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History of older WebSite-Watcher versions

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


Recent Version


Version 4.06  (17-Jan-2006)
  • [-] Follow-Links could hang under certain circumstances (see http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=351)
  • [-] Starting a check could cause a delay of 1 or 2 seconds under certain circumstances
  • [x] Some performance improvements
  • Some minor fixes/improvements

Version 4.05  (01-Dec-2005)
  • [x] Import all/new bookmarks from browser or text file: Improved detection for duplicates
  • [x] Backup feature: Improved detection if the entered target directory exists and the backup file can be created
  • [-] The main window was not restored correctly on dual monitor systems in rare cases
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher didn't work on old processors (Pentium 1 and lower)
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could not highlight changes in rare circumstances
  • [x] Improved export feature with stripped HTML tags (a problem was reported in this thread)
  • [x] After changing bookmark properties, any check optimizations are reset (a problem was reported in this thread)
  • [x] Improved link detection if the Follow-Links feature is enabled
  • [-] Open bookmark file: Remember last folder was broken after File+Reopen was used
  • [-] Changing tabs could reset the Goto-Next-Change feature (problem was reported in this thread)
  • [-] A new forum template could not be assigned when the forum layout has been changed because WSW reported an error and didn't download the latest version (problem was reported in this thread)
  • [-] The "headlines" RSS template could produce a Javascript error in the internal browser under certain circumstances
  • [x] Forum templates: Improved detection of last post dates
  • [-] Turning off an enabled Follow-Links feature didn't work correctly
  • [x] Assigning forum templates to phpbb forums will disable the use of Internet Explorer cookies because checking phpbb forums with IE cookies will cause a logout from the board due to the new security system of phpbb

Version 4.04  (28-Sep-2005)
Some v4.04 highlights:
  • Forum-Wizard
  • Ignore removed elements
  • Numerous performance improvements and lower CPU usage
  • New Backup/Restore feature
  • RSS/Atom-Feed support completely rewritten
  • Multi-User-Support
  • Lots of other new features and improvements, see detailed list below
Detailed list:
  • [+] Forum-Wizard: New method to monitor table based forums using Forum-Templates which can be created interactively in "Bookmark properties + Advanced + Highlight changes".
  • [+] New highlight option: Prevent highlighting before/after text
  • [+] New filter option: Ignore removed elements (alert only if content has been added/changed). This option is disabled by default and can be enabled in the bookmark properties, "More..." button.
  • [+] Small neat statistic in the About box
  • [x] Numerous performance improvements and lower CPU usage
  • [+] New feature to check for new WebSite-Watcher versions. Default setting is to show a dialog before the check is performed and can be changed to check-in-background and never-check. This feature checks only for new final versions (not beta releases) and is only available in the registered version.
  • [+] Filter-Wizard has a text view which can be used when the filter creation with the rendered HTML page fails.
  • [+] Internal tabbed browser: New tab icons for read pages
  • [+] New feature "Move bookmark file" (in Files menu) which will transfer a bookmark file and downloaded files to a new location
  • [+] Backup feature: backups can be restored
  • [+] Backup feature: new file format (WebSite-Watcher uses now the Zip64 file format which has practically no limits in size and number of files)
  • [+] Multi-User support: WebSite-Watcher no longer saves the configuration in the program folder. WebSite-Watcher should now work without problems when you are not logged on as administrator. If your bookmarks are stored in the program folder, you can use the new feature "Move bookmark file" to transfer your bookmarks to another location where you have full write permission.
  • [+] Handling and highlight technique of RSS/Atom-Feeds rewritten (as side effect all RSS/Atom feeds will be marked as changed with the first check). You can now select a template for RSS feeds in the general options.
  • [+] Internal preview / Options button: RSS-Style can be changed for the currently opened RSS/Atom feed
  • [+] Internal browser: If the internal browser is closed with unread browser tabs, WebSite-Watcher will re-open these tabs automatically next time. This behavior can be disabled in the general options.
  • [+] Toolbar: 3 new buttons to start user defined script files (must have the names button1.wws, button2.wws and button3.wws). You can also assign shortcuts to these 3 script files.
  • [+] Follow Links: Exclude parts from an URL when checking if an URL already exists in the list (for example a session-id which made the Follow-Links feature impossible)
  • [+] New script command: CloseBrowser
  • [+] New script command: WindowToTray
  • [+] New browser integration for RSS/Atom feeds. When you click a [XML] or [RSS] or [Feed] button on a website, WebSite-Watcher will add the feed as new bookmark.
  • [+] Folder properties / Automatic deletion: Don't delete bookmarks with flags
  • [+] NTLM proxy support for the wininet check technology
  • [x] Filter-Wizard window is now sizeable
  • [x] Several windows remember the last size
  • [x] Several memory and performance improvements
  • [x] Workaround for a bug in the wininet.dll where the wininet.dll could hang and block WebSite-Watcher in rare cases. WebSite-Watcher should no longer be affected by that bug and display a "wininet-error" message in the status column.
  • [x] Improved Abort-Handling of wininet check technology
  • [x] Export page in text format: Conversion from HTML to text format improved
  • [x] Check-Macros improved
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher no longer uses the URL as referrer if no referrer field is entered
  • [x] Improved save behavior when a bookmark file is blocked by a virus scanner
  • [x] Improved handling of image definitions in CSS (in previous versions of WSW the embedded browser could crash under certain circumstances)
  • [-] Check binary files by parts of the content didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] Filter function RegexToEnd didn't work correctly under certain circumstances
  • [-] Filter-Wizard didn't work when a bookmark file was opened from a UNC-path
  • [-] Script editor didn't highlight all parameters correctly (didn't affect the execution of scripts)
  • Several smaller improvements and fixes
  • [x] "Goto-Next-Change" no longer reloads the page
  • [x] Follow Links: Assigning folder properties improved
  • [x] Internal browser window / Add to bookmarks: You can now select the folder for the new bookmark
  • [x] Browser integration for unicode version of Avant browser supported
  • [+] Slovak translation added
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher was not terminated properly during a Windows shutdown when more than one browser tab was opened
  • [-] Folder properties -> Assign bookmark properties -> Images: "Override default" setting is now set automatically in the bookmark properties
  • [x] If WebSite-Watcher crashes and an error box is displayed, then this error box is removed automatically after a given time and WebSite-Watcher can continue working. That means, that a crash no longer blocks WebSite-Watcher until a button is pressed.
  • [+] New custom.ini setting: PerformCheckOnlyIfUrlExists=URL;ValidText based on forum threads http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=167 and http://www.aignes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=156 - see help file for more details
  • [x] New custom.ini setting: GotoNextChangeReloadBrowser=1 disables the optimized Goto-Next-Change feature which was introduced in Beta-5. The new optimized technique was not compatible with screen readers of blind users.
  • [-] Several fixes/improvements (reported in the forum)
  • [-] Bookmarks could not be exported to Internet Explorer via Drag&Drop when a bookmark with the same already existed[-] WebSite-Watcher could crash under certain circumstances when checking pages
  • [-] Some smaller bugs fixed
  • [-] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" could block several functions in WebSite-Watcher, runs now completely in a background thread
  • [-] Manual character set definition didn't work correctly with RSS/Atom feeds
  • [-] Some sizeable windows didn't display properly with large window fonts
  • [-] Internet Explorer Browser Integration could not be configured correctly in the general options
  • [x] Creating new folder is now enabled while a check is running
  • [-] The "Enter" key works now in all browser tabs (worked in the first tab only)


Version 4.03  (09-Mar-2005)
  • [+] Disabled bookmarks can now be checked via the "Check bookmarks (Extended options)" dialog or the "Check Now" button in the bookmark properties
  • [+] New help file added
  • [+] Filter-Wizard supports foreign codepages (eg. you can create filters for Russian pages on an English windows)
  • [+] Atom-Feeds supported
  • [+] New layout and separate highlight settings for RSS/Atom feeds to make changes in RSS/Atom feeds better readable
  • [+] RSS: Comments supported. WebSite-Watcher displays a link if comments are available
  • [+] RSS: Enclosures supported. WebSite-Watcher displays a link if an enclosure is available
  • [+] Wizard to add new bookmarks
  • [+] Filter-Wizard: The selected text of the filter "Start to selection", "Selection to selection" and "Selection to end" can now have changing numbers or a date/time format.
  • [+] Filter-System supports 3 new commands: StartToRegex, RegexToRegex and RegexToEnd. If you create filters without the filter wizard, then it's recommended to use these commands instead of regular expressions which include ".*"
  • [+] Open new/old/online page via toolbar buttons of internal browser: If the Shift key is pressed while clicking the toolbar buttons, then the page is opened in a new tab.
  • [+] Synchronize two bookmark files
  • [+] New Script command: SyncBookmarkFiles
  • [+] New script command: WaitUntilTime
  • [+] Script language: if statements
  • [+] Script language: Label and Goto statements
  • [+] Script language: Variables
  • [+] Send HTML-Mail for image URLs supported
  • [+] MiniBrowser: Added charset support if a charset definition isn't available in the page source but in the server log
  • [+] Macro-Recording: WebSite-Watcher adds cookie entries to the variable list
  • [+] Macro-Recording: WebSite-Watcher replaces parts of the URL with sessionID variables
  • [+] Browser integration for Opera 8 added
  • [+] Korean, Spanish and Norway language file added
  • [+] External CSS files of "alternate stylesheets" are now correctly handled and downloaded
  • [x] Improved internal memory management to prevent memory fragmentation
  • [x] Closing browser tabs with the context menu will close the right clicked tab instead of the active tab (when right clicking an inactive tab)
  • [x] Script language: The commands MessageBox and QuestionBox can display Variables
  • [x] Script lanugage: For command QuestionBox the parameter /ContinueOnYes is no longer automatically assumed and must be defined explicitely. The result of the question is also available with the function GetQuestionBoxResult.
  • [x] Usage of Internet Explorer Cookies improved
  • [x] Unread/disabled are now displayed as unread bookmarks (instead of disabled bookmarks as in previous versions)
  • [x] Bookmark filter system: some user interface changes
  • [x] Check-By-Date and Check-By-Size rewritten: Now WebSite-Watcher saves always a HTML page with the checked properties instead of opening the files directly from the web. This change makes the flag "Save file to disk" completely obsolete and has been dropped.
  • [x] Script command "BackupToZip" supports now the variables {bookmarkdir} and {programdir}
  • [x] Several changes to the beginner mode.
  • [x] Handling of browser identification changed. WebSite-Watcher uses now the latest Internet Explorer identification by default and can be overwritten optionally.
  • [x] RSS-Feeds: If an item has no title, then the first few characters of the description are used for the title
  • [x] RSS decoding improved
  • [x] Improved detection if a page is a RSS feed
  • [x] Some improvements and fixes with the macro system
  • [x] SendMail: Log file is written directly to the bookmark log instead of general log file
  • [x] Improved character set handling for frames
  • [x] Macro-System: If no URL was specified in the ACTION parameter of a FORM tag, the page address is used automatically (macros didn't work in such a case)
  • [x] Internal browser: If the integrated Popup-Blocker is disabled, then Popups are no longer opened in a new tab to avoid conflicts where WebSite-Watcher could be minimized from the popup. Popups are now always opened in an IE window...
  • [x] Improved: don't use cached pages
  • [x] Highlight differences in text files: Speed significantly improved
  • [x] FTP-Protocol: Speed of long directory listings significantly improved
  • [x] Send HTML-Mail: If WebSite-Watcher cannot remove Javascript correctly from a page, then the email is sent as text format (with attached changes) instead of the HTML format to prevent conflicts with several EMail clients.
  • [x] Removing Javascript improved
  • [x] Filter-Wizard: Improved support for pages in UTF-8 format
  • [x] Highlight changes for files in UTF-8 format could display wrong characters when the page contained encoded characters (for example ä)
  • [x] Improved detection of the used character set in a page
  • [x] Improved detection and handling if a server reports the wrong file size
  • [x] Import RSS feeds from OPML file improved (RSS feeds were probably not found in some buggy OPML files)
  • [-] Bookmark time settings didn't work, if the start-time was larger than the end-time, eg. Only/Don't check between 22:00 and 6:00
  • [-] Workaround for some buggy CSS commands which could crash the embedded Internet Explorer
  • [-] Dialog "Test Filter" could crash with large pages where no old version was available
  • [-] Some problems with opening tabs in background fixed
  • [-] If a keyword could not be highlighed, then the whole page wasn't displayed correctly under some rare circumstances.
  • [-] Disabled+Unread bookmarks were not shown in the "changed folder" and not counted in the Info-Win
  • [-] Highlight differences didn't work properly for content which was placed within the PRE-Tag
  • [-] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser": Fixed a memory leak which could result in huge memory usage after a lot of checks
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher crashed if a bookmark was moved from the trash to the root folder with the "Move-Bookmark-To" dialog
  • [-] Sending HTML Mails didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] A message box could be hidden behind the application window under certain circumstances
  • [-] Special characters in highlighted changes were not displayed correctly under some rare circumstances
  • [-] Feature "Highlight Images" didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] Problems with some untypical redirections fixed
  • [-] Macro Execution: Some fixes and improved handling of dynamically generated session IDs in forms which work with the GET command
  • [-] SendMail: A mail could get corrupted with the %changes50% variable in the subject field, when the replaced value contained line breaks
  • [-] SendMail: HTML-Emails could be truncated under some rare circumstances
  • [-] MiniBrowser plus WebSite-Watcher could be terminated unexpectedly under Win2k when very long entries in the Postdata-History were available


Version 4.02  (06-Dec-2004)
  • [+] Internal browser: Tabbed browsing supported
  • [+] Import RSS feeds from OPML file (Import menu)
  • [+] New highlight option: Highlight new/changed images. With that option WebSite-Watcher will draw a border around new/changed images. This option works only when images are downloaded or when you use absolute addresses to display images, it is disabled for the option "replace images with local GIF". If you download images, WebSite-Watcher will use the content of the image files to determine if an image has been changed. If you use absolute image addresses, then WebSite-Watcher will only compare the filename of an image to determine, if it is a new/changed image. Please note, that a web page is only marked as changed, when a textual change in a page is detected, and not when only an image has been changed.
  • [+] Open page via URL field in internal browser: Support of IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names), also when no IE plugin for IDNs is installed
  • [+] SendMail - New subject variable: %changes50% - displays the first 50 characters of the highlighted changes
  • [+] SendMail - New body variable: %changes% - displays the highlighted changes
  • [+] Bookmark files are now opened exclusively. That means you cannot open the same bookmark file from different workstations at the same time. This will avoid data loss when a bookmark file would be opened simultaneously from different users.
  • [+] New custom.ini [Misc] setting: JumpToFirstChangeRendered=1
    By default WebSite-Watcher jumps to the first change in the source code of a web page. With this option WebSite-Watcher will jump to the first change in vertical direction of the rendered page, and not to the first change in the source code (which is not always the first visible from top). This method works only with the internal browser.
  • [+] New custom.ini [Misc] setting: ShowLastChangeMarkerRendered=1
    With that option the last change marker should be displayed after the last visible change in vertical direction instead of last change in the HTML source code (which is the default technique). This feature works only with the internal browser and if the ini setting "JumpToFirstChangeRendered=1" is set.
  • [+] Extendend Search: Highlight searched words
  • [+] Extendend Search: Jump to first found word
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: Set focus to folder
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: Import Bookmarks from WebSite-Watcher Export file
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: Export Bookmarks to WebSite-Watcher Export file
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: New browser tab (Ctrl+T by default)
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: Close all browser tabs (Ctrl+Shif+W by default)
  • [+] Shortcut can be assigned for: Set focus to browser URL field (Ctrl+U by default)
  • [+] New script command: MarkAsVisited
  • [+] Scripting language - "Quit" command: "/IfNoUpdates" parameter added
  • [+] The three additional info fields (which can be entered in bookmark properties/advanced) can now be displayed as columns in the bookmark list
  • [+] The dialogs "Note" and "Show all column fields" have been merged, also the additional info fields are available in this new dialog.
  • [+] New option for check technology "Internet Explorer / Browser": Follow Javascript redirections
  • [+] Find (Ctrl+F) searches also in the 3 additional info fields
  • [+] Replace dialog: The fields can be selected where a text should be replaced
  • [+] Macro recording: New option to record a Session-ID which is part of the path of an URL (and not part of parameters after the ? character)
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: "Highlight changed images" added
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Keywords have an append switch
  • [+] Separate import/export settings for Mozilla added
  • [x] Bookmark properties / Advanced: Sections sorted by more relevance
  • [x] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: All filter settings are now available
  • [x] If a RSS feed has no description or date, then the phrases "no description" and "no date" are no longer displayed
  • [x] If no referer is entered in the bookmark properties, then the URL itself is used as referer (instead of no referer). Some sub pages in a site can have a special referer check, without such a referer a sub page cannot be displayed in rare circumstances.
  • [x] Follow Links: Several optimizations (should now work smarter for longer lists)
  • [x] Improved published-date detection in RSS feeds
  • [x] The outdated import/export settings for NS3/4 have been removed
  • [x] PostData can now contain carriage return/line feeds (is encoded automatically by MiniBrowser)
  • [x] Bookmark properties: Button "More" is now enabled when inserting new bookmarks
  • [x] Folder names can no longer contain characters which are not allowed in Windows filenames (eg. slashes or backslashes)
  • [x] Improved handling of character sets in downloaded sites. If a page has no charset definition in the page source and server log, then WebSite-Watcher tries to detect if the page is in UTF-8 format, otherwise ISO-8859-1 is assumed
  • [x] Decoding of some special characters in RSS feeds improved (eg. RSS feeds from Sourceforge.net were not decoded correctly)
  • [-] Checking technology "Internet Explorer / Browser" didn't work correctly with pages in UTF-8 or Unicode format
  • [-] Bug with checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" and non-default codepages fixed
  • [-] Some encoding problems in HTML-Emails fixed
  • [-] "Update on Keyword" didn't work if a page was saved in UTF-8 format and the keywords contained characters > 128
  • [-] Highlight keywords didn't work if a page was saved in UTF-8 format and the keywords contained characters > 128
  • [-] "Ignore update" feature didn't work if a page was saved in UTF-8 format and the ignore text contained characters > 128
  • [-] Filling a form didn't work in MiniBrowser under some rare circumstances
  • [-] Fixed a cookie bug which could block a check
  • [-] Images could not be downloaded under some rare circumstances
  • [-] MiniBrowser could crash under certain circumstances when recording a macro
  • [-] Bookmarks / Troubleshooting section: "Ignore document css" and "Ignore document text" didn't work under several circumstances
  • [x] Several memory optimizations


Version 4.01  (12-Oct-2004)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Actions / SendMail: HTML-Mails supported
  • [+] New script command: ImportBookmarks - imports bookmarks from a text file, from browser bookmarks or from a WebSite-Watcher Export file. If you place this command for example to the autostart.wws script file, then you can automatically import new bookmarks from your browser when you start WebSite-Watcher.
  • [+] "Add from browser" dialog: Check Now button added, dialog is now larger
  • [+] New function "Move bookmarks to folder". You can also assign a shortcut to this function.
  • [x] Improved handling of character sets in downloaded sites. If a page had no charset definition in the page source, then the page was probably displayed with a wrong character set. If no definition is available (document source or server log), WebSite-Watcher uses now automatically ISO-8859-1
  • [x] Improved detection and handling of character sets in RSS feeds
  • [x] All usermade entries in the wswatch.ini file are now moved to the file custom.ini (file is converted automatically). The file wswatch.ini is now used exclusively by WebSite-Watcher.
  • [+] File+Open can now open BAK files of the bookmark lists (by changing the file type)
  • [+] If a bookmark file is damaged, WebSite-Watcher displays now an appropriate message box with infos how to proceed
  • [+] File+Open remembers last directory
  • [+] Import/Export WebSite-Watcher Export file remembers last directory
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Option "Suppress frameset warning" added
  • [+] Window caption of the "Add from browser" dialog contains the bookmark filename
  • [+] Browser Integration for Mozilla 1.8 Alpha added
  • [-] Some bugs with cookies fixed (websites couldn't be accessed under some rare circumstances)
  • [-] Some memory leaks fixed
  • [-] Some bugs with function "Add from browser" fixed


Version 4.00  (22-Sep-2004)
  • [+] Check-Macros: With Macros WebSite-Watcher goes a new way to automate logins, queries with forms, etc. These check macros can be recorded interactively with the tool MiniBrowser and should support all kind of logins (session-id based, cookie based, etc.). Check-Macros replace the Advanced Login System.
  • [+] Filter Wizard to create Ignore and Watch filters interactively
  • [+] Built in scripting language to automate tasks in WebSite-Watcher
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Checking method: New method "Automatic". This method chooses the methods "check-by-content", "check-by-date" or "check-by-size" automatically or uses a combination of them. It can also speed up checking of static websites enormously if there is more than one check per day.
  • [+] Browser Integration: added menu entry to Internet Explorer context menu
  • [+] WebSite-Watcher uses now cookies from Internet Explorer by default. You can change the cookie system or disable cookies for each bookmark in the bookmark properties.
  • [+] Bookmark properties / New online technology: "Internet Explorer / Browser" - you can use this technique when WebSite-Watcher is not able to check a website or when a website can only be displayed with Javascript
  • [+] New bookmark filter: Minimum number of changes
  • [+] New bookmark filter: Watch all changes in link addresses
  • [+] New bookmark filter: Watch all changes in image addresses
  • [+] New bookmark filter: Sort words. You can use this filter to sort all words in the content which is used to compare new/old version. Useful when only the order of some phrases is changed without any other changes.
  • [x] Bookmark properties / Filter all HTML tags: non-breaking-spaces ( ) are now filtered with this filter
  • [+] Bookmark properties / keywords: New option "Keywords must be in changes" or "Keywords must be anywhere in the site"
  • [+] Internal browser position can now be on right / bottom (optional)
  • [+] General options: settings for internal browser are now in a separate tab
  • [+] Url field of internal preview: If no full address has been entered, then WebSite-Watcher adds www. and .com automatically (eg. aignes + Enter is expanded to www.aignes.com)
  • [+] Bookmark properties: dialog has now a "Check now" button
  • [+] General options / View(2): You can define a separate time format for the current day (eg. only the time without the current date).
  • [+] Tools menu: MiniBrowser is now included in WebSite-Watcher (the separate download is no longer needed)
  • [+] MiniBrowser: Many smaller improvements
  • [+] New program icon
  • [+] For bookmarks with enabled "Follow Links" feature WebSite-Watcher opens the locally saved file instead the online URL when you click a link in the internal browser
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Check(1): Ignore server error codes (for example when a server always sends error 404 for a good and existing site)
  • [+] New wswatch.ini setting to handle the bookmark double click operation ([Misc] BookmarkDblClickOpens=web or BookmarkDblClickOpens=new)
  • [+] Report: Select/Unselect bookmarks in a folder via the context menu (only if the folder view is active)
  • [+] Report: Two new fields "wsw_url_date_checked" and "wsw_url_filename_no_ext"
  • [x] Improved detection if a bookmark already exists in the list when inserting new bookmarks
  • [x] Internal improvements of the filter system
  • [x] Opening of bookmark properties works faster
  • [x] Internal browser: "Options" and "Add" menu have been merged
  • [+] Browser-Integration: Maxthon browser supported
  • [x] Improved detection of file extension (eg. for images with wrong file extension)
  • [+] For FTP addresses WSW watches and displays now also the comments from the log file
  • [+] Export/Import bookmarks to/from WebSite-Watcher Export file (extension is *.zip)
  • [+] Option to suppress frameset warnings (bookmark properties / Advanced / Check(1))
  • [+] In the bookmark properties you can access some functions which were only available in the main window (eg. show log file)
  • [+] Each bookmark has 3 additional info fields (advanced section) which can also be exported with the Report/Export feature
  • [+] Browser-Integration / Bookmark menu: WebSite-Watcher shows flags if available
  • [x] Duplicate bookmark: WebSite-Watcher duplicates all selected bookmarks (not only the first selected)
  • [x] Improved detection of incomplete downloaded framesets/frames
  • [x] Right mouse menu -> Support Info: The selected bookmark can be sent via email directly from this dialog
  • [x] The advanced login system has been removed, please use Check-Macros in future to watch password protected sites
  • [+] Check site with frames: The frame URLs (displayed in blue boxes) are now filtered automatically when comparing the new/old version to prevent false positives when only the frame URLs are changed, but not the content
  • [+] The € symbol (€ and €) is now handled correctly in the filter definition and keywords feature
  • [x] Folder properties: "Override bookmark properties" feature rewritten. The properties are now assigned directly to the bookmark properties instead of overwriting them. This change was necessary to be compatible with an upcoming synchronize feature.
  • [+] Internal browser uses post command, referrer and username/password (if specified in bookmark properties) when you open an online document
  • [x] Function "Compare versions..." improved, there are now two different display modes
  • [+] General options: The color of removed elements can be defined (Changes tab)
  • [x] Bookmark properties / Exact highlight method improved
  • [x] Quality of Check-by-date and Check-by-size improved if the server send dummy values with the HEAD command
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow Links: You can now specify the link depth (this new system is not compatible with the Follow Links feature of previous WSW versions. That means you have to configure the Follow Links settings newly in this version)
  • [-] Some bugs with highlighting of changes fixed
  • [-] Regular expressions didn't work with non-standard blanks
  • [x] Internal archive removed, please use Local Website Archive instead of the internal archive.
  • Tons of smaller changes, fixes and improvements


Version 3.60d  (13-May-2004)
  • [+] Support of IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)
  • [x] Check-By-Date and Check-By-Size improved
  • [x] Improved handling of POST command
  • [+] All complete language files are now included in the setup package of WebSite-Watcher
  • [+] After installation WebSite-Watcher shows a configuration wizard
  • [+] wswatch.ini / [Misc] / AutoWatchCountdownSec=nnn: With this optional entry WebSite-Watcher uses a fix AutoWatch countdown value instead of the automatically calculated countdown (of the bookmark property settings). nnn is the number of seconds.
  • [-] Links with brackets were not converted correctly in the downloaded page
  • [-] Under certain circumstances it was possible that opened dialogs went to background and the main form wasn't responsive in this case
  • [-] Some redirection problems fixed
  • [x] Some improvements with wininet.dll techniques
  • [x] Browser integration template for Avant Browser updated
  • [x] Browser integration for latest version of MyIE2 updated
  • [x] Some smaller fixes and improvements


Version 3.60c  (10-Feb-2004)
  • [+] Browser integration for Mozilla Firefox added
  • [x] SendMail: X-Mailer removed
  • [-] Closing WebSite-Watcher could cause a crash under rare circumstances, when the internal browser was opened
  • [-] Dialog "Test filter": the submenu entry "Filter all HTML tags" could not be disabled
  • [-] Insert userdefined regex in "Test filter" dialog caused an access vialotion
  • [-] Some problems when checking local HTML files fixed


Version 3.60b  (28-Jan-2004)
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher no longer uses temporary files to save the bookmark list - this should prevent some problems with blocked temp files
  • [x] SendMail: For attached web pages WebSite-Watcher uses now the content type "text/html" instead of "application/octet-stream". This should avoid conflicts with some email tools and security settings.
  • [-] Some problems with creating new directories fixed
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when renaming folders in the beginner mode


Version 3.60a  (22-Jan-2004)
  • [x] RSS with encoded HTML tags are now displayed correctly
  • [x] RSS in UTF-8 format supported
  • [x] Improved detection of RSS with exotic formats
  • [x] The image settings in the bookmark properties work now also for RSS feeds
  • [x] When inserting URLs with Powerpoint extension, WebSite-Watcher will automatically choose the check method check-by-filedate
  • [+] Browser integration for Smart Explorer added
  • [+] General options / Email: New button "Send test mail"
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher uses now IE6 as browser identification instead of IE5.5 (can also be changed in general options and bookmark properties)
  • [-] Some conflicts with untypical UTF-8 definitions fixed
  • [-] Redirection bug in combination with proxies fixed
  • [-] Bugfix: Save file to disk was always enabled when editing a bookmark
  • [-] Some problems with invalid time settings fixed (WSW could crash under certain circumstances
  • [x] Several internal improvements


Version 3.60  (08-Jan-2004)
3.60 final
  • [+] Localizations can be installed directly in WebSite-Watcher (Options menu)
  • [x] Some problems with Mozilla as non-standard browser fixed
  • [x] Some minor bugs fixed
3.60 Beta-18
  • [x] WSW no longer uses the windows temp directory to save the file list
  • [x] Report / variables for links to local files: file:// protocol is now added automatically (fixes a problem with Opera and blanks in the URL)
3.60 Beta-17
  • Some third party components updated
  • Some smaller bugs fixed
3.60 Beta-16
  • [x] Internal browser / Wait until Shift key is unpressed before opening a link is now optional (disabled by default) and can be enabled with wswatch.ini / [Misc] / BrowserShiftClickWaitUntilUnpressed=1
  • [x] Some improvements/fixes with external CSS files
  • [x] Some older and no longer needed options removed
  • Language files for translators updated
3.60 Beta-15
  • [x] Internal browser / Shift+Click opens link in new browser: WebSite-Watcher waits until the Shift key is unpressed before opening the link. (Workaround for some tabbed browsers which have problems when the Shift-key is pressed while opening an URL)
  • [+] FTP adresses with port are now supported
  • [x] If explorer crashes then the WSW tray icon is restored automatically
  • [-] Some problems with enabled option "Alert on error" fixed
  • Lots of smaller fixes and improvements
3.60 Beta-14
  • [+] Bookmark action / Add to Local Website Archive: Archive can be selected
  • [+] If global check method is wininet.dll then WSW shows a message box when Internet Explorer is in offline mode
  • [-] Some stability issues with Win9x fixed
  • [-] Fix: Internal browser could crash under certain circumstances when closing WSW
  • [+] Browser integration: Application template for GreenBrowser added
  • Several smaller fixes
3.60 Beta-13
  • [+] Browser Integration for Sleipnir added
  • [x] *.gz files are now automatically checked by file date when inserting new bookmarks
  • [x] If you change the check method (check by content/date/size) then the option to save the file to disk is chosen automatically (can be changed manually afterwards)
  • [-] wswatch.ini setting "[Misc] BrowserButtonMoveLeft=" didn't work
  • [-] Some smaller issues with popup blocker of internal browser fixed
  • [-] Some bugs with login system fixed
  • Language files for translators updated
  • Some smaller improvements
3.60 Beta-12
  • [+] General Options -> Archive: You can enable the usage of Local Website Archive as replacement of the internal archive
  • [+] The status column shows an appropriate hint if a website doesn't contain entered keywords
  • [+] Support of external CSS files which are included with the @import command
  • [+] Downloaded websites with UTF-8 format and missing UTF-8 definition are now displayed properly in the internal browser
  • [-] Some bugs with wildcard filter fixed
  • Several smaller bugfixes and improvements
3.60 Beta-11
  • [+] FTP files can now be checked by content (by default WebSite-Watcher checks FTP files via the directory listing. When you select the method "check by content" Website-Watcher downloads the whole file / useful for text files on FTP servers)
  • [+] Check process: if a website is skipped then the status column shows the reason
  • [+] Internal browser / add button: opened websites can directly be added to Local Website Archive. (The latest freeware version of Local Website Archive has no restrictions when adding documents directly from Website-Watcher, so you can use it as replacement of the internal archive).
  • [+] Browser integration: The menu of the Website-Watcher eye contains a new entry to add websites to Local Website Archive
  • [+] Local Website Archive can directly access to the internal browser of WebSite-Watcher and add websites without opening it in the internal preview of LWA.
  • [x] Restore previous version: The status column shows a hint if the function was properly executed.
  • Some small bugs fixed
3.60 Beta-10
  • [+] Highlight keywords / whole word support: To highlight only whole words you must place the keywords in quotes.
  • [+] Update only if website contains defined words / whole word support: Whole words must be placed in quotes.
  • [+] If the internal browser is maximized, then the window caption shows name and url of the last opened bookmark
  • [+] Internal browser / Toolbar: Submenu of options button has new entry "Bookmark properties" to open properties of the last opened bookmark
  • [+] Report window has "open website" button
  • [x] Several internal improvements/fixes
3.60 Beta-9
  • [+] New internal filter engine. This new filter engine provides also simple wildcard filtering (StartText*EndText, *EndText, StartText*). Wildcard filtering can be used in bookmark filter, keywords and "Don't alert when website contains...". Regular expressions must now be placed in "regex(" and ")"
  • [x] Dialog "Userdefined filter" improved
  • [x] Dialog "Test filter" improved
  • [x] Dialog "Compare versions" works now much faster
  • [-] Some conflicts with renaming of folders fixed
3.60 Beta-8
  • [x] Internal browser: Popup-Blocker improved
  • [x] Improved error handling for FTP files
  • [-] Some smaller fixes
3.60 Beta-7
  • [+] General options / Check: You can select the technology how websites are checked. You can select between the internal method (recommended) and the Internet Explorer technology (wininet.dll)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced / Check: You can select the technology how a website is checked. You can select between the internal method (recommended) and the Internet Explorer technology (wininet.dll)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced / Cookies: You can use Internet Explorer Cookies instead of the internal cookie system. In this case you must not determine the cookies with the free add-on MiniBrowser, it's enough when the cookies are stored with Internet Explorer.
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Highlight method can now be changed
  • [-] Some conflicts with redirections and ports fixed
  • [-] Sending mails no longer consumes a lot of CPU usage
  • [-] Several internal improvements
3.60 Beta-6
  • [+] New special folder in main window displays the last search result of the "Extended Search"
  • [+] Extended Search / button "Focus": closes the search window and selects the search results folder in the main window
  • [+] Find duplicates (in "Search" menu)
  • [+] New context menu entry for bookmarks in special folders (eg. folder AutoWatch): Select bookmark in related folder
  • [x] Extended Search: Search string in quotes indicates an exact search phrase (eg. "word1 x" word2 searches for documents which contain "word1 x" and "word2").
  • [+] Extended Search: Open URL of opened bookmark in external browser (button in internal browser has now drop down menu)
  • [x] SSL: WebSite-Watcher can now handle secure websites with expired certificates
  • [+] New command line parameter /SEARCH - starts "extended search" window
  • [x] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: The name of the bookmark can be changed
  • [-] Bugfix in report with nested folders: report should be faster now
  • [x] Several internal improvements
3.60 Beta-5
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced / Highlight: New highlight method for table based forums. WebSite-Watcher tries to highlight a whole line (instead of only the changed columns) when new postings or answers are available
  • [-] Change of global date strings no longer causes false positives
  • [x] Several improvements when saving websites to disk
  • [x] Improved and more secure file format for some internal files
  • [x] Internal browser / Open links in new window with default browser: due to some side effects with this feature (introduced in Beta-1) only Shift+Click can open a link with the default browser. If you use the context menu, then links are opened again in Internet Explorer .
  • [-] Bookmarks can be checked with Ctrl+K more than one time when AutoWatch countdown is running
  • [-] When adding bookmarks from the browser (via the browser integration), WebSite-Watcher wasn't displayed as top window under certain circumstances
  • [+] New wswatch.ini settings: [Misc] + UseProxyIfUrlExists= (see help file for more information)
  • [x] Several internal improvements and fixes
3.60 Beta-4
  • [+] Internal browser window: New command Textsize in command menu of internal browser window
  • [+] Report / new variable: <!--wsw_url_highlighted_changes(MAXLEN)--> extracts all changes from the site and displays it as text. MAXLEN is the maximal length of characters which should be displayed. See also new report template report_template_changes.htm in the examples directory.
  • [+] Report / new variable: <!--wsw_url_path_filename_chg--> is the absolute filename of the file with highlighted changes (is automatically created from the report if you have not opened it in the internal browser)
  • [+] Report / new variable: <!--wsw_url_path_filename_chg1--> is the absolute filename of the file with highlighted changes and an anchor to the first change
  • [x] Report: Variable <!--wsw_url_changed--> has been renamed to <!--wsw_url_date_changed-->
  • [+] wswatch.ini / [Misc] section: BookmarkSort=date_changed to sort bookmarks initially by the last change date. Use BookmarkSort=-date_changed for reverse order
  • [+] wswatch.ini / [Misc] section: BookmarkSort=date_checked to sort bookmarks initially by the last check date. Use BookmarkSort=-date_checkd for reverse order
  • [+] WebSite-Watcher stores also the log file of the old version
  • [x] WebSite-Watcher should consume lower resources on high speed internet connections
  • [x] Copy/Move bookmark to (*.wsw): Target file name must not exist. If not available, it is automatically created
  • [x] Copy/Move bookmark to (*.wsw): Log file is also copied to new bookmark file
  • [x] Improved error detection if a site could not be saved after an update
  • [x] Several improvements for websites with buggy HTML code
  • [x] Many internal code improvements
  • [-] Some smaller bugs fixed
3.60 Beta-3
  • [-] Bookmarks were not automatically saved when they were inserted via the browser integration or the import feature (introduced in Beta-2)
3.60 Beta-2
  • [x] Report feature improved: Now you can make reports with folder structure. New templates can be found in the subdirectory "Examples". (Older templates are not compatible with the new report feature, please update the field names in your old templates).
  • [+] Tools + Im/Export: Export all bookmarks to Internet Explorer (BTW: export to Opera and Mozilla is possible with the report feature, templates are available in the subdirectory examples)
  • [+] General options + Add/Import: You can define a default AutoWatch period for new bookmarks
  • [-] Bugfix: disabled bookmarks with enabled AutoWatch feature were not ignored when calculating the AutoWatch countdown value
  • [+] Browser integration: Template for AvantBrowser added
  • Several smaller bugs fixed
3.60 Beta-1
  • [+] RSS support (many websites offer new content as RSS newsfeeds, an example URL is http://slashdot.org/index.rss). WebSite-Watcher transforms RSS files into a readable format.
  • [x] Bookmark properties / AutoWatch: Settings are now check every seconds/minutes/hours. "check every x times" is no longer available and the global countdown value in the general options is no longer needed.
  • [+] Folder properties: Delete bookmark after specified time
  • [+] Folder properties: Many bookmark properties can be overridden per folder
  • [+] General options: Hide InfoWin automatically when no updates are available
  • [+] General options: Hide InfoWin automatically when WebSite-Watcher becomes foreground window
  • [+] If a server sends the file size, the downloaded page is compared with this size. If not equal, Website-Watcher tries to download the site a second time. This will reduce false alerts of truncated downloads.
  • [+] If a file download was running and WebSite-Watcher was closed, then the download was aborted. Now WebSite-Watcher asks if you want to close the program when a download is active.
  • [+] Internal preview: Open links in your default browser instead of Internet Explorer (if IE is not your standard browser). This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled in the options menu of the internal preview.
  • [+] The internal preview can now block annoying popups (a small side effect: you cannot open a link in a new window via the context menu until the site is completely loaded, but Shift+Click on a link works always). This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled in the options menu of the internal preview.
  • [+] Extended search / new search options: search exact phrase, all words or at least one word
  • [+] Archive / new search options: search exact phrase, all words or at least one word
  • [x] Columns Last Check and Last Update: If the date is the current date, then WebSite-Watcher displays only the time instead of the full date
  • [+] Send mail: You can now define the name of the sender (until now the name of the license was used)
  • [+] Bookmark Actions / Local Website Archive: Bookmarks can be exported to our product Local Website Archive
  • [+] Browser-Integration improved: Application templates are stored in the subdirectory "app" and are similar to the application templates of Local Website Archive
  • [+] Browser integration / move button horizontally: with a new wswatch.ini setting you can move the WebSite-Watcher button horizontally. (Section [Misc] / Entry BrowserButtonMoveLeft=nnn where nnn is the value in pixel)
  • [+] Tray icon tooltip / fix text: with a new wswatch.ini setting you can define a fix text for the tooltip of the tray icon (Section [Misc] / Entry TrayIconText=)
  • [+] new wswatch.ini / [Troubleshooting] setting: DownloadSleepValue = nnn (this options slows down the transfer speed, the default value is 1, to slow down the connection you can use for example 100. Only use this setting when WebSite-Watcher eats all your bandwidth and blocks other online tools).
  • [x] Dialup: The RAS-dll is only loaded when it is really needed. If you have a permanent internet connection WSW doesn't try to load this dll. The wswatch.ini setting UseRas=0 is no longer needed if you had problems with this dll.
  • [x] When WebSite-Watcher crashes while a check is running then WSW restores automatically the latest check status
  • [x] Add new bookmarks: a doubly entered http-protocol (http://http://) is automatically removed
  • [x] Add new bookmarks: If no protocol was entered, then http:// is automatically used
  • [-] websites with HTML redirections (and enabled redirections in WSW) could cause endless redirections under certain circumstances
  • [-] embedded CSS files were not loaded when the protocol was available as uppercase in the HTML source
  • [-] date variables in URLs and PostData: month names were always converted to lowercase, they are now used as defined.
  • [-] some problems with command line parameters fixed
  • [-] Enter key didn't work in internal preview
  • [x] Memory- and performance optimizations for many internal core functions
  • [x] Many smaller improvements and bugfixes


Version 3.50f  (20-Mar-2003)
  • [+] General Options / Proxy: Don't use proxy for specified domains
  • [+] Send Mail: SMTP Authentification (general options -> EMail)
  • [-] Bugfix / Highlight changes: User defined link color didn't work and links in highlighted changes were not underlined
  • [x] Exact highlight method improved (bookmark properties -> advanced -> highlight)
  • [+] Exact highlight method: Removed content can be displayed directly after new content
  • [+] If you start WebSite-Watcher while another instance is running, the running instance is activated automatically
  • [x] Internal Cookie Handling improved
  • [x] For technical reasons the syntax of login variables have been changed. The new format is {$login$} instead of <$login$>
  • [x] Flash files can be watched for changes, URLs must point directly to the .swf file. (please note that WebSite-Watcher cannot highlight changes in Flash files).
  • [-] A HTML redirection command without a target URL produced an error (is now ignored)
  • [-] When a website was requested via the POST command, related CSS files and images were also requested via POST command. This is now fixed and the GET command is used.
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher had problems displaying some specific ftp directory formats
  • [-] Version 3.5 can now read bookmark files which were saved with version 3.0x of WebSite-Watcher
  • [x] Several smaller improvements and fixes

Version 3.50e  (29-Jan-2003)
  • [+] Browser integration: Opera 7 supported
  • [x] Workaround for with Microsoft Word generated websites: "Follow Links" didn't work with local websites and blanks in the filename
  • [-] Bugfix: Follow Links was blocked when the whole content of a website was filtered

Version 3.50d  (21-Jan-2003)
  • [+] Settings / Check: Now you can specify the thread priority for the check process
  • [x] Improved detection of redirections when checking files by file date or file size
  • [x] Improved detection and handling of FTP errors
  • [x] Settings for main toolbar and browser toolbar are now merged to one dialog
  • [x] Change in the unregistered version: The browser identification is now IE5 (without the WebSite-Watcher extension). We realized that some sites were not accessible with this extension.
  • [-] Some smaller improvements and fixes

Version 3.50c  (08-Jan-2003)
  • [+] New toolbar icons
  • [-] Highlight keywords: some problems/conflicts with encoded characters fixed
  • [-] Jump to next change: didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] HTML redirections: some smaller improvements/fixes
  • [-] Import proxy from IE: some smaller improvements

Version 3.50  (28-Nov-2002)
  • [+] WebSite-Watcher has now a Beginner and an Expert mode (The Beginner mode shows only the basic functions and ideas of Website-Watcher while the Expert mode shows all features).
  • [+] HTTPS protocol supported
  • [+] Bookmark properties are now enabled while check process is running
  • [x] Bookmark properties reorganized
  • [+] Shortcuts are now assignable
  • [+] Local files and directories (on your hard disk) can be checked for updates
  • [+] Bookmark properties: date variables can be used in URLs and postdata, WebSite-Watcher will automatically replace these variables with the current date (usage: <$date$,format,DayDifference,MonthNames>, see help file for more details)
  • [+] New bookmark flag: HotSite. If enabled all "HotSites" are displayed in the new folder "HotSite"
  • [+] New shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+H ... Select and check folder HotSite
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced: Allow redirection via HTML commands (http-equiv="refresh" tag). Not enabled by default.
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Options: Automatically jump to the first change when opening a website
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Options: Show removed elements at the bottom of the page
  • [+] Jump to the next change in a website (Ctrl+F12 by default). Note: bookmarks must be marked as changed before this feature works for existing bookmarks
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced: Override Timeout
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced: Override Browser-ID
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Actions: Alternative Email subject (if empty then the general subject string is used)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Actions: Export to file
  • [+] Bookmark properties: Last change marker (is shown after the last change in a website, colors and text can be defined in the general settings).
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Login: There is a new advanced login feature where you can login to a site before you check it. Cookie based logins and session ids are supported.
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Actions / Send Mail: Bookmarks can be marked as visited after sending an email
  • [x] Bookmark properties / Don't mark as changed when a website contains the following text/regex: More entries are now possible
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Action "Export": new option "Mark as visited"
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Action "Run program": new option "Mark as visited"
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Action "Archive": new option "Mark as visited"
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Action "Run program": new variable %3 for the old version of the web site
  • [+] "check bookmarks" is now enabled while check process is running
  • [+] new bookmarks can be added while check process is running
  • [+] "delete bookmark" is now enabled while checking websites
  • [+] "delete local files" is now enabled while checking websites
  • [+] "delete from browser" is now enabled while checking websites
  • [+] "restore previous version" is now enabled while checking websites
  • [+] Bookmark Drag&Drop, Folder Drag&Drop and Import/Export via Drag&Drop is now enabled while checking websites
  • [+] queued bookmarks have an own icon
  • [+] General options / Trash: Delete after n days
  • [+] new shortcut: Ctrl+F11 - opens website online (from bookmark list and internal preview)
  • [+] Options / Browse: Open website online: Use URL instead of Alternative URL (if entered)
  • [+] Extended Search: Search in current/all folders
  • [+] New bookmark folder: Disabled bookmarks (shows all bookmarks with enabled flag "Don't check")
  • [+] New bookmark column: HotSite (shows a small image if a site is a HotSite)
  • [+] General options / View: Show/Hide Special folders (Changed bookmarks, AutoWatch, etc.)
  • [+] General options / View: Show disabled bookmarks (=bookmarks with flag "Don't check")
  • [+] Set properties in all selected Bookmarks: Filterstring and Watchstring have an Append-Mode (that means: new entered filter strings can be appended to existing filter strings).
  • [+] Right mouse menu / New entry "Show all column fields"
  • [+] Ctrl+Shift+Click on a folder checks all bookmarks in this folder
  • [+] Create Folder (Top Level): Now it's easier to insert a new top level folder without having to select the top folder first
  • [+] Search Menu / Replace: Replaces text in Bookmark-Name, URL, alternate URL, Note and report data
  • [+] Bookmark/right mouse menu: Support info dialog to copy filter settings to the clipboard
  • [+] Internal preview/pen button: "Copy Bookmark URL to Clipboard". WebSite-Watcher shows the local file name when you open a downloaded file from your harddisk. With this command you can copy the related online address to the clipboard.
  • [+] Show/Hide Toolbar
  • [+] Bookmark check / filter settings: if the whole content is filtered then an error message is shown in the status column and the bookmark is listed in the error folder (very useful with the filter "watch only userdefined strings")
  • [+] Bookmark check: The logfile is now saved for each bookmark (right mouse menu / Info / Logfile).
  • [+] Bookmark menu: Check Bookmarks (Extended Options)
  • [+] Bookmark note window has now OK/Cancel buttons
  • [+] Bookmark check: if a check reports an error the status text is displayed in blue (probably some colors are displayed incorrect before you have the checked your list with this new version)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced: Cookie Import and Export
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Advanced: file type can be set manually (in rare cases some server send a wrong content type information, eg. text file for html files. In this case WebSite-Watcher doesn't always handle these files correctly, here you can overwrite the default value "auto detect" to fix this situation).
  • [+] Browser Integration / Add to bookmarks: You can open the bookmark properties directly from this window
  • [+] Browser Integration / Add to bookmarks: WebSite-Watcher remembers the last selected folder
  • [+] Bookmark properties: Suppress redirection warnings (useful when you want to watch websites with known redirections)
  • [+] General options / Check(2): Alert only once (not with each check)
  • [+] Dialog "Filter userdefined strings" and "Test regex": The bookmark can be opened in an external browser
  • [+] Send Mail: New variable %note% in message body (will be replaced with the bookmark note)
  • [+] Send Mail: You can use an alternative email server if more than a specified number of bookmarks (with enabled email feature) has been changed. (This feature can only be configured via the wswatch.ini file, please read the help file for more information)
  • [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Report tab added
  • [+] Report / new datafield: <!--wsw_checkstatus--> shows the status of the last check
  • [+] Import bookmarks from textfile: new format with one URL per line
  • [x] Changed Shortcuts:
    F11 - Maximize internal preview window
    Ctrl+F11 - Open bookmark in external browser
    Ctrl+Shift+F11 - Open website (online) in external browser
    F12 - open next unread bookmark
    Ctrl+Shift+N - open next bookmark
  • [x] Improved error handling when a website is not available
  • [+] wswatch.ini: UseRas=0 ... sometimes the file RASAPI32.DLL (used for dialup) is not correctly installed on machines with permanent internet connection and WebSite-Watcher reports an error. With this parameter WebSite-Watcher makes no attempt to use this DLL.
  • [x] Export to CHM file: Bookmarks are now sorted alphabetically
  • [+] Export to CHM file: "Use default" button for the startpage info
  • [x] Improved: External CSS files and images are downloaded immediately before an update notification occurs
  • [+] Toolbar (preview window): New button "Goto next change"
  • [x] Helpfile is now searchable
  • [-] Export to CHM file didn't work properly in several cases
  • [-] Downloaded websites: Link and image addresses with a starting // (without protocol) were not handled properly
  • [-] URLs with blanks didn't work properly (blanks are now replaced with %20, works with some server)
  • [-] Opera 6 Im/Export: several bugs fixed
  • [x] bookmark check / status column: the OK status text is placed to the first position in the status
  • [x] Improved memory handling when WebSite-Watcher is minimized to tray
  • [x] many internal changes and improvements to have a good base for future development


Version 3.40e  (16-Jun-2002)
  • [-] Start minimized didn't work properly in version 3.40d


Version 3.40d  (21-May-2002)
  • [x] Minor bugfixes and improvements


Version 3.40  (05-Mar-2002)
  • [+] New bookmark option: WebSite must contain "</html>": Sometimes the download of a website is interrupted without an error (that means the website is not transferred completely). Side effect is that the bookmark is marked as changed. If this option is enabled the website must contain the </html> tag, otherwise an incomplete download is assumed and an error will be reported. In the general options you can define if this option should automatically be enabled when inserting new bookmarks.
  • [+] When checking textfiles (extension ".txt") the changes are highlighted
  • [x] While checking bookmarks the following features are enabled: bookmark notes, mark as (un)visited, flag bookmark
  • [+] Toolbar: Classic, Highlight and Navy style (Options -> Toolbar)
  • [x] Windows XP theme support
  • [x] Drag&Drop is now enabled during AutoWatch countdown
  • [+] Additional flags to mark a bookmark (green, blue, yellow)
  • [+] General Options -> View: Font and line hight of bookmarks and folders are now customizable
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new check option: max. one update per day
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new AutoWatch option: max. one update per day
  • [+] Bookmark properties: Delete date "Last check" (useful when experimenting with check time settings)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new check option: max. one update per week
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new AutoWatch option: max. one update per week
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: Follow all links within the same domain
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: Follow all links, also to other domains (but only depth 1)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: Only follow links from this site (depth 1)
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: Don't follow links which contain one of the following strings
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: Only follow links which contain one of the following strings
  • [+] Bookmark properties / Follow links - new option: copy all bookmark properties when inserting a new bookmark
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new option: Don't scan website for typical error messages. When a server doesn't send an error, WebSite-Watcher scans a webpage automatically for typical error messages (eg. "404, page not found") because several servers have customized error pages without sending an error code. If a website has a description of such error codes you can enable this option, otherwise WebSite-Watcher would report an error.
  • [x]: If more than one bookmark is selected then the right menu entry "properties" opens the dialog "Set properties in all selected bookmarks"
  • [+] Bookmark properties / new option: Referrer (advanced tab). In some rare cases a website can only be checked when the client reports a specific referrer to the server. In the bookmark properties / advanced tab you can enter such a referrer URL.
  • [x]: Set properties in all selected bookmarks: If a property is changed then the related "change" checkbox is checked automatically
  • [+] New report fields: <!--wsw_note--> and <!--wsw_note_format-->
  • [+] New option: Open the next unread bookmark jumps also into the next folder with unread bookmarks (General options / Browse)
  • [+] Options / New check setting: Max. HTTP connections per server (default value is 4)
  • [+] Options / New check setting: Max. FTP connections per server (default value is 2)
  • [+] Options / Direct FTP connection: "passive" mode added. (should be enabled under WinXP).
  • [+] Options / Download: "Links / ignore TARGET parameter". If enabled WebSite-Watcher filters all TARGET parameters when saving a website to your harddisk. That means if you click on a link the linked website will always be opened in the same browser window (internal preview) and never in a new window, also when a website uses this technique.
  • [+] New option (options menu): Enable folder Drag&Drop
  • [+] New option (options menu): Enable sort via header click
  • [+] When pressing a key the current bookmark selection jumps to the first appropriate bookmark (same in folder panel, archive and extended search)
  • [+] Copy to Clipboard: Name / Name+URL / Name+URL+Note
  • [x] Copy to Clipboard: copy all selected bookmarks to clipboard (instead of only the first one)
  • [x] several internal improvements and fixes when highlighting specified words
  • [x] when you watch an exe file in a cgi-bin directory the file extension of the locally saved file is now .htm (instead of .exe)
  • [+] New toolbar button: Open next bookmark
  • [+] New toolbar button: Open previous bookmark
  • [x] the toolbar buttons Sort and Search can be hidden
  • [+] Browser toolbar: new buttons
  • [+] Browser toolbar is customizable
  • [+] Select sound: play button (General options and bookmark properties)
  • [+] File menu: files can be deleted from the file history
  • [x] internal use of proxies improved
  • [x] Changed shortcuts:
         Enter ... Open bookmark
         Ctrl+Shift+Enter ... Open next bookmark
         Ctrl+Shift+P ... Open previous bookmark
         Ctrl+Enter ... Open next unread bookmark
         Ctrl+Shift+U ... Goto next unread bookmark
         Ctrl+Shift+R ... Restore previous version
         Ctrl+Shift+L ... Open/Close internal preview
         Ctrl+Shift+B ... Set focus to bookmark list (instead of Ctrl+B)
  • [x] The check info button is now in the toolbar (instead of the statusbar).
  • [x] Tray: Single click opens WebSite-Watcher (instead of double click)
  • [-] externals CSS files were saved to disk when the setting "use absolute path" was enabled
  • [-] bugfix: button "Test filter" in dialog "ignore userdefined strings" didn't work properly, if there were more than one regular expressions entered
  • [-] relative links were not converted correctly to absolute links in combination with the AREA tag
  • [-] Open website: the main URL has been opened (instead of the alternate URL) if an alternate URL was entered
  • [-] note column: control codes were shown als vertical bars
  • [-] Moving a folder to a subfolder caused an error
  • [-] Special folders could be moved
  • [-] Follow links: minor bugs fixed


Version 3.30c  (09-Nov-2001)
  • [-] bugfix in the registered version: in some rare cases / windows installations the license wasn't detected correctly. If you can see your license name in the title bar of version 3.30 there is no need to update to version 3.30a.
  • [-] some small improvements and system specific bugfixes


Version 3.30  (02-Nov-2001)
  • [+] New (improved) handling of large bookmarklists (that means: new file format, new internal handling, new cache system)
  • [+] Internal preview window can be maximized with F12
  • [+] Each folder shows the number of bookmarks
  • [+] OneTimeWatch: Checks the bookmarklist at a specific time
  • [+] Hottrack (optional, Options->View)
  • [x] Improved: copy/move bookmark to another *.wsw file
  • [+] When the mouse is moved over the note image, the note is shown in a tooltip
  • [+] userdefined date format
  • [+] Toolbar captions can now be disabled (Options -> toolbar)
  • [x] Toolbar/Open button: the dropdown menu shows wsw files in the same directory as the opened project file (not program directory)
  • [+] Toolbar options can be opened with right click on the toolbar
  • [+] Toolbar position (top or over bookmarks)
  • [x] Show/Hide folder doesn't change the folder to "all bookmarks"
  • [+] Toolbar: Open-Dropdown contains the entry "Open"
  • [+] Toolbar: Browse-Options can be changed in the drop down menu of the Browse-Button
  • [+] AutoWatch: Delay before first check (Options -> AutoWatch)
  • [+] New columns: "Check time settings" and "AutoWatch time settings"
  • [+] Move folders via Drag and Drop
  • [+] Folders can be renamed with "Alt+Enter"
  • [x] SendMail: variables works also with the subject (not only with the body of the email)
  • [x] Find bookmark (ctrl+F): searches also in bookmark notes and in report data
  • [x] Extended Search: searches also in bookmark notes and in report data
  • [+] Bookmark notes are also availabe in the bookmark properties
  • [+] doubleclick into the flag-column sets/resets the flag
  • [+] doubleclick into the note-image-column opens the bookmark note
  • [+] Improved handling of regular expressions (typical examples, userdefined macros)
  • [+] The check-Info-button in the statusbar displays now a hint/tooltip when you move the mouse over this button
  • [+] the options dialog has now a tab for notes
  • [+] new toolbar button: stay in foreground
  • [x] Many internal improvements
  • [-] many bugs are fixed


Version 3.24  (01-Oct-2001)
  • [x] the license scheme and the prices of WebSite-Watcher have been changed. In order of these changes ALL features are available in the personal edition. And new features will be added in the next major update 3.30, which is in progress...
  • [-] bugfix: when sending emails the HELO/ELHO command wasn't sent properly
  • [-] some minor bugs are fixed


Version 3.23  (02-Sep-2001)
  • [-] the size of the internal preview wasn't always saved correctly between sessions


Version 3.22  (01-Sep-2001)
  • [+] re-check bookmark when an error occurred (optional, enabled by default)
  • [+] Show check process window (permanent setting (Options) or during check with Ctrl+I or "i" button in status bar)
  • [+] SendMail: Send old version
  • [+] Support for Socks4, Socks4a, Socks5
  • [+] the folders "Trash" and "Errors" always shows the absolute number of bookmarks
  • [+] when inserting new bookmarks, the file extensions doc, xls and pdf are now automatically checked by filedate
  • [x] Follow links: the test for an already existing bookmark is now case-insensitive
  • [x] Sort icons have been changed
  • [x] improved FTP error handling
  • [-] WebSite-Watcher no longer crashes when you make a full backup and no bookmark file or archive file is open
  • [-] minor bugs fixed


Version 3.21  (17-Jul-2001)
  • Highlight specific keywords of a website (works only in the file with highlighted changes). You can enter the default color in "Options->Changes" and the keywords in "Bookmark properties->View"
  • don't mark as changed when the site contains a specific text (eg. when checking a forum it can happen that you get the warning "max. user exceeded, please try again later". Then you can enter this text into the bookmark properties and WebSite-Watcher will not mark the bookmark as changed when the site contains this text!)
  • improved browser-interation: add bookmarks from your browser directly to the WebSite-Watcher archive (via the eye in your browser title). There are two options: you can transfer the website again or copy/paste the sourcecode from your browser (must be used when the site is password protected or needs cookies to download the site).
  • New: Only mark a bookmark as changed when a website has been updated AND contains one of the entered words
  • New: Compare text of websites (compares the textual, non-HTML specific content of the new and the old version of a website). You can use this feature in the bookmark properties and in the internal preview pane (settings menu).
  • new bookmark folder: Errors
  • internal preview: new button "Find"
  • bookmark properties / actions: WebSite-Watcher remembers the last sound directory
  • the name of a bookmark must no longer be entered when inserting new bookmarks. When a bookmark has no name the document title is used.
  • more speed when opening the "test filter" and "test regex" dialog (the HTML highlighting is now optional and disabled by default)
  • Improved filtering of javascripts
  • changed: when a website has unclosed comments, no comments are filtered
  • changed: splitted preview window: the file with highlighted changes is used instead of the new version
  • changed: when comparing websites the document title is ignored (filter ignore all HTML tags)
  • changed: when checking websites all listbox/combobox entries are ignored (filter ignore all HTML tags)
  • improved: Backup files to Zip
  • improved: regular expressions in combination with deactivated HTML-filter
  • bugfix: in some rare cases WebSite-Watcher crashed while checking FTP-files
  • bugfix: URLs with encoded characters didn't work (eg. www.aaa&amp;bbb.com)
  • bugifx: sort by filesize didn't work
  • minor bugs fixed

 
 
Version 3.20  (10-May-2001)
  • Archive-Feature (stores websites permanently, F4)
  • Extended Search is now in a separate window (F7)
  • Backup your Bookmarklist, configuration-data, archive and all downloaded files to a ZIP archive
  • Export Bookmarks to CHM-helpfile
  • Export Archive to CHM-helpfile
  • PAD-file support (converts PAD-files into a readable format)
  • Bookmark-Properties / Action: Send mail when a site has been changed (PRO Edition only)
  • Bookmark-Properties / Action: Play sound
  • Bookmark-Properties / Action: Open website
  • Bookmark-Properties / Action: Run program
  • Bookmark-Properties / Action: Add to archive
  • Bookmark-Properties/download: don't prepare website for offline-browsing (only useful when website-watcher has problems to prepare a website for offline-browsing)
  • new bookmark-column: file-size
  • Highlight changes: option "link color"
  • Highlight changes: option "use link-color"
  • Highlight changes: option "always underline links"
  • Duplicate Bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+D)
  • Options/Download: Alert with the first initialization of a website
  • Options/Download: Alert when an error occured
  • Options/Download: Save website when an error occured
  • most functions are now enabled during AutoWatch-countdown
  • Shortcut: Goto next unread bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+G)
  • Shortcut: Open next unread bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+U)
  • Shortcut: Open next bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+N)
  • Shortcut: Open previous bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+B)
  • Shortcut: F9 ... check bookmarks
  • Logfiles
  • close website when closing internal preview window (options/view)
  • bookmark-list: memory-optimized/reduced handling
  • extended search-action can be aborted with ESC
  • improved handling of file-extensions
  • Improved handling/filtering of typical date-strings
  • Improved internal handling of the AREA-tag
  • improved: check-by-date
  • improved: filter javascript without comments
  • bugfix: WebSite-Watcher crashed when a website contained a link or an image-address with a linebreak in it
  • bugfix: AutoWatch didn't work when the AutoWatch-Folder wasn't selected
  • bugfix: accepting new Cookies didn't correctly overwrite old Cookies
  • workaround for a Win2k Winsock-bug
  • minor bugs fixed

 
 
Version 3.10  (Feb 21, 2001)
  • Download images
  • Download external CSS-files
  • Follow links / check whole website
  • Filter "ignore all numbers and typical date-strings" is splitted to "ignore all numbers" and "ignore all typical date-strings"
  • Auto-Watch: More options when a site should be checked
  • Manual check: More options when a site should be checked
  • Disable Proxy for single bookmarks
  • Bookmark-Notes: format text
  • Minimize on Close
  • Import Bookmarks from a textfile
  • Improved Frame-Handling: Framesets can be converted into tables with the same structure
  • Improved "Set properties in selected bookmarks"
  • Hide bookmarks in "Changed Bookmarks"-Folder after opening it
  • Internal preview window - open with external browser-button has now a drop down menu
  • Options/Icons: Insert and remove program icons (in the Startup folder WebSite-Watcher will be inserted with the parameter /MINIMIZE)
  • Restore previous version (copies old version to new version)
  • The Noscript-part of Javascripts can be filtered filtered when downloading websites
  • Cookies
  • POST-method for requesting sites
  • General settings can be imported from an INI-File (config1.ini)
  • Automatic detection of physical damages in config files
  • Automatic detection of physical damages in bookmark files
  • many other improvements

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