Summary of recent changes

Here is a brief list of the main changes made to NetSurf's core code since
the release of NetSurf 3.0:


+ Choices behaviour improvement
- Now only saves options which differ from the defaults.

+ about:config improved
- Visiting about:config shows which settings were modified by the user.

+ Textarea undo/redo
- Supports keyboard shortcuts to undo/redo changes made in textareas.
- The shortcut keys are platform dependent.

+ Rewritten treeviews [*]
- Faster (especially application startup time).
- Fixes rendering glitches.
- Improved new look.
- Nicer behaviour.
- Keyboard navigation.
- Treeview clients rewritten for new treeview:
- Hotlist
- Global history
- Cookie manager
- SSL certificate viewer
- Several bugs fixed, e.g. cookie delete.

+ Hotlist has default folder [*]
- New additions go into the default folder, rather than into root.
- Default folder has different icon.

+ Directory listing of file: URLs
- Improved sort to fix "File1, File10, File2".
- Icons shown for folder/file differentiation.

+ Several leaks squashed
- Memory leaks in various places in NetSurf fixed.
- Reference counting leaks in LibDOM fixed.

+ URL bar hotlist indicator [*]
- Indicator shows whether current URL is in the Hotlist.
- Click to add/remove from hotlist.

+ LibCSS speedup
- Faster handling of CSS selection.


[*] Core change also requires front end updates which may or may not have
happened for any given platform.

I've left out all purely front end developments.


Please test the latest development builds and let us know how you get on.

Cheers,

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Michael Drake (tlsa) http://www.netsurf-browser.org/