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AOLpress AOLpress 1.2.2 for Macintosh: Readme ------------------------------------------------------ AOLpress is an integrated browsing and WYSIWYG authoring tool for the World Wide Web. AOLpress was designed both to make WWW authoring more accessible to beginners and to save valuable time and effort for professional Web publishers. ------------------------------------------------------ 1. ╩System Requirements o Stongly Recommended: 16 megabytes of RAM, requires 8 megabytes of RAM minimum*, o Recommended: System 7.x or later o Recommended: 68030 or faster processor. (AOLpress 1.2.2 is now a fat binary and will run natively on the Mac 68K and the Mac PPC) o Required: 7 MB╩free on your hard disk o Required: Color monitor using at least 256 colors * If you have low memory, AOLpress may run better using Virtual Memory. Go to the Apple Menu => Control Panels and select Memory. In this dialog box, turn on Virtual Memory if you haven't already. Next, increase the amount of memory by 1MB. For example, if your computer has 8MB built-in-memory, increase it to 9MB using the up arrow. Restart your computer. ------------------------------------------------------ 2. ╩Networking Requirements If you plan to use AOLpress as a browser and/or remote authoring tool, you will need the following: o Internet service provider (AOL 3.0 for Macintosh will work with AOLpress when it is released in Fall 1996) o Modem o Connection software (MacTCP, Open Transport, PPP) ------------------------------------------------------ 3. ╩Installation and Configuration 1. Double-click on the "Install AOLpress 1.2.2" icon. Follow the instructions to install AOLpress on your system in its own "AOLpress Folder". Files created by AOLpress will be placed in this folder. 2. Double-click on the AOLpress icon. 3. AOLpress does not insist that you set a proxy server and a name server, but it is highly recommended that you set them using Tools=>Preferences=>Network. 4. After you have AOLpress running on your system, you may delete the installer file. 5. Known extension conflict: Adobe Type Reunion (ATR) may cause problems for AOLpress. There is an ATR updater available: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/FILELIBRARY/ATM/Mac/Ty Re12Up.sit.hqx. 6. Possible conflicts: 1. Open Transport 2. FaxSTF 3.2: If you have the Control panel FaxMenu version 3.2.2 (FaxSTF 3.2 from STF Technologies), AOLpress may crash when it and the FaxMenu Control panel are enabled at the same time. The only workaround right now is to turn off this Control Panel using your Extensions Manager Control Panel. 3. Macintosh Easy Open Control Panel may cause random crashes while editing tables (possibly elsewhere). If you experience difficulties, try turning off (or removing if using <System 7.5) this control panel. 4. MacOS 7.5.2: ╩We have had several reports of various crashes when running AOLpress. If you are running MacOS 7.5.2 you should probably take the time to install a free upgrade from Apple. ╩In particular, AOLpress is known to crash when browsing certain sites (e.g., Web Crawler) when running on MacOS 7.5.2. ╩This can be avoided by entering a DNS entry for the Name Server field in the Network Preferences dialog (Tools => Preferences => Network). AOLpress does not insist that you set a proxy server and a name server but it is highly recommended that you set them using Tools => Preferences => Network. ------------------------------------------------------ 4. ╩Known Bugs o AOLpress may crash when recursively webizing large directory structures. This is because AOLpress is running out of memory. ╩If you have this problem you work around it by webizing smaller pieces of the directory (use the Options button in the Webize dialog). o Changing the number of colors used for display while AOLpress is running may cause a crash and force a reboot. o Saving MiniWeb's: ╩When saving a MiniWeb, AOLpress will recursively save any subwebs which AOLpress has opened in the current session (or subwebs which contain files that AOLpress has opened) even though Recursively Save SubWebs in the Save As Options dialog is NOT checked. o The Stop button is not activated when performing an Import or a Save As of a MiniWeb. o The number pad does not work within AOLpress dialog boxes. o Within a <center> tag: Elements => Get Attribute (or Elements => Image, Link, Image Map, or Anchor with such an attribute already selected) may change the selection to the first attribute item within the <center> tag. o After using Edit->Make Icon from a MiniWeb view, there is no way to revert back to the default Icon. o Currently, there is no direct way to remove a page as being the Stationery page for a MiniWeb. The workaround is to create a blank page then use Edit->Set Stationery to set it as the stationery page.╩ ------------------------------------------------------ 5. ╩Notes and Hints General Authoring o AOLpress is rather strict about enforcing legal HTML. When using AOLpress to edit pages which were created outside of AOLpress, it may change HTML which does not comply to the HTML 3.2 standard and specifications when saving it. ╩To view a raw HTML file (before AOLpress has modified it) choose Tools -> Show HTML and File -> Reload from the Show HTML window. To save a raw HTML file (without being parsed by AOLpress) choose File -> Save As from the Show HTML window. o Selecting text and formatting: In HTML the formatting information for a paragraph is located before the paragraph, unlike word processors where the formatting information is located at the end of the paragraph. Thus when selecting text to replace formatting, copy/paste, or drag/drop it is necessary to include the carriage return before the paragraph if you want the formatting to be included. o Netscape vs HTML 3.2. AOLpress give you the choice of whether the display attempts to conform to the HTML 3.2 spec or to Netscape's interpretation of HTML. (There are many fewer differences than existed between HTML 3.0 and Netscape's interpretation). In some cases this affects the actual HTML AOLpress generates and saves: Tools->Preferences->General Set to: Netscape Tools->Preferences->General Set to: HTML 3.2 Multiple Title tags allowed not allowed (removed when saved) Multiple Body tags allowed not allowed (removed when saved) <Script>...<Script> allows <Script> in the BODY forces <Script> to reside in HEAD o ">" within quoted strings: When viewing pages with the preferences (Tools -> Preferences -> General) set to conform to ╩Netscape, a greater than sign within a quoted string (e.g. ...VALUE=">="... ) often terminates the tag even though it should not. It usually displays the rest on the tag in the page. To make the page viewable in both HTML 3.2 and Netscape mode (and generally acceptable by more browsers) the "> "should be converted to ">". This can be done by loading the page with prefs set to conform to HTML 3.2 and then saving it back or by manually making the change in the Show HTML window. o Authoring <Script>: When preferences (Tools->Preferences->General) are set to conform to HTML 3.2, AOLpress places all <Script> tags in the HEAD of the HTML document as specified in HTML 3.2. Setting the Preferences to conform to Netscape will allow you to place <Scripts> in the BODY but it is NOT recommended. Netscape's guide for authoring Java Script strongly suggests defining all script functions in the HEAD of the document and using event handlers embedded within tags within the BODY to call those functions. o Deleting Files from a MiniWeb: Using the MiniWeb view AOLpress allows the user to Edit=>Cut or backspace/delete an icon (subsequently deleting the object) without the presence of a confirmation dialog box. o Concurrent Editing: AOLpress when used with a AOLserver version 2.1 offers the ability to "lock" a page on a server from other editors. If "locking" is not being used and concurrent editing of the same page is occurring, changes may be overwritten. This usually happens because someone edits a cached version of a page and saves it. Be careful and use reload often if multiple people are editing the same page concurrently. o Authentication and saving to a server. ╩When saving a page to a server AOLpress saves all of the page elements as well. ╩If you choose to cancel the authentication of a page you will still be prompted for authentication of the page elements that AOLpress is attempting to save. o To edit text or images which are links without following the link hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click with the mouse. o To create a MiniWeb out of a directory, or to regenerate a MiniWeb that isn't showing all of the files that it should (after moving files outside of AOLpress) use the Webize dialog by pressing Ctrl-Shift-W (or choose Tools=>Webize from the MiniWeb view). o Double-click on a link to display the linked page in a new window. Tables o Selecting (highlighting) a table in the page view requires that the paragraph before and after the table be selected. Dragging the mouse across or double clicking on a table will not highlight it but dragging the pointer from the paragraph above to the paragraph beneath (or vice-versa) will select the table. o Selecting tables within tables and tables at the end of the page: ╩When a table is the first or last item in a table cell the table is not selectable with the mouse. ╩This is because the selection of a table requires the selection of a paragraph before and after the table. It is easy to avoid this problem once you are aware of it. When creating tables nested within tables insert paragraphs into the table cell (by hitting Return) and place the cursor between these paragraphs when choosing Create Table. ╩Extra paragraphs can be easily deleted later. If you find yourself in this state, the workaround is to add a <P> tag at each end of the table you are trying to select: o Highlight some of the table content (as a reference point) and choose Tools=>Show HTML. o The highlighted selection should be highlighted in the Show HTML window. Insert <P> before the beginning table tag (<TABLE BORDER .....>) to insert a paragraph before the table. o Insert a <P> tag immediately after the closing table tag (</TABLE>) to insert a paragraph after the table o Select Parse and Close from the file menu in the Show HTML window. o Typing in tables: Resizing tables on the fly as text is inserted is a lot of work and the typing speed in tables can be slower as a result. The more cells there are in the table, the slower the typing will be. o Alter Table will remove table attributes that are not authored through the AOLpress menus (e.g. Align=). o Using Undo and Redo in Tables sometimes requires two Undos/Redos for certain functions (e.g. Merge Cell). Lists o More that one list element on the same line occurs when there are lists nested inside a list without a paragraph tag between the list tags. ╩This only happens when Edit Complex lists is set. ╩It is impossible to insert text between two such list elements from the page view. The workaround is to manually add <P> tags after the <LI> tag in the Show HTML window. o Exiting from nested lists: AOLpress only allows one level at a time to be exited. If you wish to exit multiple nested levels, choose Format=>Exit List Format multiple times and delete the unwanted list elements when finished. MiniWebs o If MiniWebs don't reflect the contents of the directory, Webize the directory. AOLpress can't tell if a MiniWeb filename has been changed outside of AOLpress. If you change, add, or delete files or links in a MiniWeb outside of AOLpress, or ever notice that the MiniWeb view is not reflecting the true status of the directory, be sure to webize/regenerate the MiniWeb. o Changing a filename in a MiniWeb o does not update links in subwebs. o does not update links in image maps o removes anchor extensions from links it changes o When editing long filenames in a MiniWeb using a list view (Name, Title, or MIME type) the file name display allows for ~27 characters. ╩After that the text exceeds the filename box and is displayed behind the title. ╩The workaround is to use the Web view to rename files longer than 27 characters. o Browsing for MiniWeb icons by default shows only files with .gif extension. Files of type gif, jpg, and xbm can be used for MiniWeb icons. Display o AOLpress does not display transparent gifs. ╩AOLpress will match the background color, but not a background image. When browsing amongst pages referencing the same transparent gif but with different background colors you may notice that the background color for the gif is cached as the color of the first visited page. ╩Hitting reload will display the image with the current background color. Miscellaneous o Opening or editing a page with a large amount of text (>100K) is very slow with AOLpress, and AOLpress will crash if given a file that is too large. o Check Links will indicate "Could not find ..." when there is a redirect at the specified URL. o The hotlist window does not have a horizontal scroll bar. ╩To read long URLs the window may be resized larger. Copyright ⌐ 1996 America Online, Inc.