The Display Area of the IBrowse² GUI is probably the area of most interested to you, as it is where you will spend most of your time viewing. All displayable data that IBrowse² processes will be shown here, with the exception of those MIME Types that are passed onto External viewers.Like the majority of the IBrowse² GUI, the Display Area is also fully Drag & Drop compatible, allowing you to drag items into, and out of the area. This allows you to drag a file into the Download Manager, to add new a Fastlink, or to drag a URL into a specific Browser Tab etc.FAB Menus are also used in the Display Area, changing in context depending on what data is under the mouse at the time. This allows quick and easy access to frequently used commands, which can be configured to suit your requirements.In order to provide feedback to the user, the Display Area also has a number of other visual techniques. Image Place Holders are used to reflect the status of image data when browsing without image loading enabled, or in the event of an error; and MUI Bubble Help, is used to provide a means of presenting errors, links, alternate text and other information in a text based style. |
FAB Menus Using the right mouse button over different parts of the Display Area will open a FAB Menu in the context of the data that is under the mouse at that time. The four different FAB Menus that can be displayed are: |
- Page
- Link
- Image
- Imagelink
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The contents of each of the FAB Menus can be customised in the Preferences » GUI » FAB Menus section, where the standard FAB Menu options can be removed or reordered, and new custom options added. The standard FAB Menu entries are covered in the FAB Menu chapter. |
Image Place Holders IBrowse² will display an Image Place Holder when ever an image is not displayed, either due to an error, browsing with Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images, or Menus » Preferences » Image loading set to None, or after any images have been flushed using one of the Menus » Cache » Memory cache options. When IBrowse² knows an image size, the Image Place Holder will inherit the dimensions of the image it is replacing, and show an icon depicting its status or type. However, if the image dimensions are not known, the icon will be shown without a box indicating the size. The standard icons that will be shown are: |
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Standard Image This means the image not displayed is a standard image. It can be loaded by using the FAB Menus » Image » Load image option, the Navigation Toolbar » Load Images button, or the Menus » Webpage » Load images entry. |
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Imagemap This means the image not displayed is an imagemap. Imagemaps are usually used for navigation purposes around websites, so it is usually worthwhile loading these. Loading just imagemaps can be achieved by setting Preferences » HTML » Images » Load images, or Menus » Preferences » Image loading to Imagemaps. |
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Image Error This means the image was not displayed due to an error. The error could be anything which results in the inability to load or display the file, such as a simple spelling mistake in the HTML source, resulting in the image not being found, or an unknown image format which IBrowse² is unable to handle. Using the MUI Bubble Help, you can find out the reason for the error as reported by IBrowse². |
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Using the right mouse button over an image will open a FAB Menu, the type of which depends on whether the image is a plain image or an imagelink. For the former, the FAB Menus » Image menu will be displayed, and for the latter, the FAB Menus » Imagelink menu. The options listed in either FAB Menu can be configured using the Preferences » GUI » FAB Menus options. If you have MUI Bubble Help enabled in the IBrowse² MUI settings, then pausing the mouse over an image will cause an MUI Bubble Help to open after the defined time. For both plain images and imagelinks, any text defined in the images alt="" attribute will be shown, with the addition of the links URL for those that are imagelinks. |
Finally, the Image Place Holders can be customised, but unfortunately, this cannot be performed via the IBrowse² preferences. Please refer to the Advanced Topics chapter for further details on customising the images used. |
Links In its default configuration, IBrowse² displays unvisited links with a solid underline, e.g. , and visited links as a broken underline, e.g. . The presence of the underline can be removed by disabling Preferences » HTML » Underline links. Visited links are remembered by IBrowse² for a certain period of time, as specified by Preferences » HTML » Links expire after, after which they are removed from the Global History Window. Using the right mouse button over a link will open a FAB Menu giving you access to the FAB Menus » Link options, which can be configured under Preferences » GUI » FAB Menus. If you have MUI Bubble Help enabled in the IBrowse² MUI settings, then pausing the mouse over an image will cause an MUI Bubble Help to open after the defined time, the contents of which will be the URL that will be opened when clicking on the link. |
Text Highlighting & Copying It is possible to copy text from web pages into the system clipboard, by highlighting the required text with the mouse while the left mouse button is held down. This will mark the text, which can then be copied using the standard AmigaOS® shortcut, RAmiga+C, or by using the Menus » Edit » Copy menu entry. Once the text has been copied into the system clipboard, the highlighting will be removed from the Display Area. This procedure can be improved by removing the need to use the shortcut or menu entry, and having IBrowse² automatically copy the highlighted text into the system clipboard for you. By enabling Preferences » General » Auto copy on select, IBrowse² will behave in this manner, copying the text as soon as you release the left mouse button, and automatically removing the highlighting. |
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Highlighting italic text can leave a small graphical glitch at the start and/or end of the text when highlighting is removed. This will be addressed in the next release of IBrowse. |
MUI Bubble Help If you have MUI Bubble Help enabled in the IBrowse² MUI settings, then pausing the mouse over various data in the Display Area, will cause an MUI Bubble Help to open after the defined time. The contents of the MUI Bubble Help will vary from item to item as listed below: |
- Link: Will display the URL that will be opened when clicking on the link.
- Image: Will display any text defined in the alt="" attribute.
- Imagemap (Non-link area): Will display any text defined in the alt="" attribute.
- Standard Image Place Holder: Will display any text defined in the alt="" attribute.
- Imagelink: Will display any text defined in the alt="" attribute, and the URL that will be opened when clicking on the link.
- Imagemap (Link area): Will display any text defined in the alt="" attribute, and the URL that will be opened when clicking on the link.
- Error Image Place Holder: Will display the error that caused the image not to load.
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Text Text displayed on web pages can be controlled either by IBrowse², or by the web page author. For <font> tags that do not have a face="" attribute, the text will be displayed in one of the fonts specified in Preferences » HTML » Fonts, namely Normal font for proportional text, and Fixed width font for text displayed as non-proportional (e.g. when using <tt>, <pre>, <code> etc.). Where a web page author specifies a face="" attribute, IBrowse² will try to match the face name against an entry in Preferences » HTML » Fonts. If a match is found, that font will be used, otherwise IBrowse² will use the Normal font or Fixed width font where necessary. By using Preferences » HTML » Fonts it is possible to customise how web pages look, to suit your requirements by forcing IBrowse² to override the fonts specified by the web page author. |
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