Version 1.4 adds a fully-functional Fix Ampersands feature and better support for bookmark files created or editted outside of Navigator or Internet Explorer. NavEx does not run on Windows 3.1, NT 3.5 or the Macintosh.
Both programs provide ways for you to store the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) addresses of the places you visit most. Unfortunately, the programs use different methods of storing those addresses.
Navigator stores its frequently used addresses in HTML format in a "bookmarks" file. MSIE stores its frequently used addresses in the "Favorites" folder using the "Internet shortcut" format.
NavEx is used to convert addresses between these two methods.
NavEx refers to the collection of stored addresses as a URL set.
If you want to work with a different Favorites folder or a subset of your Favorites, enter the path to the folder or click the second Browse button then use the Browse for Folder dialog box to find a folder containing shortcuts.
The Fix Ampersands option converts "&&" to "&" when translating from Netscape bookmark format to Internet Shortcut format and does the reverse when converting back. This is because some people (me included) have taken to using "&&" in bookmark names so that Netscape shows the item with a single ampersand. Without doing this little trick, an item like "Fun & Humor" appears as "Fun _Humor" due to the way Windows handles menus. This is still true in Navigator 2.0; I wish that Netscape would fix it.
The "Preserve name" feature does not work and is not enabled.
Navigator 1.0 and 1.1 provide a way to edit this list, but it is nothing short of dreadful. Navigator 1.2 and 2.0 have much better bookmark editors, but they're still not very good.
There is currently no way to add horizontal lines to break up a large menu or to group similar items. And since MSIE always alphabetizes its menus, there is no way for you to pick the order in which items appear in the menu.
Good luck,
Ken Blackney
date.... version comment 96/03/30 1.4 Updated the readme file and released beta 3 as production. 96/03/16 1.4b3 1. Fixed bookmark to shortcut parser to allow NavEx to convert its own bookmark files to shortcuts. 96/03/01 1.4b2 1. Fixed bookmark line delimiter recognition problem. 2. Output &-converted folder name to BM file, but open pre- converted folder name. 3. Fixed tab order in dialog box. 4. Minor code adjustments in several places. See code comments. 96/02/25 1.4b1 1. Added support for shortcut files with LF-only or CR-only between lines. It used to require a CR/LF pair to work. 2. Enabled "Fix Ampersands". It now works in both directions. 96/01/15 1.3.1 1. Improved parser robustness. It's very hard to break it now. 2. Now looks for bookmark path in registry and INI files. 3. Only look for *.URL files instead of all files. 96/01/14 1.3 Readme file cleanup and release of 1.2 on "http://mach5.noc.drexel.edu". 95/11/30 1.2 Code cleanup and limited distribution to testers. 95/06/17 1.1b1 Fixed problem with multiple occurrances of "&&" in one bookmark name. Added shortcut to bookmark conversion. Increased max line length to 1K. Updated icon and dialog. 95/06/07 1.0a1 Initial coding.