News
2006/01/25:
The remote control feature in Firefox 1.5 is broken (see bugid
312154).
A workaround is to copy the firefox startup script from Firefox 1.0.x
to the installation directory of Firefox 1.5.
The problem is fixed in Firefox 1.5.0.1rc1 (and later).
2005/06/15:
Released new version of sdtwebclient. Changes:
- Make opera use -newpage instead of -newwindow
This change makes sdtwebclient behave better with opera 8.0.
2005/03/01:
Released new version of sdtwebclient. Changes:
- Added more browser search paths (for Blastwave and Solaris 10)
- Prefer mozilla and firefox to netscape by default
- Added option to open tabs instead of windows
See Setup for download and installation instructions.
2005/03/01:
Redesign of the web page for sdtwebclient.
2005/02/28:
The sdtwebclient which comes with Solaris 10 is basically the
same as the one provided in current patches for Solaris 8/9, but it prefers
mozilla to netscape if it is installed. Solaris 10 comes with mozilla
version 1.7 installed in /usr/sfw/bin.
2005/02/04:
Sun has issued new versions of the patches for sdtwebclient for
Solaris 8 (revision 02 of 117049 and 117050 for SPARC/x86). These
contain the same version of the script as the previously
updated patches for Solaris 9, which showed some problems during
testing and doesn't have support for Firefox.
2004/12/07:
The Gnome desktop environment comes with a primitive script to
launch netscape when opening HTML files in the Nautilus file manager.
It's called /usr/lib/netscape-launcher. A quick test showed that
it can be replaced with a symbolic link to /usr/dt/bin/sdtwebclient.
Tested under Solaris 9 9/04.
2004/08/12:
Sun has issued new versions of the patches for sdtwebclient (revision
02 of 117114 and 117115 for Solaris 9 SPARC/x86). A quick test shows
some problems, and Firefox isn't supported either. So you still might
prefer my version of sdtwebclient.
2004/08/02:
Sun provides Netscape 7.0 in packages SUNWns* as sun_netscape.
We added this to sdtwebclient (Pointed out by a user).
2004/08/02:
Update web-page for Solaris 9 9/04.
2004/07/16:
Firefox support wasn't working with newer versions of Firefox,
seems like there was a change in remote control between v0.8 and
v0.9. We modified sdtwebclient for Firefox 0.9.1, it works now.
We updated the default browser list to include more browsers.
2004/07/06:
Change official web page location to
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/cde-www/.
Update web-page for Mozilla 1.7.
2004/06/28:
The Solaris patches mentioned below (117114/117115/117049/117050)
have been withdrawn by Sun, because sdwebclient doesn't accept URLs.
See
Sun Alert 57593 for details.
2004/04/28:
Sun has produced patches for sdtweblient
for Solaris 9 (117114-01 for SPARC, 117115-01 for x86) and
Solaris 8 (117049-01 for SPARC, 117050 for x86). They add
support for newer netscape versions, mozilla and opera. I have not
tested Sun's new sdtwebclient thoroughly yet, but you might want
to try this patch instead of my sdtwebclient first.
2004/04/08:
Update web-page for Solaris 9 4/04.
2004/02/12:
Update sdtwebclient and web-page to include Mozilla Firefox support.
2004/01/21:
Update web-page for Solaris 9 12/03, Mozilla 1.6, and Firebird 0.7.
2003/10/30:
Update sdtwebclient to auto-detect netscape version.
Updated setup documentation.
2003/10/17:
Update web-page for Mozilla 1.5, Opera 7.x, Mozilla Firebird.
2003/10/17:
Update sdtwebclient to include Mozilla Firebird support.
2003/09/03:
Update web-page for Solaris 9 8/03.
2003/07/03:
Update web-page for Solaris 9 4/03 and Mozilla 1.4.
2003/03/18:
First version.
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