NetSurf 3.10 web browser released
Date 2020/5/25 12:30:00 | Topic: Software News
| NetSurf 3.10 features many fixes, better performance and improved functionality. In particular, handling of authentication, certificates and fetch errors have been updated and unified. The GTK front end has had a major overhaul too. We recommend all users upgrade to NetSurf 3.10.
A new feature is the page info display which may look familiar to users of mainstream browsers!
Download (AmigaOS 4)
Equivalent AmigaOS 3 beta will be available on Aminet shortly.
Full changelog:
NetSurf 3.10
------------
### Core / All platforms
* Improved handling of NetSurf generated queries and errors, including:
- Timeouts.
- Authentication requests.
- Certificate problems.
* Created consistent visual style for NetSurf Core generated content.
* HTML layout fix for {min|max}-width on replaced elements.
* Improved keyboard navigation.
* Improved local history with keyboard navigation and improved display.
* Fixed mouse interaction issue when entire document had visibility:hidden.
* Refactoring of the browser window handling.
* Refactoring of the HTML content handler.
* Refactoring of SSL certificate handling.
* Refactoring of HTML, text search and selection code.
* Many improvements to JavaScript robustness.
* Many new and improved Duktape JavaScript bindings.
* Improved core/front end interface for content scaling.
* Much improved content caching, both in memory and disc caching.
* Added a generic hashmap, used by the disc cache code.
* Fetcher improvements for robustness and performance.
* Updated JavaScript engine to Duktape 2.4.0.
* Improved handling of aborted fetches.
* Improved integration testing with framework built around monkey front end.
* Improvements to monkey front end to make testing more extensive and reliable.
* Minor HTML form improvements.
* Minor HTML handler optimisations.
* Fixes to HTML handler for robustness.
* Refactoring generation of about: pages.
* Fixed save complete not to save multiple copies of the same files.
* Change how animated GIFs are rate-limited to be in line with other browsers.
* Added a page info core window.
* Clamping screen DPI to a sensible range.
* Initial work towards supporting HTML5 canvas element.
* Various treeview fixes.
* Hubbub library 0.3.7 (HTML parser):
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixes for some HTML5 element handling.
* LibCSS library 0.9.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):
- Fixed a problem in the parsing of invalid media blocks.
- Minor code quality improvements.
* LibDOM library 0.4.1 (Document Object Model):
- Improved HTML TextArea element handling.
- Fix SubtreeModified event to be fired after updating attribute values.
- Support finalising the namespace strings.
- Basic support for keypress events.
- Improvements to event dispatch event lifetime handling.
- Support for InnerHTML.
- Added support for HTMLCanvasElement.
- Minor code quality improvements.
- Fixed HTMLElement property setters.
- Fixed HTMLTitleElement text getter/setter.
* LibNSBMP library 0.1.6 (BMP support):
- Minor code quality improvements.
* LibNSLog library 0.1.3 (Filterable logging):
- Added support for short log level names.
* LibWapcaplet library 0.4.3 (String internment):
- Free global context if no strings leak.
- Enabled build with toolchains that don't support statement expressions.
### AmigaOS-specific
* Added Page Info icon and window.
* Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
* Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
* Allow running JavaScript from ARexx.
* Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.
Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
documentation enhancements.
|
|