# NEW CHARSET SUPPORT PLUGIN
It is now possible for AWeb to convert the character set of the viewed page into another via the new charset plugin. For example, the page you are viewing may be using a character set you are not able to view. This plugin will convert such pages to your system character set (by default), or to another of your choosing. Please refer to the plugin readme for further information. Thanks go to Frank (Opi) Weber for the contribution.
# JAVASCRIPT
Dynamic Garbage Collection is now employed.
When the JavaScript interpreter has finished with a JavaScript object, the memory needs to be returned to the pool for later usage. Due to the design of JavaScript as a language, the programmer need not worry about this. Instead, the JavaScript interpreter automatically releases the memory. The process of doing this is called Garbage Collection. The problem is to know which objects are in use by the program and which are not. The old JavaScript interpreter tried to do this at the end of the script which is relatively easy, but has the problem that long scripts can consume all the memory. The new design performs Garbage Colection periodically during script execution.
In layman's terms, this means that some scripts that would timeout or consume all memeory now complete in a fraction of the time.
Implemention of JavaScript 1.5 ECMA 262-3 is almost complete. The behaviour of Fastidious and Omnivorous modes have changed:
* Fastidious now executes all JavaScript but will stop at the first error
* Omnivorous executes all JavaScript and attempts to continue past errors
# DOM
JavaScript event handlers have been added to the following elements:
* <IMG>: ONCLICK
* <OBJECT>: ONABORT, ONCLICK, ONERROR, ONLOAD, ONMOUSEOUT, ONMOUSEOVER
# GUI
Further options for GUI Settings, including borderless windows, so AWeb appears to run in a kind of "Kiosk" mode.
# MIME TYPES
Multiple MIME entries are allowed for each MIME type in the Browser->Viewer settings, so actions can be performed based on both the MIME type of the file as well as its filename extension. This is useful where are server may send both a .lha file or a .swf file, yet may have set the MIME type for both files to "application/octet-stream".
# BUGFIXES
* The absolute URI "/" now works as expected.
* MIME check is now slightly less stringent, so HTML docs with one or two stray unprintables will now display.
* FTP directory parsing routines replaced, allowing paths and files with spaces in their names to be correctly displayed (a very old bug!).
* URIs for FTP file links now point to the filename rather than the linkname.
* Transparency now works for deep-scaled bitmaps.
* AWeb would freeze if a PIPE: channel filled up and the external command failed to read from the pipe. AWeb now opens a pipe with unlimited buffers.
* A few more Forbid()s removed (yay!).
* The HTML 'Content-Disposition' header is now parsed and acted upon.
* Memory leak plugged.
* When saving files the correct default icon for the file type is created if using DefIcons, as is the case with both OS4 and MOS.
* The ® (®) symbol is now interpreted and rendered correctly.
* Document Search Index file is now created again if it didn't already exist.
* Various MorphOS compatibility issues resolved.
* Various other minor bug fixes, too numerous to mention!
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