XBrowser Revision History

XBrowser Revision History:

XBrowser 4.2 - August 31, 2001 - Changes since 4.1

Added Portuguese language support
Documentation updated to reflect my new email addresses and home page
Online user guide provided. You can find the link on the 'Help' menu

XBrowser 4.1 - July 05, 2001 - Changes since 4.0

User have the option to save the web pages completely (with dependent resources) or HTML-Only via "Save As..." file dialog
Previous version (v4.0) was using a JDK/JRE-1.3 specific API for proper JavaScript support. It may cause some problems for poeple using JDKs prior to 1.3. The problem is solved in this version by checking whether that specific API does exist to be invoked or not!
So this version can be run under JDKs/JREs 1.2.x too like before ;-)
A bug which caused the first line of JavaScripts not to be executed (those in comment blocks) has been fixed now!
Some minor updates in documentations (to reflect the recent license changing and added features)
Bulgarian translation updated
Greek translation updated
German translation updated
Swedish translation updated

XBrowser 4.0 - June 29, 2001 - Changes since 3.7

From this version on, the license of XBrowser changed from GPL to SPL (Sun Public License) in order to be more compatible with NetBeans.org projects (See License.txt file)
Finally JavaScript support came to scene. Currently a subset of JS is supported but will be completed in the future versions ;-)
Cookie are being supported now
Caching system added!
Plugins system extended! Now they can use other third party libraries too (those libraries should be bundled with the plugins themselves)
Web page properties can now be accessed from "View" menu
"User-Agent" and "Accept-Language" are being supported in HTTP headers
Saving the html pages, will also save all its related resources too
Fixed the bug that could cause the whole application not to initiate correctly (and freeze) while loading an invalid plugin!
HTML pages containing non-ascii characters are being saved correctly now
Added Russian language support
French translation updated
Fixed some missing resourced (in property files)

XBrowser 3.7 - April 15, 2001 - Changes since 3.6

Bulgarian translation updated
Added Greek language support
JavaConsole was converted to plugin. Now it can be found under "Plugins" menu
Screens' locations and sizes are now being kept within the sessions. You can easily adjust them for your own use
Sun XML parser (JAXP) was upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1
Some bug fixes

XBrowser 3.6 - March 27, 2001 - Changes since 3.3

Plugins are now supported by XBrowser ;-) The management is done via "Plugin Manager" screen accessible via "Plugins" menu!
All the tool-panes (Document Selector, Bookmark Pane and History Pane) are now loaded into XBrowser as plugins and can be controlled via "Plugins" menu (instead of "Options" menu and dialog). From now on, tool-panes are just referred as GUI plugins and there is a sidebar where plugins can be added there
Print Preview screen is now integrated with XBrowser internal pages for having a better view. Preview of each page (if requested) is displayed on the same window as the page is but on a separate tab
Faster startup due to some lazy instantiations
Default bookmarks serializer and the file name can be changed now from Options... layout. You can choose from one of the available formats (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera or Custom XBrowser format).
Default history serializer and the file name can be changed now from Options... layout. For now there is only one type (the default XBrowser) but it can be added in future
Added Italian language support
Added Spanish language support
Added Swedish language support
German translation updated
French translation updated
A lot of improvements have been done on project directory and the build file structure. Three kinds of distribution archive can be prepared now: End User (binary) distribution, Source Code distribution, Development distribution
A bug in visited pages history was fixed. The visits count was increased 3 times every when you visited a page
Tree L&F update bug fixed. Trees were not updated correctly on L&F/Theme changes

XBrowser 3.3 - January 04, 2001 - Changes since 3.1

I changed the license and XBrowser is under GPL license now. Of course the browser source code and its documentation are under GPL not the whole package
Build process is now being done by ANT. It's a java based and platform independent scripting tool from Apache/Jakarta and lets you construct your build scripts in platform independent manner. So there will be no more modification/compilation headaches ;-) You can find more information about Ant at http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html
I was going to write a brief guide on how to compile XBrowser's source since many users had some problems with it! But now there is no need for such a document since everything should be fine by using ANT. All the build process is done automatically.
Please read the ReadMe.txt file in order to know how to build the project.
Finally I got the time to prepare a Bug (Bugs.txt) and ToDo (ToDo.txt) list :-) I've added there the most of issues, notes, bugs and feature requests I've got from the users/testers
Some code refactoring and generalizing in order to support wider range of html renderers
<Applet> tag support added to XBrowser's Custom html rendering engine. But currently there is no sandbox/restrictions for applets!
Java Console added for showing the applets output. It's accessible from View menu. Currently the output of XBrowser itself and any debug information are also being directed to this console. So I've removed "-log" option from parameters list since there is no need to have it.
XBrowser now supports Bulgarian language too :)
German and French translations were updated for new features
Some minor bug fixes

XBrowser 3.1 - November 22, 2000 - Changes since 3.0

French language support was added to XBrowser. More and more languages are expected to be supported in future
Browser's sign button is changed and turned into a little sign located at end of the menu bar. I myself liked the previous sign but I had to do this in order to free more space when user selects "Icon Only" or "Text Only" styles for toolbar!

XBrowser 3.0 - October 27, 2000 - Changes since 2.8

Finally XBrowser got internationalized in this version! It supports English and German languages now. I hope to add more languages support in a near future!
Some GUI improvements at Print-Preview layout. Now you have better control on zooming in/out the preview
Toolbar buttons are now customizable! They can have three different modes: "Icon Only", "Text Only" and "Text & Icon". You can control them via "View" page of Options... dialog.
More proper GUI design for closing Tool Panes. You can directly click on the close button on top of each pane to close them!
MacOS X look and feel added to L&Fs list. "Native" L&F was added too. By selecting "Native" item from L&Fs list (located at the Options... dialog), you can easily activate your current platform's native L&F regardless of whether or not its exact name and related package name are present at the configuration file!

XBrowser 2.8 - September 23, 2000 - Changes since 2.75

Options dialog interface was changed
Table selections color are according to currently selected L&F and theme
Domain completion feature is now customizable via Options dialog
A graphical effect (roll-over Black&White) added to toolbar buttons!

XBrowser 2.75 - September 09, 2000 - Changes since 2.7

Some changes/update in documentation. The mistakes were corrected too
A few code refactoring and name-changes in order to make the code more reusable and decrease the project-specific dependencies

XBrowser 2.7 - August 22, 2000 - Changes since 2.4

Import/Export feature added for Bookmarks. You can easily import/export your bookmarks as XBrowser, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera formats
Authentication for proxy servers is now supported! You can enter the information in Options dialog
Two new fields added to bookmarks. Creation date and modification date!
When the title of a bookmark was changed, its related node on bookmarks' tree was not updated correctly. It has been fixed!

XBrowser 2.4 - July 27, 2000 - Changes since 2.0

Personal Toolbar added! Now you can mark a bookmark-folder as your personal folder in order to have it as a separate toolbar for quick access
Better backward & forward page navigation
You can activate/de-activate any of the toolbars (navigation, location, personal) & the statusbar
New java L&F themes added
Some bug fixes in regards to sorting the bookmarks
Moving a bookmark-folder to another folder didn't function well. Fixed!

XBrowser 2.0 - July 06, 2000 - Changes since 1.7

Search facility added for bookmarks. Now you can easily search among your bookmarks. Several criterias are provided for stronger queries
Search facility added for your visited pages history. Now you can easily search among history. Several criterias are provided for stronger queries
History table is now sortable according to all available columns
Bookmarks tree and quickfile are now automatically being sorted by bookmarks' titles
Some minor GUI enhancements

XBrowser 1.7 - June 12, 2000 - Changes since 1.5

Now you can have access to the visited pages and manage them easily via newly added History feature. Your visited pages history is being serialized in XML format
More flexible tools pane design. Tools pane includes Document Selector, Bookmark Pane & History Pane. You can specify how you would like to configure them
Bookmarks can be better managed via Bookmark property dialog
HTML pages' source is no more displayed in a separate page but is displayed in a separate tab on the same page/window. Using this feature you can easily trace each page's source and the sources of different pages are no more mixed!

XBrowser 1.5 - May 27, 2000 - Changes since 1.05

Bookmarking system added! Now you can easily manage your bookmarks. The bookmarks are being serialized in XML format
GUI enhancements
Some minor bug fixes

XBrowser 1.05 - April 27, 2000 - Changes since 1.0

GUI is no more being blocked when starting to display an html page
The progress bar starts to progress on time when an html page is going to be displayed
Some minor bug fixes/enhancement/code refactoring !

XBrowser 1.0 - April 20, 2000

Initial Release! No Changes!! ;-)