WHAT'S NEW

• The file access has changed: KNOTS no longer uses the DOS conventions for naming files, and now uses real URLs (Uniform Resource Locator).

  The URL can point to a local file using the form: file:///C|/dir/subdir/file.ext

  The URL can also be a remote URL where the page is cached locally: http://www.place.org/dir/subdir/file.html

  Please note that you may have to replace '\' by '/' and 'C:\' by 'file:///C|/' in your own pages, which makes them portable to the Web.

• Knots uses a File Allocation Table (FAT) to specify where all remote URLs are cached. If you know where your site will be hosted, or if you have downloaded pages, you can add an entry to the FAT file. The FAT convention is: each line contains a mapping of the form <URL><SPACE><FILENAME> such as: http://www.place.org/dir/file.html C:\CACHE\FILE.HTM

  Any links to the remote URL will open the local file.

  For example, follow this link to pretend these pages are hosted on the Knots Web site

• Pages writen using special extended ASCII characters instead of HTML character codes are now properly viewed to make non-english pages more readable.

SUPPORTED FEATURES

HTML Headings and page titles
Bold, italics, preformatted, strong, em, address and code tags
Paragraphs, line breaks and horizontal rules
Special Characters:  < > A © "
Ordered and Unordered lists
Hypertext Refs to local files and cached files <a href="index.htm">
Inline Image ALT tags
International Character codes:  &eacute; &Ntilde;



The default home page is index.htm of the current directory, or the
HomePage specified in KNOTS.INI

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

1. Html pages cannot exceed 1800 lines.
2. No more than 390 URL links per page.
3. URLs cannot be longer than 100 characters.
4. A history of only 100 links is stored.
5. Ordered lists cannot exceed 127 items.
6. The browser cannot deal with more than 200 files in a directory.
7. Each screen can cope only upto 30 links.

WATCH THIS SPACE

New versions of KNOTS are likely to be released in the near future to encompass a larger amount of html features. Later versions will also aim to improve the speed and efficiency of the browser on our slow antiquities.

Handling of html tables.
Handling of html justification mark-ups - <center>, <right>
Handling of html anchors within a file <a href="File#Label">, </a>
A search function.
A DOS shell and the possibility to invoke an external editor
       from within KNOTS to make html development faster.
The possibilty to invoke external viewers for certain file types.