Hi all

I'm the author of tear-improvements package. Let me clarify what is tear-improvements package, why it was developed and what it adds to tear on diablo.

First of all, i want to appreciate Bundyo for his great browser -- it still #1 application on my tablet for last 1.5 years. Thanks, great job! I was pleased to see every new Tear release. But eventually with release of N900 and Maemo5 author's priorities was changed and it was a big disappointment for all of us that Tear lost its compatibility with Diablo and diablo version was dropped without any updates.

Thats why some day i checked out the last svn revision of Tear that successfully compiles under Diablo (rev 55) and started to add some things i was dreamed about. Then i found that many people at biggest russian maemo forum at http://n8xx.com were interested in same tear modifications. So, i packed my additions as tear-improvement package and placed in my repository at http://skriblovsky.net/maemo/ . I was not sure that i will continue development and i was too lazy to host the source code anywhere I just released several packages with only the binary replacement to tear. I'm going to correct this and publish the source code. Here is it: http://skriblovsky.net/maemo/tear-im...0.1.8.2.tar.gz

Of course, because i was a guest at tear's sources, some features may be implemented ugly, chaotically and illogically, but Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes.

The list of modifications in tear-improvements v0.1.8.2:

• Position indicator on left side. Appears while you scroll the page
• Bold font in address suggestion list for better recognition
• Link will not be activated when you drag the page and accidentally tap on link
• SWF files are opened inside Tear (page with <object> tag is dynamically generated)
• New dragging method. There is 100px active area on the right side of page. If you put finger on it and then drag your finger up/down, the page will be scrolled up/down. This can be illustrated by picture in this post: http://n8xx.com/post44952.html#p44952 .The speed of scrolling depends on movement of your finger.
• Scrolling page-down and page-up with Space and Shift+Space, just like in all desktop browsers and MicroB
• Opening link in new window with Menu+Click
• Detecting RSS feeds in page (almost backported from newer Tear revisions)
• Reload button removed. Its functionality was transfered to Go button. Stop button will appear instead of Go while page is loading.

You may diff the sources against tear rev 55 to get the patch

BTW, there was another package called tear-mod. This is my first package and it was packaged as replacement to original tear and marked as conflicting with original tear. If somebody have installed it, please remove it, and install tear-improvements, since tear-mod is obsoleted.