Posted on December 12, 2008
JxBrowser 1.4
New features
- Added possibility to use Firebug Lite - web development evolved inside JxBrowser Demo application.
Improvements
- Added ability for custom implementation of browser prompt dialogs such us: JavaScript alert, confirmation, prompt and authentication dialogs.
- Added ability for blocking of opening a new popup (child) browser windows (pop-up blocker).
- Added ability to clearing browser cache.
- Added new API for interaction with native Mozilla XPCOM.
- Added new function
WebBrowser.findNext()
that allows searching through the document with defined parameters.
Resolved issues
WebBrowser.setContentWithContext()
method hangs on large content (platform: All);- Restoring of the minimized window that contains
WebBrowser
component when navigation is finished; ContentHandler
functionality does not work as intended;- JxBrowser fails to start correctly first time after system restart (platform: Mac OS X);
- The
setContent()
method caused JVM crash when content has a lot of DIV html elements (platform: All); - Browser destroying sometimes caused crash of application (platform: Linux);
- Propagation of DOM key events to AWT/Swing brings to incorrect work of KeyListener-s;
- Fixed several issues in JxBrowser Demo Application (platform: All).
Software requirements update
- Linux: GTK+ 2.14 - 2.17 is required for correct work of JxBrowser. It is available in modern Linux distributions such as Fedora Core 10 or Ubuntu 8.10.
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