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I have been very busy during the last week, during the WebKitGTK+ Hackfest in A Coruña kindly made possible by Igalia, Collabora and the GNOME Foundation. The Igalia Office is a very nice place to be productive and relaxed. It was an exciting time and it was nice to be able to discuss and exchange ideas in-between lots of hacking.
I had the chance to see Xan, Gustavo, Benjamin and Reinout again while having the chance to meet Alejandro, Philippe, Behdad, Evan and Martin.
Special thanks to Xabier who picked me up from the airport and brought me back on the way home.

Now to the actual work on WebKitGTK+ that I've been doing.
- Asynchronous downloading with WebKitDownload. It was possible before but mostly coincidentally, and I updated a unit test to take it into account.
- Proxy handling is up to applications. After a discussion with Dan and others I filed bug in libsoup for supporting http_proxy by default.
- Finally Cache control API has landed, thanks to Alejandro. Being in the same room allowed for discussing some unclear aspects.
- groups are a concept in WebKit to group views, or tabs, within an application. They are important to let us have visited link handling, support for user style sheets and scripts (those are supported by Midori already, but through a JavaScript workaround) and DOM storage handling. I didn't have time to finish my patch, I will try to do that soon.
- I also worked on custom file choosing from applications. So that you can override WebKitGTK+'s file chooser and for instance use the same folder in all file choosers and customize it to your needs.
- I made spell check actually usable by fixing replacing the wrong word with the chosen suggestion.
- I worked on making spell check work on un-selected text the same way it works in for example AbiWord. WebCore expects a selection due to differences in behaviour on Macs.
- Small improvements to context menus.
- A new function to execute commands, for example to format text, and to track formatting, in rich text areas.
- I deprecated the old loading signals and updated the unit tests to use load-status.

During this time I hardly found room for Midori. Fortunately Alex filled in for me and worked on a number of performance tweaks and improvements to web cache and advertisement blocking.

Note Mario took pictures in the office. If you look hard you can spot me there.

Yours,
Christian

Time for Midori 0.2.2.

Bookmarks can be imported from Opera, Arora, Kazehakase, Epiphany and other browser using XBEL. The XBEL support was improved in terms of performance and compatibility with other applications.

Colourful Tabs now work in combination with the Tab Panel. Delete Private data includes Web Cache which it didn't before. And if you have a small screen or mobile device, Open panels in separate windows can be useful. Correct ordering of History and Trash were fixed. The Shortcuts dialogue display issues were fixed.

The options 'Show in toolbar' and 'Open as web app' were implemented for bookmarks. So you can selectively decide what bookmarks or folders to have in the bookmarkbar. And if you mark them as 'web app' bookmarks open in a separate process.

Several improvements related to portability and compatibility were applied, for Hildon and Win32. Build fixes for certain Glib and GTK+ versions were applied. libnotify is now a build-time dependency.

Incidentally Midori is available for the N900 in testing repositories, albeit it still needs some work, and Midori for Win32 may be updated soon once problems with extensions are sorted out.

So download midori v0.2.2 (590 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

We are approaching version 0.2.1. A great lot of polishing went into this release. Mouse gestures are fixed, linking with gold is supported, the navigation toolbar is hidden in fullscreen and the preference dialogue was tweaked a little.
You may notice that opening of new windows is incredibly fast and startup of Midori is faster. Hotkeys involving Tab or single characters are supported now. Terminating Midori with Unix signals won't trigger the crash dialogue anymore (a real crash will).
We have a Web Cache extension and a Tab History list now, both incredibly nice additions. Also form history was improved, it works with forms where it didn't before and saves values to disk so it works after closing Midori in-between.
Here and there lots of changes are coming towards Hildon/ Fremantle support. It is not yet completely done but you may see a proper Midori on the N900 with the next release.

So download midori v0.2.1 (580 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

Fasten your seatbelts, Midori 0.2.0 is there. Adblock was improved a lot, it works with any WebKitGTK+ version, has an improved interface, reads AdblockPlus/ Easylist filters and supports element blocking now. Thanks to a contributed scrolling widget we have kinetic drag scrolling, enabled on touchscreen devices (gtk-touchscreen-mode. Two new extensions, namely DNS prefetching and form history, could just be the very reason for those who don't use Midori yet, to switch. Smaller issues were also improved, such as more icons of web pages are recognized, mailto: links work as expected and when switching a tab back and forth Midori remembers what you were typing.

So download midori v0.2.0 (556 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

So... this update brings great things like saving HTTP logins, much better address completion, a fixed news feed icon, improvements of the feed panel extension, and an update of the tab panel extension.

With WebKitGTK+ there is Undo/ Redo support now. And a revamped Adblock extension that loads adlbock plus/ easylist files, and unlike the previous version actually works wonderfully.

Last but not least the freezing is fixed that could occur when opening multiple windows.

So download midori v0.1.10 (531 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

This version of Midori is a bit of a follow up and improval of the
previous one. There's a notable bug that breaks user styles, user scripts and the Netscape plugin panel in 0.1.8, this is fixed now.

The bookmark popup below the addressbar was an experiment in terms of usability. It is often hard to guess beforehand what works and what doesn't. A lot of users expressed how they disliked the popup, and I have to agree, it isn't as nice as it looked after using it for a longer time. So it's gone for good.l

The tab panel extension was improved, it has close icons now, ellipsizes titles, tooltips and you can hide the panel operating controls now to make it really space efficient. I personally like to work on it incrementally, and see how it improves my tab usage a lot over ordinary tabs. Any power user should try it out, and you are welcome to say how you like it.
A related feature, useful for heavy tab users who prefer actual tabs, is minimizing tabs. If you keep certain tabs open, you can now turn them into small icons.

The menu button that's visible when you hide the menubar had an annoying flaw, it wouldn't let you access the Tools, like editing the toolbar, configure your shortcuts or the Delete private data dialogue. So now these items show up in the menu. If you like to reduce screen real estate, go and hide your menubar today.

Being careful with private data is easier because there's a new tick mark in the dialogue in Tools > Delete private data, that tells Midori to delete the chosen information when quitting.
Another nice addition is that navigation history is preserved in newly opened tabs now.

So download midori v0.1.9 (504 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

Heya,

it is once again update time for Midori. Performance of working with multiple windows was
improved. The download dialogue and the Transfer panel were enhanced. An annoying bug
was fixed that rendered Mouse Gestures virtually unusable.

Alt +n now does switch to the n-th tab as asked for by several users. Also a common question
was single instance support, we now have a socket based implementation if libunique is not
available on the system. Another popular question in its own right was using Midori with no
menubar, for which now there is a menu button that appears upon hiding the menubar and
provides features missing from the context menu.
Through two new extensions finally keyboard shortcuts can be edited comfortably and a
toolbar editor makes customizing the toolbar layout a walk in the park.

This is notably the first release that is supported on Win32. A lot of improvements to the build
system and miscellaneous tweaks to handle Win32 specific aspects were implemented. It isn't
quite perfect yet but certainly very usable.

So download midori v0.1.8 (500 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!
Win32 Binaries: midori Win32 v0.1.8 (7,3 MB)

Time for another release. Lots of nice improvements. Midori now remembers which extensions are activated and which aren't. Panel detaching works a lot better than it did before. A Feed Panel extension was added, that lets you read news feeds in a panel in Midori. Spell checking and custom fixed font sizes are supported now. Middle clicking on menu items does open new tabs now. libnotify is used (if present at runtime) to notifiy about finished transfers. The preference Open new pages in: New window is actually working as expected now (it used to be ignored). You can use '.' or '/' to search inline on any page, just like vim, man, Opera and lots of other utilities support it. And a little highlight for friends of user stylesheets, '@-moz-document' is recognized and partially supported now, which means that lots of user styles now work with Midori that didn't before.
And I almost forgot, we have speed dial on new tabs now (optionally), so go ahead and quickly add your favourite web pages to it.

So download midori v0.1.7 (452 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!

So this release of Midori took a bit longer to ripe but it was hopefully worth it. If that says anything, the manual ChangeLog is by far the longest since the first version. There were lots of bug fixes, memory leak fixes and performance improvements all around, which I won't bore you with here. Among the highlights are the new Cookie Manager extension, support for --app and --config arguments on the command line, search engines in the context menu and address completion (optionally). There is experimental support for detaching panels from the window (try it out and make noise if you are interested), support for Gtk 2.16 entry progress and icon which is means better theming. The news feed icon is back and can open your favourite news aggregator, it was broken for a while now. External download managers are also supported again. There is a Clear private data now in the Tools menu - including Flash cookies.

So download midori v0.1.6 (381 kB) (MD5) (ChangeLog) already!

This version of Midori has a focus on optimizations below the hood. The most important point here is that from now on, you need at least WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1, GTK+ 2.10, Glib 2.16 and libsoup 2.25.2. Lots of tricks to maintain compatibility were dropped. Supporting ancient versions of WebKit became increasingly hard, and various optimizations are in place already. The internal source view was also dropped, and the default text editor is used, or whatever you chose in the preferences. As for a really exciting feature, downloading of files works if you have WebKitGTK+ 1.1.3, including a sidepanel and progress bars inside the statusbar. As a goodie I added an extension called Colourful Tabs, which took me less than two hours to write and is quite nice for that.

So download midori v0.1.5 already!

This is a less spectacular but still important release with a focus on small improvements and bug fixes. For instance automatic inline find can be disabled, bookmarks can be moved to different folders and bookmark folders can be opened in tabs. You can edit the selection in the completion dropdown as you select it and the history panel uses your local date format (as a tip for friends of the ISO date format, try LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8). Blanks don't "load" anymore and you will only see one HTTP authentication dialogue with a recent WebKit, not two.

On a related matter, WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1 was also released today, so do download it from http://cafe.minaslivre.org/webkit/webkit-1.1.1.tar.gz as well (MD5: d3a5d7233beab310e9d3e5568fae49a1).

So download midori v0.1.4 already!

Lots of niceties again, something there for everyone I'm sure of it. For
one a preference toggles full image zoom, you can graphically add and
remove items from the toolbar, there is a plugin panel, the sidepanel
can be moved to the right side and international domain names are supported.
Among the highlights are Mouse Gestures, implemented as an extension,
integration with Maemo if you're on a mobile device, finally support for
bookmark folders and last but not least Find as you type, much like
Mozilla browsers do it.

Thanks a lot to contributors, and testers, a number of significant
improvements happened within the last day and hours before the release.

So download midori v0.1.3 already!

Time for an update after another too long release cycle. Let's see what
we should highlight of the changes...
Bookmarklets work now, that is you can use javascript: in bookmarks and
the address entry. New windows opened from web pages actually are opened
finally, in the form of new tabs, cookies can be stored on disk if you
are using a recent libsoup with WebKit and Midori.
And hey, changes to preferences or bookmarks are saved dynamically as
they are changed by you - regardless of crashes your configuration is
kept. Which brings me to the also new (optional) crash dialog that now
pops up if Midori crashed and you reopen it. It allows you to modify
preferences or discard your last open pages, which is useful if for
instance a script crashed and disabling scripts may prevent Midori from
going down again right after having started.
Last but not least, starting up Midori with a long history is much, much
faster now. There is still a delay but it's comparatively small.

So download midori v0.1.2 already!

So the next iteration of Midori is due. We now actually have integration
of history completion in the location entry, something that many people
have been waiting for long enough. libSoup is used in place of GIO for
loading icons, viewing sources, saving files, and for the first time
icons are actually cached on disk. The side panel gained a compact mode
to take up considerably less space. Bookmarks in the toolbar finally
match the menu and the panel at any time, this was a long standing
annoyance. The Web Inspector as supported by WebKitGtk since a while is
now supported. The beginning of unit testing has emerged.
And finally, the ground work for an extension interface has been done,
extension modules can be written in C at the moment. Bindings to Lua
and/ or Python are planned for the future. Note that the side panel
doesn't currently expose the extension management, but the Page holder
was actually rewritten as one of the example extensions. Be welcome to
try it out.

So download midori v0.1.1 already!

Even though development of the next Catfish line is not exactly fast forwarding, it's time for a maintainance release. Translators have added new languages, which is totally great, and I fixed a handful of small things. Plus, notably, the package now includes the new logo which has already been on the website for some time.

So download catfish v0.3.2 already!