Welcome to Arena 0.98

Arena 0.98 is a prerelease that comes with bugs and shortcomings. Its primary purpose is to be a testbed browser for HTML3, style sheets and the W3C library of common code. 0.98h Binaries are only available for a limited selection of platforms.

Arena0.98f for NeXT is available here.

Arena Links

• Arena status page
• Tour of HTML3
• HTML3 specification
• Frequently Answered Questions
• Command Line Options
• Inspiration

Style Sheets

Other style sheet links include:

• Background material on HTML Style Sheets
• Presentation of HTML Style Sheets from the WWW conference in Darmstadt
• A case study of style sheets. Includes rendered gif images for non-styled browsers.
• Charles Peyton's test pages
• In 0.98e, forms are starting to work (thanks to Yves Lafon). LINKed style sheet.
• In 0.98g, background can be customized with color and/or pictures
• In 0.98h, indent and leading works. Example.

New Stuff

• From 0.98e, forms are starting to work. A very experimental style sheet editor has been implemented using forms.
• Arena now supports the new PNG graphics format (Thanks to Dave Beckett (D.J.Beckett@ukc.ac.uk) who is responsible for all PNG code in Arena!) More PNG images
• History popup menu on button 3. (Thanks to Janet Boltjes!)
• Correct handling of HTML comments (Thanks to Michael Van Biesbrouck (mlvanbie@valeyard.csclub.uwaterloo.ca)!)
• A new command line option to use own colormap: arena -cm.

Release History

31/8/95:

0.98a released.

8/9/95:

0.98b released. Only Sun and HP platform supported so far. Bugs in inheritance mechanism fixed. Trouble with shared libraries.

16/9/95:

0.98c released. HR element now rendered in "3D" by default. Library flags fixed. Less verbose color output. Small bug in font selection mechanism fixed.

20/10/95:

0.98e released for sun and hp. Abort button works, PNG support upgraded, Forms are starting to work. Centering now works for small-caps elements

24/10/95:

0.98f released for sun, hp, sgi and linux. Fixed memory leak in PNG support and added PNG file recognition.

8/11/95:

0.98g released for sun and linux. Support for background images added.

14/11/95:

0.98h released for sun and linux. Leading, indent and background images for tables added.

Bugs

• entitites are not handled correctly in elements that have style sheet transformations (e.g. font-style = small-caps)
• inline images use the "sandy" background instead of the document's background
• color dithering does not work well with private color map
• images appear reddish
• you can write tables that will crash arena ( < 0.98h )
• forms are starting to work, but anything that requires a text editor doesn't.