*Fixed a bug where the File Transfer would crash if the preference file wasn't originally created by the Internet Config application.
*Added the Firewalls window. These preferences are used by Cyberdog and Fetch, and will hopefully be adopted by many other applications.
*Added the World Wide Web window. Although it has very few preferences at the moment, I expect that to change soon.
*Added mail notification preferences to the Email window.
*Improved the error display code.
*Improved the URL parsing code. IC (and any application that uses it to parse URLs) will now recognise URLs surrounded by parentheses, square brackets, and quotes.
Internet Config is a system for setting shared preferences, mostly relating to Internet applications. It allows you, for example, to set your email address or prefered web helper in a single place and then have lots of different IC-aware applications use the preference. The entire system is Public Domain (so you can do whatever you want with it, you don't need our permission to sell, distribute, eat, whatever it).
For example, currently you need to enter your Email address into many common Macintosh Internet applications, for example Eudora, NewsWatcher and Anarchie. The goal of the system was to get each of these applications to get this information from one common place and to give you a tool to edit these common preferences.
It is important to realise that applications will have to be modified to take advantage of the Internet Configuration System. It will take some time for all applications to be revised and until then you will have to enter your preferences in those applications in the traditional manner.
At this time, there are already a number of net clients for the Mac that take advantage of this system...with more arriving every day.
