Cloud Web Browser Development

2008-03-02T00:56:00.000-08:00

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cloudweb.gigacities.com

2007-12-17T23:53:00.000-08:00

I registered a new address at gigacities.com domain hosting site.

New website coming soon!

2007-12-08T08:41:00.000-08:00

I have made a new website for Cloud Web Browser. It's going to be online some day next week. This blog will continue providing you the latest news about development, and new website will be the first place for customers and people who want to download Cloud Web Browser without reading any kind of development stuff which is not easy to understand... :) Today I registered free 110mb.com address cloudweb.110mb.com and it will be the address where I set up brand new website. All the pages are already done and I'm working on some videotutorials regarding Cloud Web Browser and it's by-products Cloud Button, Cloud Slideshow and Cloud Image Editor.

More about Cloud Slideshow and Image Editor soon! Some early previews are going to be released soon! Keep your eye on this blog.

Timo Salomäki

Spanish translation for Cloud Web Browser

2007-12-03T09:03:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I got an e-mail from desga2. He has made a spanish translation for Cloud Web Browser. I haven't tested it yet but I think that it works. I checked the file and it contains many lines of spanish text.

Language file can be downloaded from here: http://tsalomaki.110mb.com/spanish.lang

To install the file you should put the file into language folder of Cloud WB.

Enjoy!

Downloads now hosted on my website

2007-11-30T00:25:00.000-08:00

New download hosted in my site:

http://tsalomaki.110mb.com/CloudWebBrowser.zip

Download is now hosted in there because there has been so many problems with Filefactory's download hosting. So now you can directly download Cloud Web Browser without any problems.

Patch for Cloud Web Browser

2007-11-19T07:19:00.000-08:00

There's a patch for Cloud Web Browser 0.5.9alphaFIX. It's released because there's missing one file from original copy of program. You need to have Cloud 0.5.9alphaFIX to be installed on your hard drive before installing this patch:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/4c96c5/

If you don't have Cloud installed, please download it from here (Zip file, approximately 5MB's):

http://www.filefactory.com/file/003f7d/

Urgent message!

2007-11-19T05:44:00.000-08:00

It may sound like I have permanently changed the engine from Gecko engine to Trident engine, but it's not my purpose. I made the change for the newest version because I wanted to introduce some new features and fixes to other people. There has been so many weeks without any updates so I thought that I must do something!

So here I am... With Cloud Web Browser 0.5.9alphaFIX, which shows you where Cloud Web Browser currently is, and please notice that there's no changes in engine or anything relating to that so it's not SO bad thing to show some new things with different engine.

I will give you a new download link for Cloud later this evening. I just have to add one dll to installation program so you are able to use browser.

Cloud Web Browser 0.5.9alphaFIX

2007-11-19T00:47:00.000-08:00

Fix release for 0.5.9alpha has been released. It containts Trident engine for showing web pages because there has been so many problems when using Mozilla ActiveX control. The new version also introduces new GUI which is very similar to Office 2007's graphical user interface. If you want to download Cloud Web Browser 0.5.9alphaFIX, please click the following download link:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/046d8e/

You may need Krypton Toolkit dll's to run the program, www.componentfactory.com
I will upload the dll's later this day, so you are able to run the program without downloading Krypton Toolkit.

Cloud Button

2007-11-15T03:12:00.000-08:00

As you know, there's some problems in Cloud Web Browser development so I decided to spend some time on some more useful work. That's how I made Cloud Button control for Windows forms. Here you can see an example of program running with those buttons:

Button control can be downloaded from here:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/25b9a0/

Example program is here:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/18421e/

Runtime error.. aaargh!!

2007-10-23T01:31:00.001-07:00

Runtime error!

Pure virtual function call

I hate that error notification. It occurs so often that it's very annoyning to use Cloud. It also crashes the program so it has to be restarted. Now I ask you if you know something about this? How to avoid it? It has something to do with Mozilla ActiveX control, but I'm still not sure why it happens.. :/

Back from holiday!

2007-10-22T07:19:00.000-07:00

I've been in a vacation for a week and now I'm back to work. I have made some new things into Cloud Web Browser and one of the biggest (you can easily see it) is new GUI for Cloud. I use Krypton Toolkit to render the form and some of it's controls. I got the suggestion from Microsoft Forums from user called robinjam. It was a good suggestion because I like the GUI much more now, it's user friendly and good looking. There is still one thing missing. Brand new CloudTabControl for rendering tabs in a great looking way. I don't like Microsoft's TabControl cause it's not easy to customize, so I make my own.

I have started RSS Feed reader project and I'm going to add it to the browser. Also I noticed that there's no support for favicons. Have to develop it soon... :)

A new website under construction

2007-10-12T00:23:00.000-07:00

No changes made yesterday... I spent 1-2 hours working on project's website. I realised that the project really needs a website, because then the people notice that: "Oh, it must be good! It has a WEBSITE!! Cool..." The website is made for people who want to download Cloud or they want to learn something about it. It doesn't tell you the latest news about development, because this blog is for doing that. The website is for spreading Cloud Web Browser all over the world.

As you can see, the website has a blue theme. I like blue, because it's so neutral and secure choice. The first public version of Cloud had green icons in its toolbar. I got negative feedback, because not everyone like green. I just thought that it's good looking, but it wasn't... It was boring and ugly...

Shortcuts enabled

2007-10-11T00:10:00.001-07:00

Yesterday I added a new tab page to preferences dialog. "Shortcuts" defines what shortcurts user wants to use in his browser. For example "g" means "Google" and "w" means wikipedia. Two days ago I implemented this functionality but yesterday I added an option which allows you to modify those shortcuts.

Example of shortcut.txt file:

1
[www.google.com]{g}(Search engine)

Line 1: Defines how many shortcuts is there in the file
Line 2-: Shortcut definitions. Between [] is the url, {} has the shortcut and the last one () is explanation.

If you check "Update automatically" checkbox, you can modify selected item by changing its values in textboxes (in the right side). Otherwise you have to push update button to save changed settings. "Add new"-button adds a new shortcut with settings defined in the textboxes

New sourcecodeview GUI

2007-10-10T02:40:00.000-07:00

Updated in version 0.5.9 pre-beta version

If you have used earlier version of Cloud you can see some differences in this source code view and original source code view. I updated it's GUI and now it's good to me..

New PCS Filter settings in preferences

I wanted to give users a change to add and delete Parental Control System's filters as they want. In the left side of tab you can see listbox filled with locked signs and text. They are strings which are searched from websites.

I also added shortcut url's to Cloud. You can write g or G to address bar and the application knows that you want to go to www.google.com. Today I'm going to make it possible to define those shortcuts by yourself.

2007-10-09T02:24:00.000-07:00

It's a known fact that all the windows in the program should be styled in a same way. I realised that source code view in the program is pretty ugly, so I decided to do something...

- Added some buttons to an empty toolbar
- Added icons to File menu
- Statusbar showing size of document

I also added some preferences for managing Parental Control System filters (Illegal words which activate "PCS banned site").
PCS is currently very simple because it only checks the content of some page and counts how many forbidden words it contains. If there is too much of them, the site is going to be banned and you can't view it before you disable PCS from preferences.

In future I'm going to make many improvements to this system. I have plans to add at least following features:

- Check for well-known pishing sites (Google API)
- Use lists of banned sites
- Make it easier to modify rate of banning

Cloud Web Browser Development - Official Blog

2007-10-09T01:30:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Cloud Web Browser's official development blog. Here you will find the newest information about development of my brand new web browser. Cloud WB uses Mozzilla's Gecko layout engine as it's page rendering engine and it's main features are:

- Tabbed Browsing
- Parental Control System
- Bookmarks
- Page history
- Mouse gestures
- Google search

and more...

Cloud WB is currently in version 0.5.9 Alpha and it can be downloaded from FileFactory.com:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/ab1e3f

Package size is approximately 9 megabytes and it contains Mozzilla ActiveX control. You have to install it before using Cloud. You need .Net Framework 2.0 library too:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en