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<p>WebPositive, or Web+ for short, is Haiku's native web browser. One part of its name is a tip of the hat to BeOS' simple NetPositive, the other points to its modern foundation: the WebKit. This open source HTML rendering library is at the heart of other mainstream browsers as well, like Safari of Mac OS X and Google's Chrome. By using the ever evolving WebKit, Web+ will be able to keep up with new web technologies.</p>
<p>You'll control your Web browsing with the <em>Locator bar</em>. To go to a Web page, type the URL into the Locator box and either press <spanclass="key">RETURN</span> or click the <spanclass="button">Go</span> button to the right of the Locator box. Web+ will suggest previous URLs as you type; you can go through previously typed URL with the <spanclass="key">UP</span> and <spanclass="key">DOWN</span> arrow keys. The icons on the <em>Locator bar</em> give you control over the current page, allowing you to go back, forward, stop loading, or return to your <em>Start page</em>.</p>
<p>If you need to quickly locate content in a page, Web+ includes in-page search. Use <spanclass="menu">Edit | Find</span> or <spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">F</span> to call up the Find bar, then type your search phrase and press <spanclass="key">RETURN</span>. Further presses of <spanclass="key">RETURN</span> or <spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">G</span> will go through the matches on the page. The <em>Match case</em> option restricts matches to those with the same spelling as your search phrase. Besides in-page search, the <spanclass="menu">Edit</span> menu also includes clipboard functions: cut, copy, and paste.</p>
<p>The <spanclass="menu">View</span> menu offers several functions to set the display of Web pages. First, <spanclass="menu">View | Reload</span> refreshes the Web page so you can see any changes. You set the font size and zoom level of the Web page here as well; you can also choose whether to apply zoom to images as well as text. If you need more room to view the page, you can move into fullscreen mode with <spanclass="menu">View | Fullscreen</span>. Finally, if you want to view the HTML source code of the current page, <spanclass="menu">View | Page source</span> opens up an external editor to edit the source.</p>
<p>In case you need to find a page you've already accessed, Web+ has the <spanclass="menu">History</span> menu. This menu contains the <spanclass="menu">Back</span> and <spanclass="menu">Forward</span> commands which are in the <em>Locator bar</em>, but it also has a list of all pages in your browsing history, organized by day.</p>
<p>Last, the <spanclass="menu">Bookmarks</span> menu lets you add the current page as a bookmark and manage your bookmarks in Tracker. It also lets you see all the bookmarks themselves.</p>
<p>Right-clicking on your Web page or on elements in the page brings up a context menu. In this menu, you can <spanclass="menu">Stop</span> page loading. If you right-click a link, you can <spanclass="menu">Download link to disk</span>, <spanclass="menu">Open</span>, or <spanclass="menu">Open in new tab</span>. You can also <spanclass="menu">Copy link to clipboard</span> for use elsewhere. You can take similar actions with right-clicked images embedded in Web pages: <spanclass="menu">Download image to disk</span>, <spanclass="menu">Copy image to clipboard</span>, or <spanclass="menu">Open image in new window</span>. Right-clicking selected text allows you to <spanclass="menu">Copy</span> to the clipboard. </p>
<p>In the <em>Status bar</em> at the bottom of WebPositive's interface, you can preview where links will take you. Hover over a link in a Web page and its destination URL will appear in the <em>Status bar</em>. This bar will also show you progress as Web+ loads a new Web page.</p>
<p>Many of the options are self-explanatory. The WebPositive <em>Start page</em> and <em>Search page</em> can be set here. You can also change which pages appear in new windows and tabs. Finally, you can change the default fonts and add a proxy server in this dialog.</p>
<p>The <em>Auto-hide interface in fullscreen mode</em> option will cause the interface to roll out of view if you don't use it for a short time while in fullscreen mode. Likewise, the <em>Auto-hide mouse pointer</em> option removes the mouse pointer from view when you are scrolling through a Web page.</p>
<divclass="box-info">Web+ currently only uses the <em>Search page</em> as a possible default page for new tabs and windows. It doesn't have built-in Web search; you have to go to your search engine and type in your query there.</div>
<p>Web+ stores your bookmarks as files in Haiku's file system, and you can manage them with Tracker: <spanclass="key">ALT</span><spanclass="key">M</span> will bring up your Bookmarks folder in Tracker. The files themselves are blank. Instead, Web+ stores each bookmark's URL and page title as <ahref="../attributes.html">attributes</a>.</p>
<p>There are a number of advantages to this format; attribute storage is easy to filter and edit. Make sure that you first make the bookmark attributes visible from the <spanclass="menu">Attributes</span> menu in Tracker first. To add keywords to a bookmark, just right-click the bookmark in Tracker and choose <spanclass="menu">Edit name</span>, then use <spanclass="key">TAB</span> to navigate to the keywords field. Once you're editing that field, type in your new keywords and press <spanclass="key">RETURN</span>. You can edit the names, page titles and URLs of existing bookmarks with the same process.</p>
<divclass="box-info">WebPositive's approach toward bookmarks allows for quick searching. In <spanclass="menu">Window | Preferences</span> in Tracker, go to the <spanclass="menu">Windows</span> tab and choose <em>Enable type-ahead filtering</em>. Now, whenever you are in a bookmark-filled folder in Tracker, you can type phrases from the title, URL, or keywords of the bookmark you want and filter through the results. This tip is especially helpful if you fill in keywords beforehand. Note that it only works for flat folders and not hierarchies, so you will need to copy your bookmarks into one folder to use this.</div>
<p>Web+ also supports managing your downloads in a similar way. The <em>Downloads</em> window appears when you begin a download; you can call it up manually from the <spanclass="menu">Windows</span> menu. From here, you can open, restart, or remove previous downloads.</p>
<p>Much like it does with bookmarks, Web+ stores information about each download as an attribute. The original URL of the download remains an attribute of the file, so you can always return to the source of the file.</p>
<p>Web+ will update and adjust to changes to the downloaded files. Notice that <spanclass="path">sunday.pdf</span> was deleted, so its icon was ghosted out in the <em>Downloads</em> window. <spanclass="path">documents.html</span> was renamed from its original name of <spanclass="path">documents</span>, and the Downloads window updated accordingly. </p>
<divclass="box-info">In the Web+ Settings, you can choose a default folder for downloads. However, if you need a download in a different place, just move it while downloading, and Web+ will continue to download. Moving the file to the Trash will cancel the download.</div>
<divclass="box-warning">Closing Web+ will cancel your current downloads! Web+ will pop up a warning dialog if you have an ongoing download and try to quit.</div>
