Voyager Next Generation Released Today

[Kenneth Jennings]

"Today is V Day"

Voyager-NG WWW browser prerelease
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*** The next generation of Amiga Web browser has arrived ***

This is a preliminary release which brings this fantastic new Web
browser to the Amiga community and allows Voyager-NG to benefit
from the largest testing base possible. With your help
Voyager-NG can be rendered faultless on the largest possible
range of Amiga set-ups.

Due to the above, Voyager is currently updated frequently.

To obtain the archive

via WWW: http://www.vapor.com/voyager/
via FTP: ftp.vapor.com, /pub/voyager/
via EMail: mail to <file...@vapor.com>
put "SEND VOYAGER" in the mail body

The full archive in LZX is 612 kbytes in size.

Updates will appear there regularly. Updates are also announced
on the Voyager mailing list. If you are not on it yet, you are
encouraged to subscribe. Mail to <voyager...@vapor.com> and
put "ADD" in the body of the mail. Put "HELP" there to obtain a
complete description on how to use the mail server. The mailing
list is also a good place to discuss enhancement suggestions.

Major changes to Voyager since Version 1.0:

Supports Frames as introduced by Netscape 2.x

Uses internal image decoding routines. Visually incremental
on-the-fly image decoding, leaving the program operational
during decode. No more hassle with datatypes related bugs.
Optimized memory usage. The routines are optimized for speed
and are very fast. Full support of CyberGFX HiColor/TrueColor
screens and compatibles.

Supports HTML tables. Many more HTML commands
and Netscapism's are understood (including FONT SIZE and
HR WIDTH). Improved general compatibility with broken
and nonstandard HTML code.

Supports versatile plugin interface for third-party
extensions to the browser.

Shipped with a handy split-screen web search engine plugin.

Supports T/TCP "TCP for Transactions" requests,
allowing for much faster establishment of HTTP links
to servers. This is currently supported by
Miami 1.9.x beta versions only. Specified
in RFC 1644, as far as we know, Voyager is the
first browser on any platform to support this!

Totally reworked preference setting. The transfer anim is
now configurable, too.

New so-called 'local' menus which pop up over links and
images offering options such as opening in new window,
copying URL to clipboard, downloading to disk or adding
URL to bookmarks. Local menus also function for Frames by
offering full window viewing, saving Frame and viewing
Frame source.

Supports Shift & Click downloading of files even from
servers with broken configuration which state
that binary data is of type "text/plain". This
happens frequently with .lha and .lzx files,
because these suffixes are missing in many
http server example mime.types files.

Added internal SMTP (E-mail) send capability. Now also
supports mailto: links and mailto: Forms.

Improved news handling.

'LED' transfer status display additionally shows
stalled transfers. (Well I thought it was neat)

Many minor enhancements, and of course
All The Popular Bugs were fixed, too.

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