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- AWeb 1.2 demo
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- INTRODUCTION
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- AWeb is a World Wide Web browser for the Amiga computer.
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- It offers the following features:
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- o AWeb can use a wide range of TCP-stacks: AmiTCP/IP, I-Net225, AS-225
- or compatible. Without TCP stack running, you can still view local files.
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- o AWeb uses extensive internal multitasking, which leads to total
- asynchroneous and parallel network access. Images are starting to load
- while the document is still loading. It is possible to follow a link
- while the previous document is still loading. A separate network status
- window shows all pending network and local file accesses. All network
- accesses can be interrupted immediately.
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- o The HTML-2 standard is fully supported, including forms. Some of
- the most important so-called HTML-3 extensions are also supported.
- For buggy pages not conforming to the standard, AWeb offers a
- compatibility mode.
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- o AWeb supports the use of proxies for HTTP, FTP, Gopher and Telnet.
- Because some proxies can't handle forms or other special cases, the use
- of proxies can be temporarily disabled from the menu.
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- o The HTTP and Gopher protocols are supported internally. By using
- external programs, FTP, Mailto, Telnet and News can be used too.
- HTTP user authorization is supported.
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- o AWeb lets you load all images, delay all image loading, or load only
- clickable maps and delay other images. For delayed images, the ALT text
- is taken into account. Transparent GIFs are supported. The 24-bit picture
- datatype (picturedtV43) is supported.
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- o To improve network speed, host names and network addresses are cached
- so addresses are looked up only once during a session.
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- o AWeb can open it's windows on the default public screen, on a named
- public screen or open its own screen.
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- o AWeb has a hierarchical hotlist, with options to group entries.
- In extension to its own hotlist, AWeb can read other hotlists, like
- those of AMosaic and early IBrowse betas.
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- o An advanced settings requester is integrated in the program.
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- o AWeb has an ARexx interface, and a unique and powerful shell command
- interface.
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- REQUIREMENTS
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- AWeb needs:
- o OS 3.0 or better
- o At least 2MB of memory, preferably more
- o Either AmiTCP/IP, I-Net225 or AS-225 if you want to access the Internet
- o Appropriate picture datatypes (GIF, JPEG) to show inlined images
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- VERSION 1.2
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- This 1.2 version has some improvements compared to the previous 1.1
- version:
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- o Fixed many bugs:
- o used to hang on "processing" with some gif images
- o moving or closing a window sometimes caused a system lockup
- o going back and forward through history simetimes showed wrong
- versions of a page, most notably with (search) form responses
- o when the temporary directory was PROGDIR:something, external
- programs didn't work
- o with long rows of images, images were displayed on top of each other
- o the output console window of spawned external programs couldn't
- be used for input
- o Added localization
- o Made all unloaded image icons external, and replaceable
- o Improved the window history
- o Added ALLOWCMD and GET SCREEN ARexx commands
- o Added "tolerant" HTML mode, and made HTML mode a proper setting that
- is saved
- o ... and many other very small changes
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- DEMO
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- This AWeb 1.2 is a demo for the coming commercial product. The following
- features don't work in this demo:
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- o Multiple windows
- o HTML-3.2 support, like backgrounds and centering
- o A user-configurable ARexx macro menu
- o A hierarchical hotlist with separate hotlist requester
- o Telnet: and news: support through external programs
- o Option to start your TCP connection automatically when it is needed
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- The full version of AWeb will be commercially available.
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- REGISTERED USERS
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- For users who have registered AWeb before, special registered versions
- will be released along with the coming commercial versions.
- Look at <http://www.xs4all.nl/~yrozijn/aweb/> for the latest news.
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- Registered users should not use this demo version.
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- Please not that new registrations are no longer possible.
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- INSTALLATION
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- To install AWeb, just double-click the Install icon.
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- NOTE: During installation of AWeb, the installer tool might give an
- error message like: "unable to compile script".
- This is most likely caused by some misbehaving application installation,
- that has copied an obsolete version of the Commodore Installer utility to
- your hard drive. Make sure the Installer version in the SYS:C drawer is
- "installer_2 2.17 (1993-02-13)" or better. This version can be found on
- the Amiga Workbench 3.x Install floppy disk.
- Also, delete any copies of the Installer program from your SYS:Utilities
- drawer.
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- If you want to try AWeb before a permanent installation, make sure to
- double-click the "MakeAssign" icon first. It makes the necessary assigns
- that AWeb needs to find the ClassAct classes.
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- COPYRIGHT
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- AWeb is Copyright (c) 1996 by Yvon Rozijn. All rights reserved.
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- Refer to the Docs/legal.html document for more legal information.
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