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2.1 What is it?

Voyager is your gateway to the World Wide Web. With it, you can browse through hundreds of thousands of "pages" on the net - major companies and minor, individuals who have placed themselves on the net to inform others, or seek work. Whatever the website might be, Voyager is the best way to experience it on your Amiga.

Voyager is fast, does not take up too many system resources (unlike other browsers), makes the best of badly-written web pages, and boasts many features that others lack. You can bookmark a website you visit a lot to make it easier to get to, or even add it as a Fastlink to Voyager's main window.


2.2 Features

Its range of features covers:

  • Supports the full HTML-2 standard as described in RFC-1866, Netscape extesions and most HTML-3 features such as:

  • Supports Security Socket Layers (SSL).

  • 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.

    Support internal decoders for GIF, JPG and PNG images.

  • Supports versatile plugin interface for vanilla extensions

  • 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 supporting this!

  • Totally reworked preference setting. The transfer anim is now configurable, too.

  • Supports Shift & Click downloading of files even from servers with broken configuration which state that binary data is of type "text/plain" (which happens frequently with .lha and .lzx files, because these suffixes are missing in many http server example mime.types files)

  • Popup menus for links offering link specific options.

  • Supports Client Side Image Maps.

  • Supports news: usenet news reading and posting.

  • Added internal SMTP send capability. Also supports mailto: forms now. Improved news handling.

  • Document cache with optional automatic last-modified-date-based verify.

  • Versatile hierarchical bookmark system, allowing export in HTML format, menu selection and drag'n'drop sorting.

  • Asynchronous network handling. Multiple windows.

  • works with Miami, AmiTCP, as225r2, inet225 and mlink.

  • can be used without a network package as a local file viewer (especially useful with client-side-image-maps)


    2.3 System Requirements

    MinimumRecommended
    2MB of free memory4MB of free memory
    5MB hard drive space10MB hard drive space
    68000 processor68020 processor
    Workbench 2.0Workbench 3.0
    ECS chipsetAGA chipset
    MUI v3.8MUI 3.8


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