WELCOME TO ARENA 0.97

Prerelease 0.97 of Arena has bugs and shortcomings, and its primary purpose is to be a testbed browser for HTML3 and style sheets. Set your expectations accordingly.

Binaries are available for several platforms. The last version is 0.97h.

ARENA LINKS

STYLE SHEET LINKS

0.97 extends the Arena style sheet implemetation, and we're seeing the outline of a style sheet language.

Background material on HTML Style Sheets
A draft specification of the style sheet mechanism that Arena will support. Note that the style sheet syntax has changed since 0.97. (0.98 will support it, though)
Context-sensitive hints
Presentation of HTML Style Sheets from the WWW conference in Darmstadt
A segment of the Darmstadt conference program
The style sheet linked to this document sets style properties beyond HTML. If you use Arena 0.96g or later, press "View" to see the HTML source. It should appear in reverse video as requested by the LINKed style sheet.

RELEASE HISTORY

24/5/95:: 0.97d released. It fixes a number of fatal bugs, removes some mem-leaks, and supports the BASE tag. Stylesheet mechanism reimplemented and extended. Ctrl-U clears the character input field.
29/5/95:: 0.97e released. Support for hierarchical contexts when addressing elements in style sheets. Support for color names (e.g. "red") in addition to hexadecimal specifications. Changed font size of html source.
1/6/95:: 0.97f released. Support for WIDTH and HEIGHT in IMG and FIG. Less jumpy. Some improvements in the status messages.
1/7/95:: 0.97g released. Extended math support. Experimental support for style sheet control of environment properties. Significant performance increases. A few new "stylish" bugs. Also, text/plain doesn't work properly.
19/7/95:: 0.97h released. Mostly a bug fix release: text/plain fixed, history list deletion fixed, picture alignement improved, HTML comments better handled

BUGS

In addition to the bugs in 0.96s, 0.97e adds the following:

file urls are displayed as text/plain if no extension is given
font sizes in forms are random (and, yes forms don't work!)
reloading the initial page with a style sheet attached sometimes leaves the page without a stylesheet.
if a style sheet comes in while in html source mode, the font changes
subclasssing the Anchor element does not work
color.background should be supported as an alias for back.color
a P element within a DD will upset the style definition of subsequent DDs.
the stylesheet mechanism is not yet fully in charge of table formatting. Rainbow table borders may be a result
The initial document has to be of type text/html

If you want to report a bug, please send the mail to arena@w3.org. Older versions of arena print out a defunct mailing addres when exited.