This document contains information about the current beta release of Monkey,
the HTML browser for real-time and embedded systems. The beta release is
available for the operating systems Linux (PC), LynxOS (PC),
OS-9/68xxx, SunOS/Solaris and VxWorks (68k). Release date: 07/16/97.
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Restrictions
- Known Problems
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Release History
Here is the (probably incomplete) list of missing features, especially with respect to the HTML 3.2 standard:
Feature / Markup Tag | Comments |
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Display | Monkey run on a 256 or 16 colors display only. |
<TEXTAREA> | Multi-line text fields are not supported yet, but will be included in the final release. |
<INPUT type=image>< /FONT> | Graphical submit buttons in forms are not supported yet, but will be available in the final version. The ISMAP and MAP attributes of the <IMG> markup tag are supported already. |
<INPUT type=file>< /FONT> | Not supported |
<INPUT type=text>< /FONT> | The maximum input length is 254 characters. |
<ISINDEX> | The maximum input length is 254 characters. |
Mailto | The "mailto" reference is not supported (even if used in these documents. But perhaps you want to browse them with another browser). |
Frames | Not supported |
Server-side includes | The local emulation of server-side includes by the browser is not yet supported. |
JPEG | Currently only available for Digital UNIX, Linux, LynxOS, OS-9/68xxx and SunOS/Solaris. |
Animated GIFs | Not supported |
Multiple windows | Multiple windows are not supported yet |
Printing documents | Not supported |
Find | Only strings without word delimiters can be found correctly. |
Disk and memory cache | Not available yet |
Keyboard accelerators | Keyboard accelerators for navigation will be available in the final release. |
Problem | Description |
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Cut/Copy | Cutting/Copying in tables doesn't work sometimes |
Tables | Certain tables are not rendered perfectly. |
Date | Description |
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02/27/97 | First beta release |
02/28/97 | GIFs with transparent background are now supported. |
03/07/97 | Monkey now can browse directories, text files (text/plain), GIF- (image/gif)
and JPEG- (image/jpeg) files. Several problems with forms and transparent GIFs have been fixed. |
03/12/97 | Menus, bookmarks and a bookmark editor have been added. Documents can be saved now. Some problems with CR/LF in HTTP /Mime headers have been fixed. Added icon buttons. |
03/19/97 | Added client pull mechanism. Several fixes (GIFs, CGI scripts) |
03/22/97 | Added better (corrected) fonts. Added "Find" dialog (but no searching yet) |
04/03/97 | Added searching of strings without word delimiters. Fixed several bugs with browser-side CGI scripts. Fixed a problem when locating anchors in tables. Fixed some segmentation faults. |
04/21/97 | Added JPEG conversion program for OS-9/68xxx. Fixed several problems with table rendering. Added color setting dialog in preferences. Added support for 16 colors displays. |
05/07/97 | Added keyboard accelerators for tool bar and menus. Added option -t (touchscreen). |
07/16/97 | Incorporated the new ALib features. Fixed bookmark editing. Fixed URL parsing ( file:). Table rendering improved. |
07/24/97 | Fixed propagation of certain alignment attributes. |