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

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

Right click palettes have been improved for clearer easier use.

What is new for developers

No News.

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

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

Detailed changes

• Latest translations
• Better naming when uploading an entry #901 (Aleksey Lim)
• Listen for mouseout event to popdown palette #1314
• 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'
• 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

Credits

Tomeu Vizoso, Simon Schampijer, Aleksey Lim, Lucian Branescu