The Cineast Browser

Features

• Multiple browser instances.
• Full support of incremental loading and display (even incremental TABLEs).
• Multiple simultaneous requests.
• Request folding in case of multiple requests for same URL.
• Request-wise transfer monitor.
• Scroll linking of HTML source text and rendered display.
• Built-in support for GIF, JPEG, XPM, XBM and PNG images.

Architecture

Figure 11: OTcl Classes from the Cineast Browser

• RequestHandler
  ... handles the life cycle of a request. It has sub-classes for for HTML texts and images. RequestManager keeps track which requests are active per browser instance and aborts requests if necessary.

• HistoryManager
  ... handles the history of URLs for the handling of the Back and Forward buttons as well per browser instance.

• ScrolledKino
  ... encapsulates a Kino widget with scrolling functionality.

• CustomDialog
  ... is superclass for various dialog widgets used to implement functionality like mailto: tags or the transfer monitor.

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