WebSpider Support Page

Updated 3rd February 2001

The current version of WebSpider is 1.43b. A list of the versions distributed to date and the relative changes between each is given below.

Principal recent changes can be found in the section on 1.40 - ie. frames and tables within tables.

Version: 1.50c

Fixes fault in recalculation of table column widths with mixed absolute and percentage widths were used.

Version: 1.50b

Addition of self-healing effects codes, fix to a couple of problems loading and saving files.

Version: 1.50a

Adds simple script support

Version: 1.43b

Nefarious fixes since 1.42d, mostly memory-related.

Version: 1.42d

Date: 16th January 1999

• Adds closing tags for table rows and cells

Version: 1.42c

Date: 30th December 1998

• Fixes problems with importing large tables (> 50 rows)

Version: 1.42a

Date: 22nd September 1998

• Adds support for frames option for forms.
• Fixes faults in importing imagemaps from existing pages. (Mostly reported by P Noyce).

Version: 1.41g

Date: 21st August 1998

• Fixes a couple of faults on importing of existing pages.

Version: 1.41f

Date: 3rd August 1998

• Numerous small fixes, including further fixes to tables.

Version: 1.41e

Date: 4th July 1998

• Fixes further faults discovered with table redraw (table-within-table).

Version: 1.41d

Date: 26th June 1998

• Fixes fault in various redraws within/near left/right aligned images and tables.

Version: 1.41c

Date: 3rd June 1998

• Fixes a problem in the URL dialogue: links to local tags on another page were dropped.
• Extends the maximum size of a URL in the URL dialogue.

Version: 1.41b

Date: 19th May 1998

• Improves redraw etc of horizontal ruleoffs when inside a cell. If the vertical alignment was other than "top" for the cell, the whole ruleoff was treated as being in a place other than the one it was in, for redraws, clicks and everything!
• Re-fixes table import; border is now set back to zero (again).
• Re-introduces extended entities file from WebSpider 1.10, which also managed to get lost in the update.
• Fixes problem with import of anchor names of more than 19 characters.
• Fixes problem with new imagemaps - they didn't save with the page and the page wouldn't then reload (NB this only applies to maps created from new with the new imagemap editing system of 1.40a).
• Fixes problem with detecting clicks inside polygons in imagemaps - sometimes textbook solutions don't actually work! To be fair, the problems are not obvious with many shapes - just one or two common ones though!

Version 1.41a was never publicly released. Improvements are given above as for 1.41b.

Version: 1.40b

Date: 12th May 1998

• Makes WebSpider react to BASE tags for images - it already did this for links - correctly on importing.
• Fixes a bug in the storing of external image size information on import
• Fixes a bug in Cell control dialogue - permits cells to be 100% of width (template didn't allow for four characters); also, you could use the width arrow controls when the width was faded out(!)
• Fixes imagemap editing - you couldn't start a new imagemap for an image.
• Patches misbehaviour of undo of a paste action
• Fixes mistaken attempts to drag-and-drop when nothing was selected; could result in crashes.

Version: 1.40a

Date: 11th May 1998

• Adds Applet support
• Adds table creation from CSV/TAB separated files
• Adds improvements to table handling, and debugs some table-handling problems.
• Adds reporting of links to a file (page or graphic), and will list unused files.
• Adds template files
• Adds built-in Imagemap editing
• Adds extended link controls
• Adds support for Jonathan Duddington's !Speak application

Version: 1.11e

Date: 31st March 1998

• Improves redraw and remaking of tables next to left- and right- aligned images.

Version: 1.11d

Date: 27th March 1998

• Numerous problems with site management were uncovered, which were caused by a failure by the compiler at an earlier date, for unknown reasons. Examples:
• Files copied to another directory seemed to have been copied but weren't.
• Files copied to another directory didn't have their links properly updated - this could result in failure to load.
• Copying a directory into itself resulted in repeated error boxes.

- in conclusion to the above, it would seem that copying files from one directory to another was completely broken.

• Subtle filer improvements added, particularly with selections and messages explaining problems in copying/renaming etc.
• Subtle improvements to toolbar handling/updating - particularly with lists.

Version: 1.11c

Date: 5th March 1998

• Fixes bug when a directory is deleted - if it is the default image directory, then the location of the default image directory became corrupt! Now resets that default to the root directory automatically in such circumstances.
• Improves import of ImageMaps - previously, if an imagemap element did not say which type of shape it was, WebSpider dropped it. Now, if it has four points, it is assumed to be a rectangle, otherwise it is interpreted as a polygon.

Version: 1.11b

Date: 24th February 1998

• Fixes a bug in loading text files; if the caret was not repositioned further editing/loading could cause crashes/hangs

Version: 1.11a

Date: 11th February 1998

• Adds switching of 16- and 32- bit Sprites to JPEGs or GIFs as required.
• Bypasses problems with Risc-OS 3.1.
• Subtle filer improvements added.
• Fixes a bug in saving cells in a "heading" style - <th> was inserted at the beginning of each paragraph!

Version: 1.10i

Date: 2nd February 1998

• Numerous small changes to improve image handling.
• Fixes fault in handling of 16-bit colour sprites in conversion to JPEG.

Version: 1.10h

Date: 20th January 1998

• Fixes fault in mult-document editing: the changing of the document with the caret focus was not conducted properly, resulting in misplaced redraws.
• Handling of unusual list operations improved; WebSpider could get itself into a tangle giving "Imbalanced start/end of list" messages.
• Paragraph justification changes over lists could result in spurious changes to the style of bullet point/index number
• Cut-and-paste could result in "URL in use" errors.
• OLE editing of graphics could result in the wrong graphic being sent to the editor.

Version: 1.10g

Date: 12th December 1997

• HTML saving/loading; blockquote is now tagged properly.
• Selection of local named references - dialogue didn't scroll.
• Improved tail appending for certain files.

Version: 1.10f

Date: 24th November 1997

• Closing of documents; certain events were not properly handled afterwards (eg drags didn't end!).
• References to the same document were completed as ".htm" rather than blank in some circumstances.

Version: 1.10e

Date: 19th November 1997

• Fixes fault in table handling - bad redraws if table was less than 100% of the page width and was not left aligned.
• Fixes fault in loading and saving - if a form had no script details, the file would not reload
• Fixes fault in table size dialogue due to changes at 1.10d
• Improved forms item handling - hidden form items are now closed properly; extra details saved for certain elements
• Fixes fault in cut-and-paste of tables - pasting in a block with a horizontal join followed by other cells on the same row could result in mis-positioning of the cells.
• Fixes fault in merging cells - sometimes mergable cells were reported as not being mergable.
• Fixes fault in cut-and-paste of option form items - data wasn't copied.

Version: 1.10d

Date: 18th November 1997

• Improved handling of paragraph alignment inside cells; now the alignments interact better (changing cell alignment changes identical paragraphs).
• Improved behaviour of cut-and-paste in handling header setting of cell content.
• Improved redraw of tables in various circumstances
• Improved redraw of iconbar icon; now ignores anything RiscOS tells it and makes up its own mind.
• Shows a dashed line when dragging the edge of a column in a table
• Fixes fault in deleting columns inside tables; deleting the last column caused a crash
• Fixes fault in importing old TMWeb tables (hangs on loading table)
• Fixes fault in deleting table row; caret position wasn't properly updated; could result in subsequent crashes if caret not manually repositioned
• Further fix to positioning of caret after a cut, similar comments to above
• Fixes fault in positioning of caret; if a paragraph was of images only, the text caret could be mispositioned logically, again with unpredictable effects if the caret was not positioned manually.
• Fixes fault in cut-and-paste of a block of cells; the last row of the block was not cleared after a cut.
• Fixes fault in loading of plain text files. Non-Return or linefeed characters are now eliminated. (Caused problems with future editing and redraw).
• Fixes fault in use of links to local anchors in a separate page; used to end up adding the local reference as if it was part of the file address, giving for example example.html#local.htm. Reported by B Debenham and S Warden.
• Fixes fault in using the copy key to delete; it could end up deleting backwards; also had unpredictable

Version: 1.10c

Date: 10th November 1997

• Adds drag-selection of files in the filer display
• Fixes minor problem in publishing; "Illegal Paragraph Handle" message used to appear; now fixed. This should have had no malign side-effects.
• Fixes a minor bug in drag-and-drop editing; moving a selection to before its current position

Version: 1.10b

Date: 5th November 1997

• New feature; supports the title option for anchor tags (used to describe the content of link destinations).
• New feature; permits publishing of deep sprites as GIFs instead of JPEGs (user set option)
• New feature; further additions to keyboard shortcuts.
• New feature; will now scroll the window for dragging etc.
• Improves frame handling (a couple of redraws were not done when required).
• Fixes bug in undo; undo after the pasting of a paragraph fragment resulted in a hang.
• Fixes bug in disposing of old links; some disused links and local anchor tags could survive intact when a file was saved, meaning that checks for file usage were incorrect and named tags could be chosen which no longer appeared in the document.
• Fixes bug in deleting directories; the program could hang.
• Improves detection of "dingbat"-style fonts. Now looks for both Selwyn or Dingbats. This could have been resulting in some crashes, but this is very, very, very unlikely. Usual effect would have been a rather boring "XStyGet3" message which meant little to anyone.
• Fixes bug in cut-and-paste; any local anchor tags in a block being pasted usually resulted in a Fatal error (type = 5) message.
• Fixes bug in cut-and-paste; text from paragraphs could go missing, or could result in Fatal error (type = 5) message, or a freeze.
• Fixes bug in cut-and-paste; images could lose their links if an image is linked from.
• Fixes another (!) bug in cut-and-paste; cutting involving whole tables could result in crashes.

Version: 1.10a

Date: 31st October 1997

• New feature; adds frames support!
• Supports tables within tables
• Added keystrokes
• Improved redraw speed (doesn't duplicate screen redraws when a background set - ie window set to 'transparent')
• Checks for non-ISO Latin 1 characters and removes or replaces them with characters included in the set.
• Numerous small bugs fixed.
• Fixes bug in loading/saving of files with a form in; sometimes the form wasn't saved, and this resulted in repeated failure to load the file.

Version: 1.00f

Date: 3rd October 1997

• Fixes bug in automatic creation of directories when loading existing sites. (Could hang the computer)
• Fixes bug in loading of imagemaps in existing sites (didn't happen).
• Fixes bug in treatments of unknown file extensions; these were being stripped - now preserved.
• Fixes bug in positioning of caret; caret paragraph reference wasn't adjusted when images were loaded, and could result in crashes!

Version: 1.00e

Date: 27th September 1997

• Fixes bug in loading of HTML pages; bad coding of text effects occurred when an image appeared immediately after the end of an effect, but at the beginning of the next paragraph.

Version: 1.00d

Date: 21st September 1997

• Fixes bug in cut-and-paste; sometimes crashes due to problem with font handles being corrupted

Version: 1.00c

Date: 19th September 1997

• Further speed improvements on redraw

Version: 1.00b

Date: 17th September 1997

• Speed improvements on redraw; minor bug fixes.

Version: 1.00a

Date: 10th September 1997

• Adds embedded table support (no need for TableMate Web Edition)
• Adds definition list interface
• Adds external image support
• New buttonbar
• Adds preformatted support and Address paragraphs

Additional notes for 1.00a

• Some users have the error XStyGet3 reported on opening a document

Solution: Ensure that the font Dingbats is available, or contact Dalriada for a simple adjustment - please have details of your available fonts to hand!

• Some users experience an insufficient memory error when double-clicking on a website, even though plenty is available!

Solution: Adjust your "Next" memory allocation in your Task Window to 672k or more, or contact Dalriada for a simple adjustment.

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