Amelinium 1.3.0 - web browser AND mail client for classic Amiga
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A browser AND a mail client. The archive holds two programs that share one
rendering engine, so a message with HTML and CSS looks the same in your inbox
as a page does in the browser:
Amelinium - the web browser
Emalinium - the mail client (POP3 / IMAP / SMTP). It is not a plain-text
reader: a message is laid out by the SAME engine as a web page.
Requirements:
- bsdsocket.library v4+ (works with IMPBOX bsdsocket.library!)
- AmiSSL v5 for HTTPS support (without that still http:// sites works fine)
- On AROS you need NEITHER of the two: the AROS builds carry their own TCP
through the system and TLS 1.2 / 1.3 built into the executable, so HTTPS
works with nothing else installed.
- On AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC) it is the same as on 68k: bsdsocket from the system
and AmiSSL v5 for HTTPS.
- On a PPC card in a classic Amiga (Blizzard PPC / CyberStorm PPC under OS 3.x)
the PowerUP (_PUP) and WarpOS (_WOS) builds carry their own TLS 1.2 / 1.3,
like the AROS ones, so HTTPS needs no AmiSSL. The PowerUP builds set up
their own stack. The WarpOS builds cannot, and need a BIGGER STACK than
the shell gives by default:
stack 600000 (from Shell, once per shell)
STACK=600000 (in the icon's Tool Types, for Workbench)
With less than 256 KB a WarpOS build says so and exits instead of stopping
halfway through a deep page.
The AROS builds (all four: i386, i386 ABI v0, x86_64 and aarch64) need NO
extra library at all - not AmiSSL, and nothing to copy into LIBS:. Only the
AROS system itself and its bsdsocket.library. Their TLS (1.2 and 1.3) is
BUILT INTO the executable, so the download is one file and there is no
library drawer to install.
Why: AmiSSL has no AROS release at all. What ships for Amiga is m68k HUNK
code, and an AROS system loads ELF - so the choice was a built-in TLS
or no https at all on that machine.
Third-party code in the AROS and PPC-card builds:
Mbed TLS 3.6.7 (https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/mbed-tls/) is
compiled into the AROS, PowerUP (_PUP) and WarpOS (_WOS) executables,
unmodified. It is dual-licensed Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later - you may
take it under either. The full text is in mbedtls-LICENSE.txt next to this
readme. The 68k and AmigaOS 4 builds do not contain it; they use AmiSSL.
!! HTTPS is encrypted but the server's CERTIFICATE IS NOT VERIFIED - i do not
check who is on the other end. Treat it as protection against passive
eavesdropping, not against an attacker who can redirect your traffic. The
same applies to Emalinium's mail passwords.
Builds:
- Amelinium - 68000 (works on all Amigas, slowest)
- Amelinium_020 - 68020+
- Amelinium_040 - 68040 WITH FPU (not 68EC040/68LC040)
- Amelinium_060 - 68060 WITH FPU, fastest (not 68EC060/68LC060)
- Amelinium_low - AmigaOS 1.3 (Kickstart 34+). No images, no downloads
and NO MENU BAR - so no settings, bookmarks, tabs or
About.
- Amelinium_020_JS - 68020+ with built-in JavaScript
- Amelinium_040_JS - 68040 WITH FPU, with built-in JavaScript
- Amelinium_060_JS - 68060 WITH FPU, with built-in JavaScript
- Emalinium - the mail client (any 68020+)
The 040 and 060 builds use the maths coprocessor, so they need a full
68040 or 68060. On a 68EC040, 68LC040, 68EC060 or 68LC060 - the versions
sold without a coprocessor - use Amelinium_020 or Amelinium_020_JS, which
never use one. This only changes how fast JavaScript runs; page layout
uses no floating point at all. Like any 68040/68060 program, they also
need the CPU's own 68040.library or 68060.library in LIBS: - it supplies
the instructions the chip leaves to software.
- Amelinium_AROS_i386 - AROS on i386 (32-bit x86 PC), with JavaScript
- Amelinium_AROS_x86_64 - AROS on x86_64 (64-bit PC, ABI v11), with JavaScript
- Amelinium_AROS_aarch64 - AROS on 64-bit ARM (Raspberry Pi 3/4/5), with
JavaScript
- Amelinium_AROS_i386_v0 - AROS ABI v0 on i386 - the classic 32-bit line
from axrt.org, with JavaScript. ABI v0 and ABI v1
are DIFFERENT systems: take the file that matches
the AROS you installed.
- Emalinium_AROS_i386 - the mail client on AROS i386 (ABI v1)
- Emalinium_AROS_x86_64 - the mail client on AROS x86_64 (ABI v11)
- Emalinium_AROS_aarch64 - the mail client on AROS 64-bit ARM
- Emalinium_AROS_i386_v0 - the mail client on AROS ABI v0 (i386)
- Amelinium_OS4 - AmigaOS 4.x on PowerPC
- Emalinium_OS4 - the mail client on AmigaOS 4.x (PowerPC)
- Amelinium_PUP - PowerUP: a PPC card in a classic Amiga (Blizzard PPC /
CyberStorm PPC under OS 3.x). With JavaScript and
HTTPS. Needs no AmiSSL - TLS is built in.
- Emalinium_PUP - the mail client on the same PowerUP cards
- Amelinium_MOS - MorphOS (PowerPC), with JavaScript and HTTPS. Needs no
AmiSSL - TLS is built in. A young target, so it may
not be perfect yet.
- Emalinium_MOS - the mail client on MorphOS
- Amelinium_WOS - WarpOS on the same PPC cards (Blizzard PPC /
CyberStorm PPC under OS 3.x). With JavaScript and
HTTPS. Needs no AmiSSL - TLS is built in. A young
target, so it may not be perfect yet.
- Emalinium_WOS - the mail client on WarpOS
Known issues:
- JavaScript: in the _JS builds. DOM scripting works, and so do jQuery,
Prototype, script.aculo.us and Lightbox - including a jQuery packed with
the Dean Edwards packer. Very heavy applications (youtube.com, the
Cloudflare "checking your browser" page) load but can take minutes, and
the Cloudflare check does not complete yet. A page whose scripts do a
great deal of work will be slow: the interpreter is not fast, and that is
the honest limit.
- <canvas>: scripts can draw on it (shapes, lines, text, gradients,
shadows, pictures) and read its pixels back, but the canvas itself is not
shown on the page yet - its space stays empty.
- rotate() / skew() / matrix() are parsed but not drawn (translate() and
scale() are)
- Some pages may still render incorrectly - please report them
- Slow on 68000, usable on 68030+ (faster from cache)
If the browser will not start after an update:
The update keeps the previous program next to it as <name>.old, so rename
that back over <name> and you are running the old version again. Up to
1.1.1 an update download that stalled could be installed even though it
was incomplete, which leaves a file the system cannot load; from 1.1.2 the
download is checked and a broken one is refused.
Command line:
Amelinium [URL] [options]
-screen WxH[xD] open an own screen of that size, skipping the mode
requester - e.g. `-screen 1024x768x24` on an RTG card or
`-screen 1280x512` on AGA. Picks the deepest mode the size
offers when D is left out. This is the quickest way to a
usable window on a big screen.
-aga 640x512 8-bitplane PAL screen, no requester
-wb open on the Workbench screen
-js run page scripts everywhere, ignoring the per-site list.
By default scripts are OFF until you allow a site, because
one advertising bundle can exhaust the machine's memory.
-ttf use TrueType fonts, downloading them first if they are not
in PROGDIR:ttfonts yet. Same as the `ttf` toolbar button,
but usable from a script or an icon.
-proxy-host H
-proxy-port P send everything through an HTTP proxy
The same settings are available from the icon's Tool Types: URL, PROXYHOST,
PROXYPORT, AGA, WB.
Keyboard shortcuts:
- Up/Down - scroll
- Shift+Up/Down - page scroll
- Space - page down
- Backspace - page up
- PageUp/PageDown - page up / down (PC-style keyboards)
- Home/End - top / bottom of page
- Amiga = / - - zoom in / out (also on the Page menu)
- Esc - stop loading / stop a runaway script / close
- F5 - reload
- Amiga-C/X/V - copy / cut / paste: the form field you are typing in, the
text you selected on the page, or the URL bar
- Amiga-T / W - new tab / close tab (also on the Tabs menu)
- Ctrl+click - open link in a background tab
- Middle-click - open link in a background tab (3-button mouse)
- Shift+click - open link in a new tab and go there
- Amiga-B / F - back / forward
- Amiga-H - home page
- Amiga-L - jump to the address bar (selects what is there, so you can
just type the next address)
- Amiga-G - go to the address in the bar
- Amiga-S - save this page
- Amiga-/ - find on page
- Amiga-. - random page
- Amiga-? - about
Pictures:
GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP and ICO are decoded on the Amiga, by the browser
itself. Decoded pictures are cached on disk, so a second visit paints
them without decoding again.
!! SVG, WebP and AVIF FILES cannot be decoded here - there is no code on
this machine that reads them. (An <svg> written directly into the page is
different: Amelinium draws that itself and nothing leaves the machine.)
Those files go out to a PUBLIC RASTERISER
(images.weserv.nl), which converts them to PNG and sends that back. The
address of the picture therefore leaves your machine and reaches a third
party, which is worth knowing: it is the price of seeing an icon set that
a modern site ships as SVG. Everything else is fetched straight from the
site. Turning images off in the Settings menu stops both.
Video:
In the 040 and 060 builds and in the AROS, AmigaOS 4 and PPC-card builds, a
<video> with an MP4 file (H.264 picture, AAC sound) plays: click the picture
or the triangle on the player bar to start, click again to pause, click the
groove to jump. Sound goes through Paula, or through AHI when chosen in
Settings -> Sound output. The picture is decoded in the
background and shown as often as the machine manages - Settings -> Video
playback chooses how often it tries, and "Key frames only" (the default)
costs least. The 68000 and 020 builds do not play video.
A YouTube watch address (youtube.com/watch?v=..., youtu.be/...) opens in
Amelinium's own player page, because the player on youtube.com itself is
far too heavy to be usable here. Settings -> Video quality chooses 144p (the default),
240p, 360p or sound only; a smaller picture decodes much faster. In the
builds with JavaScript, 144p and 240p play in full, fetched the way
YouTube's own embedded player fetches them - this runs YouTube's player
code, which is downloaded once (about 2 MB) and again whenever YouTube
changes it. Without JavaScript (Amelinium_040, Amelinium_060) a long film
comes as 360p whatever you choose, and the page says so. The page links
back to the original youtube.com page as well.
WWW -> Video -> "YouTube search (Invidious)" opens a search page that renders
without JavaScript. Opening one of its videos asks whether to play it in
Amelinium's own player.
!! Playing a YouTube video asks YouTube's servers for the stream, and the
search page is run by a third party (inv.nadeko.net) - so what you look for
and what you watch reaches them. Nothing is sent until you open such a page.
PDF:
In the builds with JavaScript a PDF file opens in a built-in viewer, like
in Firefox: a toolbar with Previous / Next, the page number, zoom and
Download stays at the top, and pages are drawn as you scroll to them. The
viewer is pdf.js and lives in the pdfjs drawer next to the program - keep
that drawer with the browser. Without it, and in the builds without
JavaScript, a PDF is saved to disk instead (the status bar says why).
WWW -> PDF lists Amiga user guides (A500 to A4000, CD32) from Aminet.
A PDF page is drawn by JavaScript, so it takes a while on a slow machine.
Fonts:
Amelinium reads TrueType fonts ITSELF - it opens the .ttf file, reads the
glyph outlines and rasterises them with its own scanline renderer. That
path needs no FPU, no maths libraries and no external library at all, so
TrueType text works on every Amiga from a plain 68000 upwards. It is on by
default whenever the font files are present; the TT button turns it off.
The AA button switches edge smoothing, which needs a truecolor screen -
on a palette screen there is nothing to blend with, so the button is greyed.
A site's own fonts are used too, when it offers them as TrueType through
@font-face - that is how icon fonts draw real symbols instead of empty
boxes. Each file is fetched once into the ttfonts drawer and reused on
later visits. Web fonts are frequently SUBSETS: a font served for a Latin
page often carries no Greek, no Cyrillic and no Polish letters, so any
character the site's font does not have is taken from a built-in face
instead of being left blank. Only that character changes face, the rest of
the word keeps the site's font.
Acknowledgments:
Liberation Fonts (Red Hat, SIL OFL 1.1) - metric-compatible Arial /
Times / Courier replacements.
DejaVu Sans (DejaVu Fonts project, Bitstream Vera license) - used
when CSS names Verdana or Tahoma; matches their wider metrics
where Liberation Sans (Arial-metric) would be too narrow.
Noto Emoji (Google, SIL OFL 1.1) - monochrome emoji font.
AmiSSL by Oliver Roberts - TLS for HTTPS.
stb_image (public domain) - PNG/GIF decoding.
TJpgDec by ChaN (BSD-style, 2021) - tiny JPEG decoder with
scale-on-decode (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). http://elm-chan.org/fsw/tjpgd/
Replaces stb_image for JPEG - same input, half the RAM and
much faster on oversized photo thumbnails.
Amiga Core Fonts for the Web (Amiga Information Center, 2000) -
bitmap fallback when TT is unavailable.
Helix AAC decoder (RealNetworks, RPSL 1.0) - decodes the AAC
soundtrack of an MP4 movie. Present only in the 040 and 060
executables and on AROS / PPC / OS4; the 68000 and 020 ones do
not carry it. Sources: github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-libhelix
libavc H.264 decoder (The Android Open Source Project, originally by
Ittiam Systems; Apache-2.0) - decodes the picture of an MP4 movie.
Present in the same executables as the Helix decoder. License text:
libavc-LICENSE.txt next to this readme.
Sources: github.com/ittiam-systems/libavc
minimp3 by lieff (public domain, CC0) - plays MP3 internet radio;
same executables as the Helix decoder. github.com/lieff/minimp3
pdf.js 3.11.174 by Mozilla (Apache 2.0) - the PDF viewer of the
JavaScript builds, in the pdfjs drawer with its LICENSE file.
github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
History:
Recorded from 1.1.0 onwards. Earlier releases were not kept this way.
1.3.0
The biggest changes first:
- PDF files open in a built-in viewer (pdf.js) in the JavaScript builds;
WWW -> PDF lists Amiga user guides from Aminet.
- Frames (<iframe>) run their own scripts, are drawn from what those
scripts build, and talk to the page with postMessage.
- <canvas> has a working 2D drawing context (shapes, text, gradients,
shadows, reading pixels back); the canvas itself is not shown yet.
- Emoji have their own font (Noto Emoji) instead of empty boxes.
- Sound can go through AHI as well as Paula (Settings -> Sound output).
- JavaScript is faster (function calls and arithmetic 10-30% on a 68040,
timers no longer wait for the screen tick) and far closer to Chrome:
fetch(), XMLHttpRequest, async generators, Trusted Types, many Web APIs.
- CSS: :has(), colours in oklch()/lab()/color() (Tailwind 4), <picture>,
srcset sizes, min()/max()/clamp() with percentages, and many layout
fixes found by comparing random sites with Chrome.
All changes:
- JavaScript: pages sent with Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy and
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy are cross-origin isolated like in other
browsers (crossOriginIsolated, SharedArrayBuffer, performance.now()
with 5 microsecond steps, 100 elsewhere); Atomics is available;
ArrayBuffer gained byteLength, resize, transfer and detached.
- JavaScript: navigator.storage.getDirectory() gives a working private
file system (files and folders kept in memory for the session,
writable streams, sync access handles in workers).
- JavaScript: toString() of object and class methods, getters, setters
and async functions returns their source text like other browsers.
- JavaScript: Error.stack of a script written inside the page counts lines
and columns from the start of the page (not of the script), columns past
65535 no longer wrap, and calls through o[key]() point where Chrome does.
- JavaScript: canvas measureText() returns a TextMetrics object whose fields
are prototype getters, like in other browsers.
- JavaScript: DOM interfaces inherit from their parent interfaces as in the
standard (MouseEvent from UIEvent, Comment from CharacterData, FileReader
from EventTarget and so on), and every interface prototype has its own
constructor property.
- Emoji are drawn and measured with their own font (Noto Emoji, fetched
with the other TrueType fonts) instead of an empty box, also in canvas
measureText() and fillText(); emoji sequences joined with ZWJ (families,
couples) are one picture, and characters beyond U+FFFF are no longer
replaced by "?".
- JavaScript: style.setProperty() ignores a priority other than "important"
and a value carrying "!important", like other browsers;
getPropertyPriority() exists, and the style attribute changed from a
script reads back as "name: value;" pairs.
- JavaScript: performance entries carry the Server-Timing metrics the server
sent (serverTiming with PerformanceServerTiming objects), for the page,
frames and fetched resources.
- HTML comments are now part of the page for scripts (comment nodes, as in
other browsers), and a short comment such as "<!-->" no longer hides the
text that follows it.
- JavaScript: constructors such as URL, FormData, Headers and DOMException
report their real names.
- JavaScript: TextEncoder and TextDecoder work like in other browsers:
encodeInto(), the encoding names (latin1, utf-16 and the others), the
fatal and ignoreBOM options, decoding a stream in pieces, and the
TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream classes.
- JavaScript: <link> elements created by scripts are proper
HTMLLinkElement objects, and getComputedStyle() of an element that is
not in the page answers with empty values, as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: writing to a WritableStream or TransformStream is queued
like in other browsers, so the stream code runs in the right order
instead of inside write().
- JavaScript: element properties have the right types and defaults
(draggable, spellcheck and translate are true/false, <meter> and
<progress> report numbers, scripts created by a script are async), and
getComputedStyle() reflects styles a script just added, also inside
frames. Setting innerText turns line breaks into <br>.
- JavaScript: text drawn on a <canvas> keeps its true edge smoothing, so
pixels read back with getImageData() match other browsers more closely.
- JavaScript: Object.getOwnPropertyNames() of a Proxy around a function
lists the function's own properties, and performance.memory reports
exact numbers on web pages, as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: matchMedia() returns a proper MediaQueryList, the browser's
own bookkeeping attributes are no longer visible to page scripts, and
nonce attributes are hidden as in other browsers when the page sends a
Content-Security-Policy header.
- JavaScript: each frame numbers its setTimeout()/setInterval() timers
on its own, and clearTimeout() in a frame no longer cancels the page's
timers.
- JavaScript: navigator.plugins and navigator.mimeTypes are proper
PluginArray and MimeTypeArray objects.
- JavaScript: requestAnimationFrame() and requestIdleCallback() number
their callbacks on their own and animation frames get a high-resolution
timestamp, as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: Date.parse() and new Date("...") accept the same date
formats as other browsers (for example "2020-12-1", "Dec 1 999" or
"12/1/2020 10:00 PM").
- JavaScript: structuredClone() copies dates, regular expressions, maps,
sets, typed arrays, errors and cyclic objects like other browsers and
reports DataCloneError for things that cannot be copied; Object(5n),
BigInt.prototype methods and JSON.stringify() with BigInt behave as
specified.
- JavaScript: crypto.getRandomValues() and crypto.randomUUID() no longer
use up the numbers a page gets from Math.random().
- JavaScript: canvas drawing casts shadows (shadowBlur, shadowColor,
shadowOffsetX/Y).
- JavaScript: adding a frame from a script no longer runs pending promise
callbacks in the middle of that script.
- JavaScript: each frame has its own eval(), so code evaluated through a
frame's eval() runs in that frame (needed by Cloudflare checks).
- JavaScript: frames with a srcdoc attribute load that content (they
used to stay empty).
- JavaScript: Array methods called on a string, such as
Array.prototype.map.call("abc", f), work as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: TextEncoder.encode() returns a Uint8Array and a Blob made
of binary data keeps the bytes instead of the text "1,2,3".
- Downloads from itch.io work again: the purchase page no longer runs the
browser out of memory (a large canvas used to cost hundreds of
megabytes), so the download page loads with its styles and the Download
buttons start the file as before.
- JavaScript: typed arrays over a million elements are created (an
invalid length now throws RangeError), canvas.toDataURL() produces a
compressed PNG quickly, and JSON.stringify of a typed array gives an
object like other browsers.
- JavaScript: getBoundingClientRect() of an inline element includes an
empty inline-block or ::after{content:""} inside it, and its height is
the height of its text, not of an image or box placed in it.
- JavaScript: performance.timing and the navigation entry report the real
phases of loading a page (DNS, connection, request, response,
DOMContentLoaded, load), performance.now() counts from the start of the
navigation, and DOMContentLoaded handlers run before load handlers;
" ".repeat() no longer gives an empty string for long results.
- JavaScript: Function.prototype.bind can be taken and called as a value
(Function.prototype.bind.call(f, ...)), Object.getPrototypeOf works on
numbers and strings, RegExp flags/source/compile, the regexp symbol
methods, Symbol.description, the remaining well-known symbols,
isWellFormed/toWellFormed and getYear/setYear exist, and built-in
objects list their own properties in the same order as other browsers.
- JavaScript: timers and inter-frame messages no longer wait for the
1/10 second screen tick, so scripts that chain zero-delay timeouts or
talk between frames run far faster; nested timers keep the standard
4 ms minimum.
- Internet radio: Radio Kiss Morava added to WWW menu -> Radio.
- JavaScript: strict mode, class static members and private fields, super,
destructuring from strings, Sets and generators and into object
properties, and several smaller fixes to objects, Map and JSON.parse.
- JavaScript: promises accept "thenable" objects such as the ones jQuery
and many libraries return (the result used to arrive as the object
itself), and error types (TypeError, RangeError...) are told apart
correctly; AggregateError added.
- JavaScript: dates - years beyond 9999, month overflow in setMonth, Date()
called as a function and invalid dates in JSON follow the standard.
- Layout: nested rows on Bootstrap pages (.row inside .row) get their full
width and spacing, and getComputedStyle() reports real widths and
heights in pixels.
- Layout: a box beside a float may let its margin overlap the float, as in
other browsers (code blocks on Bootstrap pages were too narrow).
- Stylesheets whose media list spans several lines are loaded (w3.org lost
its layout), and matchMedia() answers like the stylesheet does.
- Old Internet Explorer style hacks (`* html ...`) are ignored as in other
browsers (they broke layouts such as eff.org).
- CSS rules such as `.row:nth-child(2) .item` or `li:first-child span`
(a structural condition on an ancestor) are applied instead of skipped.
- JavaScript: spreading sets, strings and generators into function calls,
Map and Set built from any iterable, and matchAll() results work.
- JavaScript: SVG elements written in the page have their proper types
(SVGRectElement, SVGPathElement...), so getBBox() works on them, including
exact bounds of paths, curves and arcs; getElementsByTagName() with the
name of a custom or SVG element no longer returns every element.
- Layout: form fields and buttons that a stylesheet turns into table cells
(Bootstrap 3 search boxes) stay ordinary inline fields, as in other
browsers.
- Layout: a fieldset's legend sits on its top border with a gap in the
frame, as in other browsers (it used to sit inside the box), and
fieldsets get the standard default frame and spacing.
- Stylesheets: class names, ids and attribute values are case-sensitive
on modern pages, as in other browsers (a rule for .myRow no longer
styles class="myrow"); old pages without a doctype keep the lenient
matching, now also in querySelector() and getElementsByClassName().
- Forms: the label of an input button stays on one line and a width given
to the button is kept; an input of type button without a value is
empty, not "Button". A <title> written inside the page body no longer
moves into the head.
- Layout: the grid shorthand with auto-flow (grid: auto / auto-flow 200px)
works, so product carousels and tile rows on shop themes are laid out
side by side instead of in one long column.
- Layout: images sized in percent (width: 100%) no longer force their
column or box to the picture's full size; two equal columns stay equal
and boxes around such images shrink to the space available.
- Layout: a <canvas> (charts, games, drawings) takes up its space on the
page as in other browsers (300x150 by default, or the size it states)
instead of collapsing to nothing; its content is not drawn yet.
- Style: rules using :popover-open, and negated states such as
:not(:disabled), :not(:checked) or :not(:popover-open), now apply; menus
that are hidden until opened no longer show up on the page, and a rule
for an open popover no longer hits closed ones.
- Layout: a height written as calc() with a percentage in an element's
own style attribute (height: calc(100% - 20px)) now resolves against its
container instead of turning into a fixed 100 pixel minimum, and
margin: calc(...) 0 there no longer puts the same margin on all sides.
- Layout: an image that has not loaded yet (or uses a placeholder) keeps
the proportions its width and height attributes give it, so pictures
scaled down with max-width no longer collapse or stretch before they
arrive; aspect-ratio also survives a max-width limit, and a box with a
set height and aspect-ratio takes its width from the ratio.
- Pages opened from disk: a picture whose file is missing now shows its
alternative text, as it does for a missing picture on the web, instead
of an empty box of the picture's size.
- Style: a rule for menu items three levels deep (for example
"nav ul ul li a") no longer also hits the top-level items, which made
every entry of such a menu as wide as its drop-down.
- JavaScript: background page requests (XMLHttpRequest) now finish after
the script that sent them has continued, as in other browsers, and a
request that cannot reach its server reports an error instead of an
empty success - pages that retry or fall back on failure now do so.
- JavaScript: page requests with very long addresses (over 1024
characters) are no longer cut short.
- JavaScript: scripts can read every response header of their page
requests (getResponseHeader), with the same cross-site limits as other
browsers, and pictures created by scripts inside a frame now load.
- JavaScript: scripts inside a frame see the Crypto and SubtleCrypto
interfaces, like scripts on the page.
- JavaScript: error messages read like in other browsers, and several
mistakes now raise an error as they should (setting a property on null,
'in' or 'instanceof' on a non-object, spreading a number, destructuring
null, calling a string method on null).
- JavaScript: XMLHttpRequest offers the full standard set of properties
and constants, including responseType "json" and "arraybuffer".
- JavaScript: XMLHttpRequest reports its progress step by step and passes
a proper event object to its handlers, and buffers made by the engine
are real ArrayBuffers.
- JavaScript: <canvas> has a 2D drawing context. Scripts can draw
rectangles, lines, curves, circles, gradients and text, clip and blend,
copy pictures and other canvases onto it, and read the pixels back; a
canvas is still not shown on screen.
- A PNG picture whose data is damaged but whose header is fine now counts
as loaded, with its size and transparent pixels, as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: fetch() works properly. Every answer used to arrive with
status 0 and an empty body, and a failed connection was reported as an
answer instead of an error; responses now carry their real status,
status text, headers and body, a body can be read once, and a network
failure rejects with "Failed to fetch", as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: code run through eval() no longer reads its own names from
memory that was already released - this caused random wrong names,
"is not a constructor" errors and crashes on heavy pages.
- JavaScript: reading a variable that was never declared now throws
ReferenceError ("x is not defined") instead of quietly giving
undefined, and several other errors are now thrown where every browser
throws them (String.fromCodePoint with an invalid value, a prototype
chain that would loop, "caller" and "callee" in strict code).
- JavaScript: XMLHttpRequest statusText is the server's own phrase
("Unauthorized"), not always "OK".
- JavaScript: FontFace and document.fonts follow the CSS Font Loading
rules: asking for a local font that is not installed now fails the way
it does in other browsers, instead of claiming every font exists.
- JavaScript: navigator.storage, navigator.permissions, getGamepads,
getBattery, speechSynthesis, Notification, BroadcastChannel,
screen.orientation and navigator.gpu now exist, answering honestly for
this machine (no gamepads, no voices, no GPU, mains power).
- JavaScript: Trusted Types (trustedTypes, policies, TrustedHTML and
TrustedScript). A frame whose Content-Security-Policy requires them now
refuses eval() and new Function() on plain strings, as other browsers
do; innerHTML accepts a TrustedHTML value.
- Layout: stretched flex items take the height of their row even when
their content is taller, and overflow: clip no longer lets a flex item
shrink below its content.
- Layout: absolutely positioned boxes with top, bottom and auto margins are
centred vertically; grid columns no longer grow to fit an item that has
min-width: 0; :not() with several structural conditions works;
CSS rules that combine an attribute test with :not(#id), or an
ancestor written as #id.class, apply exactly where they should.
- Movies: picture and sound stay in step - the picture ran about a tenth
of a second ahead of the sound, more on AmigaOS 4.
- Fixed: a very long text page (one text block over 64 KB, such as a
whole manual in one <pre>) was cut short, and its later lines were
drawn over the top of the page.
- Frames (<iframe>) run their own scripts and talk to the page with
postMessage, as security checks and embedded widgets need.
- YouTube: the cookie consent window fits the screen, its text scrolls
to the end and its buttons show their labels.
- YouTube: the cookie consent choice is saved, search results appear,
and the YouTube logo and channel pictures show.
- Pictures that a page's own scripts add or change are loaded now, with
the load events pages wait for (thumbnails on YouTube and on many
modern sites stayed empty before).
- Fixed: a symbol such as a bullet could turn into odd characters where
a page lets long words break anywhere.
- JavaScript: text built piece by piece in a loop (s += x) is much
faster, and very long results no longer come out cut short.
- JavaScript: regular expressions match repeats longer than 511
characters (long addresses and texts failed to match before).
- JavaScript: new Image() and new Audio() create real elements; images
that scripts create report complete only once loaded.
- Fixed: a script copying a promise, Map or similar built-in object (as
YouTube does) could crash the browser a while later.
- JavaScript: IntersectionObserver behaves as in other browsers, so pages
no longer load their own slower replacement for it.
- YouTube: the cookie consent window has its white background (its text
was drawn straight over the page).
- Fixed: a style sheet that a script adds to a page with no style sheet of
its own had no effect.
- YouTube: icons show (logo, menu, buttons, list markers) - scripts now
see the contents of SVG pictures, and arcs in SVG paths are drawn as
real curves.
- Fixed: an element hidden with an invalid opacity value (as YouTube sets
it) stays visible, as in other browsers.
- A scrolling box inside a window that stays in place (position: fixed,
as in most dialogs) now scrolls its content, not just its scrollbar.
- Clicks reach boxes that a page positions freely (absolute, fixed) also
right after the page has changed them.
- Layout: percentage heights inside CSS grids, icons mirrored with
scale, var()var() written without a space.
- JavaScript: many fixes to text with non-English letters, number
formatting, Intl, element scroll
positions, getBoundingClientRect inside scrolled boxes, and custom
elements (the building blocks of YouTube and similar sites).
- JavaScript: localStorage and sessionStorage accept the short form
(localStorage.key = value, localStorage.key) and list stored keys;
MessageChannel messages arrive without timer delay, so pages built with
React respond faster; constants really are constant; Proxy objects work
with for-in, JSON and property descriptors; Object.keys() of built-in
objects and of the window lists the same as in other browsers; SVG text
elements report character positions.
- Layout: text set in fractional font sizes (16.5px) gets its proper
line height; percentage table columns are measured from the table
width; flex carousels wider than 32767 pixels are laid out correctly;
a closed <details> stays closed even when a style sheet sets display
on its content; <marquee> text is laid out like in other browsers (on
one line, not scrolling).
- Style: flex-basis with calc(), grid rows in fr units inside a grid of
automatic height (including collapsed 0fr accordions), and width or
max-width written with min(), max() or clamp() and one or more
percentages (Elementor background videos no longer shrink to nothing).
- Style: !important now also wins for widths and heights in percent,
calc() or auto, and for percentage padding and max-width; several
selector forms (".item:last-child:after", a class written after :not(),
long sibling names, "!important" rules with two ancestors) apply exactly
where they should; getComputedStyle() answers for every property.
- Style: rules meant for forced colors, high contrast, inverted colors or
HDR screens no longer apply on an ordinary screen (GitHub links were
drawn in the wrong colour).
- Scrolling: pages whose content scrolls inside the body while the page
itself does not (Google News) can be scrolled with the main scrollbar,
wheel and keys.
- Frames show the content their own scripts build; frames created inside
other frames and frames loaded from blob: addresses work.
- JavaScript: lists such as querySelectorAll(), children, childNodes,
form.elements and attributes are proper NodeList, HTMLCollection and
NamedNodeMap objects with item(), namedItem() and forEach(); classList,
URLSearchParams, FormData and Headers can be looped over (YouTube).
- JavaScript: Math.sin, cos, tan, atan2, cbrt, log2 and their relatives
give exactly the results other browsers give (sin of very large numbers
and even of Math.PI came out different before).
- JavaScript: Date.now() and performance.now() tick in fractions of a
millisecond and agree with each other.
- JavaScript: many smaller additions so pages see a standard browser:
CSS.supports(), screen and window sizes from the real screen,
performance.memory, location and history as proper objects, element
types reported correctly, and requests to other sites send only the
site name as referrer, as other browsers do.
- A page that builds an empty frame (about:blank) and puts pictures or
links into it no longer stops the whole browser with an "insert volume
about" requester; such addresses are resolved against the page, as in
other browsers.
- JavaScript: array methods (push, map, filter, join...) work on reactive
arrays such as those of Vue 3 applications; they used to return empty
or wrong results.
- JavaScript: Promise.withResolvers() and Promise.try(), URL.canParse()
and URL.parse(); new URL() rejects an address that is not a URL, and
event.eventPhase reports the real phase of an event.
- itch.io downloads now start in time on a 68020 with JIT as well: the
page no longer fetches its background picture again at every layout
check, and JavaScript timers keep running while the window is inactive.
- JavaScript runs faster: function calls, variable access and simple
arithmetic are roughly 10-30% quicker on a 68040, and canvas drawing
(charts, games) is several times faster.
- Layout closer to other browsers: !important inside style="", <picture>
takes its image from the matching <source>, width/height attributes
only on elements that allow them, <hr size>, <svg width="1em">, chained
child selectors (.a>.b>.c) and tag-qualified ancestors (header.x .y),
auto margins of grid and flex items, wrapping flex rows (Bootstrap
columns), fixed elements inside transformed ones, rem sizes set by a
later stylesheet, container units (cqw) and percentages inside calc().
- SVG text: a font-size attribute is honoured, and text lengths measured
by scripts match other browsers.
- JavaScript: mouse events carry the same fields as in other browsers
(pointer events, coordinates), and mouse movement over a frame reaches
the scripts of that frame.
- JavaScript: a form submitted by a script uses its own method (POST),
history.replaceState() changes the page address, canvas measureText()
gives fractional widths, and objects used as property keys, permission
queries and many smaller details behave as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: error objects, built-in constructors (Map, Promise, typed
arrays need "new"), Element/HTMLElement/HTMLDocument/CSSStyleDeclaration
prototypes and the order of onclick-style handlers versus
addEventListener now match other browsers; Uint8Array() called without
"new" no longer crashes the engine.
- JavaScript: every frame has its own DOM prototypes and constructors;
event, screen and element properties live on their interface
prototypes as in other browsers; a frame's window size follows its
<iframe> (width/height and style); document.styleSheets lists the
rules of <style> elements; getBoundingClientRect() returns a DOMRect.
- JavaScript: an emoji built from two halves ("\uD83D" + "\uDE00") is
now the same string as the emoji itself; documents made with
DOMParser or createHTMLDocument search their own tree; Float16Array,
ImageData colour settings, CSSRuleList and performance.mark/measure
entries work as in other browsers.
- Fixed: a table cell right after a <caption> no longer ends up inside
the caption; absolutely positioned boxes keep their left margin;
<progress> and <meter> have their standard size.
- CSS: colours written with color(), lab(), lch(), oklab() and oklch()
(used by Tailwind 4 for its whole palette) are understood; a canvas
created with colorSpace "display-p3" keeps its pixels in that space.
- JavaScript: innerHTML and outerHTML are no longer cut off after about
8 KB, and the text of <script> and <style> comes back without
entities; a Proxy can be used as a getter or setter; a frame reports
its own navigation timing instead of the page's.
- JavaScript: error stack traces look like Chrome's (script address,
the right line and column in every frame, "Object.render", "new F");
scripts added by a page fire "load" or "error" when they finish;
performance.getEntriesByType("resource") lists the page's scripts,
frames and requests; Math functions and isNaN call an object's
valueOf; array callbacks get the right "this"; event listeners
registered for the capture phase run before the target, as in other
browsers.
- CSS: a negated element name (:not(html), :not(p)) is honoured in
!important rules and on ancestors (Shopify shops built on the Dawn
theme), and so are :last-child and similar conditions on ancestors in
!important rules.
- CSS: the rem unit follows html{font-size: calc(var(--x) * 62.5%)} (the
Shopify Dawn theme), so sizes given in rem on those shops are no
longer 60% too large.
- CSS: line-height: calc(1 + 0.8 / var(--x)) and other calc() giving a
plain number are understood - such text no longer collapses into lines
two pixels high.
- CSS: @supports (inset: ...) and the related properties now answer
yes, so fallback blocks written for browsers without inset (Shopify
Dawn footers) are no longer applied.
- CSS: ::before and ::after rules check all of their ancestor conditions
(an outer class, :not(), a tag name, :nth-child() on an element in
between), so they no longer appear where the page did not ask for them.
- CSS: column-count now also splits inline content (inline-block cards,
plain text) into columns line by line, balanced like other browsers;
a multi-column box no longer lets its first child's top margin leak
out.
- CSS: a flex item stretched across a column flex container keeps its
max-width.
- CSS: heights in percent above 100% (height: 200%) work.
- CSS: absolutely or fixed positioned boxes stretched between left and
right with a max-width and auto margins are centred (Bootstrap toasts).
- CSS: a selector starting with an id and followed by an attribute
condition (#loader[data-v-1a2b], as written by Vue scoped styles)
matches again.
- CSS: an image with an empty src (<img src="">) is laid out like in other
browsers - an empty inline element in standards mode (no longer a
box of its CSS width), square with one given dimension in quirks mode;
an <img> with neither src nor alt no longer gets a 16 pixel stand-in
for the dimension the page did not give.
- CSS: rules whose last class name is longer than 63 characters (Shopify
section classes) apply again in descendant selectors, ::before/::after
and !important.
- CSS: grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, 25%) and other auto-fill
repeats with percentage or calc() tracks produce the right number of
columns (they collapsed to one); percentage tracks, also inside calc(),
keep their fractional part (16.6667% is six columns, not five).
- CSS: a class or id written after an attribute condition (#menu[open].on,
div[data-v].active, .a[x].b.c) no longer makes the whole rule ignored.
- CSS: min(), max() and clamp() nested inside calc() are understood
(calc(100% - 2 * clamp(20px, 4vw, 64px))) - such page containers no
longer collapse to zero width.
- Images served with a Content-Encoding no browser knows (aws-chunked from
S3-style storage) are shown instead of being dropped; only real
compression we cannot unpack (br, zstd, deflate) is refused.
- CSS: an image or SVG whose given width works out to zero (width: 100%
inside a zero-wide box, or a calc() that comes out negative) is zero
wide instead of taking its natural size.
- Fixed: parsing a style sheet that outgrew its first rule table read
memory that had just been freed.
- CSS: an ancestor written with an attribute between two classes
(.a[data-x].b .c, .a[data-x].b span) is matched instead of the whole
rule being dropped.
- Images: a picture chosen from srcset takes its natural size from the
srcset width and the sizes attribute (or the 2x/1.5x density), so a
1600w photo shown with sizes="400px" is 400 pixels wide, not 1600;
sizes also picks a smaller file when the picture is shown small.
- Layout: a menu item ending in an empty inline-block (a:after with
content:"") no longer makes the whole menu bar taller.
- CSS: a ::before/::after made absolute or a block by a rule that does
not set content now takes effect (grids no longer get an extra cell).
- Layout: a box with aspect-ratio grows to fit taller content, as in
other browsers (unless it scrolls or sets a min-height).
- Layout: grid items honour the order property.
- Images: an inline SVG with only a viewBox (no width or height) fills
the width of its container and adds nothing to the width of a
shrinking box, as in other browsers; a picture with a percentage width
wider than 100% is no
longer squeezed into its container.
- Layout: a grid item larger than its cell is centred (or end-aligned)
past the cell edges, as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: RegExp.$1 to $9, RegExp.input, lastMatch, lastParen,
leftContext and rightContext hold the result of the last match, like in
other browsers.
- JavaScript: Error.stack names the receiver of a method called on an
object made with Object.create() or on a Proxy like Chrome does, and
assigning to a static property of a function defined with a setter
calls that setter.
- JavaScript: delete works on functions (static properties, name and
length); a bound function takes "bound " when the target has no string
name; unknown tags such as <blah> or <applet> are HTMLUnknownElement.
- JavaScript: bind() on a function wrapped in a Proxy keeps its name and
length ("bound querySelectorAll" instead of an empty name).
- Sound: Settings -> Sound output chooses between Paula (audio.device,
the default) and AHI (ahi.device, 16 bits, through whatever AHI is set
up to use - a sound card, 14-bit Paula or the system mixer). Movies and
radio stations started afterwards use it; if AHI cannot play, the
player falls back to Paula.
- JavaScript: async generators (async function*) and for await loops
work as in other browsers; "for await" used to run like a plain loop
without waiting.
- JavaScript: naturalWidth and naturalHeight of an image chosen from
srcset take the candidate's density into account, like the layout does.
- CSS: rules with a structural condition on an ancestor such as
li:not(:first-child), or on an ancestor further up the selector
(.list li:not(:first-child) .title a), now apply.
- JavaScript: document.querySelector() with an id followed by more of the
selector ("#menu a", "#box > p") found nothing; it does now.
- JavaScript: content generated by CSS ::before and ::after no longer
shows up in children, childNodes, textContent or innerHTML.
- CSS: the :has() selector works in its common forms (.card:has(img),
li:has(> ul), .menu:not(:has(.active))).
- Images: a block-level picture with a percentage width is rounded to the
nearest pixel like other blocks, not truncated.
- CSS: max-width, min-width, max-height and min-height set to initial,
unset or revert (and max-width: none in a style attribute) cancel an
earlier limit.
- JavaScript: destructuring (const {x} = obj, function({x}) {...}) reads
getters defined in classes and prototypes, and works on strings and
functions; it used to give undefined.
- Fixed: calling a method directly on a value read from a Map or WeakMap
(map.get(key).method()) could destroy that value inside the map, causing
random errors in scripts that keep objects in maps.
- PDF files open in a built-in viewer, like in Firefox: a grey toolbar
that stays at the top with Previous / Next, page number, zoom and
Download, and pages drawn as you scroll to them. It is pdf.js by Mozilla
(Apache 2.0) in the new pdfjs drawer; JavaScript builds only. Without
that drawer, or in a build without JavaScript, a PDF is downloaded as
before and the status bar says why. The WWW menu has a new PDF submenu
with Amiga user guides (A500 to A4000, CD32) from Aminet.
- JavaScript: DOMMatrix and DOMMatrixReadOnly exist, and a canvas
getTransform() returns one.
- CSS: style sheets that start with a byte order mark, @charset or a
@layer statement load their @import files again (whole frameworks such
as Bootstrap were missing), and @import with layer() or supports() works.
- Check boxes and radio buttons keep their 13x13 size when a page gives
form fields padding or a border, and offsetWidth/clientWidth ignore
transforms (scale) as in other browsers.
- Fixed: JavaScript returning a let/const variable from inside a block,
loop or switch ({ const x = ...; return x; }) gave undefined or another
value, and a const declared in one switch case hid a variable of the
same name after the switch (PDF tables were lost because of it).
1.2.9
- Fixed: pages whose body is as tall as the window (html, body
{ height: 100% }, e.g. demozoo.org) could not be scrolled - the
scrollbar knob filled the whole bar.
- Fixed: a row of links kept together with white-space: nowrap (the
demozoo.org footer) did not wrap between the links and made the page
wider than the window.
- JavaScript: Proxy.
- JavaScript: regular expressions with an optional or repeated group
followed by more pattern, e.g. /v0(.*)?\/api/, could fail to match.
- JavaScript: a function that replaces itself on its first call (common
in compiled code) returned a wrong result on that call.
- JavaScript: document.currentScript in scripts a page adds itself,
iframe.contentWindow, built-in functions print as native code, and
Error() works without new.
1.2.8
- Internet radio: WWW menu -> Radio PL (TOK FM, Radio ZET, Antyradio,
Chillizet, Radio 357, Radio Nowy Swiat, RMF and more) and Radio DE
(Deutschlandfunk, SWR3, 1LIVE, NDR 2, Bayern 3, Antenne Bayern and
more); FIP and KEXP added to Radio.
- MP3 sound needs about a quarter less CPU, and AAC sound (radio and the
soundtrack of movies) a little less again - with exactly the same
sound as before.
- Fixed: movies (YouTube too) skipped frames while the stream was still
loading and played in bursts with a short stop every second - they now
play smoothly.
- A short link (tinyurl, bit.ly...) that leads to a YouTube movie now
opens it in the built-in player.
- JavaScript: string length, indexes and regular expressions count
characters (as other browsers do), not bytes - Polish and other
accented letters no longer break text handling and form checks.
- JavaScript: element.attributes, document as a Node, and error
messages (toString) behave as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: Shadow DOM (attachShadow, slots) and element.style.cssText.
- JavaScript: numbers are printed and read exactly as in other browsers
(0.1+0.2 gave "0.3", very large and very small numbers lost digits).
- JavaScript: typed arrays and DataView share their buffer correctly
between views, and values out of range wrap around as they should.
- JavaScript: building long texts piece by piece is much faster.
- JavaScript: DOM methods report errors as other browsers do (a node
inserted into itself, a method called on something that is not a
node) instead of silently doing nothing.
- Movies: the full-screen button is now only on the player bar (it was
also on the main toolbar).
- JavaScript: custom elements created through innerHTML or importNode
work at once; the arguments object behaves as in other browsers.
- Fixed: styles did not follow a class that a page script added to an
element already on screen, and a rule like #id.class > .x could hit
elements it should not.
- CSS: the scale property.
- Fixed: Settings -> Screen Mode crashed on 64-bit AROS (hosted) when the
browser ran on Workbench; it now uses the same requester as at startup
and lists 24-bit modes.
- New: MorphOS versions of the browser and mail client (first release).
1.2.7
- Fixed: a long movie (hours, hundreds of thousands of frames) stayed on
"Fetching the movie... 1%" forever; the sample table is now read in one
pass, so such a file starts playing within seconds.
- JavaScript: pages keep far less memory - scripts that run for a long
time (web applications) no longer run out of memory, because unused
objects are now collected while the page is open, not only when leaving.
- JavaScript: large scripts load faster and use much less memory (function
bodies are compiled when first called).
- JavaScript: custom elements (customElements.define), MutationObserver,
WeakRef, FinalizationRegistry; top-level variables are now properties of
window, as in other browsers.
- Movies: full screen. A button at the right end of the player bar asks
for a screen mode, with the best mode for the movie already selected.
Esc or the right mouse button leaves, the left button or Space
pauses, a click on the bar seeks, cursor keys skip 10 s and change
the volume.
- Movies: volume slider with a mute button on the player bar; the setting
is remembered.
- Movies play faster: the picture is converted and scaled several times
faster (most on 8-bit and AGA screens), frames are handed over without
waiting for the next tick, and AAC sound needs about a third less CPU.
- Internet radio: the <audio> element, AAC and MP3 streams and .pls /
.m3u playlists play in the browser; WWW menu -> Radio lists stations
with format and bitrate. A 68040/25 keeps up with AAC and 22 kHz MP3;
44.1 kHz MP3 needs a faster CPU. HE-AAC streams play at reduced quality
(mono). Same executables as the movie player.
- Fixed: search and other forms handled by page scripts (olx.pl) did
nothing - the submit event is now sent to scripts.
- Fixed: pages that scroll their body instead of the whole document
(news.google.com) could not be scrolled past the first screen.
- JavaScript: await no longer freezes the page while it waits; __proto__
works as in other browsers.
- JavaScript: spreading or looping over a text (for-of, [...s], Array.from)
gives whole characters - Polish and other accented letters were split
into two broken halves.
- Fixed (AGA/OCS/ECS screens, since 1.2.5): some icons drawn at their own
size (for example "Premium" on wp.pl) were scrambled.
1.2.6
- Fixed (AGA/OCS/ECS own screens): pictures kept in the disk cache by an
earlier version came back as coloured garbage in 1.2.5, whose chipset
screen stores bitplanes interleaved. The cache now records the layout and
decodes such a picture again instead of showing it scrambled. The first
visit to a page after upgrading fetches its pictures once more.
- Fixed (AROS): the Home button's house icon was drawn scrambled.
- Tabs and panels built from radio buttons and CSS alone (`:checked + label
+ .tab`) now open and switch when clicked.
- youtube.com's front page: the top bar with its menu icon now appears.
- Many layout fixes found by comparing pages with a modern browser:
letter spacing in em and fractional pixels, spaces at the start and end
of a line no longer widen buttons and menus, flex columns shrink items
with a stated height, justify-content after an item stops growing,
selectors with escaped characters (Tailwind's gap-0.5, md:gap-5), media
queries with a percentage now never match, calc() in gap, padding,
margin, top/left and grid lines, min-width on images, absolutely
positioned boxes with min-height in percent, and more.
1.2.5
- IMPORTANT when upgrading: Amelinium_040, Amelinium_060 and their _JS
versions now need a real maths coprocessor. A 68EC040, 68LC040, 68EC060 or
68LC060 has none and will refuse to start, saying so. Use Amelinium_020 or
Amelinium_020_JS on those machines - that is what they were getting
anyway, because until now the accelerated builds linked 68000 libraries.
In exchange the 040 and 060 builds now really use the processor they are
named after: JavaScript arithmetic runs on the coprocessor instead of in
software, and pictures decode faster.
- New: video playback. A <video> with an MP4 file (H.264 picture, AAC
sound) shows its poster and a player bar with play/pause and a seek
groove, and starts playing while the file is still arriving. Clicking
anywhere on the groove jumps there, even far past what has arrived - the
download simply restarts from that point. Sound goes through Paula in
stereo, the picture through a built-in H.264 decoder, each in its own
process so the browser stays usable. The download is held in a fixed
16 MB ring on disk, so a long film does not need its full size in free
space. Available in the 040 and 060 builds and in the AROS, AmigaOS 4 and
PPC-card builds; the 68000 and 020 builds do not carry the decoders.
- New: a YouTube watch address opens in Amelinium's own player page instead
of youtube.com, which needs JavaScript and cannot load here. The page shows
the title, channel and length. Settings -> Video quality picks 144p (the
default), 240p, 360p or sound only; Settings -> Video playback picks how
often a new picture is decoded - key frames only by default, which costs
least. At 1, 6, 12 or 24 frames per second the frames that are not going
to be shown and that no other frame depends on (more than half of a
YouTube film) are skipped without decoding. Decoding a picture is heavy
work: a 640x360 frame can take seconds on a plain 040, so 144p is the
setting for a classic machine.
In the builds with JavaScript, 144p and 240p play for the whole length of
the film, fetched the way YouTube's own embedded player fetches them
(YouTube's player code is downloaded once and kept in the cache), and
the seek groove jumps anywhere in them, backwards too. The
builds without JavaScript get 144p and 240p only up to about a minute of
film; anything longer comes as 360p there, and the player page says so.
- New: WWW -> Video -> "YouTube search (Invidious)" - a YouTube search page
light enough to render here. Opening one of its videos asks whether to
play it in Amelinium's own player, with "Always" if you want it to stop
asking.
- New: Amelinium_WOS and Emalinium_WOS - a WarpOS build for a PPC card in a
classic Amiga, with JavaScript, HTTPS and TrueType fonts. This is the
FIRST version of this target and it may not be perfect - please report
what you run into. One thing is known already: laying out a page takes
considerably longer on it than on the PowerUP build of the same page, so
a big site will feel slow.
- Faster: JavaScript source is read a quarter to a third faster, so
script-heavy pages get going sooner - YouTube's player code alone is
ready about eight seconds earlier on a 68040. How scripts behave does not
change.
- Better picture on AGA/ECS: the browser's own screen is now opened
interleaved, so a picture on its way to the screen no longer flashes in
wrong colours while it is drawn plane by plane - most visibly with every
new frame of a video. RTG screens are not affected.
- Fixed: a download that the server cut short was reported as finished,
leaving a half file that looked whole. It is now shown as interrupted,
and Resume continues it from where it stopped.
- Fixed: JavaScript: dates written with a time zone or in e-mail form
(new Date("2026-09-24T10:00:00+02:00"), Date.parse) were read wrong or
not at all; obj[key]() evaluated obj twice; slice, splice and friends
misbehaved when given Infinity; a typed array's .buffer was a method
instead of a property; eval() inside a function could not see the
function's own variables; btoa and atob mishandled characters above 127;
a regular expression right after if (...), for (...) or while (...) made
the whole script fail to load (Babel, among others). And from the second
page of a session on, some built-in functions - Number.isInteger,
String.fromCharCode, Boolean's methods, DataView and typed array methods
among them - could silently turn into unrelated functions, so scripts
that worked on the first page failed on the next one.
- Fixed: HTML entities written without a semicolon - < > & and the
rest of the legacy list - now decode, as they do in every other browser.
They appear in plenty of old pages.
- Fixed: with many bookmarks the menu silently stopped at the fortieth one.
It now fits as many as the screen can show and splits into B1, B2, ... when
it needs to.
- Fixed: Page -> View Source ignored the scrollbar arrows, did not follow the
knob while dragging, and drew with the page font instead of the screen font.
- Fixed: clicking a #name anchor, or opening an address that carries one, now
jumps to it.
- Fixed: images embedded in the page itself (data: URLs) longer than about a
kilobyte were not loaded at all.
- Fixed: text-align set on a table did not reach its cells.
- New: PageUp and PageDown scroll a page, on keyboards that have them
(a PC-style keyboard on AmigaOS 4 or AROS).
- Fixed: selecting text and copying it could pick up a second copy of part of
the selection, and a selection finished outside the window was not copied
at all.
- Fixed: a plain .txt file was rendered far too large and did not wrap.
- Fixed: SVG pictures written directly into a page now draw their outlines,
lines and text - until now only the filled shapes appeared, so logos and
icons made of strokes were blank and labels were missing.
- Fixed: an <a name="..."> anchor with no href was drawn as a blue underlined
link.
- Fixed: a crash on AROS on pages that use :hover on an element with no
parent.
- Fixed: many page layouts now match other browsers more closely, found by
comparing sites element by element. Among them: menus built from floating
list items with height:100% links no longer collapse to nothing; a
"sticky footer" page (html, body { height: 100% }) is as tall as the
window; table rows ignore min-height and max-height as other browsers do;
percentage margins inside flex rows (Bootstrap column offsets) land in the
right place; hidden SVG icon sheets take no space; a floating box with a
horizontal rule inside is no longer twice as wide; the gap above a heading
after an invisible "skip to content" link is correct; flex items align,
wrap and line up on text like elsewhere; line-height written as calc()
works; rem sizes follow a root font size set through a variable; a text
field with a percentage width no longer pushes a table wider than the
page; and <input type="hidden"> never takes space, whatever the page's
stylesheet says. Also: max-height: none now lifts an earlier limit, so
sections that open without JavaScript are no longer empty; Tailwind class
names with escaped characters (such as [&>svg]:h-full) match; an SVG with
only a height keeps its proportions; </br> breaks the line as in every
browser; custom element names longer than eleven letters match in
selectors; the -webkit- spellings of flexbox work; media queries for
features Amelinium does not know no longer apply by accident;
:first-child and similar conditions on a parent in a selector are
checked; :any-link and :not() on a parent element work; Tailwind's
space-y-* spacing and its @property variables apply; ::before and
::after built from several rules or inside @layer get all of them;
children of a display: contents box inside a flex or grid container
become blocks; calc() widths of flex items keep their pixel part;
left: auto (and the other sides) cancels an earlier value; a very wide
logo keeps its proportions under max-width; and a page opened from disk
finds its stylesheets and pictures when they are addressed as ./ or ../.
Further: rules that start with an attribute, such as
[role=complementary] h3 or [x] .a+.b, apply; percentage padding on flex
items, and padding or margin written with calc() in the shorthand
(Tailwind), come out right; text placed straight into a flex container no
longer takes the container's own width; an SVG icon given only a width
keeps its proportions; a selector like .menu > a i no longer reaches icons
nested deeper; and alternate style sheets (rel="alternate stylesheet")
are no longer applied on top of the main one.
- Emalinium: the message list now really sorts by date, newest first, and
stays sorted after deleting a message. The Compose window opens far larger,
can be resized, and keeps what you have typed while you resize it. Its
scrollbar arrows work too.
1.2.4
- New: Settings -> "Polish letters with Alt". With it on, Alt plus
a c e l n o s x z types the Polish letters directly, whatever keymap the
system has loaded - Shift gives the capitals. It is off by default and
changes nothing when off, so Alt+A still gives the letter your keymap
says. Added because on a machine with no Polish keymap the keyboard never
produces a Polish byte at all, so no choice of encoding could help.
If the letters look wrong on screen but arrive correctly in the page, your
screen font simply has no Polish glyphs - pick the encoding your font uses
from the same list, or turn TrueType on.
- Fixed: on the Workbench screen the browser overwrote the shared palette, so
the colours of everything else on Workbench went wrong until those programs
were restarted. Own screens were never affected. This was new in 1.2.3.
- The right-click context menu is drawn in the screen font now - the same one
the window title uses. It used to take the System Default Text font, which
is a different preference, so on a Workbench where the two differ the menu
looked out of place.
- Settings -> Keyboard/font is now a submenu offering twelve encodings
instead of three. Amiga has its own ones: AmigaPL for Polish and
Amiga-1251 for Russian put the national letters at byte positions no PC
encoding uses, so a keymap that speaks them looked like garbage before.
The list also has Latin-2/3/4/5/9/10, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R and CP1250.
Pick the one your keymap and your screen font use; the setting is
remembered, and -charset NAME does the same from the Shell.
- Latin-9 (ISO-8859-15) could be read but not written: a euro sign typed
into a form was dropped, and a currency sign was sent as a euro.
1.2.3
- New: PowerUP builds for a PPC card in a classic Amiga (Blizzard PPC or
CyberStorm PPC under OS 3.x) - Amelinium_PUP and Emalinium_PUP. The
browser has JavaScript and HTTPS; TLS is compiled in, so AmiSSL is not
needed and not used on this target.
- New: JavaScript in the AmigaOS 4 build. Amelinium_OS4 never had it before,
which was not obvious - the binary looked and started the same, and the
difference showed only on a page that needs scripts.
- PowerUP: Date.now() returned the same instant forever, any number above
2147483647 printed wrong, and x|0 gave the wrong answer for such numbers.
One cause: floor, ceil and modf in the target's C library round through a
32-bit integer, which the PowerPC saturates. This target now brings its
own three, so clocks, Math and number printing behave like everywhere else.
- PowerUP: a hexadecimal number written as 0xNN was read as zero, so, for
example, String.fromCharCode(0xFB01) produced a NUL byte.
- PowerUP: the thousands separator for Polish, Czech, Russian and the other
languages that use a space came out as the text "u00a0" in
Intl.NumberFormat.
- Tables: a cell whose rowspan reaches past the end of the table no longer
leaves its row short, so the cell stopped sticking out of the row.
- min-width: auto was ignored. A page that removes its desktop minimum this
way - which is how responsive sites do it - came out wider than the
window, so every percentage and every centred block was measured against
the wrong width.
- Grid: a column sized auto next to 1fr came out zero-width. That is the
ordinary "logo on the left, content on the right" header.
- flex-wrap did not break a line when an item's own minimum already filled
it, so the items after it were laid out past the right edge of the
container.
- Content written inside a table but outside a cell now moves in front of
the table, the way every browser does it. Old hand-written pages rely on
this, and without it everything below such a table was misplaced.
- A page sent with a compression we cannot decode (Brotli, for example) now
says so on an error page that names the encoding, instead of drawing the
compressed bytes as text.
- Text areas: the scrollbar can be grabbed (its clickable area used to sit
beside the field, over the page), and lines no longer spill above and
below the box.
- Keyboard and screen font now speak the system's character set. Settings ->
Keyboard/font offers Latin-1, Latin-2 and CP1250. Before this, national
characters looked right on screen and arrived at the server as garbage -
the two errors cancelled out locally, which is why it went unnoticed.
- The title bar no longer keeps "- Loading..." after the page has finished.
- version <file> from the Shell now answers on the 64-bit ARM builds; the
$VER: string was missing there.
1.2.2
- New: AmigaOS 4 (PowerPC) builds - Amelinium_OS4 and Emalinium_OS4
- HTTPS through a proxy now works. The browser opens a tunnel, the way
other browsers do; before this some HTTPS sites loaded and others did
not, with no pattern the user could see
- Saving a page now uses the page's own file name instead of always
calling it page.html
- The ttf button on the toolbar now downloads the TrueType fonts when
they are missing, exactly like the menu entry does. Turning fonts on
from the toolbar used to do nothing on a fresh install
- Pictures written with a line break or a tab around the = in the tag
are now loaded. Such pages were missing images, and the space they
should have taken collapsed
- <br clear=left|right|all> now moves the content after it below the
floating element, as it did in the browsers these pages were written for
- Widths above 200% are honoured. A block asking for 600% came out three
times too narrow, which broke wide sliders and carousels
- align on an image submit button now floats it, like every other browser
- vertical-align written in a stylesheet now works for super, sub,
text-top and text-bottom; table cells set to baseline line their text
up on one baseline instead of sitting at the top
- Percentage widths now get their exact share of the container instead of
always rounding down. Three columns at 33.333% fill a 999px container
exactly, where before they lost three pixels - for blocks, floats and
inline-blocks alike, and for columns sized with box-sizing: border-box.
Two 50% columns in an odd-width container still sit side by side, and a
min-width or max-width on such a column is no longer overridden
- Cookies a site marks SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax are no longer sent
when another site's page pulls that site's images or stylesheets. They
still go out normally when you open the site yourself, and when the site
loads its own files
- A page's images, stylesheets and scripts now name that page as the
referrer. They used to name the page you were on before it
- Search menu: lite.duckduckgo.com added
- A failed connection now says WHAT went wrong - the reply timed out, the
connection was reset, the server closed without answering, the request
could not be sent - instead of a single "Connection Failed" for every
case. Going Back or switching tabs also names the HTTP status, and says
so plainly when the browser itself refused (a redirect to https on a
build without AmiSSL)
- Start page redesigned
1.2.1
- Fixed pages laid out with frames that set both rows and columns: they
came up as a blank page, because only one of the two was read
- A page that asks to reload itself after a number of seconds now waits
that long. Weather, webcam and departure boards reloaded at once, over
and over, and were unusable
- Dropping a file icon from Workbench onto the browser window opens it.
Works when the browser runs on the Workbench screen
- Emalinium shows the body of messages that used to read "(No viewable
content)": those whose text sits behind more than 32 attachments, and
those with an unusually long MIME boundary
- Emalinium: a long subject no longer runs under the message list scroll bar
- Fixed sites that stopped loading with "cannot connect" and no error code
once enough cookies had piled up - Google News and Pouet were reported.
The request grew past its buffer and never finished; deleting the cookies
drawer used to be the only cure
- Fixed opening files on a volume whose name contains a space, such as the
standard "Ram Disk:". They were taken for web addresses
1.2.0
- Added Emalinium, the mail client, for all four AROS targets
- Fixed addresses containing a space: they went to the server unencoded, so a
server answered 400 where every other browser gets 200. It affects every
request the browser makes - pages, images, style sheets and downloads
- Fixed typing national characters into form fields. Letters such as a, o and
a with diacritics did nothing at all, and pasting them did nothing either,
so a password with one in it could not be entered
- Fixed pages that hide or show their own parts with a style sheet built by a
script
- Fixed the message list in Emalinium: it has its own scroll bar and grows
with the window, instead of showing a handful of messages. Its arrows are
no longer painted over by the list itself, and the counter in the header
stays empty until a mailbox is open
- Dragging a selection across a page no longer repaints the whole page, so it
flickers far less on a long one
- Improved layout in several places, so pages come out closer to what other
browsers show: lengths in em now follow the element's own font size,
fixed-width text keeps its smaller default size, flexible boxes shrink by
the rule, and old pages get the font size a browser gives them in tables
- Added demozoo.org to the WWW menu and removed thedaemons.space, which no
longer answers
- Fixed the text size on pages that set it on the root element twice, once
through :root and once through html. The whole page was drawn a couple of
points too small
- Fixed grids whose column widths are written with calc() or left to the
browser: their contents were laid out one under another, each across the
full width, instead of side by side
- Fixed line spacing where a page asks for the font's own spacing, and made
!important work for that property
- Fixed rules with several parts, such as ".header nav li a", applying to
links that had nothing to do with that header - they were styled as if they
belonged to the menu
- Fixed pages built with Tailwind: one escaped character in a class name made
every nested rule in that style sheet dead
- Fixed background images given directly on an element (style="background-
image:url(...)"). They were never loaded, so a banner showed as empty space
- Fixed <hgroup>, <search>, <dir>, <xmp>, <listing> and <optgroup>, which were
unknown to the layout and ran into the surrounding text
- Fixed hidden form fields taking up room in flexible boxes
1.1.9
- Text on a page can be selected by dragging the mouse over it, and the
copy shortcut puts it on the clipboard. A site that forbids selection in
its style sheet is obeyed, exactly as in any other browser
- Text in Greek, Cyrillic or Polish no longer disappears on pages that use
a downloaded font. Such fonts are usually cut down to the Latin letters,
and the characters they lack were being drawn as nothing, leaving what
looked like huge gaps between words. A missing character now comes from a
built-in face, and only that character changes - the rest of the word
keeps the page's own font
- View Source no longer redraws the whole text every time the mouse moves
over its window, and dragging the scroll bar's knob no longer fights with
the pointer
1.1.8
- Web fonts are used when a site offers them as TrueType. Icon fonts -
Font Awesome, Bootstrap Icons, Material Icons - draw real symbols now
instead of empty boxes, because they place their glyphs at private code
points that only the site's own font carries. Each font is fetched once
into the ttfonts drawer and reused on later visits
- Fixed downloads coming out corrupt from servers that send a file in
chunks. The chunk headers were being written into the file, so it was a
few dozen bytes too long and would not open. Affects every download, not
just fonts
- Shopping baskets and other content hidden behind <noscript> no longer
disappear when scripts are on. A shop that hides its cart for
script-less visitors was hiding it from us as well
- Accepting a cookie notice is remembered between sessions. The date the
page hands us was written in a format we misread as the year 12, so
every such cookie expired the moment the browser closed
- View Source shows the whole document: it has a scroll bar now, and long
lines wrap instead of being cut at the window edge. A minified page is
one very long line, so previously only its first screenful was reachable
- The document's default font is now serif, as in every desktop browser.
Pages that name no font of their own - most of the older web - were
being laid out too wide
- A byte order mark at the start of a style sheet no longer swallows the
sheet's first rule. Today that rule is usually the one carrying a
theme's colours, sizes and spacing, so the whole page was affected
- Tags written inside an HTML comment are no longer obeyed. A commented-out
style block was still being applied and a commented-out style sheet still
fetched
- Text no longer breaks after a single character on pages that size a
column in "ch" units, which we were reading as plain pixels
- align="justify" works on paragraphs, and a space at the end of a line no
longer takes up room - which also nudged centred and right-aligned lines
into place
- Margins and padding on the <html> element now inset the page, and
<hr align=...> is placed where it belongs
- A list inside a list no longer leaves a gap under it, and line heights
match the browser on serif faces
- Old markup of the form <p>...<b><h3>...</h3></b> keeps the bold inside
the heading, the way every browser reconstructs it
- A rule written for a part of a widget we do not draw (::file-selector-
button, ::placeholder and the like) is dropped instead of being applied
to the element itself
- A horizontal margin on a link or span no longer pushes what follows onto
the next line, which was making rows twice as tall
- Boxes positioned with left+right or top+bottom take their margins into
account, and a box sized by top+bottom now has that height before its
content is laid out - so icons centred inside it land in the middle
- A flex item keeps its contents' margins to itself, so a column no longer
comes out short by the margin of whatever is inside it
- Characters whose UTF-8 form ends in the byte A0 - the dagger, several
currency signs, and some icon-font symbols - are drawn as one character
again instead of three
- system-ui is recognised as a font family, so sheets that ask for the
system face get a sans-serif one
- Emalinium saves every attachment of a message, one after another, and
works on a machine that has only reqtools.library - both saving an
attachment and adding one to a message you are writing
- A file requester opened with no remembered drawer starts in PROGDIR:
instead of nowhere in particular, which was misbehaving on AROS
- Guarded against a crash on AROS aarch64 when picking a screen mode: the
number of colours is now read from the screen instead of assumed
1.1.7
- Uploading a picture to a site that does it with its own scripts now works
end to end - postimages.org was refusing every attempt with "Automated
uploads are not allowed via the website" because we left out headers that
every browser sends (Origin, Referer and the three Sec-Fetch-* ones), and
a file picker opened from a script now opens the requester as it should
- Fixed downloading release files from GitHub. The file list inside "Assets"
is fetched only when you expand it, which we did not do at all, and the
signed download address that follows was being cut short, so the download
came back as an error
- Fixed buttons on sites built with Bootstrap being greyed out and refusing
clicks everywhere, and text fields inside a button-and-field group being
one character wide
- Fixed a crash on AROS 64-bit, reported when opening github.com. AROS
builds also get a much bigger stack, which they never did before
- A <textarea> that is too small for its text now scrolls and shows a
scrollbar instead of locking up
- Pages now receive every kind of event they listen for - mouse movement,
key presses, the wheel, pointer events - where before only a click and a
mousedown ever reached them. Scripts waiting on the rest no longer hang
- The busy pointer no longer stays up after a click that did nothing
- Fixed Date.now() and new Date().getTime() disagreeing by the whole
timezone offset - two hours here
- The start page is now short and links to this readme, locally and online
- Added postimages.org to the WWW menu
1.1.6
- Text in a form field can now be SELECTED - with the mouse (click puts the
cursor where you clicked, drag selects), with Shift+arrows, and the
selection is what Cut and Copy take. Editor toolbars on forums finally do
what they say: the bold/italic buttons wrap what you highlighted
- Fixed the text in a field jumping a few pixels, and sometimes reflowing,
the moment you clicked into it. A field is now drawn the same way whether
it has the cursor or not
- Fixed uploading a file from a form without JavaScript. <input type=file>
used to be an ordinary text field: you could type in it, and what you
typed was sent instead of the file
- Uploads that go through a page's own scripts work too (FileReader,
FormData, XMLHttpRequest). A file's contents never pass through the
script engine - they go from disk straight into the request - so a photo
does not have to fit in memory twice
- A download can now be RESUMED. An interrupted transfer keeps what it
already has, the download window gains a Resume button, and the unfinished
entry stays on the downloads list with its own Resume link
- Fixed the download list and the about page losing their scroll position
when switching tabs, going Back or pressing F5
- Fixed one failed page load making every later page load without images or
stylesheets until the browser was restarted
- Fixed prefs.txt written by a Windows text editor losing its first setting -
Notepad adds a marker at the start of the file, and that marker was read as
part of the setting's name
- Font size keywords (small, large, x-large and the rest) came out one step
too small, and did not follow the font family. Dates, bylines and captions
on news sites were a size too small and wrapped where they should not
- Font sizes given in viewport units (1.4vw and the like) meant one pixel -
the text was there but invisible
- Fixed percentage sizes on a box positioned outside the flow measuring
against the box itself instead of against what contains it
- ::before / ::after with no content no longer leave an empty box behind,
which used to push list text onto the next line
- Fixed rules of the "> * + *" shape - the usual way to space sections and
lists today - applying everywhere on the page instead of to one level
- Fixed a rule naming three or more parents (".a .b .c .d") losing the middle
one, so it applied far more widely than written - on wikipedia every table
of contents entry was affected
- Fixed a parent named by tag ("header .thing") being dropped when the
element itself had a class, so the rule applied to every ".thing" on the
page
- Stylesheets are now merged in document order when a <style> block sits
between two <link>s, which is how a page decides which of two equal rules
wins
- A stylesheet linked for a narrow screen (media="(max-width:699px)")
is no longer applied on a wide one - pages that ship a separate mobile
sheet were getting both
- Fixed a rule that names a parent further up ("#main ul > li > a") not
applying when anything sat between that parent and the rest of the
chain
- Fixed columns coming out too wide, and a picture with a percentage size
limit freezing its column at full width
- Fixed a box laid out as a table (display:table) with padding of its own
coming out wider than the room it had - the padding was added outside the
box, so everything under it was too wide as well
- box-sizing:border-box is now honoured on a stated table width, which is
what the reset nearly every modern page uses asks for
- :open is understood, so a closed <dialog> or <details> stays closed
- calc(), min(), max() and clamp() work as a grid track size, and var() in
grid-template-columns now reaches the layout - such grids used to collapse
to a single column
- Grid tracks written as minmax() are bounded by the space actually free
- Fixed line-height smaller than the font being raised to the font's height -
the standard way of collapsing a row you are not meant to see
- flex-grow inside a column now works; before, items with "flex: 1" in a
column came out with no height at all
- Fixed max-height and min-height on an image in a block, and a percentage
max-width letting an image shrink - the ordinary "img { max-width: 100% }"
of every modern page
- Several sizing fixes for boxes measured inside flex and grid: a box's own
min-width/max-width now bounds what it asks its parent for
- Fixed element.title reading back empty on every element of every page
- option.text can be assigned, which is how scripts fill drop-down lists
- Text in a <textarea> no longer shows a stray glyph at the end of each line
on servers that send CRLF - most forums do
- new String("x") and new Number(7) now carry their value, so scripts that
wrap text before working on it no longer insert "[object Object]"
- Functions have a prototype chain of their own, so classes written with
"extends" and compiled down to older JavaScript work
- Blob, File, FileReader and URL.createObjectURL exist, and a Worker can be
started from a Blob - today's usual way of running one without a
separate .js file
- The whole stream family (ReadableStream, WritableStream, TransformStream)
and Reflect are implemented
- Object.prototype.toString.call(null) says [object Null]
- New WWW menu section Amiga GR (amiga.gr), and theoasisbbs.com under Sites 2
- New -fixed option: honour position:fixed from the command line, the same
setting as Settings -> Respect position:fixed
1.1.5
- New target Amelinium_AROS_i386_v0 - AROS ABI v0, the classic 32-bit line
from axrt.org. ABI v0 and ABI v1 are different systems, so take the file
that matches the AROS you installed
- Fixed changing the screen mode running a string of menu entries nobody
picked - it would end up loading the downloads page over and over and
the browser had to be restarted
- New -zoom N option, so a zoom level can be set from the command line as
well as from the Page menu
- Fixed a zoomed page shrinking further every time one of its scripts
changed anything, until the text was unreadable
- Fixed the two buttons of the download window coming out blank. Their
labels are now coloured against what is really drawn under them, so
they stay readable whatever the screen palette is and whatever draws
the buttons - including systems that give them their own look
- Fixed new Function("...") returning nothing, which killed anti-bot and
packed scripts on their first line, and added globalThis
- Fixed x["length"], x["charAt"](1) and every other bracket form doing
nothing on text, numbers, true/false, functions and symbols - obfuscated
and minified scripts write nearly every call that way
- Fixed two classes extending different parents in one file: the second one
took the first one's parent
- Fixed any empty function in a file that also uses "class X extends Y"
hanging the browser
- Fixed a class member whose name is computed (class X { [name]() {} }) or
written as text being stored under the wrong name - among other things
this is how a class is made iterable, and such a class was simply not
iterable here
- Fixed { get [name]() {} } in an object being a syntax error, which threw
away the whole script file it appeared in
- Very large whole numbers (BigInt) now hold five times as many digits, so
the arithmetic behind today's anti-bot checks no longer refuses to start.
Only a page that actually uses such numbers pays for the extra memory
- Pages using a rule that asks about an attribute on a parent as well as
on the element itself are no longer skipped - on github this is what
hides the navigation icons on a narrow window, as it does in Chrome
- Container queries (@container) are now understood. A page can size a part
of itself against the box it sits in rather than against the window, and
until now every such rule was skipped. A page that does not use them is
unaffected
- Pages that build part of themselves with document.write now show it. Five
of the sites we test against use it, and on one of them it is the search
box, which simply was not there before
1.1.4
- Two more sites in the WWW menu: whdownload.com and amigaworld.net
- A page can now be scrolled while its pictures are still loading - the
mouse wheel, the cursor keys and the scrollbars all work from the moment
the text is on screen
- The address bar now uses the largest font that fits the toolbar row
instead of the smallest one
- Fixed styling being dropped on pages that use very long class names, as
CSS modules generate them - github lost part of its layout that way
- Fixed icons drawn as SVG inside the page not appearing at all on pages
that use many of them - github lost its logo and its menu button
- Fixed background-color: currentColor doing nothing on an element (it
worked on ::before / ::after), which is how github draws its menu button
- Fixed colours and spacing on pages whose stylesheet writes custom
property names with capital letters (github, a1k)
- Fixed rules with more than one :where() being thrown away
- Fixed long declarations using var() being cut in half and dropped
- Fixed font: 1.4rem/1.5 ... being read as 1 pixel, which shrank whole
menus on pages that size text in rem
- Fixed selectors written as .a > * > .b matching nothing
- Fixed an <svg> icon being placed BEFORE the text it belongs to, so it
appeared on the wrong side of a button
- Fixed line-height: 0 having no effect, and rows staying too tall
- Fixed grid columns written as minmax(0, auto) coming out zero wide, which
made button labels disappear
- Fixed flex: 100% being read as three separate values, so flex rows that
should wrap stayed on one line and ran off screen
- Fixed the first line of an inline-flex or inline-grid box sitting too
high, which made whole rows of links too tall
- Fixed style="width:0%" and style="width:150%" being ignored - this is how
progress bars and sliders are written
- Fixed attribute selectors: only 17 of about 60 attribute names were
known, so [hidden] and most others matched nothing
- Fixed a :not() naming a class longer than 15 characters excluding
nothing while still winning over the rule it was written to refine
- Fixed an inline-flex or inline-grid box coming out too narrow, so an
icon next to a label stuck out of its own link
- Fixed an empty flex item taking one pixel of the row instead of none
- Fixed grid columns written as min-content or max-content being widened
to fill the container, which pushed button labels out of place and broke
short words across two lines
- Fixed an icon inside a grid button overflowing its own slot, which
shifted the label left by the icon margin
- Fixed a grid column of zero width still taking one pixel
- Fixed a box positioned inside a flex container ignoring the container's
alignment unless that container was itself positioned - github placed
the buttons above its file list 40 pixels too low
- Fixed the Search button and Enter doing nothing on a form written between
<table> and <tr> (whdownload.com)
- Fixed a frame staying blank when its address is relative - the other
frames of the same page hid the problem (triumph.no)
- Fixed pictures inside a frame losing their transparency, so GIFs with a
transparent background came out on a solid block
- Fixed a frame ignoring its own character set, so accented letters were
drawn wrong even though the frame declared the encoding
- Fixed pictures being lost for good when a server asks the browser to slow
down (HTTP 429) - it now waits as long as the server asks and tries again
- Fixed aminet.net stalling on Kickstart 1.3 and on any machine short of
memory: every stylesheet reserved almost 2 MB whatever its size, and now
takes only what its text needs
- Fixed Amiga-V typing a letter into a form field instead of pasting, and
doing nothing at all in the address bar
- Fixed pressing Amiga-V in the address bar loading the downloads page over
and over and locking the browser up - a menu item nobody picked
- Fixed the status bar staying on "Converting image" for good after the page
had finished, once scrolling brought a new icon into view
1.1.3
- New target Amelinium_AROS_aarch64 - AROS on 64-bit ARM (Raspberry Pi 3/4/5).
Same engine as every other target.
- Settings: the WEBP/SVG image proxy can now be switched off
- Fixed a page getting a horizontal scrollbar because a line refused to break
before a nowrap element
- Fixed the page background jumping when only part of the page was redrawn,
e.g. under the mouse pointer
- Fixed tables built with a <form> between <table> and <tr> - rows are no
longer pulled out of the table
- Fixed a crash on start on machines with no TCP/IP stack
1.1.2
- New target Amelinium_AROS_x86_64 - AROS on 64-bit PCs. Same browser as
everywhere else: https, pictures, TrueType fonts and JavaScript all work
- Fixed the AROS x86_64 build crashing on the first picture of any page
- The user agent now says which build is running (AROS i386 or AROS
x86_64), instead of just "AROS"
- Fixed 1.1.1 hanging with corrupted graphics on every page - a rewrite of
the tag scanner had dropped the line that sets where a tag's attributes
begin, so every tag of every page was parsed from a stray address
- Fixed pages showing raw markup as text when an attribute value contains a
literal > - the tag now ends at the quote that closes the value, in both
parsers (this is the EAB "The Zone" report)
- Fixed text meant only for screen readers being painted over the page:
clip: rect() now really clips
- Fixed elements hidden with large negative offsets (left:-9999px) coming
back on screen - the value was being read as a percentage
- Fixed table columns growing instead of shrinking when a cell states a
width: the stated width is now a hint for the column, not its minimum
- Fixed a form field set to width:100% stretching its table and squeezing
the button beside it narrower than its own label
- Fixed pictures and form controls coming out too wide on pages that use
box-sizing: border-box
- Fixed a table cell that is floated or absolutely positioned losing its
layout and rendering nothing
- Fixed grid columns written as 1.45fr being laid out as 1.4fr
- Old table layouts without a DOCTYPE: a collapsible space no longer makes
a row taller, and a cell no longer takes on its children's margins
- Fixed flex rows overflowing when one item could not shrink
- Fixed the last word of a broken-up long word being measured too narrow
- Back, Forward and switching tabs now follow server redirects
- Addresses typed with a capitalised scheme are shown lower-case, and a site
is recognised whatever the case of its host name
- Fixed connections to older (HTTP/1.0) servers being kept after the server
had closed them
- Two more phone user agents in the Agent menu
- An interrupted update download is no longer installed over the browser: a
transfer that stalls is reported as a failure, and the downloaded file is
checked for completeness before it replaces the program
1.1.1
- JavaScript now works in the AROS i386 build - the JS button is no longer
greyed out there
- Added the Popover API: an element with the popover attribute stays hidden
until it is shown, and popovertarget buttons open it without JavaScript
- Fixed images going missing on pages that load many at once - our own
decoding time was being charged against the other downloads
- Fixed one failed connection writing off a whole host, so the rest of a
gallery was skipped
- Fixed frameset images: they now reuse connections, retry once, and can go
through the SVG/WebP rasteriser like every other picture
- Fixed addresses typed HTTP:// or HttpS:// being treated as unknown - the
scheme is case-insensitive (RFC 3986)
- Fixed the URL field text sitting one pixel too high and too far left
1.1.0
- New target Amelinium_AROS_i386, with TLS 1.2 and 1.3 BUILT IN - no AmiSSL
and no extra library to install; AmiSSL has no AROS release at all
- Images now load six at a time instead of two, and the browser backs off by
itself when a server refuses that many
- Fixed three separate ways pictures could silently go missing
- Faster layout and text measurement on heavy pages
- Fixed "no AmiSSL for https" on AROS sending the user after a library that
does not exist for that machine
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