Release Notes
Overview
Congratulations on successfully running Hv3 - the minimalist browser designed to test Tkhtml3.
Although it is not as polished as a "real" browser, Hv3 supports file:// and http:// URIs, HTTP cookies, HTML forms and contains a primitive back/forward history list. If convenient, please help by using Hv3 for some of your web-browsing and report bugs using the interface at:
It goes without saying that under no circumstances should you use Hv3 to e-mail the boss, transfer funds to Nigeria, order pizza, or anything else important.
Hv3 Usage
Hv3 provides more or less the same user interface as other hypertext applications. The "history" pull-down menu and the "back", "stop" and "forward" buttons should be familiar to all.
- The "font size table" menu is used to manipulate the table of font sizes used to map from CSS2 absolute font sizes to values expressed in points (for example, setting the CSS2 font-size property to "x-small" might map to a font size of 8 points. Refer to the appropriate section of CSS2 for details.
- Right clicking on a hyper-link displays a popup menu.
- Right clicking anywhere else on the document window launches the tree browser, a GUI for examining the structure of the current document. The tree browser can also be launched via the "browser" command on the "file" pull-down menu.
- Middle clicking on the document causes Hv3 to interpret the current selection (from any application, not just Hv3) as a document URI to load.
- Pressing the "Q" key while the document window has the focus exits the application.
Credits
- Hv3 uses the pure-tcl combobox widget created by Bryan Oakley http://www.purl.org/net/oakley/tcl/combobox/index.html.
- If available, the File-Tkcon menu entry launches the tkcon console by Jeffrey Hobbs and others. http://tkcon.sourceforge.net
- Hv3 is far more usable in concert with the web proxy program hv3_polipo (available for download from Tkhtml website). hv3_polipo is a slightly modified version of the polipo program by by Juliusz Chroboczek, available at http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/.