0.86/Browse

Browse

Introduction

The Browse activity is based on XULRunner the Mozilla runtime package. It does provide the user with nearly the same functionality that Firfox offers but tries to be clear and simple UI wise given the target audience. It also offers collaboration as one of it's main features.

More Info: Activities/Browse

What is new for users

What are the user visible changes. New short cuts. Features. Nice to back this up with images.

Right click palettes have been improved with clearer text and icons.

What is new for developers

What might be interesting to know for a developer contributing to the component. Add 'No News' if there is nothing of interest.

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

The 0.86 has no backwards compatibility, since it depends on the 0.86 platform (hulahop).

Detailed changes

• Better naming when uploading an entry #901 (Aleksey)
• Listen for mouseout event to popdown palette #1314
• New translations
• Able to download Data URIs #1029 (Lucian Branescu)
• Don't choke on Lang=C #979
• Object chooser remains shown after activity has been closed #1192
• Refine image and link right click palette #815
  • image: 'Keep image', Copy 'image'
  • link: 'Keep link', Copy link', Follow link'
• Toolbars:
  • Move the edit and view options of the toolbar to the left
  • Fix session-bookmark button
  • Center the address bar
  • adopt to toolbar API change (expanded property is now set_expanded(state))
• Features/New Toolbar Design - Adopt to the new activity toolbar design
• Features/Tabs In Browse - New pages will open in a new tab similarly to other browsers (though this feature isn't proposing any way for the user to explicitly open any link in a new tab).
• Put the download url in the description field of the metadata
• Browse hangs when trying to open file:/// #456
• Don't pick up the sugar theme #684
• Add a static welcome-page #645
• Fix Autocompletion and File upload #670

Credits

Tomeu Vizoso, Simon Schampijer, Aleksey Lim, Lucian Branescu