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NETSURF
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NATIVE ATARI ALPHA
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Version 3.0 (Development Version)
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Ported by: m0n0
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Release date: 20.02.2011
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Contact: ole@monochrom.net
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WWW: http://netsurf-browser.org
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Table of Contents:
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0x01 - What is it?
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0x02 - System Requirements
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0x03 - Features
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0x04 - Missing features
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0x05 - Things to test
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0x06 - Additional Notes
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0x07 - Known bugs
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0x08 - Technical information
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What is it? A web browser!
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NetSurf is a multi-platform web browser which is written with
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portability and speed in mind.
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This is the native Port for the FreeMiNT OS.
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More info at project website: www.netsurf-browser.org
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Minimum System Requirements:
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- 32 MB RAM ( 48 MB recommended for demanding websites )
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- 32 MHz ( 60 Mhz recommended )
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- At least 15 Bit Graphics card.
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- FreeMiNT 1.17.0 release kernel (Please look at FAQ to read
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about TOS support) for full & correct network support.
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Main Features:
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- Very good HTML 4 & CSS 2.1 rendering
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- HTTPS
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- Freetype2 font rendering
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Missing Features:
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This section describes Features that NetSurf-Core offers but which are not
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handled by the GEM frontend currently.
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- Frames
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- Hotlist / Bookmarks
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- Configuration dialog (use texteditor instead)
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- Grapical website history dialog
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Installation Notes:
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Unpack the compressed archive that you downloaded,
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change into the new directory and run ns.prg.
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If something isn't working - run ns.prg within an console and
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enable logging:
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./ns.prg -v
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that makes it possible, that you can identify the problem.
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Things to test:
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- Navigate to a lot of pages, note the ones that crashed, please don't report pages that you visited
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after visiting pages with frames... Make sure you don't call pages with frames. I know that it's not working,
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and I know that it can cause BUGS.
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- Have a look at the memory usage...
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Additional Notes
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If you would like to see the above mentioned features or
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can't run NetSurf because you only have a 16 or 256 Color system
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get in contact.
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Please also check the FAQ document.
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Want to have other software ported? Get in contact and make me rich >;-)
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If you want to help with netsurf, contact me for further info
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or visit the netsurf svn and add something usefull :)
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This is "just an early" alpha release. I wanted to get things moving on
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and I think it is good to show the Atari-Users what has been archived
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so far. This release lacks some features and some of the code written
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was just coded with an "I have to get this done quickly" attitude.
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This is especially true for the drawin routines... It doesn't offer
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offscreen bitmaps, which was one of my goals for a release. But
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I dropped that in favor of an not-so-delayed release.
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Known Bugs
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- Redraw artefacts/fale clipping when moving other applications above
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NetSurf.
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- Visiting frames results in unknown behavior
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(Some pages containing iframes still display,
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but there are problems with focusing the correct window,
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which results in missing redraws - clicking the mouse within
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the window or scrolling resolves the problem).
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- Double Redraws when used with classic TOS systems.
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- Window can not be moved out of the desktop area to the right
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- When leaving the search dialog open and navigate to another
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page, the behavior is unknown.
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As a solution: always close the search before you visit another page
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or click on a link.
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Technical info & outlook
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1. There is an stack excess lurking withing mintlibs regex implementation.
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Some pages can trigger that excess, therefore the initial stack space
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is set to an very large default value - around 3 MB. You are free to
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lower that value with freemint stack tool - most pages even work fine
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with 64k stack space! Yahoo & dict.leo.org are known to trigger the
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stack excess.
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Last minute note: because the default maximum TPA value within MINT.CNF
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I had to adjust the stack value down to 1000k. If you encounter crashes
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during page rendering - please increase the stack size (SEE FAQ)
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Greetings & Thanks
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- The MiNT Mailing list, they all helped me a lot!
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- The NetSurf Mailing list guys, especially the Amiga guys.
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- The NetSurf developers that did a great job!
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- Everyone that tested this Browser!
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- Everyone that provides feedback!
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- The forum.atari-home.de members for giving me much help
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during setup of my atari!
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M0N0 - 19.02.2011
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