Gzilla 0.0.8

Raph Levien <raph@acm.org>
16 June 1997

This release is more of a "code escape" than a real software release.
It contains an early prototype of Gzilla, a new web browser based on
the GTK+ toolkit.

To install, do a "./configure" and then a "make". The configuration
process is still in flux - if you don't have your gtk libraries in a
standard place, then probably the best thing for you to do is edit the
Makefile.am, then do an "automake" and an "autoconf". This requires
that you have both of these utilities installed.

Gzilla can be invoked either as "gzilla" or as "gzilla <url>". If you
get an error that gzilla can't load the shared library, try "setenv
LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib", or wherever you have your gtk+ libs.

This is still pretty alpha code, although it is definitely usable to
browse the Web. Here's a partial list of known problems:

* no text/plain

* html formatting is still quite incomplete

* it leaks memory, especially with images

* ui is a bit sparse, especially key bindings

* embedded widgets are slow

* embedded widgets don't always display correctly.

* page is limited to 32767 pixels tall

This release also includes a mini-gzilla.xpm icon. If you use fvwm95,
then copy the file to one of the icon directories (/usr/local/icons
works for me) and add the following line to your .fvwm95rc file:

Style "Gzilla"       TitleIcon mini-gzilla.xpm

(Actually, this invocation no longer works because of changes to the
window title - we're still working on it).

Thanks to Otto Hammersmith, David Mosberger-Tang, Peter Mattis, and
Ian Main for patches. Contributions are welcome!

For news of gzilla, see the Web page at http://www.levien.com/gzilla/
