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Changes in Version 2.5

• usability engineer interacts with a setup wizard to design experiments
• multiple project management - ability to have multiple websites and to re-instrument rather than re-copying websites

Changes in Version 2.0

• output in FLUD format
• bug fixes to make the tool more stable
• new documentation

Version 1.0

Initial release.

Known bugs

None yet.

Other problems

WebVIP does not instrument dynamic pages -- .asp, .jsp, etc.

Dynamic pages are NOT instrumented by WebVIP, though a small tweak could 'make it happen'.

WebVIP does not capture the events on Java applet and Macromedia Flash

Applets are black holes. Applet events are not routed to the browser's event queue but rather the go to the java class that mediates the interaction. This means that user interaction with java widgets will go undetected. Therefore, HTML form elements can be dissected totally, but applets that mimic a form are black boxes for WebVIP's point of view. If 'mouse motion' detection is turned on, you would be able to view everything to the edges of the applet.

Personal Web Server (PWS) in Windows 98

Windows Setup will tell you that PWS is installed but it only installs the instructions for really installing PWS. The instructions might be found in the "Start" menu under "Programs | Internet Explorer | Personal Web Server."