Welcome to the latest release of HighWire, 0.1.6!
As I write this Developer letter it struck me that this is our 3rd Christmas release! In the past three years much has happened with the HighWire code. Countless hours have been spent working on this project, not to mention all the coffee, soda and oyster cookies.
I'd like to take a moment to thank one person behind a lot of those hours of coding, AltF4. Without his dedication, HighWire would NOT be what it is today.
Now that the cheering for AltF4 has gone down a few decibels. Besides the normal bug fixes, what's new with HighWire?
The cache system has been reworked, cached files will now be used over subsequent sessions. The reload button performs a reload of online pages, not only a reparse from the cache. Implemented basic CSS support for BIG, SMALL, FONT, SUB, SUP, H1..6, P, DD, DT, DD and SPAN tags. Parsing of <STYLE> areas. Pop-ups are now aligned always to the screen extents. Meta tag 'http-equiv=expires' implemented.
See the Change.Log file for more details of updates and the example file for explanations of new configuration keywords!
Now for another repeat, Baldrick's call for volunteers.
If you are interested in helping with the HighWire project, don't hesitate to get in touch with any member of the development team and let them know. There are lots of areas where more people would make the job easier. If you can't program, then consider helping with the documentation or get involved with submitting bug reports. If you are a programmer and are interested in working on the code of HighWire, then definitely get in contact with the development team. Many sections of the code can seem quite confusing without knowing how some of the basics of the code works. There are also libraries that are needed to compile the code now that you can get from the development list. Translations into other languages would also be a nice addition to the project. While we have many different languages spoken by members of the development team, we only have language support for French and English.
Not only is a modern browser needed for our platform. It is our belief that our best option is one that is native and open source. By native we mean something that was written with our machines in mind and Open Source so that we never have to worry about a programmer deciding to stop development. Even if the whole development team were to quit tomorrow the code would still be available and waiting for someone else to continue on the work. We believe that HighWire can fill this role. This technology is open source, so hopefully with your support it can be the core to many projects on our platform. Not the least of which will be in the future a fully modern web browser. To reach that goal we will need time and the help of community.
– Thank you,
– HighWire Development Team
Some useful links.
Here are some useful links for the HighWire project.
http://highwire.atari-users.net/ – HighWire Project Homepage.
HighWire Users mailing list – A list for users to ask questions and report bugs.
HighWire Developer Mailing list – A list for people interested in actively working on the project.