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Highwire features (1 reply)

David Barkin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:46:30 -0400

The feature I would most like is a compatibility with MaggiCmac, and my Mac compiuter/

first fixes for nov (1 reply)

paulwratt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:01:59 -0500

when I do finally get HW to
compile I will be looking
immediately at the following:
1) php (script) cacheing issues
2) protocol 6
3) SSL (if thats not protocol 6)

for scripting, either "force"
HW to always get a new version
of the file based on its
extension, or add an "intelligent"
option somewhere. A lot of
options are only configurable
in the .CFG file, so in the
beginning maybe just add a
list of extensions to "cache
intelligently"

in other browsers this is
done by querying the size of
the file, and if it has not
changed, chances are it is
still the same.. we will see..

the "protocol 6" may or may
not be SSL, but it is required
to do "basic authentication"
which is required by one of
my other PHP projects
[navphp.sf.net]

I have already had a look at
SSL in "links", its "way simple"
to add to the code, although
that may depend on OpenSSL
being compiled against, as
it will "bloat" the code
somewhat

an SLB and/or LGD for OpenSSL
might be the way to go after
the initial inclusion of SSL
has been successfully completed

this will allow other projects
to take advantage of SSL,
especially since SSL itself
is going through some "upgades".
In which case "slight" abstraction
would be a wise thing

NOTE: this may be the way to
add other protocol handshaking
to a project like AtarICQ,
or one of the GAIM based
clients, as Yahoo Messenger
have recently started using
a heavily encripted protocol
wrapped in SSL

I'll look at some of the
other library ports to see
whats invovle with creating
a PureC/AHCC version..

OK, once thats done, I do
have a list of other DOM
related issue to look at,
but if there is anything in
particular that someone wants
fixing, adding or update,
let me know..

Paul

html emails (1 reply)

PeterS — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:18:38 -0400

I sometimes get a emails with html attachments that
contain images.

The html looks something like this

--Apple-Mail-9-235628823
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename=S7001917_1.jpg
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
x-unix-mode=0644;
x-mac-type=4A504547;
name="S7301987_1.jpg"
Content-Id: <22152835-6101-4E15-9c2C-0235F2E94159>
/9j/4ZAiRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgA

The base64 encoding can presumably be handled if HW can detect
the heading stuff.

It might be a nice feature to add.

Image zoom (no replies)

PeterS — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:49:28 -0400

I had this idea a few years ago but someone has beaten me to it.

In my office we avoid M$ apps (my boss hates them) so we use
OpenOffice, Firefox etc.

Firefox has a nice plugin called ZoomFox which opens a new
browser tab and allows the selected image to be zoomed. Quite
handy and it would be nice to have such plugin features
in Highwire.

Atariage Forums (2 replies)

Crash — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:07:04 -0400

It seems that neither Highwire or Cab can open the forum pages at Atariage, shame on them:

[www.atariage.com]

Any idea why, or whether support for this page type is one the list?

Thanks!

Select, Copy, and Paste (10 replies)

Crash — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:51:58 -0400

Greetings,

It would be nice to be able to select text to copy and paste elsewhere.

Thanks!

Magxnet support (16 replies)

jens — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:47:03 -0400

Hi.
I just installed Magxnet to my Falcon.
While Highwire is working fine under both MiNTnet (mintnet.ovl) or Sting (sting.ovl), Magxnet is no direct option but has to be used with GlueSTiK and the sting.ovl to work.
Is there a way to get Highwire to directly use Magxnet?

Auto-closing popups (3 replies)

GokMasE — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:35:26 -0500

Hi all,

One thing I have been annoyed by for a longer time, is the way HW removes popups as soon as the mouse pointer is moved outside of the popup. At least for me, this results in numerous occasions with accidently closed popup menus. It is not the end of the world, but it is an issue that keeps being (very!) annoying.

Am I missing some obvious way to turn this puzzling behaviour off? If not, would someone please consider adding such a setting?

Regards,

/Joakim

Re-draws (5 replies)

PeterS — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:02:40 -0500

This is just a suggestion and I am not sure if it is
entirely practical.

I was posting to a forum page that has lots of smileys
on the page. After each image is loaded the page is re-drawn.
The images are small files and I wondered if the re-draw
could be delayed until, say 10-20k had been downloaded.
This would speed up the process.

I know that HW tried to give an early view of the page but
such small images don't really add very much to the page
and delaying until 2 or 3 have been downloaded wouldn't hurt.

Like I said just an idea.

Proper cache handling (2 replies)

jens — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:54:42 -0500

I'd really like Highwire to properly use the cache on php pages.
I have to ctrl-r each page I view more than one time, and this is not too nice when reading lots of forums like I do.

Also I'd like to have a longer history, but that's not too important.

download folder (no replies)

jens — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:55:06 -0500

Hi.
I think a download folder that would be used by default would be nice.
One entry in the right-click menue, one entry in the highwire.cfg, and that's it.
Thanks for thinking it over.

Form navigation (no replies)

PeterS — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:51:15 -0400

Could someone add a little bit of code to allow Shift-Tab to navigate back
along the Form input fields ?

I took a quick peek at the code in Form.c (below) presumably it needs an extra
case section to handle the keycode and then do input->Prev

I'm not too familiar C

case 9: /* tab */
if (state & K_CTRL) {
form->TextActive = NULL;
*next = NULL;
} else {
INPUT srch = input->Next;
if (srch) {
while ((srch->disabled || srch->Type < IT_TEXT)
&& (srch = srch->Next) != NULL);
}
if (!srch) {
srch = form->InputList;
while ((srch->disabled || srch->Type < IT_TEXT)
&& (srch = srch->Next) != NULL);
}
*next = srch;
}
break;

Find text and persistant hotlist (no replies)

FujiMan — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:15:19 -0400

Hi,

Looking through long pages without a find text feature would help. A persistant (last 10 webages visited/hotlist) would be also nice.

FujiMan

Vertical scrollbars (no replies)

PeterS — Sat, 13 May 2006 13:05:06 -0400

Is there any way that the look of the vertical scrollbars could be improved ?

With NAES the scrollbar is narrower than the corner widgets
so it looks a bit odd.

The colouring and shading is also specific to HW rather than
being a standard GEM scrollbar. I think there is or at last was
a reason for this (frames?)

Peter

a window showing links frames ? (no replies)

Bruno AUBIN — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:20:16 -0400

Hi All,

As I just visited a web site concerning an huge multiplayers adventure game on Internet, where an Atari client exists!
(see www.tamar.net/e_english ) I fell on a page with a lot of frames and, of course, certain of them could'nt be displayed plenty.

So I just thought about a very useful features that I don't think even be seing on any browser.
Well the idea is that if HW programmers can do it, putting a new icon on the toolbar, which will be active in case that actual page is a FRAMES page.
A click on this icon will display the same current page, in a new window, with frames but inside them, only a "a href TARGET='_BLANK'" tag which link is the frame html page, will be inside.

I hope you understand the idea... My english isnot always perfect so...

Anyway I think this will be a good feature.

What do you think about that ?

My Wish List & Priorities (12 replies)

milthorst — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:50:43 -0400

1. Printing (with NVDI)
2. HTTPS: (SSL) support
3. Javascript

If I had the first 2, I might be able to dump CAB altogether.

Milt
Milan060 in Seattle

Edit features (no replies)

Bruno AUBIN — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:43:07 -0500

Hello all,

I just remember one feature which be great too is the search edit fonction into the actual web page (as it exist on CAB).

Regards.

XML features with LDG ? (no replies)

Bruno AUBIN — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:28:53 -0500

Hello all

I write a third time saying that, if HW shoul use zview for reads PDF and animated GIF (as Bibou wrote, for the last one, I think that the best is using existing LDG/codec),
it also may implement the XML LDG librairy for parsing XML document (and not have to re-write this heavy librairy).

Even if XML is not use "à grande échelle" (sory I don't know english translate for this), we may encounter such web site...

ldg are in ldg.atari.org (and you'll find XML ldg somewhere here).

Regards.

Tabs in windows ? (3 replies)

Bruno AUBIN — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:15:33 -0500

Hello everybody,

For me, the very best of all the web browser is Opera!
It's better than FireFox and Netscape too. (I place Netscape in 2nd position).

One thing it exist on Opera and Netscape 8 and doesn't exist to other, is than every new window is display in the main opera windows!
Meaning "onglet" in French, you have simply a window and every web site visited may be acceded clicking on the corresponding tag!

If HW implement this feature, it will be among the best Web Browser in the market!

Regards

Settable window size at start (3 replies)

Lars — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:08:18 -0400

Hi,
Highwire 0.3.0 runs really great, but what
i really would like to see is a settable
(or saved) window size for Highwire at
startup.

Regards,
Lars

Animated GIF and PDF (no replies)

Bibou — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:27:08 -0500

Hi all,

Zview can display pdf files and animated gif. Is it possible to interface Highwire with Zview for display animated GIF and pdf files directly in Highwire window ?

Thanks a lot,

Cyril (Bibou).

SPAN tag (3 replies)

Lonny Pursell — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:13:27 -0500

It appears is not yet supported. Like to see it added. Been having major problems with the

 tag inserting extra lines above and below in FireFox, so I altered my GFA page to use a few lines with the  tag.  Now it looks odd in HighWire.  ;-)))

visibility enhacement for texts (1 reply)

Ekkehard — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:18:10 -0500

Hi all,

I'd like to see some visibility enhacement feature in hw, at least as long as background images are unavailable:
There should be a setting "minimum contrast" that checks the background colour and the text colour (for both texts and links) and alters the text color if the contrast is too weak for visibility. So in case of white text on white background, set the text colour to black.

As Dan proposed on ICQ today, there could also be a setting to ignore text colours in general, while positioning is still active. But in that case, not only text colours but also background colours should be disregarded.

With best regards
Ekkehard

Background Images (5 replies)

Peter S — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:07:05 -0500

I can safely say that hw is my default browser on the Milan. I've been using
it for months without reverting to CAB.

A few days ago I opened a link in a mail and CAB started. I think it is using
the env var. This isn't a problem but what I did notice was that hw is still
lacking background images.

So many web pages look so dull without the correct background image and
some are hard to read due to a poor choice of font and background colours.

Peter

JavaScript interpreter (3 replies)

Anonymous User — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:11:48 -0500

Hello

I found a JavaScript interpreter here: [www.njs-javascript.org]
Any chance to adjust it to Highwire?

<< NJS is an independent implementation of the JavaScript language developed by Netscape and standardized by ECMA. It is designed to be re-entrant, extendible, fast, and programmable. >>

Strider

Post documents (no replies)

Peter S — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:16:33 -0400

Are there any Atari browsers capable of POSTing a file to the web server ?

eg.
FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"

It looks simple to pop-up a file selector but I assume there is a lot more
involved in sending the data so I don't know how easy this is to
implement.

It's not a feature I use often, mainly because I don't think any Atari
browsers could do it. It would be very nice to see it though.

Peter

JS (no replies)

Bibou — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:41:50 -0400

Hi all,

How are you ?

Can you include a basic javascript support at this time (in links for example, the tag "javascript:"?

When ebay login was supportted by Highwire ?

Continue Your great software Highwire, it's the best !

Pop up blocker (no replies)

Dark Willow — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 05:50:38 -0500

I''m not a (good) coder, but was thinking about how feasible it would be to introduce a window blocker ( to block pop-up, pop-unders etc.), but like PC blockers, allowing it to be over-ruled by the user if needed, and turned off/on from the menu bar. It would be extremely useful, especially on slower system as lots of pop-up or poip-under adverts really slow down page loading with all the graphic files for the ads that get loaded.

Progress bar for download (2 replies)

Bibou — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:34:02 -0500

Hi all,

Is it possible to have an information when downloading files ? A bar progress or a percentage progress or number of Mb downloaded / total Mb file ?

see you,

Cyril.

Flash (3 replies)

Bibou — Fri, 13 May 2005 00:38:02 -0400

Hi,

Is it possible to introduce a flash player in Highwire ?

Thanks,

Cyril.