HtmlSearch Release History

New in Release 3.2

As of January 1, 2009, HtmlSearch is completely free

New in Release 3.1

• New Log panel
• New parameter addSearchStringToResult
• UI improvements in the Indexing Panel
• Shorter Options panel for a smaller applet footprint
• Now works in Netscape 6.2

New in Release 3.0

Release 3.0 represents a major rewrite of entire sections of the application, mainly to:

• Eliminate rarely used features that were bloating the code and making the applet slow to load
• Provide the ability to display the screens in any language and in any color
• Enhance and speed up the search

Here is a partial list of changes:

• Parameter translation to display the screens in any language
• Parameter bgColor to change the background color of the display
• Parameter showResultsInHtml to display search results in HTML
• Ability to display search results via JavaScript function
• Parameter searchInHtmlTags to only seach through text, exclusive of HTML tags
• Use parameter useStartUrlLinks to speed up the search by preparing list of pages to search
• Parameter noPageInfoPanel to eliminate the Page Info panel
• Parameters copyright and registration values
• Reorganize Help and Setup documentation
• Better handling of the maxSize maximum page size
• Better handling of FRAMESETs
• Speed up nosearchSuffix, nogoDir, nosearchDir and nogoHost processing for faster searches
• Use true file content type instead of just suffix to eliminate non-HTML files from the search (makes it compatible with searches through JSP, ASP and CGI sites)
• Fewer parameters in Lite Edition for easier deployment
• About Panel (formerly Info Panel) now displays browser information, and links to troubleshooting help
• Page Info panel now contains all the information about a page
• indexExclusion file available on all types of indexing methods
• Indexing now a separate package to make the applet loading faster
• Faster Indexing generation
• Parameter nogoHost replaced by nogoDomain
• Parameter noIndexPanel replaced by noIndexingPanel
• Default Help file now in a separate directory
• Default search start point (parameter startUrl is now index.html
• Parameter showFoundUrl now uses left, right and hide values
• Removed usage of HtmlSearch as a Java application -- only applet mode is now supported
• Removed Advanced panel -- parameters can all be set through parameters
• Removed View page source
• Removed the Save Index button since that is generally not an available option for applets.

New in Release 2.1

corrected bug by which search would pause for a long time on certain pages

corrected a bug which forced the applet to start as 'lite' after using the help, even if the pro edition was loaded

better handling for malformed HTML syntax (empty links, repeating HREFs, etc...)

many changes to the documentation

better memory management (allocation, cleanup) allows for longer searches

print the search elapsed time at the end of the search

print the applet info in the java console

smaller window size, leaving more room for the pages found display

colored start/stop button (not in Netscape 3)

reword of the domain selection options (formerly: new search/found pages/previous found pages)

add 'downLevels', identical to 'dirLevels' but for downstream directories

'downLevels' and 'dirLevels' restrict search in directories in the same path as the starting URL

better display of the found string so that it ends on a space

add parameter showFoundText

easier to stop search and stop index generation

using HtmlSearch as an application: CTRL-F4 kills the application

HtmlSearch is delivered as a JAR archive for faster loading

index (search results save)

always uses the found pages

ability to generate a CSV file

improvements in the GUI and button placement and label

choice to separate the words if several words were specified in the 'look for'

corrected bug that prevented selecting the file to save to (this is still subject to Applets security restrictions, which are particular to the browser and your settings)

the dictionary filename can be specified relative to the codeBase (the directory parent to HtmlSearchApp), or as an absolute URL.
If the file does not exist, the default dictionary (HtmlSearchApp/indexExclusion.txt) is used.

 

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