ELinks News 2003
http://elinks.cz/news.rss
News about ELinks in 2003
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Merry Christmas from all ELinks developers - 0.9.0 released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-December/000287.html
2003-12-24
0.5rc4 was released as 0.9.0 with a few changes in documentation and
translation updates. Go get it.
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Releases leading up to ELinks 0.5
fonseca@diku.dk
2003-12-24
Most of all they contains lots of fixes, but they also has quite a bit of
interesting features. Support for local CGI and SMB protocol was added.
Managers for cache, cookies, downloads and form history and moving of all the
manager tools to new submenu should improve usability.  Builtin user prefixes
in the goto dialog (like the the scripting interface has provided) and a the
still experimental typeahead link searching is also noteworthy.
Read the
0.5pre11,
0.5pre12,
0.5rc1,
0.5rc2,
0.5rc3
and
0.5rc4
announcements.
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Roadmap for the ELinks 0.5
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-dev/2003-November/000575.html
2003-11-17
Pasky put together a document describing the roadmap towards the next stable
release. Ideally, ELinks should be The Killer Text Browser at the time of
0.5.0 and there is still quite a few features planned.  Among them local CGI
support and cursor routing.
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Next step towards a stable 0.5.0 was released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-November/000204.html
2003-11-15
It is 0.5pre9 with a few almost meaningless changes. Mostly fixes that should
make up for the very unstable 0.5pre8 release. Also a lot of bugzilla
(enhancement) bugs was closed in this release.
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0.5pre8 has been released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-October/000195.html
2003-10-31
Another batch of internal restructuring and cleanups that should make startup
a little faster and the binary a bit smaller.  A callout to any OS/2, BeOS and
Win32 people to test the OS cleanups on these platforms and report back any
problems or whether it still works.
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Shrinking ELinks
fonseca@diku.dk
http://repo.or.cz/w/elinks.git?a=blob_plain;h=035874de0510a55c6c24af3d00675a0e4f9be3b7
2003-10-20
Zas has put together a document giving tips to obtain a very small static
ELinks binary suitable for mini distributions. With the use of dietlibc or
similar, size optimizing compiler flags and trimming a few extra features he
ended up with a binary with the size of 453412 bytes.
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0.5pre7 has been released - go get it!
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-October/000170.html
2003-10-12
Apart from the two new features mentioned in the two past news entries it
features lots of translation updates, fixes for Cygwin by Witold and fixes
ported from links 0.99pre9 by pasky. Finally the missing palette.inc from
0.5pre6 should now be included in the tarball, jonas excuses ;) Anyway lots of
reasons for upgrading.
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Regex searching
fonseca@diku.dk
2003-10-04
It is now possible to use (extended) regular expressions when searching in a
document. Karsten Schölzel did the work. Also other minor improvements of
the searching has entered CVS. Amongst them the possibility to choose whether
the search should be case sensitive or case insensitive and also storing of
the search history across ELinks sessions.
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256 colors
fonseca@diku.dk
http://elinks.cz/screenshots/
2003-10-02
Support for 256 colors has been merged from the RAINBOW branch and will be
available in next unstable release. With this compiled in pages are now even
more colorful. It is still experimental and lack a proper color model to avoid
bad fore- and background colors. If you want to try it out you should also
install xterm configured with
--enable-256-colors.
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0.5pre6 released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-September/000151.html
2003-09-27
Another release mostly consisting of code cleanups and restructuring.  Most
noteworthy new feature is support for HTML meta refresh provided by Witold.
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Alternate screen
fonseca@diku.dk
2003-09-04
ELinks now supports switching to an alternate screen at startup. This means
that the console will be restored when ELinks is closed. The initially
development was done by Miciah in the ELUSION branch and later ported to HEAD
and fixed by Zas to work properly.
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0.5pre5 and 0.4.3rc2 released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-September/000144.html
2003-09-03
Pasky decided to bump up the versions for both the stable and unstable branch,
to 0.4.3rc2
and 0.5pre5
respectively. Neither adds any major new features but important bugfixes.
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HTML Form manager
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-dev/2003-August/000226.html
2003-08-01
Fabio cooked up a patch for managing logins. This will save a troubled and
forgetful mind.
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Your dreams have been answered: Scripting ELinks with guile
fonseca@diku.dk
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
2003-07-24
Back in December 2002 Peter Wang mentioned that he had some incomplete patch
that embedded Guile into ELinks. Peter is also the author of the Lua scripting
interface that has been part of ELinks from the very start. The patch was
merged today by pasky. It still needs some work to match the possibilities of
ELinks Lua scripting. If you are interesting to see it grow healthy, please
start playing with it and feedback reports or patches.
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0.5pre3 has been released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-July/000096.html
2003-07-23
Changes include restructuring of the URI parsing which should give some small
speedups, lots of smaller cleanups and some bug fixes.
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0.5pre2 is available for download
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-July/000090.html
2003-07-16
It contains some optimizations like zas' fastfind, a few new smaller features
and the beginning work of better sanity checking through use of assertion.
Also the restructured MIME handling system was finally introduced.
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Time for celebration - 0.5pre1 finally released
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-June/000072.html
2003-06-15
The session history corruption bug
that was one of the reasons for holding back the release was
fixed by pasky.  Together with the transition to use printf style format
strings in message boxes the main goals for the 0.5pre1 release has been
reached.
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Notifications of cvs commits are now also sent to CIA
fonseca@diku.dk
http://navi.picogui.org/svn/picogui/trunk/tools/irc/cia.html
2003-06-13
This means you can sit in either the #elinks or the
#commits irc channel on irc.freenode.net and
follow when ELinks is being developed in real time. CIA also collects some
simple statistics.
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First 0.4.3 release candidate is available
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-June/000036.html
2003-06-05
Finally there is a new, shiny although still not quite complete Iceberg
release! This little pile of ice is mainly a bug fix release, a prophet of
probably the last Iceberg release. A lot of interesting stuff is going on in
the middle of the clouds in Skyrider, and there is a quite long queue for some
others. But that's another subject.
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Bugzilla is up
fonseca@diku.dk
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz
2003-05-09
Pasky started toying with bugzilla and it is
now used to keep track of bugs and feature requests. Also you will find bugs
that denote a rough sketch of the roadmap for future development, like which
milestones some of the bigger features have been scheduled for. It resides at
http://bugzilla.elinks.cz.
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Mailing list changes
fonseca@diku.dk
http://elinks.cz/community.html#mailinglist
2003-05-06
Cliff announced the renaming of the mailing lists. Now they better mirror
their actual usage and it should be less confusing. Also a new list
elinks-users has been created.
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Tabbed browsing in unstable
fonseca@diku.dk
2003-05-02
Sergey provided a patch that features tabbed browsing.  Thank you very much
for this killer feature! :)
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The release of 0.4.2
fonseca@diku.dk
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/links-list/2003-January/004043.html
2003-01-26
Containing a lot of fixes but also added support for the HTTP TRACE request.
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