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|__/ |___/ http://www.vapor.com/voyager/
Welcome to VoyagerNG 2.95.
Voyager is a web browser for Amiga computers. It has been programmed
over the last two years by Oliver Wagner <owagner@vapor.com>, and
is a part of the VaporWare suite of Internet applications. For more
information on VoyagerNG or any of the other VaporWare products,
please visit the VaporWare website - http://www.vapor.com/.
This is the first public release of VoyagerNG since version 2.88. In
the past months, many parts of VoyagerNG's internal workings have been
rewritten from scratch. A direct result of this is the implementation
of HTTP/1.1 which allows VoyagerNG to use persistent connections to
websites in order to decrease load times, the only Amiga web browser
capable of this.
This version of VoyagerNG has undergone thorough internal beta testing
over the last few months. Despite this, some bugs have surely remained.
If you do encounter a bug, please submit a bug report to our online
BugTrack database, at http://www.vapor.com/bugtrack/ ...thanks!
Please subscribe to the VoyagerNG Mailing List if you would like to
discuss the program. Details of all VaporWare Mailing Lists are on the
website, http://www.vapor.com.
VoyagerNG is *SHAREWARE*. You can register it easily with the included
registration utility at any of our registration sites around the world.
These include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, the
United Kingdom, and the USA.
To use your Credit Card or First Virtual account to register online,
just point your browser at http://order.vapor.com/cgi-bin/regform. This
is a secure site. All Credit Card orders are processed through the UK
registration site, at current UK prices. All First Virtual orders are
processed through the USA registration site, at current USA prices.
The executable comes in two versions: One, called "V", is compiled for
68000/020/EC030/EC040 CPUs, the other, "V030" is compiled for 68030 CPUs
(and up) equipped with an FPU (68881/68882, 040 and 060). The install
program should select the right executable for your CPU.
(For a full list of changes since version 2.88, please see below).
VoyagerNG 2.95's new features include:
- Rewritten networking code supporting the HTTP/1.1 standard. This
allows Voyager to "park" connections to HTTP/1.1-capable websites
in order to use them again as needed. Parked HTTP/1.1 connections
show up as grey LEDs. This majorly improves speed when browsing
around a web site by eliminating any TCP layer overhead for
connection establishment.
- Persistant FTP implementation. This allows Voyager to maintain
connections to FTP sites instead of reconnecting every time the user
does something. This allows for fast access to FTP sites and better
FTP browsing.
- Voyager is now capable of blitting images to and from Fast RAM on
ECS/AGA systems. This totally eliminates the 1/2 MB Chip mem barrier
and any problems related to that.
- Voyager will now complete a URL you type in as best it can. For
example, entering www.yah will have V complete it with "oo.com"
if you have recently visited Yahoo.
- The print feature has been greatly optimised with options to print
graphics, graphics with background, or text only. Voyager also
supports Turboprint for printing from 16/24 bit screens.
- Searching for text within documents is now possible.
- Cache handling has been improved and optimised, including a new
Cache browser.
- SSL certificate management is included in Voyager's settings area.
Note that this feature is only activated when using Voyager's own
SSL plugin, not MiamiSSL.
- Image decoder now supports the XBM format.
- Voyager can now view and save files using MimePrefs.
- SSL sessions may now be cached.
- Overall layout speed has been heavily improved.
- Voyager's context menus now include a WebTV interface.
- Voyager has a direct interface to Microdot II for news/mail.
Version History
===============
[NOTE: Changes prior to version 2.89 have been removed]
V2.89
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- major speedup during page layout (esspecially obvious on larger
pages) and handling
- now specifies MUIA_Application_UsedClasses correctly
- fixed multi page printing problems with certain printer drivers
- fixed a problem with string form elements being layouted
too narrow thus causing MUI layout size complaints
- fixed a major bug in handling form posts and meta refresh updates
causing access to freed memory with all kind of nasty side effects
ranging from forms not working up to utter crashes
V2.90
-----
- added ScreenToFront and ScreenToBack ARexx commands
- fixed POSTing of form data
- images are no longer cashed till crash on ECS/AGA systems
- no longer constantly tries to open javascript library for
every created object (oops), thus slowing down general
operation beyond belief
V2.91
-----
- fixed and heavily improved POST handling. POST URLs are
now properly listed in history, can be reloaded and multi
stage POST forms with the same URL don't stupidly reload
the first instance from cache
- URL loader no longer nukes on path/arg combinations longer
than 512 chars
- further improved setup speed of link objects
- redesigned memory handling of HTML docview. Instead of
fragmenting the general all-purpose pool with myriards of
small allocs/frees, temporary data is now allocated from the
per document pool, which is freed with a general DeletePool()
on a document switch
- fixed <TEXTAREA>
- selecting a form cycle gadget no longer starts dragging
- send mail/post news window now work again
- fixed <SELECT> handling. No longer limited to 128 chars.
Now offers <MULTIPLE> with list representation. Selects with
more than 5 entries are now automatically presented as a
popup list.
V2.91a
------
- now supports FRAMEBORDER correctly
- fixed lame deadlock bug introduced in 2.91
V2.91b
------
- single item <SELECT> could fail due to incorrect size calculation
- improved setup/rendering speed of table border objects
- <FONT> attributes are now reset for ever <TD> and resetted
after a table. This should fix many suspected "table bugs".
- removed excess TextLength() from calculating anchor label widths,
thus speeding up pages with lots of links
- fixed problems with "end of transfer" going unnoticed
- added "Disable Proxies?" menu item
- added "Spoof as Mozilla?" menu item
V2.91c
------
- form <select> poplist class didn't properly inherit the current font
- plain text was accidentally rendered in <size-1> font, instead of the
fixed font
- links are now in the window cycle chain and can be reached with tab
cycling. Also, string elements in forms now have AdvanceOnCR
and do no longer autosubmit as long as there is a submit button
in the form
- fixed a few broken cycle chains in prefs
- improved keyboard control for htmlview. Current mapping:
LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN (also 4/8/6/2 on numpad) as expected
SHIFT-UP/DOWN (also 9/3 on numpad) page up/down
CTRL-UP/DOWN (also 1/7 on numpad) top/bottom
SHIFT-LEFT/RIGHT linestart/end
CTRL-LEFT/RIGHT linestart/end
ALT-LEFT/RIGHT page back/forward
NUMKEY-- page back
NUMKEY-+ page forward
SPACE - page down
BACKSPACE - up
- key controls now only affect the "active" frame (the one
last loaded or last clicked into)
V2.91d
------
- file:/// errors now show a proper DOS error string
- <TR ALIGN> is now properly inherited
- FORM POSTing via Proxies was totally broken
- no longer pukes when submitting forms which already had
? in their ACTION URLs
- added support for Proxy Authorization
- now converts &; entities inside <FORM ACTION> for compatibility
with some broken cgi-bins <sigh>
- added support for SSL Proxy tunneling
- fixed a problem with <INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX> objects causing MUI layout
complaints due to minimum size violation
- plaintext was still rendered using <SIZE-1> font, although
calculated with fixed font