Monday, June 20, 2005

1.3.3: Expect the integral browser to support Mozilla

When I take a look at my site stats, it shows something rather interesting: more than half of all visitors use a browser different than IE (mostly Firefox). And actually, there're quite a lot of reasons for doing so.

I don't want to get started with Internet Explorer's lack of functions, but rather with its lack of standards support: Especially for professional web developers, it surely is a good idea to use a more standards-compliant browser for previewing pages.

So, I have now nearly finished implementing a Mozilla/IE engine switcher for the integral browser. Of course, this doesn't only work for previewing pages, but also for browsing documentation, looking up search terms etc. Mozilla support will be in 1.3.3.

Also to expect is a more sophisticated window management allowing you to use the Open Documents panel to arrange only selected windows and thereby make real use out of NoteMaster's hidden full MDI functionality (by the way, you can still restore and minimise document windows by using the appropriate commands in the Window menu). Certain bugs will also undergo some revision: For instance, at the moment, the automatic recovery will just overwrite copies of files with the same filename without asking. This means that if you have two open documents C:\Text.txt and C:\Folder\Text.txt, you will be able to recover only one of these both files after a crash.

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