Beta test results

My tested platform was an IBM RS/6000 250 running AIX 4.1.3, the tested program was Symposia 0.9 beta.

Bugs

• It's impossible to paste copied text selections into a Motif text field.

  Select an URL in a text flow, copy it (Ctrl-C) and try to paste (I use the middle button for this) it to the URL field of an "Open" Dialog. Nothing will happen.

• Tabs in preformatted regions isn't expanded.

  Look at my homepage, in the section called "Ways to reach me on the net" there are tabs in a <PRE> region. They aren't presented as they usually are, i.e. expanded. Compare with netscape.

• Empty lines inside preformatted regions isn't displayed.

  This swedish page contains a machine generated table output in a <pre> block with an empty line directly before the line that contains the word "Totalt" in the first column. This empty line is never displayed by Symposia, Netscape, however, does.

• "Save local" of a new file doesn't accept the entered filename.

  Make a new document, try to save it using "Save local", choose a directory, enter a name in the "Selection" field and click "OK". The file will be saved in .html of the current working directory when Symposia was started no matter what path is selected.

• Opening non-HTML files as documents hangs Symposia.

  Create an empty file, use "Open" to open it. Watch the hourglass... Or try getting this ASCII file, it will also make you wait indefinitely.

• Paysage is named landscape in English.

  Use LANG=en, enter "Print Settings" and look under "Orientation:". Note "Paysage" is used instead of "Landscape".

Proposed features

• Make cut, copy, paste & delete available through a toolbar, palette or similar. Actually a configurable toolbar (or palettes) would be very nice.
• A "Mail document" would be a nice facility. I actually wanted to mail this document when I found no such facility was present.

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