[Announcement] Amaya 1.4 public release

  The Amaya team is proud to announce the availability of the 1.4 release
  of the Amaya editor/browser. Only Unix releases are available today. Windows
  versions will be available soon (please take into account some possible delay
  due to holidays).

  This release includes new features like the browser mode and a new interface
  to create tables. It also includes bug fixes.

  Binaries are available at:
            http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html

  Source is available at:
            http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/SourceDist.html

  A FAQ is available at http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FAQ.html

We wish you a merry editing and a happy new Amaya browsing!!!
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To know more about Amaya releases see  http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/New.html

Extensions 1.4:
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* OPTGROUP elements are accepted within SELECT elements. The corresponding
  cascade menus are built by Amaya and the right string is sent to the
  server when submitting a form that contains OPTGROUPs. An item in the
  Types/Form menu allows the user to create OPTGROUP elements or to
  wrap OPTION elements into an OPTGROUP element.

* elements FIELDSET and LEGEND from HTML 4.0 are implemented.

* Event attributes like onmousedown, onmousemove, etc. are listed in a
  sub-menu of the Attributes menu (Events sub-menu).

* When creating a Table, Amaya asks the user about the number of rows and
  columns s/he wants.
  When a new cell is created, the corresponding column is generated
  at the same position.

* When target icons were introduced, it was no longer possible to click
  the target element (an element with an ID attribute or an anchor
  with a NAME) to set a link. This possibility is available now.

* When reloading a document, the fresh document is shown in the formatted
  window at the position the previous version was shown.

* When saving a document in XML, Amaya follows the Voyager guidelines
  (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml)

* When printing a document, you can decide whether the document URL is
  printed at the top of each page or not.

* A new field in the dialogue form used to insert images allows the user to
  enter an ALT attribute.  This attribute is mandatory.

* libwww has been upgraded to version 5.2. This version of libwww
  supports HTTP/1.1, rev. 05

* A first implementation of the message digest authentication protocol,
  as defined in <draft-ietf-http-authentication-03>. The code is 
  interoperable with the current (which is an old) implementation of this
  protocol inside Apache/1.3.

* When Amaya detects errors in a loaded document, it generates a log file
  which can be displayed by the entry "Show log file" in the menu "Special".

* Thot compilers (str, prs, tra and app) are available on Windows
  platforms, so it's now possible to develop Amaya on these platforms.

* When an URI points at a single image, Amaya can display this image in a
  document window.

* Each Amaya window can be switched from Read-Only (editor) to Read-Write
  (Browser) mode, and vice versa.


Fixed bugs 1.4:
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* In the menu associated with a <SELECT multiple> element it's now possible
  to deselect selected OPTIONs

* Table formatting:
  - Amaya wasn't able to find the correct cell width when the contents of
    this cell was centered or when a cell included complex structures.
  - When a table of a given width included constrained and unconstrained cells
    the result was sometimes incorrect.
  - When a table with vertical spans was resized, row heights were not updated.

* Amaya constrained the structure and reordered some elements in the HEAD:
  Meta, Script, Link, Style.

* Command Apply Class did not work always, especially when the current
  selection was crossing elements at different levels.

* Relative URIs for background images were always interpreted according to
  the document URI, even when it was relative to a stylesheet.

* A background image in no-repeat mode was sometimes repeated erroneously.

* Amaya tended to raise windows too often.

* Moving the cursor accross tables and BR elements didn't work correctly.

* When a character '&' appeared in an ALT attribute (and in some other
  attributes), it was saved as is in the HTML file.  It's now saved as '&amp;'

* The use of autoconf has been improved to make the Amaya building easier.

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Irene Vatton			e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr Irene.Vatton@w3.org
Tel: (33)476.61.53.61            Fax: (33)476.61.52.07
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Received on Monday, 21 December 1998 11:32:34 UTC