OmniWeb 5.5 beta 4 now available!

[troyb]

Hi Everyone!

OmniWeb 5.5 beta 4 is now available. Download is available here:

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/beta/

and release notes are here:

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/releasenotes/

Lots of changes so go take a look.

[asiufy]

Did you restore the caching of page summaries in history?

[troyb]

Did you restore the caching of page summaries in history?
Not yet unfortunately...

[arglborps]

The 5.5 beta 4 had me for quite a surprise:

It seems that when opening local html files, all the CSS is completely ignored by OmniWeb now. Big showstopper for me...
This wasn't the case with OW 5.5 beta3 ...

[MinutiaeMan]

The 5.5 beta 4 had me for quite a surprise:

It seems that when opening local html files, all the CSS is completely ignored by OmniWeb now.
I'm not experiencing that behavior. I've got my entire website duplicated on my PowerBook, and it appears fine. The only possible reason I can think of as to why it's working for me and not you is that my pages are XHTML and served as such via localhost. (I'm über-geeky like that. ;))

[Stormchild]

Yeah this is still working fine for me as well. Most of the time, I view pages locally via Apache (meaning I'm doing an HTTP request from localhost, not just opening the file directly), but I also just tried opening an HTML file directly and the styles were mostly intact. I noticed the text size is different when I open the file directly instead of through Apache, but I haven't got time to investigate that at the moment. In any case, I can at least say that the majority of the styles looked correct when opening the file directly.

[Mr Slippery]

Have downloaded the international version twice, both time unable to mount the disk image. English edition is no problem.

[Forrest]

I just noticed on the mailing list that this is the final public beta... I really hope that means the long list of fairly big issues are soon to be fixed and not that you're just going to launch without fixing them :\

[arglborps]

When I open the files served through Apache locally, the pages display fine, but many times I just need to be able to open the html files directly via the finder and check them.

So when opening the files directly locally, the CSS is ignored. The files are HTML 4.01 transitional (I know, but there are reasons for that ancient format...). There's also some Japanese in there using UTF-8 encoding. What gives?

[Len Case]

There is a bug that was introduced when adding support for handling file: urls that point to directories that prevents the proper "fetch" of non-directories. Html files will work fine, but anything with a different mime-type will either be converted to html or aborted.

[Handycam]

what about css files that are added via the site preferences preference pane? Those are not working for me in beta 4.

[Ken Case]

It seems that when opening local html files, all the CSS is completely ignored by OmniWeb now.

We've fixed this bug for the next release. (And yes, it also applies to local CSS files loaded using site preferences.)

[troyb]

I just noticed on the mailing list that this is the final public beta... I really hope that means the long list of fairly big issues are soon to be fixed and not that you're just going to launch without fixing them :\


Today we released OmniWeb 5.5 beta 4:

<http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/download/beta/>

We're hoping to release the final version of 5.5 next week, so we're expecting this to be our final public beta release. We know that there are still a few features missing that we used to have in OmniWeb 5.1, but overall 5.5 is such a big improvement over 5.1 that we think it's time to encourage all our customers to start using it. (After this final beta, that is!)

Release notes for beta 4 follow. Enjoy!

Ken


We know there are bugs in 5.5 still and releasing 5.5 doesn't mean that we're not going to be working on them it just means that we feel this release is better than 5.1.3.

We wont be discontinuing work on OmniWeb of course. We're already gearing up to start in on 5.5.1 which will have updates to WebKit (which will fix lots of problems) and of course more bug fixes.

-Troy

[Forrest]

Well, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. So far I've been putting up with the quirks in 5.5 with me assuming they would get fixed. Honestly, half the reason I use OW is gone. I will probably go back to 5.1 for work stuff, and just use Safari for my general surfing.

[kindall]

The search field stopped scrolling in this beta.

[Tangar]

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