The browser window
The browser window is the most important window of AWeb. It is the place
where World Wide Web pages are displayed. On top of the window there are
some gadgets.
You can scroll the window contents horizontally and vertically, provided
the size of the document is larger than the window.
Of course you can use the scroll bars and arrow buttons to scroll, but AWeb
also understands the following keys:
- cursor up/down (both cursor keypad and numeric
keypad) scroll up and down over a short distance.
- shift + cursor up/down (cursor keypad) scroll up or
down a page.
- PgUp, PgDn (numeric keypad) scroll up or down a page.
- Space, Backspace scroll up or down a page.
- Home, End (numeric keypad) jump to the beginning or
the end of the document.
- cursor left/right (both cursor keypad and numeric
keypad) scroll left and right. This is only possible if the document
contains an image or preformatted text wider than the window, because
otherwise AWeb will keep the text formatted to fit within the window
width.
- shift + cursor left/right (cursor keypad) scroll
left or right a full page width.
One of the most important features of the World Wide Web is the ability
to include hyperlinks in documents. A hyperlink is displayed in
another colour, and by default underlined. You can change the colour and
the underlining in the Options page
in the browser settings requester.
Images that are also links have a frame drawn around them. If you have
deselected the link underlining in the
browser settings requester, then this frame isn't
drawn.
Click the text or image to follow the link, i.e. retrieve and display the
document "behind" the link. The URL (network address) of the document
that is linked to, is shown in the status indicator
when the mouse pointer is over the hyperlink.
A document can contain inlined images interspersed with the text. If an
inlined image is not (yet) loaded, AWeb displays an icon for that image.
You can select if you want images to be loaded immediately or not using the
image loading chooser in the
settings requester.
AWeb displays different icons under different circumstances.
This icon depicts an unloaded image.
Click it to load the image.
If an unloaded image
is also a link to another document, there is a diagonal line through the image.
Click in the upper left half
of the icon to follow the link directly, or in the bottom right half to
load the image.
This icon depicts an unloaded clickable map. Because a clickable map is always
also a link to another document, the diagonal line is here too. Click on the bottom
right half to load the image. Once it is loaded you can pick a spot from the map.
You can click in the upper left half of the icon to follow the link without
map coordinates. Servers should recognize this as a request to a text-only
version of the page.
If an image cannot be loaded for some reason, this icon is shown.
For an inlined image, a so-called ALT-text can be defined. This is a text
that can be displayed if the browser doesn't display the image. Of course,
AWeb understands this ALT-text and will display it instead of the icon
imagery. With ALT-text, unloaded images look like this:
Unloaded image.
Unloaded image that is also a link or a clickable map.
Downloading
Instead of following a link and display the new document, or loading
and displaying an inlined image, you can download a document
or an inlined image. To do so, hold the Shift key while
clicking the link or image icon. The document or image is retrieved, and a
standard save requester will pop up to let you specify a file name.
If the document or image is already in cache, it
will only be saved, not retrieved again over the network.
Note you can also save a displayed image in this way. Just press the
Shift key and click the image. This will work even for background
images (only if background images are displayed):
just shift-click somewhere in the background and you will be asked
for a filename to save the background image.
If the image is also a link, shift-clicking the image
could be ambiguous; therefore AWeb will save the image in this case.
If you want to download the document "behind" the link, you should use
the pop-up menu.
Pop-up menu
If you hold the ALT or the Ctrl key while you click on a link or an image,
AWeb opens a pop-up menu with several very useful
choices that were not easily accomodated otherwise.
This function is not available in the demo version.
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