OmniWeb News

This page will occasionally be updated to supply news of interest to users of OmniWeb.

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June 28, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.7.3

· Image maps are properly calibrated. 

June 28, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.7.2

· Choosing "Add to Bookmarks" when you don't have a bookmarks page in Preferences but do have one on disk no longer crashes. (This is more common than one might think, since the dwrites were all renamed to start with a capital letter.) 

June 28, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.7.1

· Specifying an invalid hostname in a URL no longer crashes OmniWeb. (Ouch!) 
· Opening files from the workspace no longer generates a URL with an invalid hostname (which, naturally, triggered the above bug--double ouch!). 

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June 27, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.7

· Forms are now supported (although not all elements of forms are) 
· The UI has had some major revisions 
· The browser and history have been moved to their own panels 
· Links are followed with a single click 
· Each link has a link button associated with it 
· You can drag images and link buttons 
· More preferences 
· Starting and bookmarks pages 
· Save opened files 
· Run save panel on download 
· Background color 
· Download directory 
· News host 
· File packages are now supported for the local filesystem 
· More HTML constructs are supported 
· Interrupts are handled more nicely (no more alert panels following an aborted load) 
· Failed image loads no longer cause the loading page to disappear 

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April 5, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.6.2 is now available!

· No more crashes from (at least some subset of) bad HTML. 
· No more crashes from double-clicking on Sounds. 
· International characters all work properly. 
· Searches escape special characters and replace spaces with +'s. 

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April 5, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.6.1 is now available!

This version fixes mailto URLs and fully supports image mapping and URL redirection. It also adds a preference for whether you wish to save files that are automatically opened in the Workspace: just dwrite OmniWeb saveOpenedFiles YES if that's your preference.

Oh, and the horizontal rule has been changed to something a little less ornate.

Now, on to forms and socks support...

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April 4, 1994 -- OmniWeb version 0.6 has been released

Sorry for the long wait!

We didn't get as much done in this release as I was hoping to do--notably, we're still supporting neither URL redirection (which makes the mapped image support less elegant) nor forms. Mostly, we spent a bunch of time experimenting with the various WWW libraries out there, trying to decide which would make the best basis for our software.

However, there are some notable improvements, particularly in the area of sound support (which now works on Intels), the start page / bookmarks / open URLs, better formatting (umlauts, etc.) and preferences. Oh, and searching! And was the splitview there before? And you can print now. And...well, go check it out.

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kc 28 Jun 94