Arena 0.96
This page contains information specific to the 0.96 release. For more general information on Arena and HTML3, see:
New functionality
- experimental style sheets -- take a look at the html source of this
document!
- ftp, news, gopher and directory browsing is now supported.
- new keys: Contol + arrow keys and Control-v, Meta-v
- grayscale jpeg images are handled
- the math module has been improved
Yes, there are bugs. Some of them are listed below, and some are
reposted in
other peoples lists. If you want
to report a bug, please send the mail to . Do not
use the email address that is printed when arena exits.
Newly introduced bugs
- Internally, Arena is now using style sheets to format the page
even if there are no style sheets in the documents. This sometimes
introduces stylistic bugs. Send us your favorites.
- the HTML generated by the directory browsing routines is "Bad"
Missing functionality
- forms and index searches don't work
- BASE tag is not supported yet
- ftp works, but requires terminal i/o
Stylistic bugs
- The abort button does not scale horizontally when the font size is changed
- When an HREF has a change of font, the 3D box gets a stairstep appearance.
- 16 bit displays do have problems hosting arena. Who can do the
port?
- images in 24 bit displays sometimes look awkward. I wish we had a
display to test this on.
- while editing, the browser window is not being refreshed
- the integral sign in some of the math examples is not properly aligned. This is caused by inconsistencies in the font metrics information
- math inside tables sometimes end up outside the border
- aligned inline images are no longer aligned if some have active
borders around them.
- textflow around pictures behaves weird when the edge of the window
comes close.
- The BIG tag is not yet supported
User interface issues
- URL is not displayed when the pointer moves over the anchor
- error messages are not always informative
HTTP-related issues
- there is no limit to the number of connections opened simultaneously
- protected documents are stored umask 000 in the cache
HTML-related issues
- empty math element will crash Arena
- A style element without ending tag will hang arena
- Arena flags HR within PRE as illegal
- s inside anchors destroys the anchor
- errors are only shown in view mode after an edit has been performed
- FIGs inside tables causes crash, use img instead
- nested tables causes crash
- </TEXTAREA> causes Arena to raise bad HTML flag
- PRE inside table crashes
- NOTE should honor the CLASS attribute, not the ROLE attribute
- CAPTION inside TABLE fails
Dave, Håkon, Henrik, Phill
arena@info.cern.ch
