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Support for Netscape Extensions and HTML 3.0

NaviPress v1.1 allows you to create and display pages that use Netscape extensions and HTML 3.0 in a WYSIWYG authoring environment. These are some of the Netscape and HTML 3.0 features supported in NaviPress v1.1. In addition, a number of other minor extensions are supported.

Table Support:

NaviPress v1.1 allows you to create tables interactively. The new "Table" menu lets you create and modify tables and table cells. Though you edit tables as you would in a word processor, NaviPress automatically creates the HTML 3.0 tags for the tables. In addition, several Netscape enhancements to tables are supported. NaviPress v1.1 supports table, row, cell, and caption alignment; border sizing, cell spacing, cell padding, cell merging, and more. For more information, see the table examples.

Since there are some differences between HTML 3.0 and Netscape, the "Preferences" menu now allows you to choose whether you want the HTML generated by NaviPress to match the HTML 3.0 or Netscape specification. NaviPress does not support some of the most recent changes to the HTML 3.0 draft.

Image and Text Alignment:

You can wrap text around images to the left or right. Also, you can justify text to the left, right, center, or both left and right.

New Text Formats:

You can now mark text as inserted text (shown with change bars by NaviPress) or deleted text (shown as strike-out text).

You can also change the font size of any text on a page. Since HTML 3.0 and Netscape specify font size changes in different ways, the "Preferences" menu allows you to choose whether you want to save the file using HTML 3.0 or Netscape.

Page Body Attributes:

You can set the colors of the page background, text, links, and visited links in a dialog that allows you to pick color using a standard color picker. And, you can select an image file to be the background image for a page.

In addition to all the Netscape extensions described in other parts of this feature list, NaviPress v1.1 supports multiple <TITLE> and <BODY> tags for dynamic changes to the page title and background.

Editable HTML

Despite the WYSIWYG authoring capabilities of NaviPress, some people like to edit HTML code directly. NaviPress v1.1 provides support for direct editing of HTML. For example, you can use the HTML editing window to add any tags or extensions for which NaviPress does not provide authoring support directly. For example, you can add <LINK REL....> tags and <TAB> tags.

When you save the HTML code, NaviPress automatically parses it and displays your changes in the browser window. Any errors, such as missing tags, are reported to you. In addition, the standard editing capabilities (Cut, Copy, Paste, Find/Replace, and Save As) are provided for HTML editing.

MiniWeb Enhancements

A number of enhancements in NaviPress v1.1 make MiniWebs even more useful:

In addition to viewing a MiniWeb as a graphical "web" with color-coded links, you can customize the MiniWeb view in the following ways:
- View as a graphical tree structure with the home page for the MiniWeb on the left and layers of linked files cascading to the right.
- Sort by file name, title, or file type. Links to or from each file are listed after each file. You can choose to see links to files, links from files, both types of links, or neither type.
- You can choose which types of files you want to display in any type of MiniWeb view. For example, you can limit the view to HTML files, sub-web files, and audio files -- hiding image files and other file types.
You can create hierarchical MiniWeb structures. That is, a MiniWeb can contain nested SubWebs with relative links to other MiniWebs. You can double-click on a SubWeb to open it. You can copy and paste or drag and drop SubWebs from one location to another. When you save a MiniWeb, you can automatically save the contents of all its SubWebs.
You can control whether links between files in different directories are saved as relative links (for example, <A HREF="../../Images/logo.gif">) or as absolute references (for example, <A HREF="http://www.mycom.com/Support/Images/logo.gif">). In fact, when you add links or images to Web pages, the dialog contains a button that automatically toggles between a relative link and an absolute link to the file you select.
If you rename a file in a MiniWeb, all the links to that file in the current MiniWeb are automatically changed.
You can use the "Check Links" command on an entire MiniWeb.
The "Webize" command examines the files in a directory and automatically creates a MiniWeb diagram. It can also examine all the subdirectories and automatically create nested SubWebs.
You can perform a global find/replace on the files in a MiniWeb.
You can print the graphical MiniWeb view or print all the pages in a MiniWeb.

Customizable Toolbar

You can choose which menu commands you want to include in the NaviPress toolbar. For example, if you create lots of numbered lists, add the numbered list button to the toolbar so that you can quickly format your pages.

NaviPress v1.1 also allows pages to add toolbar buttons on the fly using the HTML 3.0 <LINK REL....> tag. For example, your page can add toolbar buttons that link to a home page, table of contents, index, glossary, copyright page, next page, previous page, help page, higher level page, or a bookmark in the document.

SOCKS Support

NaviPress v1.1 supports the SOCKS protocol. This protocol allows you to use NaviPress from behind a firewall without compromising the security provided by the firewall.