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GemiNaut History

Details of releases and change history.

0.8.11, 4-Apr-2021

new feature: generate and use client certificates
accessibility feature: hidden links to skip over preformatted text areas for screen readers
save user settings in persistent folder in profile
fix: require certificates for proxy servers
update jdenticon and toast notification libraries
use SelfCertSharp client certificate library
report expired server certificates

0.8.9, 15-Dec-2020

new internal C# network library (SmolNetSharp) to retrieve Gemini and Gopher resources
fewer false positives from anti-virus utilities falsely marking GemiNaut and its assets as malware
use dark scrollbar on dark theme preformatted text areas
remove dependency on gopher-get and gemget command line utilities
trim long headings in TOC
fix bug to allow quotes and angle brackets in labels of preformatted text areas

0.8.8, 7-Oct-2020

Sailing the small web

application binaries and installer are now signed
can access the small web (document web) using native converter html->gmi
default is to try to check certificate validity on all servers, if validation not successful, warn with toast message and connect anyway
can render text/html files served in gemini (simplified)
scrollbars on preformatted text areas only appear when region is hovered to reduce clutter
can access the small web using an HTTP proxy for Gemini (e.g. https://github.com/LukeEmmet/duckling-proxy)
can access the small web using native converter
live footnote style links for native converter or if HTTP proxy uses numbered citations (e.g. "[1]")
integrate Goose to allow for a "simplified" view of web content
allow switching modes between different rendering options for web content
update to use latest gemget 1.5
fix bug to allow downloading from paths having no file extension
fix bug to correctly render mailto: links
create application installer
slighly more whitespace (increased line spacing) in themes to improve readability

0.8.7, 8-Aug-2020

only show tooltip on preformatted text if non-empty
drop use of proxy for gopher and allow file downloading
display images directly from gopher
use maintained gopher client gopher-get published to https://github.com/LukeEmmet/gopher-get
resource download possible from cgi script as well as static files
improve link wrap in gopher using monospace fonts in fabric themes
file->new to start a new GemiNaut instance with the current URL to fork the browsing session
can start with a URL commandline parameter
use same identity in classic fabric theme for /~foo as users/foo
navigated or redirected URIs are now normalised (e.g. remove port if it is the default for the scheme)
binary files can now be downloaded to chosen location, not open in proxy (gemini)
can specify download max size/time before abandoning
new settings window for download options and home url
when upgrading from previous version, keep previous settings
hanging indents for bullets and links in terminal theme
keyboard shortcuts for bookmarks (e.g. Alt+B) and other menus
build links correctly when a port is given within the URL
server size and timeout for slow or too large content
simple image display within GemiNaut
updated build of gemget

0.8.6, 6-Jul-2020

GemiNaut is now a gopher client as well as gemini
preformatted areas now have their own scroll bar and don't overflow the side of the content
update Fabric theme so it uses internally generated fabric and identicon (previous Fabric theme still available as "classic")
automatic linking of plain urls in gopher text files
automatic generation of page titles for gopher pages based on url
update to use latest gemget 1.3.0
theming engine will use same theme for the same user on gemini and gopher
gopher text is monospaced but will softwrap for longer lines > 85 chars
only display text/gemini as gemini content, otherwise use plain text preformatted rendering
make bookmarks window wider
show tooltips or urls for bookmark entries
better feedback messages if content cannot be displayed
check url entered into address bar is valid syntax before trying to navigate to it
support spacers in bookmarks list with lines of hyphens or underscores longer than two characters
minor improvements to themes
use a smaller border around placemarker icon when there is no TOC

0.8.5, 21-Jun-2020

new dark theme, with variable width font, colours are based on dark themes of source code editors
bookmarks - source format is just text/gemini
better vertical spacing - e.g. headings always have space between them and surrounding paragraphs
user definable themes - create your own and drop it in the GmiConverters/themes folder
help files now use text/gemini format and have their own table of contents
minor style improvements for plain theme

0.8.4, 11-Jun-2020

use correct percent encoding for URL requests with input
links with encoded query expression now passed on to server correctly
support quotation line style (new addition to Gemini spec)
provide salient icon hints to common non textual content (images, audio, video, docs)
asterisks must be followed by space to become a bullet (Gemini spec update)
remove debug white border around navigation in Fabric theme
minor style updates
bug fix: don't remove commas and separators from text lines

0.8.3, 29-May-2020

add automatic page level table of contents for Fabric theme

0.8.2, 28-May-2020

fix keyboard focus problem so you dont have to click into browser on each page
display view->source GMI as utf-8

0.8.1, 27-May-2020

First public release

added simple userguide
infer the document title from the first heading or para text line and show in window caption
darken the background a tiny bit in Fabric theme to be less saturated
workaround for GemGet bug which overwrites into the output file, rather than replacing the whole file
user selectable themes (4 to start with Fabric, Plain, Terminal and Unified UI)
html escape source content before display
pass torture tests relating to link formation
detect response redirect urls and adjust links accordingly
pad output with blank lines at end for better display of short content
new plain line blocks always preceded by at least one blank line
prettify spacing of headings, always have a blank line before these.
prettify spacing of links/bullets, always have a blank line unless previous element was one too
when loading raw gmi for view source get browser to interpret as text/plain
application icon from http://www.iconarchive.com/show/pretty-office-8-icons-by-custom-icon-design/Text-align-left-icon.html
txtUrl follows page better
local versions of Rebol and GmiConverters and Gemget folders used if found
more pretty handling of page not found (status 51)
txtUrl never shows https urls
user can edit home page
show prompt for query building
decorate links to expected binary files with document glyph to hint content
hanging indent on bullets and links
visual hinting of non gemini links with glyph and link style
show tooltip of url to be navigated to
code fences for preformatted areas, including label as tooltip
toast popups for error conditions
session and server independent identikons and page background texture
user based visual identity/theme for personal sub-sites, not requiring author control
view source
launch external urls in system browser
use http proxy for common binary file types
empty cache on close
prettify links, headings and bullets

Intrinsic features from mshtml

GemiNaut uses the MS System html rendering library mshtml for content display.

go back and forward remembers scroll offset
rich CSS styling and visual design
smooth scrolling
tab through page links
cursor keys, page/up down, keyboard shortcuts for back/forwards
zoom with wheelmouse
navigate forwards, back, quickly (browser cache)
wrap long lines to window
Ctrl+F to find in current page
Select all, copy to clipboard
Ctrl+P to print page