Re: [dev] [surf] 0.7 release

From: Alba Pompeo <albapompeo_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 08:34:06 -0200

Very good news, I love surf's frontend and it's always improving.
But what about the backend? If I understand correctly that's WebKit?
Is there any plans for a suckless backend one day?

Ciao.


On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Christoph Lohmann <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
> Greetings comrades.
>
> In our »release often, release proud« schema I’m glad to announce the
> 0.7 release of surf [0], [1]. I want to thank all contributors for send‐
> ing in patches.
>
> First of all: Update your config.h! As always, much has changed:
> * The progress indicator is now in the window title.
> * Stylefiles can be toggled.
> * Scrollbars can be toggled.
> * There is now a kiosk mode.
> * You can specifiy a default font size.
> * You can toggle the window title indicators.
> * Geo policy can be configured.
> * You can force 96dpi.
> * When holding the mod key while clicking on a link it will open in a new
> window.
> * You can zoom in surf and specify a zoomlevel on the commandline.
> * You can now specify a cookie policy.
> * Resizeable text areas are now activated in webkit. (Small icon in the lower
> right edge of text entries to resize the text entry.)
> * »Copy image address« is now implemented.
> * The cache for libsoup is now active and can be configured.
> * There is now socks:// support in surf for easier tor access.
> * Add file:// support.
> * On hover of a link, display it in the title.
> * File handling has been reworked internally.
> * Fullscreen handling has been fixed.
> * There is now handling for the »no_proxy« variable.
> * Mouse button releases cab be configured now in config.h.
> * There is now plumbing support in surf, to have (by default) handle xdg-open
> other URIS. This allows gopher:// etc. support.)
>
> The speciality of this release is that I left some bugs in surf to make
> sure that the »thousand eyes« principle of Open Source is still alive.
>
> And always remember our main bug: Fix the web.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
> [0] http://dl.suckless.org/surf/surf-0.7.tar.gz
> [1] http://git.suckless.org/surf/tag/?id=0.7
>
>
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