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- Support added for plug-ins (plug-ins are used to add functionality to the applet).
- New "Plasma" plug-in (available separately).
- Active tokens (a very powerful feature that can be used to dynamically configure
the applet or to insert date, time, external data, etc. into the applet's display).
- New Quick Reference PDF document (provides a description of each applet parameter and attribute,
along with a cross-reference to detailed information in the documentation).
- New hideAnchors header attribute and action (used to hide or display anchor highlighting
for all anchors in the applet).
- New aDrawAll header attribute (if aDrawAll is enabled, then all anchors
are highlighted; otherwise, only the active anchor is highlighted).
- New mouseButton header attribute and action (used to enable or disable
the mouse button).
- New scrollHidden header attribute and action (if scrollHidden is enabled then
scrolling text/objects will not be drawn).
- Background color support for text anchors (anchorBgColor, hoverBgColor,
and clickBgColor header attributes).
- Background object support for text anchors (anchorBgObject, hoverBgObject,
and clickBgObject header attributes). These attributes can be used to place an
image or an animation behind text anchors.
- Colored outline support for text anchors (anchorBoxColor, hoverBoxColor,
and clickBoxColor header attributes).
- Anchor color attributes now support a value of "none" to override the automatic
assignment of hover and click colors.
- New wait and wait! actions (the wait pauses the event
queue for a specified number of milliseconds, while wait! pauses the event queue
and discards events that are received while the queue is paused).
- New channelCheck header attribute (executes specified actions whenever the
channel is checked for an update).
- New channelError header attribute (executes specified actions whenever the
an error occurs updating a channel).
- New lifespan attribute for animated image objects (defines the total length of
an animation in frames).
- New automatic scroll rate settings (used to allow the applet to automatically adjust
the scrollRate if the computer running the applet cannot sustain the frameRate).
- New SJS1, SJS2, SJS3, and SJS4 applet
parameters (used to insert data into the channel definition from applet parameters).
- New 1, 2, 3, and 4 actions
(these actions change the values assigned using the
SJS1, SJS2, SJS3, and SJS4 applet
parameters, respectively).
- New markerT and markerB reset action options (allows scrolling
to be repositioned to the location of a named marker tag).
- New <X> tag and </X> tag (used to collapse
object's line spacing so that objects that overlap vertically align identically on all platforms).
- New difference image effect (can be used to create "negative"
images and colorful effects).
- New protected color option for the adjust image effect (protects a specified
color from alteration during a brightness or contrast adjustment).
- Five new examples (numbers 26 through 30).
- New brightness algorithm for the adjust image effect (the original algorithm is still
available for compatibility).
- In order for an object within an anchor to be highlighted (for example, an outline highlight
drawn around an image), version 1 of the applet required that a color be specified for
the anchorColor, hoverColor, and/or clickColor attribute. This
version of the applet will use these colors if specified, but if none of the attributes are
specified then the applet will use the aUnderline color, or if a color is not specified
for the aUnderline color, then the highlight color will default to blue.
- A change was made to prevent the applet from "flickering" in Netscape Navigator if the
browser window is resized quickly.
- Error handling for automatic channel updates has been improved.
- Fixed a problem that occasionally prevented image effects from being applied to one or
more source images in an animated image object.
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