Amelinium 1.2.3 - 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 builds (_PUP) carry their own TLS 1.2, like the AROS ones, so
HTTPS needs no AmiSSL. They do need a BIGGER STACK than the shell gives by
default - the PPC task takes its stack size from the process:
stack 600000 (from Shell, once per shell)
STACK=600000 (in the icon's Tool Types, for Workbench)
With less than 256 KB the program 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 builds:
Mbed TLS 3.6.7 (https://www.trustedfirmware.org/projects/mbed-tls/) is
compiled into those 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. No other build
contains it.
!! 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+
- Amelinium_060 - 68060+ (fastest, recommended for RTG)
- 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 built-in JavaScript
- Amelinium_060_JS - 68060+ with built-in JavaScript
- Emalinium - the mail client (any 68020+)
- 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 - in development
- Amelinium_WOS - WARPOS - in development
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. Heavy frameworks (e.g. Google's Closure) still do
not. A page whose scripts do a great deal of work will be slow: the
interpreter is not fast, and that is the honest limit.
- No <canvas>: a page that draws with it shows nothing there.
- 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
- 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 cannot be decoded here - there is no code on this
machine that reads them. Those 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.
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.
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.
History:
Recorded from 1.1.0 onwards. Earlier releases were not kept this way.
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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