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Voyager 1.1 Release Notes
=========================
Its range of features covers:
o It's faaaast. On the average, Voyager outruns any other available Amiga
Web browser by a factor of two.
o Supports the full HTML-2 standard as described in RFC-1866, including forms.
It doesn't want to be a reference implementation, though, and tries to make
the best even out of malformed documents.
o Supports many proposed so called HTML-3 extensions.
o Supports Client Side Image Maps.
o Supports Netscape-Level 1 (NHTML) extensions, including <center>, floating
images, background images and text coloring (both RGB and named colors).
o Supports HTTP access authorization.
o Supports ftp, gopher and wais via proxy.
o Supports news: usenet news reading and posting.
o Supports interfacing to mail readers and telnet clients for mailto:
and telnet: URLs.
o Document cache with optional automatic last-modified-date-based verify.
o Versatile hierarchical bookmark system, allowing export in HTML format,
menu selection and drag'n'drop sorting.
o Full support for true color displays with V43 datatypes.
o Asynchronous network handling. Multiple windows.
o works with Miami, AmiTCP, as225r2, inet225 and mlink.
o can be used without a network package as a local file viewer
(esspecially useful with client-side-image-maps)
Copyright and License
---------------------
Voyager 1.1 is Copyright © 1996 by Oliver Wagner (owagner@lsd.wupper.de),
All Rights Reserved.
Voyager 1.1 is provided "as-is"; no warranties, either implied or expressed,
are made regarding the viability of the program. The entire risk of the
use of Voyager is carried by the user. If you don't agree to this license,
you must not use it and delete all associated files immediately.
Installation
------------
Please use the provided installer script for correct installation. You
also need MUI 3.6 (preferably the release version; cracked version are
known to cause trouble) and GIF and JPEG datatypes. Voyager is known to
work well with the V43 datatypes available on AmiNet; you might want to
install them if you are running obscure datatypes and are experiencing
crashes on page swaps.
Voyager documentation is included in HTML format, it will be automatically
loaded when you first start the program.
Bugs
----
Although Voyager has undergone thorough testing, it's very likely that bugs
will remain. If you find a bug, please report it to owagner@lsd.wupper.de.
Don't forget to add a description on how to recreate the bug and a close
description of your system. Please don't send enhancement requests
or reports of misinterpreted or missing html stuff, because the html
engine won't be changed in favour for the Voyager 2.0 release.
Known problems
--------------
If you experience a straight crash when starting V, you're having a problem
with your cache directory, most likely because you installed an old pirated
alpha version before. V alpha versions before 0.81 sometimes did
SetComment() with more than 80 chars, triggering a very nasty bug in the
FFS which disrupts partition data. Install V in a different directory and
try to get rid of the old cache directory.
If your system deadlocks during running V, you're most likely running an
very old menu/cycletomenu hack commoditiy or a application using boopsi
gadgetclass gadgets. This is not a V bug, but a non-handled deadlock
situation in the other application. The same effect can be triggered with
every other application that updates scroller gadgets under program control
like V does (all GUI IRC clients, for example). The solution is to put the
buggy application to a different screen so the risk of a LockLayer()
Intuition deadlock is reduced. Note that this problem has been constantly
reported by people who had run V and AWeb on the same screen for
comparision purposes. Don't install a ObtainGIRPort()-Hack of any kind,
otherwise you may risk your overall system stability.
*** Release History ***
V1.1alpha8
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- added support for <INPUT TYPE=IMAGE>
V1.1alpha7
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- fixed smtp send return code parsing
- now reads a env variable "VOYAGERDIR" which allows to point
the progdir: (Cache, bookmarks etc.) to different locations.
Mainly for CD-ROM distributions.
V1.1alpha6
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- http transaction code totally broken due to send() modification
V1.1alpha5
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- fixed smtp post
- fixed longstanding tcp_send bug
V1.1alpha4
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- now can be started with a list of URLs to open (shell only)
- supports T/TCP data exchange with approriate
versions of Miami
- fixed application name
- parses and displays FRAME tags
- <A> with both HREF and NAME now works
- improved "table emulation" a bit
- fixed flaky behavior regarded to illicit <A> tags
- added option to call cachebrowser from menu
- fixed potential 060 problems
- default telnet: app is now AmTelnet
- added internal smtp send
- now correctly handles full rfc-822 addresses in news
- now understands the netscape mailto: extension to put
the comment/realname part of a mail address into the subject
of the generated mail
- Organization:-header is now configurable (and created)
- now understands <form action=mailto:xxx> forms
- pressing return in the only stringgadget of a form is now
equal to SUBMIT
V1.0
----
- first official release