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MicroWeb 2.00 (Announce)

posted by tom , Germany (West), 25.04.2024, 20:13

That is one of the most buggy bug reports ever. you should know better.

> I tested this on ST-DOS.
if you find errors it would be helpful if you tested it on MS/FreeDOS as well as ST-DOS so far is certainly special.


> Characters that are not 7-bit ASCII> don't work,
> and also character escape sequences like & auml; and & ouml; don't work.
Whatever "don't work" means:
  doesn't print a character at all
  prints the correct ascii letter in the wrong font page?
  shows some unwanted letter
  whatever else?

Note that this is text mode only.

> (Also this forum doesn't seem to escape them correctly.)
Yes; that's known forever. It's a DOS forum.

> somehow parse the link targets completely wrong. Most links just lead to a
> page that has address "=" without quotes. It probably reads the string from
> a null pointer.
Bug reports containing the word "most" are offensive if not accompanied by some "do work" and some "don't work" examples.

> Without fixing these bugs it isn't really usable.
It's much easier for the developers to fix bugs if they get reasonable bug reports.

Complete thread:

• MicroWeb 0.3 Prototype Release - rr, 27.06.2021, 18:04 (Announce)
  • MicroWeb 0.3 Prototype Release - RayeR, 28.06.2021, 02:25
    • MicroWeb 0.4 Prototype Release - RayeR, 06.07.2021, 01:54
      • MicroWeb 0.5 Alpha release - dggionco, 23.07.2021, 08:57
        • MicroWeb 0.5 Alpha release - RayeR, 23.07.2021, 14:07
        • MicroWeb 0.51 Alpha release - dggionco, 13.08.2021, 13:56
          • MicroWeb 0.51 Alpha release - RayeR, 17.08.2021, 16:21
            • MicroWeb 0.53 - dggionco, 30.07.2023, 14:05
              • MicroWeb 0.53 - bocke, 19.08.2023, 12:53
                • MicroWeb 2.00 - RayeR, 18.04.2024, 02:42
                  • MicroWeb 2.00 - bocke, 18.04.2024, 11:10
                    • MicroWeb 2.00 - samwdpckr, 23.04.2024, 01:00
                      • MicroWeb 2.00 - roytam, 25.04.2024, 04:15
                      • MicroWeb 2.00 - tom, 25.04.2024, 20:13
                        • MicroWeb 2.00 - rr, 25.04.2024, 20:32