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HISTORY

Legend: [+] added, [x] changed/improved, [-] bugfix


Version 4.42  (21-Jul-2008)
  • [+] Pages with gzip format supported
  • [+] Resorting the bookmark list will bring the previous selected bookmark into view - Thread
  • [x] AutoWatch / automatic time configuration: Smaller improvements and fixes
  • [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved
  • [x] Better handling of URLs with "&"
  • [x] Improved handling of imported CSS files (wikipedia pages are now displayed correctly)
  • [-] Some bugs with dialup connection fixed - Thread
  • [-] Browser-Tabs could be re-opened multiple times under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] URLs with double slashes didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when performing some actions in empty browser tabs
  • [-] Some problems with browser forward/back buttons fixed - Thread
  • Finnish translation updated
  • Smaller improvements and fixes


Version 4.41  (05-May-2008)
  • [x] Improved handling of complex inline CSS definitions (could cause false positives under certain circumstances if only CSS definitions were changed)
  • [x] Improved detection and usage of system default font (especially under Vista with classic theme)
  • [x] Improved handling of pages with wrong character set definitions
  • [x] Handling of web pages with an invalid certificate improved
  • [-] Hyperlinks weren't extracted correctly from Atom feeds under certain circumstances
  • [-] E-Mail configuration: SMTP server used connection type from POP3 server and vice versa
  • [-] User interface wasn't displayed correctly with large windows fonts
  • [-] Image configuration: Filter images from other domains didn't work correctly
  • [-] Floating info win could disappear after changing dual monitor configurations
  • Smaller fixes


Version 4.40  (26-Mar-2008)
  • [+] Automatic time configuration for AutoWatch and manual checks (based on an idea described in that Thread)
  • [+] Internal browser: each bookmark has a normal view and a text view (can be changed with tabs on bottom)
  • [+] Internal browser: Analysis functionality (can be accessed with tabs on bottom)
  • [+] Import from text file: "Check for duplicates" can now be disabled optionally (better performance)
  • [+] Scripts: If you press the Shift Key while selecting a script from the script menu, the selected script is opened in the editor
  • [+] Script command "Import Bookmarks": New parameter /TextIgnoreDuplicates when importing from text files
  • [+] Update-On-Keywords and ignore filters: WebSite-Watcher no longer searches keywords in ignored content
  • [x] Update-On-Keywords functionality improved
  • [-] Some RSS/Atom feeds didn't work - Thread
  • [-] Files in the root directory of FTP servers couldn't be checked
  • [+] Conditional Comments supported - Thread
  • [-] Opening a saved page in the embedded Internet Explorer could freeze WebSite-Watcher under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [x] Report with highlighted changes: A blank line is printed between RSS postings - Thread
  • [x] Some obsolete features removed
  • [x] Improved detection of new/old postings in RSS feeds
  • [x] Recording of IE-Macros improved
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher no longer deletes outdated Watch filters automatically
  • [x] Improved Javascript filtering
  • [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser" improved - Thread
  • Smaller improvements and fixes


Version 4.35  (26-Nov-2007)
  • [+] Internal browser: Drag-And-Drop browser tabs to a folder for inserting new bookmarks
  • [+] Internal browser: Re-open all tabs
  • [+] Internal browser: Mark tab as unvisited (via tab context menu)
  • [+] Opera browser integration: Context menu entry "Add to WebSite-Watcher" (can be added via WebSite-Watcher program configuration).
  • [+] Extended Search: Ctrl+Alt+Click onto browser toolbar buttons opens page in external browser
  • [+] Extended Search: Ctrl+Alt+Click onto a link opens the link in external web browser
  • [-] Main window could get "corrupted" after resizing the window
  • [-] Some Javscript links could not be opened in the internal browser
  • [-] Follow-Links and "Copy-all-bookmark-properties": sometimes new pages were marked as changed after the first check
  • [-] Ctrl+Tab to switch to the next browser tab didn't work
  • [-] Space to scroll page in internal browser didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] A check run with defined "advanced connection rules" could hang under certain circumstances
  • [-] FTP addresses could not be checked under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] Internet Explorer Macros could display a small version of the page while the macro was executed - Thread
  • Removed: The "Could not highlight changes" info bar since it didn't work as well as expected
  • Minor Tweaks


Version 4.34  (24-Oct-2007)
  • [+] WebSite-Watcher can be installed in portable mode.
  • [+] WebSite-Watcher automatically detects and deletes outdated ignore and watch filters
  • [+] If WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight (visible) changes in a page, then a special info bar is displayed. A single click onto that info bar opens the "Test filter/Compare versions" window.
  • [+] Deleting bookmarks with Auto-Delete option (folder properties) and deleting bookmarks from Trash are now performed frequently when you run WebSite-Watcher 24x7 (and not only on program exit)
  • [x] Filter-Wizard: TEXT and TEXT(2) tabs have been merged
  • [+] Filter-Wizard: TEXT view keeps highlighted changes
  • [+] Extended Search: Browser toolbar has a "Page" submenu
  • [+] New bookmark option: Advanced + Troubleshooting + Show hidden elements
  • [+] Browser integration - WebSite-Watcher displays in the menu (of the WSW eye icon) if an URL already exists - Thread
  • [+] "Jump to first/next keyword" uses only keywords within highlighted changes - Thread
  • [+] Date variable in URLs enhanced, the offset can now also be defined in hours, minutes or seconds - Thread
  • [+] New report variables: {wsw_url_relpath_filename}, {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg} and {wsw_url_relpath_filename_chg1}
  • [+] After changing a macro you'll be asked if you want to change the existing URL to the new macro starting URL (if they differ) - Thread
  • [+] Bookmark notes: URLs are automatically highlighted
  • [x] Jump to first change in large .txt files: Performance improvements
  • [x] Highlight keywords in newsgroup bodies and RSS feeds improved
  • [x] If WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight all keywords in a page, then WebSite-Watcher jumps to the warning at the beginning of the page instead of the first highlighted change
  • [x] NTLM proxy authentication improved (wininet technology)
  • [x] Proxy support with user/password authentication improved (wininet technology)
  • [+] Script command "SendMail": user defined variables can be used in mail bodies
  • [x] Performance improvements during a check run
  • [x] Option "Ignore error codes from server" works now also with check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser"
  • [x] Import bookmarks from Opera and Firefox: Encoded characters (eg. & or :) are decoded correctly
  • [x] Special character • is now decoded correctly
  • [x] Improved Javascript handling (pages with unclosed javascript tags weren't displayed correctly under certain circumstances)
  • [x] Internal browser: Tab handling improved
  • [x] Improved CSS filtering (CSS definitions weren't filtered correctly under certain circumstances)
  • [x] Internet Explorer Macro functionality improved - Thread
  • [x] Highlighting keywords improved (some short keywords could sometimes not be highlighted)
  • [x] Detect duplicates: bookmarks with macros handled correctly
  • [x] "Restore previous version" no longer deletes the old version - Thread
  • [x] Bookmark properties: if check method is "by content" and file type is "binary", then files are downloaded and saved in original format
  • [x] Simultaneous connections for local files (file:// protocol) has been limited to 1
  • [x] Speed of checking local directories with lots of files significantly improved
  • [x] Restore bookmarks/program configurations improved
  • [-] File+Open didn't use the folder of the currently opened bookmark file (as in previous versions)
  • [-] Links and image addresses were not converted correctly in phpBB3 forums
  • [-] Checking a newsgroup could fail under certain circumstances
  • [-] Some untypical URLs were not converted to absolute addresses correctly
  • [-] Browser tabs weren't displayed correctly under WinXP x64
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when moving bookmarks to other folders while the Ctrl key was pressed
  • [-] Combination of features "Follow Links", "Alert on initialization" and "Update on keywords" didn't work correctly
  • [-] Redirections from HTTPS to HTTP could fail with the internal checking method under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] Follow-Links didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] Check-Macros: Some URLs with anchors could not be recorded correctly
  • [-] Multiple keywords could not be pre-defined in general program configuration - Thread
  • [-] Umlauts and other special characters weren't displayed correctly in RSS feed tooltips - Thread
  • [-] "Jump to first keyword" didn't work for initialized pages (without highlighted changes) in Beta-1
  • [-] HTML mails could not be sent under certain circumstances
  • [-] Pages with CSS could be broken under certain circumstances
  • Hebrew translation added
  • Tons of internal code improvements


Version 4.33  (30-May-2007)
  • [+] Browser tabs: Mouse middle click closes tab - Thread
  • [x] Restore functionality improved (a restore could fail if the path of the backed up bookmark file doesn't exist on the target system)
  • [x] Backup system more resistant against conflicts with virus tools or desktop search engines
  • [x] Internet Explorer Macro improved: If a link with changing numbers cannot be found when executing the macro, WebSite-Watcher tries to use regular expressions internally to find the new link (for example for links ala "Inbox(10)" where 10 can change)
  • [x] Extended Search: Newsgroup threads/bodies can be opened within the extended search window
  • [x] Import configurations via "config1.ini" reworked and enhanced (see help file for more information)
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could steal focus from internal browser -
  • [-] Add-From-Browser: Creating new folders were not possible under certain circumstances
  • [-] Some URLs could not be monitored under certain circumstances - Thread
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements


Version 4.32  (23-Apr-2007)
  • [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved - Thread
  • [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" in combination with frames improved
  • [-] Bookmark action "Send Mail": Sending bookmarks to multiple addresses was broken under certain circumstances - Thread
  • Minor tweaks


Version 4.31  (12-Apr-2007)
  • [+] Validation if invalid e-mail addresses are entered in bookmark properties (SendMail action)
  • [x] Send e-mails: improved error handling and reporting
  • [+] New Report/Export system
  • [+] Report: Extracted changes preserve links
  • [+] Report: new variable {wsw_ansi} to save reports in Ansi format (instead of UTF-8 format)
  • [+] Report: variable {wsw_dateformat(...)} can be placed within a report and must no longer be defined in the report window
  • [x] Predefined report templates reworked
  • [+] Bookmark action "Local Website Archive": Folder can be selected via user interface
  • [+] Find (Ctrl+F or Bookmarks+Search+Find) searches also in text of bookmark actions, for example in e-mail addresses
  • [x] If an RSS feed contains a content field, then use this field instead of the description field - Thread
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Ignore updates: New option "Don't mark as changed if page has less than XX characters"
  • [+] Error log window: bookmark properties can be opened directly within the error log window
  • [+] Error log window: erroneous e-mails can be deleted from the outbox directly within the error log window
  • [+] If locally saved pages are opened in an external browser, then the URL is added to the document title
  • [+] RSS template "Headlines" shows found keywords in a separate line (similar to newsgroups)
  • [x] Extended search can also be started when a check is running and no longer interrupts the AutoWatch countdown
  • [x] Extended Search: Usage of regular expression option should be more clear
  • [x] Internal check handling improved
  • [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser" improved
  • [-] Recording an "Internet Explorer Macro" within the New-Bookmark Wizard didn't work correctly
  • [-] Empty bookmark lists could not be saved into a new .wsw file
  • [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved - Thread
  • [-] Check-Macros failed under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [x] Execution of AutoStart scripts improved
  • [-] Export to Local Website Archive was broken under certain circumstances
  • [-] Vista: Internet Explorer browser integration didn't work in protected mode
  • Finnish month/day names for AutoFilters added
  • Some Windows Vista related improvements
  • Minor fixes


Version 4.30  (14-Feb-2007)
  • [+] Windows Vista fully supported: Flip 3D, thumbnail preview, use "Segoe UI" as default font, etc.
  • [+] Newsgroups functionality (this feature is only available in the Personal-Edition and in the Business-Edition)
  • [+] New Check-Macro recording method: Internet Explorer Macro (this method goes a completely different way to the already existing methods and can be used especially for Javascript based pages or logins, more infos can be found in the help file).
  • [+] Program configuration + Connections: Definition of advanced connection rules (for example limit simultaneous connections to a specified server/URL and wait x seconds between checks).
  • [+] EMails are queued in an outbox and no longer sent on-the-fly
  • [+] SSL support for sending emails (works now with gmail accounts)
  • [+] Mail server configuration: Multiple mail server configurations can be saved
  • [+] Firefox context menu extension to add the currently opened page to WebSite-Watcher (can be installed in the program configuration window)
  • [+] Program configuration / Check / Connections: The HTTP-Header "Accept-Language" can be configured
  • [+] Error log for failed bookmark actions (for example when WebSite-Watcher could not export a page to Local Website Archive)
  • [+] Bookmark properties: Alert on Initialization/Changes/Errors
  • [+] Report / New global switch: {wsw_encode_html} - use this option if you want to export into XML, RSS or OPML format.
  • [+] Report / New export template: Export to RSS feed
  • [+] Bookmark properties: If the Ctrl key is pressed while clicking the "Check Now" button, then the bookmark is opened automatically.
  • [+] Password protected pages with NTLM authentication fully supported
  • [+] Bookmark / Replace: Additional fields for bookmark actions, Check-Macro and PostData
  • [+] Bookmark / Replace: Option to replace in all/selected bookmarks
  • [+] Internal browser / context menu: "Open in new tab" and "Open in new window" supported (only if Internet Explorer 7 is installed)
  • [+] If WebSite-Watcher cannot check pages due to a wrong proxy configuration (eg. NTLM or username/password), then WebSite-Watcher aborts the check and displays a dialog with further details how to solve this issue
  • [+] Wizard for local files/folders
  • [+] Internal browser toolbar: "Test filter" can directly be called from the toolbar
  • [+] Internal browser toolbar: "Filter Assistant" can directly be called from the toolbar
  • [+] Adding RSS feeds from FireFox by clicking a RSS link works now when you select WebSite-Watcher as default feed reader in Firefox
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: "Additional info fields" added
  • [x] Changing the RSS template in the internal browser (by clicking the full/headlines link) changes the bookmark properties, too
  • [+] Improved handling of RSS feeds with unclosed tables (buggy feeds are fixed by WebSite-Watcher automatically) - Thread
  • [x] Improved processing of RSS feeds with unclosed HTML tags
  • [x] Internal check technology completely rewritten
  • [x] Internal check technology supports https protocol
  • [x] Send Mails: Better codepage handling
  • [x] Email configuration: "Secure MD5 authentication" must no longer configured explicitly
  • [x] Tweak (custom.ini): Alternative email server configuration had to be dropped due to the outbox functionality
  • [x] PDF files are now always opened in the external browser (instead of embedding them in the internal browser of WSW) to bypass some incompatibilities between the embedded IE and PDF files
  • [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" for pages with frames improved
  • [x] Internal Browser improvements
  • [x] Improved detection if a keyword is within changed content
  • [x] Better performance when checking RSS feeds
  • [x] Automatic page type detection improved when a server doesn't send any information - Thread
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher no longer enforces checks until an "unavailable" bookmark is initialized - Thread
  • [x] Partial check of binary files improved
  • [x] Tweak "UseProxyIfUrlExists=" improved - Thread
  • [x] Some conflicts with virus scanners and desktop search engines fixed (when these kind of tools block files)
  • [x] Some performance improvements when highlighting keywords
  • Many smaller changes/improvements
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could hang when downloading CSS files with abnormal addresses
  • [-] Windows Vista: Registering WebSite-Watcher as default Feedreader could cause a crash
  • [-] Character encoding could be broken in RSS feeds
  • [-] AutoWatch could be deactivated unexpectedly under rare circumstances - Thread
  • [-] If the option "Don't prepare anything for offline browsing" is enabled, then images are no longer downloaded (even if configured)
  • [-] Images were not displayed in the internal browser under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] Some compatibility problems fixed (WSW couldn't be started on certain systems)
  • [+] Uninstall can optionally remove program configuration and/or bookmark lists
  • [x] Uninstall works more precisely
  • Lots of smaller improvements


Version 4.22  (19-Oct-2006)
  • [+] Included CSS files fully supported. If CSS files include links to other CSS files, then they are downloaded instead of ignoring them (for example NY Times) - Thread
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could hang when opening the version with highlighted changes
  • [x] Improved detection of new postings or replies in table based forums
  • [x] Prevent highlighting of filtered parts improved
  • [x] wininet check technology improved (a server could report an error in combination with WebSite-Watcher under rare circumstances)
  • [-] Ctrl+Shift+Click on a link didn't work when the internal browser was maximized - Thread
  • [-] "Set properties in all selected bookmarks" didn't work immediately for several bookmark properties - Thread
  • [x] Internal html code parser improved, is now more compatible with browsers (pages with strange html code were displayed different to main browsers)
  • [x] Bookmark properties + "Don't prepare anything for offline browsing" improved
  • [x] Improved parsing of some un-typical server logs
  • [-] Several Unicode issues and incompatibilities fixed (especially on far east Windows versions). This should also fix the problem with disappearing filters as described in this Thread
  • [x] Detection and handling of pages in UTF-8 format is now compatible to web browsers
  • [-] Sorting bookmarks didn't work correctly in the external search window under certain circumstances
  • [-] FTP addresses with %20 (instead of blanks) in the URL could not be checked - Thread
  • [x] Copy/Move a bookmark file to another .wsw file also copies the status info (was blank in previous versions) - Thread
  • [x] Some wininet workarounds and internal timeout handling improved
  • [x] Check-Macros with session-ids improved
  • [-] Monitoring a picture URL could damage the downloaded file
  • [-] Ordering bookmark columns didn't always work correctly
  • [x] Standard highlight method improved
  • [-] Highlighting changes could take a very long time under certain circumstances
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could not highlight changes for some erroneous HTML code under rare circumstances
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could hang under certain (rare) circumstances
  • [x] Several dialog elements and menus are more compatible to Windows colors
  • [-] Maximize/Minimize the internal browser made the as hidden configured main toolbar visible - Thread
  • [-] Filter-Wizard: Wrong tab was selected under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] Unclosed noscript tags could cause empty pages - Thread
  • Chinese_GB, Finnish and Polish translations updated
  • Smaller fixes/improvements


Version 4.21  (19-Jul-2006)
  • [-] Version with highlighted changes could be malformed under certain circumstances
  • [-] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser": If a checked page contained frames, then the bookmark name wasn't initialized correctly
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when importing URLs from a text file that is opened exclusively by another program
  • French and Spanish translation updated


Version 4.20  (11-Jul-2006)
  • [+] Self-learning filter system. If you get a false positive (for example caused by a changing date), simply press the "Auto-Filter" button to learn the changes. WebSite-Watcher will create appropriate Ignore filters automatically. (see help file for detailed information)
  • [+] Don't highlight filtered parts (Auto-Filter and manually defined Ignore filters).
  • [+] RSS feeds - Headlines template: Highlighted keywords in the collapsed body are now shown in an extra line, this makes monitoring RSS feeds for keywords much more convenient.
  • [+] RSS feeds: Change between Full/Headlines template via links in the feed page
  • [+] Filter-Wizard can be closed with ESC - Thread
  • [+] Remember bookmark sorting after application restart
  • [+] New report template: Export to OPML
  • [+] Highlight changes + Watch filters: Highlight only matched results (this option is disabled by default and can be enabled in bookmark properties + Advanced + Highlight changes)
  • [+] Filter-Wizard: Filtered text from Watch-Filters is always displayed as strikeout
  • [x] Initializing a bookmark will write the new and the old version of a page. Due to this change WebSite-Watcher is able to highlight keywords in initialized pages
  • [x] If the whole content is filtered, then the new version is always saved to disk - Thread
  • [-] Some issues with dual monitors fixed - Thread
  • [-] Auto-filling the bookmark name didn't work correctly under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [+] Tweak for Extended Search: Text/Background color can be defined for highlighted search words - Thread
  • [+] New option: Ignore message "Whole content filtered" - Thread
  • [-] Some problems in combination with Javascript fixed - Thread
  • [-] Internal browser + "Open with" didn't work correctly under certain circumstances
  • [-] Some conflicts with Dual-Monitors fixed - Thread
  • [x] Master-Bookmarks are only sorted on-top when the sort direction is Name or URL or Alternative URL - Thread
  • [x] Javascript filtering rewritten - a problem was reported in Thread
  • [x] Filter-Wizard: Creation of Date/Time filters improved
  • [x] Several tweaks for highlighting changes
  • [x] Performance improvements
  • Many smaller improvements/fixes


Version 4.10  (02-May-2006)

Feature Highlights in version 4.10

  • Unicode support
  • Lots of improvements to the user interface
  • Lots of new features
  • Improved handling of RSS feeds
  • Improved handling of the check process and the filter system

Detailed list of changes:

4.10 Beta-14
  • [-] Filter/Keywords didn't work with some specific codepages - Thread
  • [x] Bookmark properties / Filter strings: A bookmark is no longer initialized automatically when clicking the "Strings" button - Thread
  • [x] Format of local directories improved - Thread
  • [x] Monitor local directory: Autofilling the name will use the directory name instead of "directory" - Thread
  • [-] Report: variable {wsw_folder_name_absolute} wasn't replaced correctly - Thread
  • [-] Add bookmarks via IE browser integration could fail for pages with unicode characters
  • Minor fixes
4.10 Beta-13
  • [+] New filter option: Ignore Upper/Lowercase. This filter is enabled by default, disabling this filter may be useful when you monitor local directories or mapped Linux drives for upper/lowercase changes.
  • [x] Improved detection of new/old/changed RSS feed postings
  • [x] More speed when highlighting changes in RSS feeds
  • [x] Decoding of some non-standard RSS feeds improved
  • [x] Monitor local directories: Format changed (makes it easier to create filter - see help file or Thread )
  • [x] Internal improvements of the filter system
  • [x] Extended/Improved detection of session-ids when recording Check-Macros
  • [-] Monitor local directories + Follow Links: Local directories with a dot could be handled falsely as files
4.10 Beta-12
  • [x] Keywords: Improved and more reliable way to detect if keywords are available within changes
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new character set option: Enforce Unicode. This option will always convert a page to Unicode/UTF-8 format, especially "&#xxxx;" encoded characters (this enables compatibility with the Filter system, Keywords feature, etc. in special situations)
  • [+] Autofilling the bookmark name with the first check: &#xxxx; characters are now converted correctly
  • [x] Ctrl+0 didn't open the online version of a page when the last check had errors - Thread
  • [x] Default font for the user interface is now Tahoma, works also with Clear Type - Thread
  • Smaller improvements and fixes
4.10 Beta-11
  • [-] Folders could not be deleted under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [-] Ampersands were not decoded correctly when auto-filling the bookmark name - Thread
  • [x] Filter-Wizard and source-code view (if filter "Ignore all HTML tags" is disabled): horizontal scrollbar is available
  • [-] Import bookmarks from exported .zip file: If a special folder was selected (HotSites, AutoWatch, ...), bookmarks could disappear. Now they are imported to the root folder in that case.
  • Several language files updated
4.10 Beta-10
  • [-] Prevent highlighting before/after text didn't work under certain circumstances - Thread
  • [x] Export of IE favorites verifies if the max. length of path+filename is exceeded. Furthermore the name is truncated automatically if the length is larger than 80 characters - Thread
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could hang under certain circumstances when the codepage of a page was defined as UTF8 but saved in another format
  • Smaller improvements
4.10 Beta-9
  • [-] WSW could change the folder when "Goto next change" was performed - Thread
  • [x] Improved Unicode handling - Thread
  • [-] Some stability issues fixed
4.10 Beta-8
  • [+] RSS-Feeds: Changes and removals in updated RSS postings are highlighted (similar to web pages)
  • [+] Folder property: Auto-Collapse folder when performing function "Open next unread bookmark"
  • [+] Monitor local files/directories: Unicode is now supported for local files and folders - Thread
  • [+] Bookmark properties: Unicode URLs can be inserted via the button on the right side of the URL field
  • [+] Check method "Internet Explorer/Browser" - new option: Wait delay after page has loaded. Ths option can be used for dynamically generated pages which change the content after the page has loaded, more info see help file and Thread
  • [+] Filter-Wizard works also when the filter "Ignore all HTML tags" is disabled - Thread
  • [+] Options + Advanced: Color of changed bookmarks can be customized
  • [+] Browser-Integration works with IE7 beta - Thread
  • [x] Improved detection of changed/new items in RSS feeds (eg. for google feeds)
  • [x] Improved handling of web pages with buggy UTF-8 encoding
  • [x] Improved handling of regular expressions with multibyte characters (eg. with chinese or japanese encoded pages)
  • [x] Monitor local diectories / Options + Tweak: CheckLocalFolderUseCreationDate=1 - if this flag is set, then the folder creation date is used instead of the folder modified date - Thread
  • [x] Monitor local diectories: All directories are listed before files - Thread
  • [+] Options + Tweak: FollowLinksShowDepth=1 - show the link depth directly after the chain symbol - Thread
  • [+] Options + Tweak: SuppressInitializedInfoBar=1 - suppress the yellow InfoBar which is displayed when opening initialized bookmarks - Thread
  • [x] Improved handling of css files in combination with absolute image addresses - Thread
  • [+] Predefined bookmark properties - Cookies: Predefined properties for "IE Cookies" and "Don't use Cookies" - Thread
  • [-] Follow-Links: If a Master-Bookmark was deleted, then the chains from Child-Bookmarks were not removed - Thread
  • [-] Some problems with folders and predefined bookmark properties fixed - Thread
  • [-] Filter-Wizard Bug with french characters - Thread
  • [-] Bookmark notes: Ctrl+I deleted the selected text instead of making it italic - Thread
  • [-] Fixed a false-positive with AntiVir/Heuristic Scan - Thread
4.10 Beta-7
  • [+] Ctrl+Alt+Enter in the bookmark list opens the bookmark in the external browser
  • [+] Options+Tweak: FolderCheckAndShowRecursive=0/1 - Thread
  • [x] Removed a not-really-working workaround for bookmarks with local files in Unicode format, a better solution is planned for one of the versions - Thread
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash under rare circumstances (seems to be a bug since v4.04, thanks for sending bug reports and error logs)
4.10 Beta-6
  • [-] Some conflicts with tray icon fixed - Thread
  • [-] Some problems with "Move bookmark file" feature fixed
  • [-] Minor tweaks
4.10 Beta-5
  • [+] Program options + Sounds + Allow default sounds: If disabled, WebSite-Watcher can be executed without any sounds or beeps (see Forum)
  • [+] Script / New BuiltIn function: GetBookmarkFilename (more details and examples see help file)
  • [+] Script / New commands and BuiltIn function: RasDial, RasHangup, RasIsConnected (more details and examples see help file)
  • [x] Internal Browser: Alt+Shift+Click on a link or toolbar buttons to open pages in the external browser has now finally been changed to Ctrl+Alt+Click to avoid conflicts with other shortcuts (see Forum)
  • [+] Ctrl+Alt+Doubleclick a selected bookmark: opens the bookmark in the external browser instead of the internal browser
  • [x] Improved performance with large bookmark lists
  • [x] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Time configuration is now available in a separate tab, similar to the bookmark properties (see Forum)
  • [x] All duplicated bookmarks are selected after a duplication process (see Forum)
  • [x] Improved data recovery after WSW crashed during a check
  • [-] MiniBrowser could crash under certain circumstances
  • [-] RSS styles were not saved correctly in the bookmark properties under certain circumstances (see Forum)
  • [-] OneTimeWatch menu was falsely enabled under certain circumstances (see Forum)
  • [-] Bug with Always-Stay-On-Top fixed, please report any side effects! (see Forum)
4.10 Beta-4
  • [+] New shortcut: Shift+Enter in the bookmark list opens the bookmark and maximizes the internal browser
  • [x] Ctrl+Enter (set focus to bookmarks) and Ctrl+Shift+Enter (set focus to folder)
  • [x] Internal Browser: Alt+Click on a link or toolbar buttons to open pages in the external browser has now been changed to Alt+Shift+Click to avoid conflicts with other shortcuts and mouse drivers (see Forum)
  • [x] Bookmark properties can be closed with ESC when a memo field is focused (see Forum)
  • [x] Improved detection of removed elements
  • [-] "Start minimized" didn't work correctly in combination with "Minimize on close" (see Forum)
  • [-] Timeout value could not be saved in the program settings (see Forum)
  • [x] Startup speed improved, especially for bookmark lists with many bookmarks
4.10 Beta-3 4.10 Beta-2
  • [+] If WebSite-Watcher isn't able to highlight changes (for example when only content has been removed), then WebSite-Watcher tries to display content removals
  • [x] ALT+Click on a link opens the link in the external browser (generally said, Shift+Click always opens a page in a new browser tab, ALT+Click always opens a page in the external browser)
  • [+] New shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+Enter sets the focus to the folder pane, and pressing Enter sets the focus to the bookmark list
  • [x] Ctrl+Enter always selects the bookmark list now (and no longer changes the focus between bookmark list and internal browser)
  • [-] Ctrl+Enter didn't work when the cursor was in an edit field of the internal browser
  • [+] Bookmark Action "Run program": New parameter %u (is replaced with the URL field)
  • [-] Pressing the Spacebar to scroll down the internal browser could cause a crash
  • [-] Assigning an rss template with the "Set properties in all selected bookmarks" feature caused that a check reported an "RSS/Atom feed has no entries" message
  • [-] Restore feature displayed a "Close" message box falsely (see http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=377)
  • [-] AutoWatch wasn't checked correctly in the TrayIcon context menu under certain circumstances (see http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1686)
  • [x] "Use internal browser" feature is back as global option (was available in the Tweak section in beta-1)
  • [x] Bookmark name in "Add from browser" dialog reintroduced (was removed in beta-1). Please note that this field can no longer be autofilled due to some unicode conflicts with browsers. If this field is not entered manually, it is autofilled with the first check.
  • [+] Replace All: User Agent added
  • [-] Date variables were not resolved correctly within Check-Macros under certain circumstances (see http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=402)
  • [x] "Test filter" dialog can be closed with the Esc key
  • Smaller fixes and some performance improvements
4.10 Beta-1
  • [+] Unicode Support
  • [+] Lots of changes and improvements to the user interface
  • [+] Add-To-Wizard improved, especially when adding forums
  • [+] Each folder can be assigned a different icon
  • [+] Insert new bookmark: the URL field is filled automatically if an URL is in the clipboard
  • [+] Three new toolbar buttons in the internal browser toolbar: "Bookmark Properties", "Restore previous version" and "Close internal browser"
  • [+] Browser integration: The window eye in the browser title bar opens the bookmarks in the currently opened/selected browser (and no longer always in the default browser)
  • [+] Internal browser / Open with external browser: Userdefined browsers can be configured in the drop-down-menu
  • [+] Encrypt bookmark files (Business Edition only). Passwords can be defined in File + Encrypt bookmark file
  • [+] New global error handling: Alert after 10 errors in series
  • [+] Open link in new browser tab with Shift+Click: If the Ctrl key is pressed, then the new tab will be opened in foreground if the option "Open new tabs in background" is enabled and vice versa.
  • [+] Browser toolbar: If the Alt key is pressed when clicking the Online/New/Old... version buttons, the page is opened in the external default browser
  • [x] New shortcut: Ctrl+Enter swaps the focus between bookmark list and internal browser
  • [+] Jump-To-First-Keyword feature added (can be used alternatively to the Jump-To-First-Change feature
  • [x] Jump-To-First-Change feature improved (jumps now to the first visible change in vertical direction, not to the first change in the source code)
  • [x] Drag&Drop of bookmarks with enabled Follow Links feature: All bookmarks of a follow-links set will be moved as a bunch, also when you move only one single bookmark of the set
  • [x] Improved handling of session-ids in forums
  • [+] Internal Browser: Tabs can be moved with Drag&Drop
  • [+] Internal Browser: Mouse back/forward buttons supported
  • [x] Report: Output format is now always in UTF-8 format
  • [x] Report: Syntax of field names changed, is now {FieldName} instead of <!--FieldName-->. This makes it more comfortable to create templates with WYSIWYG editors.
  • [+] Script: New function GetSelectedFolder
  • [+] Script: New function GetDayOfTheWeek. (1 for Monday, 2 for Tuesday, ...)
  • [+] Script: New functions Lowercase and Uppercase
  • LOTS OF SMALLER IMPROVEMENTS


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