[Info-vax] web browsers for VMS on ALPHA

[George Cook]

In article <ijn3fq$6ms$3 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> Now that my hardware upgrade is coming along, sometime soon I want to 
> get a somewhat more modern web browser to run on VMS on ALPHA.  I also 
> use LYNX and will update that as well, but that is not the browser of 
> choice for all things.
> 
> Should I go with the latest CSWB?
> 
> What is the state of Mosaic for VMS on ALPHA?

I've been wanting for over two years to get the next release packaged
up.  The main holdups are revising the doc and creating all the
pre-built executables.

I can make Alpha 8.2 and VAX 7.3 images of Mosaic V4.3 available
to anyone who contacts me, but I'm not going to make a public release
until the distribution kit is at least the same quality as previous
releases.  The images are built against OpenSSL, so they will run on
any system regardless of what, if any, SSL is installed.  The list 
of the V4.3 changes is attached.

> Are there other options?
> 
> I don't want to a) mess with the code myself or b) download lots of 
> additional stuff in order to build it.  I don't mind building it (in 
> fact, I would prefer to), but it should build more or less out of the 
> box.

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 o Added support for intermixed font tags (e.g. <BIG><I></BIG></I>)
 o Added support for SVG images
 o Added support for NNTP server authentication
 o Added support for images in <EMBED> and <OBJECT> tags
 o Added support for MIME type "image/svg+xml"
 o Updated gopher support with multiple improvements (including proper
   hURL and itemtype i and 3 support) and security fixes from Mosaic-CK
 o Fixed problem with multiple image loading not working with some images
 o Fixed problem with multiple image loading ignoring the Delay Image
   Loading settings
 o Fixed problem with multiple image loading crashing due to "no
   content" images
 o Fixed crash caused by resizing pages with frames or loading delayed
   images
 o Added limited support for multiple image loading socket keep alive
 o Fixed formatting problems with news article listings
 o Fixed problems with percentage WIDTH and HEIGHT in <IMG> tags
 o Fixed problem with WIDTH in <HR> tags inside tables
 o Changed so that Return submits forms with multiple text fields
 o Changed to display correct site in FTP Send dialog title
 o Changed to escape "&<>" characters in news article subjects when
   displaying articles
 o Changed to ignore UTF-8 encoded LRM and RLM
 O Changed to ignore UTF-8 encoding in tags and page titles
 o Changed to no longer attempt to display uuencode or base64 files in
   news articles as images; instead display links to the decoded files.
 o Changed to unescape <BUTTON> text
 o Improved support for RULES=ALL in <TABLE> tags
 o Added support for Unicode &# escape sequences for fraction slash,
   small black square and left and right arrows
 o Added limited support for Unicode &# escape sequence "box drawing
   light up and right"
 o Changed to set SQO (sequential access only) on temporary output files
 o Changed to set CBT (contiguous-best-try) on preallocated temporary
   output files
 o Changed the LIBNUT strcasecmp routines to properly handle empty strings
 o Upgraded LIBOPENJPEG to version 1.3.0
 o Upgraded PNG library to version 1.0.28
 o Various bug, memory leak and performance fixes
 o Various source reformating and cleanups
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George Cook