Voyager-NG WWW browser prerelease
News Date : 03 February, 1997
The next generation of Amiga Web browser has arrived.
This is a preliminary release which brings this fantastic new Web browser to the Amiga community and allows Voyager-NG to benefit
from the largest testing base possible. With your help Voyager-NG can be rendered faultless on the largest possible range of Amiga set-ups.
Due to the above, Voyager is currently updated frequently.
To obtain the archive:
The full archive in LZX is 612 kbytes in size.
Updates will appear there regularly. Updates are also announced on the Voyager mailing list. If you are not on it yet, you are encouraged to subscribe. Mail to
voyager-request@vapor.com and put "ADD" in the body of the mail. Put "HELP" there to obtain a complete description on how to use the mail server. The mailing list is also a good place to discuss enhancement suggestions.
Major changes to Voyager since Version 1.0:
- Supports Frames as introduced by Netscape 2.x
- Uses internal image decoding routines. Visually incremental on-the-fly image decoding, leaving the program operational during decode. No more hassle with datatypes related bugs. Optimized memory usage. The routines are optimized for speed and are very fast. Full support of CyberGFX HiColor/TrueColor screens and compatibles.
- Supports HTML tables. Many more HTML commands and Netscapism's are understood (including FONT SIZE and HR WIDTH). Improved general compatibility with broken
and nonstandard HTML code.
- Supports versatile plugin interface for third-party extensions to the browser.
- Shipped with a handy split-screen web search engine plugin.
- Supports T/TCP "TCP for Transactions" requests, allowing for much faster establishment of HTTP links to servers. This is currently supported by Miami 1.9.x beta versions only. Specified in RFC 1644, as far as we know, Voyager is the first browser on any platform to support this!
- Totally reworked preference setting. The transfer anim is now configurable, too.
- New so-called "local" menus which pop up over links and images offering options such as opening in new window, copying URL to clipboard, downloading to disk or adding URL to bookmarks. Local menus also function for Frames by offering full window viewing, saving Frame and viewing Frame source.
- Supports Shift and Click downloading of files even from servers with broken configuration which state that binary data is of type "text/plain". This happens frequently with .lha and .lzx files, because these suffixes are missing in many http server example mime.types files.
- Added internal SMTP (E-mail) send capability. Now also supports mailto: links and mailto: Forms.
- Improved news handling.
- 'LED' transfer status display additionally shows stalled transfers. (Well I thought it was neat)
- Many minor enhancements, and of course All The Popular Bugs were fixed, too.