGetFirstLeaf, TtaGetLastLeaf
  • A new Thot event: TteElemClick
• All user Amaya preferences and personal files are collected into a home directory. By default this directory is $HOME/.amaya on Unix platforms and C:\TEMP\amaya on Windows platforms. These files are:
  • a personal amaya.css
  • a personal amaya.keyboard (amaya.kb on Windows)
  • a personal dictionary
  • thot.rc personal preferences. This file is generated and updated thru the Special/Preferences menu
  • other temporary files and directories used by Amaya.
• After a paste command, the selection is now set at the end of the pasted text where the user could continue to insert text.
• The Amaya CVS base is now available in read-only mode at http://dev.w3.org/ The Root directory is now Amaya instead of Thot and the libwww is no longer considered as a part of the Amaya code. The source tar file includes the libwww code (libwww is a directory next to Amaya) and one who acceedes the CVS base needs to get the libwww code (cvs get libwww) to compile Amaya.

Fixed bugs 2.0:

• Scripts can now be created within the document Body and are no longer moved into the Head at parsing time.
• When creating a new polyline in an area map there was a bug which generated wrong coords values on Windows platforms.
• Comments in files amaya.keyboard and amaya.kb are now allowed.
• When a document included the sequence <form>..<table>..</form>..</table> Amaya closed the table at the end of the form. Now it reports a parsing error on the end tag </form> and avoids to split the table.
• Copying an image from a remote document to a local document didn't work.
• When following a link which had a "?foo" ending, Amaya treated that ending as a query string.
• Some attributes values appeared with strange names in the Attribute menu.
• When the current position was in a sequence of empty blocks (paragraphs, for instance), the Backspace key deleted two of these blocks at once and did not select anything.
• When pasting a paragraph with an attribute at the beginning of a table cell or list item, it was turned into a pseudo-paragraph, and produced wrong HTML code when the document was saved.
• Amaya locked up when one applied the strong command to a text displayed at the beginning of a line.
• CSS selectors like "PRE SPAN.test" didn't work.
• The CSS parser didn't parse well the rule url("...").
• SMALL elements could be displayed too small.
• <basefont face="...."> was saved as <basefont facee="....">.
• When putting an attribute on a text string, the attribute was generated as text in the HTML output. Now a SPAN element is generated to carry the attribute. This bug occured with attributes title, dir, and most event attributes (onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, etc.).
• Amaya crashed when loading an isolated image with a filename without a suffix.
• People who compiled Amaya on Windows platforms couldn't display jpeg images. The problem is fixed now.
• The authentication handlers were desactivated while doing a HEAD pre-check during the lost update PUT procedure.
• While browsing an image, pressing the reload button didn't show the image again.
• It wasn't possible to browse images when the request was redirected to a URL having a different end name.

Amaya 1.4 and 1.4a

12 January 1999

New Features:

• Update of the German dialogue files (voluntary work done by Erich Koerting)
• On Unix platforms only, the variable DOUBLECLICKDELAY of the registry $HOME/.thotrc allows one to control the delay (in millisecond) under which two mouse clicks are classed as a double-click. The default value is 500.

• OPTGROUP elements are accepted within SELECT elements. The corresponding cascade menus are built by Amaya and the right string is sent to the server when submitting a form that contains OPTGROUPs. An item in the Types/Form menu allows the user to create OPTGROUP elements or to wrap OPTION elements into an OPTGROUP element.

• Elements FIELDSET and LEGEND from HTML 4.0 are implemented.
• Event attributes like onmousedown, onmousemove, etc. are listed in a sub-menu of the Attributes menu (Events sub-menu).
• When creating a Table, Amaya asks the user about the number of rows and columns s/he wants. When a new cell is created, the corresponding column is generated at the same position.
• When target icons were introduced, it was no longer possible to click the target element (an element with an ID attribute or an anchor with a NAME) to set a link. This possibility is available now.
• When reloading a document, the fresh document is shown in the formatted window at the position the previous version was shown.
• When saving a document in XML, Amaya follows the Voyager guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml)
• When printing a document, you can decide whether the document URL is printed at the top of each page or not.
• A new field in the dialogue form used to insert images allows the user to enter an ALT attribute. This attribute is mandatory.
• libwww has been upgraded to version 5.2. This version of libwww supports HTTP/1.1, rev. 05
• A first implementation of the message digest authentication protocol, as defined in <draft-ietf-http-authentication-03>. The code is interoperable with the current (which is an old) implementation of this protocol inside Apache/1.3.
• When Amaya detects errors in a loaded document, it generates a log file which can be displayed by the entry "Show log file" in the menu "Special".
• Thot compilers (str, prs, tra and app) are available on Windows platforms, so it's now possible to develop Amaya on these platforms.
• When an URI points at a single image, Amaya can display this image in a document window.
• Each Amaya window can be switched from Read-Only (Browser) to Read-Write (Editor) mode, and vice versa.
• A FAQ is available at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FAQ.html

Fixed bugs:

• There was a memory leak when following an internal link pointing to an inexistent anchor.
• Links which point to non-existent documents or invalid URLs are now left in the "active" state, instead of being set to the "visited" state.
• Browsing an image from an edited document (and thus requiring the opening of a new document window), didn't show the image.
• When one created a table while the current selection pointed to an empty paragraph, Amaya tried to replace the empty paragraph by the table, but there was a bug which corrupted the Amaya internal structure.

• In the menu associated with a <SELECT multiple> element it's now possible to deselect selected OPTIONs

• Table formatting: - Amaya wasn't able to find the correct cell width when the contents of this cell was centered or when a cell included complex structures. - When a table of a given width included constrained and unconstrained cells the result was sometimes incorrect. - When a table with vertical spans was resized, row heights were not updated.
• Amaya constrained the structure and reordered some elements in the HEAD: Meta, Script, Link, Style.
• Command Apply Class did not work always, especially when the current selection was crossing elements at different levels.
• Relative URIs for background images were always interpreted according to the document URI, even when it was relative to a stylesheet.
• A background image in no-repeat mode was sometimes repeated erroneously.
• Amaya tended to raise windows too often.
• Moving the cursor accross tables and BR elements didn't work correctly.
• When a character '&' appeared in an ALT attribute (and in some other attributes), it was saved as is in the HTML file. It's now saved as '&amp;'
• The use of autoconf has been improved to make the Amaya building easier (suggestions from Sam and Adam).

Amaya 1.3b

October 14, 1998

New Features:

• Whenever there's an authentication failure, Amaya will ask the user if he wants to retry or abandon the operation.

• It's now possible to configure different network related timeouts thru the registry file

• Amaya now uses the DEFLATE transfer encoding in the HTTP headers
• It's now possible to double-click within Windows selectors (Open Document, Spell-checker, etc.)

Fixed bugs 1.3b:

• Amaya generated line breaks into script and style elements. That has been fixed now.
• Sometimes the Backward and/or Forward buttons didn't work fine if you had successively loaded local and HTTP documents. Now it works.
• There was still a bug in vertical table formatting.
• While saving a remote document which was just edited, Amaya reported a failure of the operation, even if it was a success
• When Amaya save a document locally, the user can now give a relative path or the "~/xxx" path for images but the corresponding directory need to be created before.
• While browsing a protected site, Amaya could prompt the user many times for its password (bug inside the new libwww)
• When a paragraph was right aligned and updated, the current line could be not redisplayed correctly.
• When changing the type of an existing element (for instance changing a H2 into a Paragraph), the following elements (H2 elements in that case) were not renumbered correctly.
• The Windows version couldn't print the help page of Math.
• When MULTI_KEY is active the input method has been modified to support the ≤ character.

Amaya 1.3a

September 25, 1998

New Features:

• Amaya tries to save modified documents when it crashes. Then, the next Amaya session proposes to reload theses documents when it starts.
• Target anchors are no longer displayed in green. All elements which can be used as a target for a link show a target icon. These icons are always visible in the "Links" view. In the "Formatted view", the user has to ask Amaya to show them. An entry "Show targets" in the "Views" menu alternatively shows or hides target icons in the "Formatted view". When the user wants to create a link to a specific element, s/he must click on the corresponding target icon.
• New version of the jpeg library (except for the Windows version).
• Amaya uses the latest version of libwww. This version provides Amaya with an up-to-date implementation of HTTP/1.1 including pipelining and caching
• Amaya can save documents in XML. Command Save As proposes 3 output formats: HTML, XML, Plain text. When a document is saved in XML, the usual HTML structure is used, but it is written in the XML language.
• Conversely, Amaya can read HTML documents written in XML. These documents can then be edited and saved in HTML, XML or plain text.
• When saving a document in XML, namespaces are used if the document contains XML elements such as mathematical expressions in MathML or 2D vector graphics.
• The following HTML 4.0 elements are available: NOSCRIPT, LABEL, BUTTON.
• Some support is provided for frames: the parser recognizes tags FRAMESET, FRAME, and NOFRAMES as well as their attributes and Amaya displays them as if they were links. You can double click them to fetch the corresponding page.
• The following HTML 4.0 attributes are available: onload, onunload, charset, hreflang, target, accesskey, tabindex, onfocus, onblur, media, longdesc, declare, archive, standby, valuetype, object, onsubmit, onreset, accept-charset, disabled, readonly, onselect, onchange, accept, label, char, charoff, summary, frame, rules, datapagesize, abbr, axis, headers, scope, profile, scheme, language, defer, event, for
• All HTML 4.0 character entities are accepted by the HTML parser and are generated when saving HTML files.
• You can create STYLE and SCRIPT elements with the Structure menu in the Structure_view.
• You can edit the content of elements STYLE and SCRIPT in the Structure_view.
• Characters that are not available on the keyboard can be entered by key sequences. For instance, e acute is entered by pressing key ' and then key e. This multi-key support is now available on Windows platforms. On Unix and Windows it is optional and needs to be requested by setting "ENABLE_MULTIKEY=YES" in the registry file ($HOME/.thotrc for Unix platforms or Amaya/config/thot.rc for Windows platforms).
• Amaya fixes nested lists generated by Mozilla: when a OL or UL is a child of another OL or UL, the former is considered by the Amaya parser as a child of its previous LI sibling. According to the HTML DTD, the only allowed children for a UL or OL are LIs.

Fixed bugs 1.3a:

• Improvement of the auto-scroll on dragging and availability on Windows version.
• Improvement of the printing of tables: when a table was split by a page break, the page header and the page footer were overlapped by some table elements.
• To be consistent with other editors, the management of the Backspace is modified. With a non-empty selection the Backspace deletes the current selection but not the previous character.
• Improvement of CSS parsing. Style commands (format, colors, etc.) are also improved.
• Sometimes it was impossible to copy/paste from Amaya to another application.
• Improvement of form handling:
  • Password fields in forms showed the text which is being typed in.
  • Some special characters in the query string were not being correctly escaped.
  • There was a limitation on the size of the query string.
  • It wasn't possible to type a CR in the textarea zone
• When the user filled a form, Amaya considered that the document had been modified, as if one were in an edition mode, rather than in a browsing one
• The default color of ReadOnly documents is now black.
• Bullets in UL elements didn't grow with the UL size.
• When saving a document, the document status was set unmodified even if the operation failed. "Save As" could change attributes URL and SRC. If the saving failed old values were lost. Now Amaya restores the previous document state.
• Improvement of the vertical table formatting.
• Broken connection pipes weren't taken into account under AIX

Known bugs:

• By integrating the newest libwww, we got a very good implementation of HTTP/1.1. However, this version of the library can be fragile when contacting badly implemented HTTP/1.0 servers. For example, servers that don't send the correct headers or which don't understand the 1.1 protocol version in the request.
• Pushing the stop button in any document window closes all the open connections in all the document windows.
• Entities in URLs should be converted before being sent to the server.

Amaya 1.3

July 10, 1998

New Features:

• Print on Windows is now available.
• "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" functions are now available.
• Amaya uses the standard clipboard. On Windows versions Copy/Paste takes the standard clipboard into account. On Unix versions, Copy form clip board and Paste form Clipboard are attached to the usual mouse buttons (Left and Middle). Consequently, selection extension is now performed by the Shift + Left button of the mouse.
• The drag now generates an auto-scroll (not available on Windows).
• There is a new input method for Iso-Latin-1 characters. According to the following table one can obtain a 'π' by first pressing '~' then typing 'a'. To obtain a simple '~' you have to press '~' twice.

  accent-letter	~	`	'	"	*	^
  a A	π ├	α └	ß ┴	Σ ─	σ ┼	Γ ┬
  c C		τ ╟
  e E		Φ ╚	Θ ╔	δ ╦		Ω ╩
  i I		∞ ╠	φ ═	∩ ╧		ε ╬
  n N	± ╤
  o O	⌡ ╒	≥ ╥	° ╪	÷ ╓		⌠ ╘
  u U		∙ ┘	· ┌	ⁿ ▄		√ █
  y Y		▌	² ▌

• Alt and Control keys are dedicated to shortcuts

• Matrices and tables (mtable) from MathML are supported.

• XML links (only simple links) are supported in MathML: any MathML element can have the two attributes xml:link="simple" href="some/URL"
• Elements deprecated in HTML 4.0 can't be created with Amaya.
• The HTML parser replaces the obsolete elements LISTING, PLAINTEXT, XMP by PRE.

• The following HTML 4.0 elements are available: ABBR, ACRONYM, BDO, DEL, IFRAME, INS, OBJECT, PARAM, Q, SPAN, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD (BDO does not change the writing direction on the screen)

• The following HTML 4.0 attributes are available: id, class, style, title, lang, dir, onclick (and all other events), cite, datetime
• There is a new CSS parser. In that release, it's not possible to edit CSS files in Amaya but this will be available very soon.
• Tooltips are now available on Windows and are updated on Unix versions.
• Libraries libz and libpng are updated.

Fixed bugs:

• Amaya didn't accept a table within a form. The form editing has been also improved.
• Amaya is now able to manage row-spanned cells which are higher than the spanned rows.
• The install is now minimum: only amaya and print are installed.
• When accesing a protected site, an authentication dialogue appeared for each URL
• When reloading a page, Amaya wasn't sending any No-Cache headers

Fixed bugs in Amaya 1.2a

March 27, 1998

New: When Amaya crashes on Unix platforms, modified documents are now automatically saved in temporary files $HOME/.amaya/%name.html.

• Sometimes when creating a link Amaya crashed.

• Amaya could also crashed if the user edited a page when Amaya was downloading a new one.
• Back button didn't work sometimes when aborting the reload of a document.
• Couldn't follow local relative links when they specified the name of the document.
• Back button didn't work sometimes when aborting the reload of a document.
• Improving table editing and formatting.
• Table are now displayed differently in Alternate view.
• On windows platforms, the scroll could carry on pieces of overlapping windows.
• There was a problem with picture display when the document was scrolled.
• Amaya didn't download the new image when the attribute SRC was edited.

• Areas with shape=rectangle or circle were not updated when the associated image was resized and Amaya didn't redisplay correctly an image when width and/or height attributes were deleted.

• Error in area map parsing.
• Amaya didn't manage background images like other image in documents. Now Amaya is able to compute their relative URLs and save them.

• During parsing, when anchors were not properly closed Amaya repeated them.

• Hitting the Enter key several times at the end (or beginning) of a table created a new, empty table. It now creates an empty element after (or before) the table.

• Hitting the Enter key when a HR is selected created an additional HR. It now creates an empty element after the selected HR

• Amaya was stuck in an infinite loop when a BR was deleted by BackSpace.
• Document was not set modified when a link was changed or a span was created and modifications could be lost.
• When opening the CSS Dialog window my .amaya.css file was not automatically opened and loaded. Windows users can now define a User's Preferences file: Amaya/amaya/amaya.css.
• When clicking on remove icon in CSS Dialog Amaya crashed.
• After modifying CSS the Save button popped up an infinite number of save windows.

• There were memory leaks in windows version.

It's now possible to launch Amaya in German. Other European languages could also be supported, but dialogue files are not available yet. Please contact us, if you're interested.

The same Windows distribution is available for Windows'95 and Windows NT and its installation is now automatic.

Amaya 1.2

February 4, 1998

Windows improvements:

• handling of the stop button
• keyboard shortcuts for editing commands
• saving as a PostScript file
• scrolling and editing

Global improving (Windows and Unix versions):

• table formatting: a new implementation has been done
• extension to support Latin 2 languages in documents
• proxy specification
• further work on the MathML application
• other minor bugs

Fixed bugs in Amaya 1.1c

November 17, 1997

The following points are improved in Windows version:

• 256 color mode for windows,
• background images and image transparency,
• keyboard management,
• opening files from text zones and toolbar management,
• HTML forms,
• links management in local files.

Global improving (Windows and Unix versions):

• CSS background rule,
• saving in ASCII format,
• editing of hotzones in image maps (not available yet in Windows version),
• the "Make Book" function,
• the help in line,
• other minor reported bugs are now fixed.

New features in Amaya 1.1

July 10 and September 15, 1997

Extensions

• Anchors and ID attributes:
  • When Amaya parses a document it checks that all MAPs have a different NAME, and it changes duplicate NAMEs. The USEMAP attribute of the related IMG element is updated accordingly.
  • The function "Create Target" generates an attribute NAME or ID depending on the current selection. - If the DTD allows the insertion of an anchor as the parent of the current selection, Amaya creats an anchor and takes the first included word of more than 3 characters as the value of the NAME attribute. - If a single structured element is selected (DIV, H1, etc.), Amaya generates an ID attribute for this structured element. The ID value is generated, like the NAME value, after the included text. Amaya checks that the new NAME or ID value is unique. If it's not the case it changes the value by adding a number at the end of the word. For example, it generates "value1" if "value" already exists in the document.
  • When an anchor with a NAME attribute or an element with an ID attribute is pasted, Amaya checks that the new NAME or ID value is unique and changes it if it's not unique.
  • Functions which create a MAP element generates automatically a NAME with value "map". Amaya checks that the new NAME value is unique.
  • When an IMG with a USEMAP attribute is pasted, Amaya remove this attribute, and when an IMG with a USEMAP attribute is deleted, it does take care of the related MAP element. The document author is supposed to delete this MAP or to link it to another IMG element.
• Links:

  The functions "Create Link" and "Change Link" create an anchor if the DTD allows the insertion of an anchor as the parent of the current selection. Then the user can click a target anchor or a target document or a structured element with an ID attribute. - If it's not a valid target, Amaya displays a form to insert the HREF value. - If the user clicks on a valid target, Amaya generates automatically the HREF value. In both cases, Amaya transforms the HREF value to make it relative to the document base (the BASE element value or the current document URL).

  When an anchor with a HREF attribute is pasted, Amaya transforms the HREF value to make it relative to the document base.

• Images:

  The function "Create Image" creates the SRC value relatively to the document base (the BASE element value or the current document URL). Amaya also creates the ALT attribute and initializes its value with the image name.

  When an IMG is pasted, Amaya transforms the SRC value to make it relative to the document base.

• Publishing:

  • Button "Copy Images" indicates that images have to be copied into: - the new document directory (on the remote server or locally), - the new image directory, if there is a specified image directory.

  • Button "Transform URLs" indicates that all URLs and SRCs are recomputed when saving the document. In both cases, Amaya generates relative URLs when it's possible.

• Customization: Each user can define his/her personal file HTML.conf in his/her HOME directory. So each individual user can now customize size and position of Amaya windows.
• Java: Upgraded to Kaffe-0.9.1 using the JDK 1.1.2 classes. The mechanism to access Java objects content has been cleaned up and should be ready for 64 bit targets. Java stubs are not distributed anymore, the Makefiles produced by autoconf build them on the fly to avoid conflict in case of changes in the HTML schemas. General improvements for the Java classes embedding access to the document C objects.
• Math: This version of Amaya contains an embryonic MathML editor, that allows mathematical expressions to be embedded in HTML pages. It implements a subset of the MathML specification. This feature should be considered as a demonstration, as it is very incomplete. More in next releases.
• MS/Windows This is the first version of Amaya that runs on Microsoft Windows (both Windows 95 and Windows/NT).

Fixed bugs

• Spaces were not accepted in end tags. For instance, </STRONG > was considered invalid. It is accepted now.

• Amaya refused to create an Image before an Image. Now it works.

• Sometimes, active zones were not created.

• Using Style forms, the text was displayed correctly, but the style attribute registered the previous style value instead of the new one.

New features in Amaya 1.0 and 1.0a

April 3 1997 and May 7, 1997

Extensions

• A new command to create OBJECTs (HTML-Cougar) in Types menu.
• A plug-in mechanism allows OBJECTs to be executed.

• Attribute LANG (HTML-Cougar) is implemented (see Attributes menu)

• Elements SPAN (HTML-Cougar) are automatically created and deleted

• Two new views are available (see the Views menu):

  • Links view shows and allows to edit all links in the document.

  • Table of Contents displays and allows to edit all (and only) headings (Hn).

  Like the Alternate and Structure view, these new views are "synchronised" with the other views of the document. These views can be printed with the document (see the Setup and Print command)

• The Help button loads the Amaya documentation.

• New menu "Special" with the following commands:

  • Transform (was the last item of the Types menu): structure transformations

  • Section Numbering: numbers headings (Hn) in the main view and in the table of contents. Numbers are automatically updated when headers are inserted or deleted. Section numbers are not saved with the document, but they are printed if numbering is active when the Print command is issued.

  • Make Book: allows to merge several HTML documents into a single one (for printing a collection, for instance). This is based on typed links (rel="chapter").
• Printing has been extended:
  • "Setup and Print": this command proposes to change print options before printing. Parameters ManualFeed, Table of contents, Numbered links and default PostScript file name are reset when a new document is printed. New options are:
    • Table of contents: prints the Table_of_contents view of the document.
    • Numbered links: numbers links in the main view and prints them.
  • "Print": this command prints the document with the print parameters defined in previous "Setup and Print" command.
• Directories are no longer automatically browsed when the user inserts them in the "Open Location" form. A new button (List) is added in this form that allows to explicitly browse the current directory.
• It's now possible to extend dictionaries used by the spell-checker. When the user clicks on a (+dic) button in the spell-checker form, the current word is added to the common extensible dictionary. By default this common dictionary is located in $HOME/.thot.DIC, but the user can change this location in the .thotrc registry: EXTENDDICT=
• Documents can be saved in text form (see Save As command), with a list of URLS for external links.
• Images are zoomed according to attributes width and height. Combining the Control key with the Middle button of the mouse allows the user to easily resize an image.
• CSS: More properties are supported: background-color, background-image, background-repeat, text-align.
• The registry now supports $(MACHINE) for architecture dependent paths.
• Java support: Amaya now integrates the Java Kaffe runtime. This version uses the Jigsaw HTTP/1.1 classes to do network access, and provide a user cache. Most of the Thot API is available from the Java language offering an easy customization path for Amaya users. This also simplifies significantly the use of Amaya as a testbed since a lot of developements are done in Java and can easily be integrated to the existing base.
• HTML markup is now in lowercase, to improve efficiency of compression tools.

Fixed bug

• When saving a document in HTML, Amaya omitted quotes around some attribute values.
• When inserting an anchor around a sample image, the image was sometimes lost.
• On 1 bit per pixel screens, buttons in dialog boxes were entirely black and selection was invisible.
• Amaya didn't select any element or character when the mouse was out of document limits.
• Some improvements to table formatting (cells containing a single IMG with a width attribute are formatted correctly).
• Creation of new definitions (DD) at the beginning of a definition list (DL) is now possible.
• Amaya tried to interpret "&" followed by a non-letter as an entity. It's now interpreted as ordinary text.
• When a <TD> tag follows a <TABLE> tag without a <TR> in between, a WIDTH attribute associated with <TD> was considered invalid.
• Amaya created additional <P> tags in table cells and list items.
• tags such as <B>, <I>, <EM>, etc. caused troubles in <PRE> elements.

New features in Amaya 0.95b

January 9, 1996

Extensions

• Attributes height and width are taken into account for IMG, TD and TH.
• Tooltips (aka tips) are available on buttons.
• A message is displayed at the bottom of the window when the document is saved.
• Creation of definition lists (DL) is easier.
• Added Two new buttons, to create links and tables.
• Amaya can now uncompress gziped HTML files.
• Sends an Accept header corresponding to the MIME types Amaya can display

Fixed bugs

• The main view (Formatted_view) of HTML documents was always placed at the top left corner of the screen. The position specified in the HTML.conf file was ignored.
• Under certain conditions, it was possible to create several BODY or HEAD elements in the same document.
• It was sometimes necessary to activate the Close View command twice for actually closing the Structure view.
• In some tables, columns containing badly structured cells were sometimes moved to the left side of the table.
• When an image was within a paragraph with some text, and with a caret on its right or left edge, pressing keys Enter, Del and BackSpace led to strange results.
• Submitting a form always sent the value attribute of the Submit button, regardless of whether a name attribute was present or not. Other minor problems with form selection were fixed up.
• Amaya didn't support invalid base like a complete document URL.
• Amaya didn't support invalid attributes in BASE element.
• Under certain conditions, copy and paste of images between documents didn't work.
• Under certain conditions, some images were not published.
• When publishing, Amaya did not sent a Content-Type header.

New features in Amaya 0.9

November 14, 1996

Extensions

• Structure transformation (command Types/Transform)
  • more efficient pattern matching algorithm
  • more structure checking: transformations are not proposed to the user if they lead to an invalid structure (even if the transformation is matched with the selection).
  • the last modification time of the file HTML.trans is checked before it is parsed.
  • in version 0.8, if the parser detects an error in file HTML.trans, the transformation process is stopped. Now, the parser skips the invalid transformation.
  • error messages are displayed at the bottom of the window.
• Color palette
  • The palette highlights the foreground and background colors of the element selected when the palette is opened. The highlight allows users to choose the same colors for different elements.
  • It is also possible now to remove a color attribute from an element just using the "standard color" button in the palette.
• Forms
  • forms can now be sent using GET and POST methods to protected/unprotected URLs
  • creation of form components has been improved
  • you can activate buttons and menu options by double-clicking them.
• HTML 3.2
  • the latest extensions of HTML 3.2. have been added: tag BASEFONT and attributes width and height for tags TH and TD.
  • It is now possible to add comments in HTML documents (use command Structure/Comment in the Structure view)
• User Interface
  • When the current selection is within a PRE element, some menu entries are disabled: Image in Types menu, and Big, Small, Sub, Sup, and Font in Character Element menu.
  • Interpretation of "~" and "file:" in "Open" and "Save As" dialogue boxes
  • In previous versions, I B and TT buttons were never updated when selection changed. Now they are displayed according to the current selection.
  • Continuous scroll: the document scrolls as you move the slider
  • Distinction between "Cancel" and "Done" buttons in dialogue boxes.
  • When opening the Structure view, the document is displayed with the selected part visible in that view.
• Environment variables are initialized from the Registry (file thot.ini)
• Integration of libwww5.0a, giving among other things: HTTP/1.1 and keep-alive connections.
• Reload button and command (File/Reload Document).
• Spell checker is now available for English and French, but both dictionaries are far from complete.

Bug fixes

• Closing an Amaya window with a window manager command caused Amaya to crash. Now only the concerned window is closed.
• The HTML parser inserted a space at the beginning of a new line generated by a <BR> tag followed by new line in the source file.
• Call "Change link" from Links menu and click in the document itself. The dialog box for entering the URL of the target was empty in previous versions. Now it contains the current value of attribute HREF.
• Select some characters, call "Create link" from Link menu and click in the document itself. Do not enter anything in the dialogue box for the URL and press the Cancel button in this dialogue box. Later, call the Change link command for entering an actual URL for that anchor. Nothing happened in previous versions. Now you can change the URL.
• Some elements were lost during structure transformation, this is now fixed.
• Structure transformation was impossible if the selection contains comments or invalid elements. Now transformations are possible (invalid tags are removed in the new structure).
• In previous versions, if the input focus is in one window and you press the H1 button (or any other button of that kind) in another window (with a different document in it) it changes the first window. Now, the button does nothing.
• Colors management is completely re-casted and we hope to solve color problems in previous versions.
• An emphasized string (or strong or...) can now span several lines in a Preformatted.
• When the same Web image is shared by two loaded documents, just one local copy was created by Amaya and this copy was lost when the first document was closed. This choice causes troubles when user tried to publish the second document. Now Amaya creates two copies, one for each document.
• Copy and paste on images didn't work fine in previous release.
• Sometimes, local copies of remote documents were not created in the right place. Now it works.
• When user closed a document view with the Window Manager, the whole application exited. Now only the document view is closed.
• It is now possible to save a document if it is modified and close it.
• In the previous version, Amaya did not detect the cancel of the network save of an object to a protected URL space.
• Inserting an image from a local directory did not react well to errors. This has been corrected.
• Call "Create Link" when an target anchor is selected or "Create Target" when a link anchor is selected, Amaya refused to add the href or name attribute. Now it works.
• Call "Change Link" anywhere asked to select the destination. Now this function works only within an link anchor.
• After loading a lot of CSS files Amaya cannot load images because file descriptors are not freed. Now it is correct.
• The command "Save As" doesn't work or crashes. Now it is correct.
• Bug in area-mapping (circle) fixed.
• Support of the starting option -display
• If a user gave a wrong password, Amaya did not ask the user for the new password. It kept using the wrong one. Fixed.
• When typing in the WYSIWYG window, clicking e.g. the "Italics" button enters italics mode. After typing a few italic chars one wants to change back to normal mode. Clicking the "Italics" button once again achieves this. But you can't go on typing in normal mode, because this second click also selects the italic text to become the active (highlighted) region. Simply typing ahead overwrites the whole (italic) region. This bug is fixed.
• The implicit break following the <HR>failed to appear when a <FONT> tag follows <BR>. The text within the FONT construct appeared to the right ofthe horizontal rule. This bug is fixed
• When typing in the WYSIWYG window, clicking e.g. the "Italics" button enters italics mode. After typing a few italic chars one wants to change back to normal mode. Clicking the "Italics" button once again achieves this. But you can't go on typing in normal mode, because this second click also selects the italic text to become the active (highlighted) region. Simply typing ahead overwrites the whole (italic) region. This bug is fixed.
• Printing with "US" paper size did not work. Bug fixed.
• When changing attribut "align" for an element DIV containing paragraphs, the paragraphs were not redisplayed with the alignment defined by the attribute but they moved in a weird way in the Structure view. This bug is fixed.
• Select a DT and change its style: the DT element in the Structure view gets confused. Bug fixed.
• Selection was moved to its original position at the ned of command Edit/Find. It now stays at its current position.