- From: <jacob.poon@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:15:58 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
Tested on:
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Build: Windows 95 executable
OS: Windows 95 OSR 2
Bugs
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Browsing
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Even with 16-bit colour modes, Amaya displays badly dithered 256-colour
images.
Structure view window does not wrap long texts, and the scroll handle is
not properly designed for horizontal scrolling under structure view.
When Amaya is looking up a remote host, I cannot abort the process.
Does not support automatic URL completions.
Floating object alignment is not properly supported. For example, <IMG
align="right" src="http://foo.com/animage.gif" alt="my boat"> will not
align the image to the right margin of formatted view window.
Editing
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Sometimes typing 'h' in formatted view will not enter 'h' into the text.
Instead it shows the 'About Amaya' dialog box.
Loading a file automatically closes all windows, except the formatted view
windows.
Clipping behaviours are horribly designed. For example:
<P>
<I>
text
</I>
</P>
If I try to clip the inner level of text (lines 2, 3, 4), Amaya
automatically puts the outer tag level (all 5 lines) into the clipboard.
Contents between different views of a document is poorly synchronized.
For example, if I type some new texts into the structure view window,
texts in formatted view window are not automatically updated even when I
click on formatted view window, unless I modify the line within structure
view twice. This can result loss of data.
There is no way to 'demote' HTML tag levels. For example:
<P>
<I>
text
</I>
</P>
If I choose all 5 lines, I cannot remove the <P>...</P> bracket easily.
Others
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Even though I tell Amaya to relocate temporary directory, it always create
temporary files on C:\TEMP. The allocated directory is not removed after
proper exit.
Suggestions
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Browsing
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An option to save window locations and view settings automatically between
sessions.
A read-only mode to prevent accidental key presses.
Editing
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A option to specify startup directory.
An option to reveal hidden HTML codes under browser window, to allow
easy and precise HTML entries within proper tag/stack levels.
View windows for showing available styles, as well as how style settings
are inherited.
Saving/loading
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When saving HTML, Amaya should allow saving in 'raw HTML' (ie HTML
document that is not re-formatted by Amaya), to allow more advanced
debugging not offered by Amaya.
When saving HTML, Amaya should offer following options: Strip optional end
tags, converting entities, deprecated tag conversions. In general,
implement TIDY features to allow easy debugging of Amaya-generated code.
Configuring
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There should be different local hotkey settings under different view
windows.
Received on Monday, 19 April 1999 03:46:15 UTC