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AppleCare TIL Archive -OpenDoc: Latest Version & Release History - n20207 |
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AppleCare TIL Archive -Cyberdog: Getting Started With Cyberdog 1.0 File - n19802 |
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AppleCare TIL Archive -OpenDoc Essentials and TextEditor Object (2/97) - n21044 |
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AppleCare TIL Archive -Cyberdog Beta1.0: General FAQ (3/97) - n19475 |
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AppleCare TIL Archive -Mac OS: Runtime for Java (MRJ) v 1.5.1 - n30312 |
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Cyberdog 2.0 offers the original features that were popular in past versions of the technology, with new features that offer a more functional user experience. Cyberdog 2.0 offers significantly faster performance throughout the product, particularly in displaying web pages and emails, and in switching between its different components. Cyberdog 2.0 also works with SoftLinc LEXI spell checker, so you can spell check email and newsgroup messages or DocBuilder documents. User interface improvements and more consistent preference settings also enhance the user experience. Cyberdog 2.0 also includes the following features: • Email support including text, graphics, enclosures, and live links (URLs, FTP etc.) • Fast full-text search over email • Ability to handle multiple email accounts • Multiple email trays and handlers for automatic sorting • Imports information from other applications (other email and addresses, Netscape bookmarks) • Seamless changes between web, Gopher, and FTP browsing • Support for Netscape plug-ins • Logging of the last 100 sites visited (Log can be viewed three ways and searched) • Storage of links (URLs, FTP, AppleTalk server, etc.), email addresses, and aliases to local and network files and folders in Notebooks • Organization of information in multiple notebooks • Creation of Internet applications in DocBuilders (includes CyberDocuments) • Viewers for all major types of media (PICT, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, .WAV, .AIFF, and more) • Support for all Internet protocols (FTP, Gopher, SMTP/POP3, etc.)
Cyberdog 2.0 Release Notes & Bug Fxes 2. Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Beta 1
Mail, News and Message Editor
• Items dont show up when dragged to message. • Outgoing handlers with color only will not be handled. • International: Receiving a EUC plain text message will cause Cyberdog to hang while indexing. • Two same items in the Move popup menu in Mail Trays. • News handlers with capital letters in criteria won't ever match message. • International:Japanese characters in MIME mail are displayed in default font. • International: EUC 2-byte characters in the My Name field are unreadable. • Cyberitem changes to question mark if move with line of text in Plain Text message. • Potential long delay when you click on menu bar. • Message editor doesn't use the system's highlight color for selected text. • No default setting for mail notification after clean install. • Should allow uppercase account names to be sent to POP server. • No icon is displayed when a sound file is drag & dropped onto the Message Editor. • Reply does not respect preference when both mail and newsgroup are recipients. • Your mail address is automatically put into the "To:" field in the reply mail. • International: 2-byte characters cannot be input into the letterhead name field. • Crash with Adobe Type Reunion installed when use Message Editor and click menus. • Large amounts of text in MIME block cause crash.
FTP, Gopher and Telnet
• Show modified date. • Can't drag upload to folder that was just created. • Can't change to a directory that has a # in it. • Crash when dink folder closed while file in folder is being deleted. • Crash when drag upload to dinked empty folder. • Crash when close window while uploading.
Text, Picture, Sound and Movie Viewers
• Image not being drawn on first part of server push. • Server push pictures do not always get displayed. • Embeded QTVR movies drawn over window bounds. • Frame rate between animated gifs is too fast. • Images in message editor draw into title bar when scrolled. • Embedded Text parts now have an ugly border. • Cannot navigate with cursor in VR 2.0 movie embedded into CD 2.0 container.
Notebook, Log, Infrastructure and Installer
• Show E-mail Address Contents is available for news URLs but gives error . • Menus go away after dismissing cookie dialog. • Norton Disk Doctor complains about Cyberdog installer custom icon bits. • A Cyberitem icon cannot be opened if it is locked on the Finder. • Intertnational: Encodings grayed out in language preferences on 68k.
Web browser and HTML
• Performance: Web scrolling slows greatly the farther down the page you go. • Space too large from start of page when first element is a table. • Right aligned animated gif are not refreshed. • Scroll bars sometimes do not get drawn. • Resizing a CyberDog browser with an Embeded VR movie causes redraw problems. • HTML "<a href=???</a>" file references creates empty navigator window. • Problem with empty anchors and table cells. • Running dog shows up in random spots at random times in navigator window. • Show more cookie dialogs after "Don't show again" sleected. • Right aligned image is drawn outside of the table border. • Resizing window makes the table get out of whack - cannot return it to original size. • Text is not inverted when text is selected in a colored table cell. • Client side imagemap broken at some sites.
Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Beta 1
• Mail Trays (Not the All Mail Tray) remembers sort and sort order • Added a preference for skipping the Letterhead dialog • Viewing HTML Messages in the Cyberdog Message editor • Support for the more mail AppleEvents (check the Cyberdog Scripting Dictionary for more details) • Preference for turning off embedded Java, plug-ins or Cyberodg parts • Preference for turning off animated GIFs • Connect-To panel saves previously entered URLs • Support for MPEG extension in QuickTime to display MPEG movies • Triple-click lines in messages to select entire line • Unicode support - Send and Receive mail and news and browser web pages in UTF-7 UTF-8 • Support for Text Encoding Converter 1.1 with added encodings: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Cyrllic and Turkish • Inline text editing for 2-byte characters in message header fields • Changed MIME enclosures to be more compatible with existing email clients • No longer sending multiple versions of Rich text email and news articles • Performance Improvement: Web page formatting • Performance Improvement: Next Message in Cyberdog Mail • Performance Improvement: Opening Messages from Cyberdog Mail trays • Performance Improvement: New Message • Performance Improvement: Typing speed in Cyberdog message editor • Performance Improvement: Downloading mail • Performance Improvement: Downloading message headers in the article browser
Mail, News and Message Editor • Enclosures with files of the same name but different paths are no longer deleted • Plain text messages with enclosures sent to Emailer no longer show up as raw binhex • Default "Reply to Mail:" in Mail & News Setup has been changed to Author • Multiple UUencoded files in non-MIME messages are now parsed correctly • Mail Trays window redraws correctly when creating a new mail tray • Correct error message when using APOP on a non-APOP server • Can double-click any part of the message info to open a message • Long subject lines no longer cause problems when replying or forwarding • No longer crash when using LEXI 1.0.2 Alpha in the Cyberdog message editor • Fixed some crashing bugs in downloading mail • Plain text messages with enclosures sent to Eudora no longer show up as raw binhex • UUencoded news enclosures now decode if "begin" is on second line • Scrolling in the "To:" field has been fixed • Dragging addresses to other envelope fields moves addresses instead of copying • Paste As Quote now respects the Rich and Plain text settings in messages • Sending message after deleting recipients from the "To:" no longer sends to a newsgroup • Messages can now receive messages in the Chicago font • Icon displayed for sound file when dragged and dropped onto a new message • Can now read messages from a newsfeed server • Fixed problem where some OK buttons would be highlited with an oval • Enclosed .sit files in news articles do not expand in the enclosure folder anymore • Downloading news messages to mail trays keeps the correct header information
FTP, Gopher and Telnet • Downloading files with a name that already exists correctly adds extension so as not to interfere with type extenion • Cancelling the download of movie file no longer causes an error • Delete files in FTP no longer causes an error on some FTP servers • Special characters are now encoded in FTP • Refresh now works correctly in FTP and AppleTalk browser windows • Does not crash when dinking and undinking folders rapidly • Does not give System Error when quitting while downloading • Uploads of files with no data fork now work correctly • Does not crash when dinking parent directory closed after dinking child directory open • FTP now uses the SYST command correctly • Does not crash when quitting while deleting files on FTP server • Changed "/" to "%2f" when in folder name • Enter now opens items in Gopher • Telnet protocol now negotiate s options and suboptions • Telnet no longer causes error on logout • Fixed incorrect dialog when logging off telnet sessions
Text, Picture, Sound and Movie Viewers • Fixed many issuess around animated and transparent GIFs • GIFs now display correctly when background color is black • Fixed many issues around using Desktop Pattern pictures • Animated GIFs no longer enlarge when dragged into message editor • Fixed problem with web browser not displaying pictures using the >EMBED< tag • Fixed problem with the Text viewer truncating files on slow connections • DocBuilder now correctly handles embedding a URL that has an embedded QuickTime VR file • Warning before deleting downloaded QuickTime movies or sounds
Notebook, Log, Infrastructure and Installer • Addres buton now finds default notebook even when it is not opened • Fixed problems that would cause System Errors when opening locked notebooks • Fixed problem with icons for applications in notebook when launched • Fixed crash when importing non-Emailer files with Emailer Import feature • Fixed problem with Add Selection/Item to Notebook so the notebook can be saved afterwards • Untitled cyberitems saved to the Finder are saved correctly • Non-lowercase URLs now qualify as valid URLs when selected and use the Connect to Selected Address menu item • Fixed problems with Legalize screen causing crashes on localized systems • Updated ".sit" MIME type in Internet Preferences installed (only on systems that do not already have Internet Preferences installed) • Added ".ram" and ".mpeg" extensions to Internet Preferences installed (only on systems that do not already have Internet Preferences installed)
AppleTalk • Changed browser to work with new AppleShare 5.0 • Fixed a crash when afp volume/path URLs were used in Rapid-I buttons if loging dialog was required
Web browser and HTML • Stay tuned...
Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 2
• No features we are added. No bugs were fixed. We simply removed the Holiday theme from the graphical elements.
Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1
1. Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1 2. Bugs Fixed for 2.0 Alpha 1
Web Browser Features 1. Frames 2. Animated gifs 3. Client pull 4. HTTP Cookies support (W3C and Netscape) and preferences 5. background colors for tables 6. Text encoding menu to select script to display page in 7. Can now select across cells and tables faster 8. HTML parsing speed improvements
HTML Tags 1. Align left/align right for images around text 2. Named colors 3. New HTML text elements - BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP 4. <BR> clear tags 5. <IMG> HSPACE and VSPACE
FTP 1. Don't binhex when uploading files preference
General 1. Improved proxy support 2. Cache preferences 3. Use standard controls
Mail & News 1. Image conversion on send 2. Performance tuning (activating windows, opening mail trays) 3. Status bar for opening large mail tray 4. APOP support 5. Small/no button support for Mail Tray windows 6. Support binary files in news articles 7. Display number of articles/unread articles in news article browser 8. Display number of unread articles per thread in news article browser 9. Attribution to author in Message Editor 10. Spell Checker (if LEXI is installed) 11. Next/previous article buttons in Read Messages 12. Display "article i of n" in Read Messages for news groups 13. Default news server moved to the list in Mail & News setup 14. Letterhead is now a preference in Mail & News setup 15. Default reply-to is now a preference in the Mail & News setup 16. Prefs for reply text inclusion is now a preference in Mail & News setup 17. News Authentication 18. Move news articles to Mail Trays by Drag and Drop 19. UTF-7 and UTF-8 mail support
Bugs fixed for 2.0 Alpha 1
AppleTalk Browser
1. fixed length check in URL parsing (31 instead of 32 for AppleTalk names) 2. improved error messages 3. pick correct volume when 2 volumes have the same name
Mail & News
1. Fixed moving addresses around in message editor fields (so that it no longer copies)
December 21, 1996, 07:00 PM PST
1. UUencoded binaries with the "begin" on the second line won't be decoded in news articles. 2. Old rich text letterheads may switch to "plain text" in the popup although they still display in rich until sent. Workaround is to manually change the popup back to Rich before sending. 3. Sometimes the default button in a dialog (e.g. Save/Don't Save this messge dialog) will have a circle around it instead of the normal outline. 4. When creating message, can't get to end of long address in envelope to view/edit it. 5. Frame sets embedded within Frame sets can cause Cyberdog to get stuck in an infinite loop, requiring a force quit to continue. 6. Aligned elements within tables can confuse Cyberdog such that anchors or buttons on forms may not work as expected.
Here are some things that may seem like bugs but aren't:
• Sending plain text message with enclosure from Cyberdog 2.0 to older versions of Cyberdog will make the enclosure display as raw binhex inside the message. In Cyberdog 2.0 we added the "MIME-Version: 1.0" header to plain text messages which we should have done a long time ago. If you need to decode raw binhex, copy and paste it into a text file, save the text file and hten drop it on Stuffit Expander to unstuff.
• When sent in rich (MIME) text, recipient may see message twice if not using Cyberdog. This probably means the user is using a non-MIME capable mail reader. Generally what happens is the recipient will see the message stripped of any formats, styles, colors, etc. in justa plain text, followed by the same message with the MIME format information (which isn't very pretty.) To avoid this, send your message in plain text if you aren't sure your recipient has a mail application that supports MIME.
1. Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1
Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1
Web Browser Features 1. Frames 2. Animated gifs 3. Client pull 4. HTTP Cookies support (W3C and Netscape) and preferences 5. background colors for tables 6. Text encoding menu to select script to display page in 7. Can now select across cells and tables faster 8. HTML parsing speed improvements
HTML Tags 1. Align left/align right for images around text 2. Named colors 3. New HTML text elements - BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP 4. <BR> clear tags 5. <IMG> HSPACE and VSPACE
FTP 1. Don't binhex when uploading files preference
General 1. Improved proxy support 2. Cache preferences 3. Use standard controls
Mail & News 1. Image conversion on send 2. Performance tuning (activating windows, opening mail trays) 3. Status bar for opening large mail tray 4. APOP support 5. Small/no button support for Mail Tray windows 6. Support binary files in news artciles 7. Display number of articles/unread articles in news article browser 8. Display number of unread articles per thread in news article browser 9. Attribution to author in Message Editor 10. Spell Checker (if LEXI is installed) 11. Next/previous article buttons in Read Messages 12. Display "article i of n" in Read Messages for news groups 13. Default news server moved to the list in Mail & News setup 14. Letterhead is now a preference in Mail & News setup 15. Default reply-to is now a preference in the Mail & News setup 16. Prefs for reply text inclusion is now a preference in Mail & News setup 17. News Authentication 18. Move news articles to Mail Trays by Drag and Drop 19. UTF-7 and UTF-8 mail support
AppleTalk Browser
1. fixed length check in URL parsing (31 instead of 32 for AppleTalk names) 2. improved error messages 3. pick correct volume when 2 volumes have the same name
Mail & News
1. Fixed moving addresses around in message editor fields (so that it no longer copies)
More reports on bugs fixed coming after holidays!
1. When viewing QuickTime movies in Cyberdog 1.2 with OpenDoc 1.1 and QuickTime 2.5 installed on a 68k Macintosh (this problem does not occur on PowerPC Macintosh computers), Cyberdog will crash. This bug will be fixed in the next version of OpenDoc. To workaround this problem if you are affected by it, you can use one of two solutions: 1) You can download and install the Apple QuickTime LiveObject which is used as a workaround for another bug and is detailed in the Cyberdog 1.1 Bugs list. 2) You can install QuickTime 2.1.
(To the reader: Take note: If you have the Cyberdog 1.1 Bugs, email me and I will link it here)
2. Dragging addresses in envelope of Message Editor should move, not copy.
3. Outgoing handlers (Outgoing letters checkbox) for email don't work
4. Crash when drag empty space in handler box
5. Reply to Newsgroup doesn't work if newsgroup isn't in To field
6. Reply to Newsgroup also replies to everyone else in To field
7. Dragging text in/to Subject field doesn't mark message as dirty (not prompted to Save on Close)
8. Paste as Quote redraw problem
9. Mail handlers break when In Tray name is changed
10. While downloading/parsing news/mail messages, the # of K does not increase
11. Dinking/undinking large newsgroup causes malfunction of scrollbar
12. When there are identical volumes mounted on the desktop, AFP URLs may become "confused" when attempting to open files or Finder windows.
13. The registered username field cannot be edited in Appleshare login dialogs if the username is present in a double-clicked CyberItem containing an AFP URL.
14. This list will be added to as soon as I can compile more data. I wanted to get the release out first and foremost. :) Installed CD 1.2. Some strange behavior, like truncated window titles, WAV unimplemented trap crashes, inability to paste graphics into messages, unless "Paste as Quote" is selected, etc.
- deinstall cd 1.1.x, restart, then install cd 1.2 with sys75x only
Cyberdog 1.2 Release Notes & Bug Fixes 1. Features Added/Changed for 1.2
Features Added/Changed for 1.2
1. Expanded AppleScript support: 1. Added parameter to GetURL to download data to a file 2. OpenURL 3. Register/Unregister Viewer See the Cyberdog Scripting Dictionary for more information
2. Support for transparent GIFs (PowerPC Macintosh version only)
3. Greater International/localization support
4. Cyberbutton improvements: 1. Show Icon of the item the button is linked too 2. Labels on buttons 3. Transparent buttons 4. Open In Place - opens into an embedded browser if one is available 5. Get info on button to see URL of the item the button is linked too 6. Menu reorganization
5. Drag files from Finder to notebook to add to Notebook
6. Drag files from Finder to Navigator window to display in Navigator (e.g. HTML)
7. Improve move/delete/empty trash performance in Mail
8. Better Feedback on POP error messages when checking for mail
9. Command Key Equivelants for delete, next and previous message added 1. Commad-Delete for Delete Message 2. Command-Left Arrow for Previous Message 3. Command-Right Arrow for Next Message
10. Key Equivelants for Message Editor text manipulation added 1. Option-Left Arrow to move to beginning of previous word 2. Option-Right Arrow to move to the beginning of the next word 3. Command-Left Arrow to move to the beginning of line 4. Command-Right Arrow to move to the end of the line 5. Shift-Any-of-the-Above options to Select while moving cursor
11. Save Mail Trays and News window position and size
12. Popup menu on 'Move to Tray' buttons to choose tray to move message to
13. Popup menu on 'New Message' button to choose letterhead for message
14. Popup menu on the 'Reply' button of received letters to choose letterhead for reply message
15. Support for importing Emailer address books
16. Mark messages as read/unread by clicking in column in Mail and News windows
17. Postmark in sent messages
18. Support for Paste as Quote in messages
19. Support for Quoting selected text in messages
20. Speed improvements in opening email and news messages
21. Support for 2-byte usernames in AppleTalk Browser
22. Connect To Selected Address feature now implemented with AppleTalk Browser
1. Special characters changed to question marks when the TEC was installed 2. File System error alert when trying to print highlighted text with QuickDraw GX on 3. Crash when drag from empty space in mail or news handler windows of Mail & News Setup dialog 4. RFC 1896 colors not recognized 5. Draft Message have no status 6. Couldn't drag in QuickTime movies with Apple QuickTime Viewer 7. Canceling from Quit doesn't cancel 8. Mail handlers were broken on outgoing email messages 9. When too many 2-byte characters were in the From field, nothing woudl appear in From field 10. Can't access address book from Message Editor if Default Notebook was not open 11. Error when submitting a form with multiple carraige returns in text field 12. Greyed out message when create/open and "Show buttons in envelope" is unchecked 13. Crash when importing Netscape bookmarks on KanjiTalk systems 14. Using Rapid-I button with AppleTalk service causes crash 15. Web pictures do not get downloaded when pages USEMAPS exceed magic number 4
AppleTalk Browser
1. 2-byte usernames now supported in URLs and Appleshare login dialogs. 2. International keyboard scripts work in Appleshare login dialogs from any entry point
1. Mail Should remember mail trays window position and size 2. Password field should not accept arrow characters 3. Enclosures are lost if you move the mail tray between volumes 4. Can't send messages that take longer than 2 minutes to send 5. The number in the Unsent Mail field of the out tray becomes -1. 6. Large mail cannot be transmitted. 7. Need additional string in status window, "checking for queued message..."
Message Editor
1. Page up / page down put garbage characters in envelope 2. Including all recipients includes sender twice. 3. Freeze occurs when more than 132 characters entered in subject field 4. Forward delete key doesn't work 5. Limit on characters in "To" field of message
News
1. Crash on relaunch after quit while downloading newsgroups 2. Move to tray with news message says writing to out tray
Features Added/Changed for 1.1
General Cyberdog Changes
• Cyberdog for 68K Macintoshes.
• Added support for AppleTalk browsing and mounting of AppleTalk remote volumes.
• Added support for Internet (Netscape) Plug-Ins (In a Pre-Beta Phase, currently).
• Added a Cyberdog application;
• all Cyberdog 1.1 documents will open in one process • will open your default notebook when double-clicked • can drag & drop Cyberdog documents on the application
• Modified the "Document" menu; changed the name to "File" and added a Quit command.
• Added support for marquee style drag selection in list views.
• Added the following command key equivalents:
• "E" for Rename in the Edit menu • "'" for Search for Messages in the Mail & News menu • "/" for Show Mail Trays in the Mail & News menu • "H" for Refresh in the Navigator menu • "K" for Connect to Selected Address in the Cyberdog menu
• Added a windows sub-menu to Cyberdog menu.
• Page up/Page down, Home, End work in all of the List views (Notebook, Mail Browser, News Browser, etc.)
• Added Text Encoding Converter. If the converter is not installed, Cyberdog will not convert encodings (except for Latin1).
• Added speedy binhexing/de-binhexing code. Fixed bug that prevented cancelling of binhexing.
• Cyberdog is now minimally scriptable. The Cyberdog application is targetable by other applications and will accept the Get URL AppleEvent. The Cyberdog Plug-In is no longer needed in Cyberdog 1.1.
Mail and News Changes
• A new "Mail & News Setup" dialog has been implemented. You can get to all of your Mail and News preferences by Choosing "Mail & News Setup..." from the "Mail/News" menu.
• Messages can be saved in the out-tray and then re-edited. The Message Editor has a "Save in Out Tray" menu item that allows you to perform the save.
• Changed the way News saved the article-read-list. It is now global instead of based on individual Cyberitems saved in the Notebook.
• Added Icon Bar to the Mail browser window.
• Added number of items (total/unread/unsent) in mail trays.
• Added icons for Unsent, Bad, Sent, and Saved But Not Sent messages in the Out Tray.
• Added Eudora mailbox Conversion capability. Imported mailboxes will show up in the mail system with the original name plus an "-imported" postfix.
• New Mail Status - now all mail processes are serialized and any mail activity (including conversions) are shown in a new more informative window.
• Fixed Cyberdog's "single-mail-process" problem.
• Fixed the "Leave on Server" option for mail in trays to correctly only download new mail.
• Added "Send on Check" functionality.
• Added importing of Eudora nicknames (e-mail addresses).
• Added feature for preferred way of sending message, as Rich Text (MIME) or as Plain Text (non-MIME) on a per message basis.
• The mail system now uses the text encoding converter, so it is possible to send and receive MIME-compliant Japanese text.
Web Browser
• Added importing of Netscape bookmarks.
• Added client side image map support. Scaled images, remote map elements, and polygon shapes are also supported.
• Forms use the Text Encoding Converter.
Cyberdog DocBuilder
• Added support for background colors.
• Added support for background patterns.
• Added support for background pictures.
• Added support for grouping and ungrouping objects.
• Improved alignment & editing capabilities, including:
• Added support for distribution of selected objects (Horizontal and Vertical).
• New Container Tools palette with "3D" Beveling popup menu and "Pen width" popup menu.
• Implementation of "3D" Bevel in/out for native rectangle objects.
• Object Size & Position editing dialog - works for multi-object selections too.
• Window Size & Position editing dialog.
• The cursor changes to a hand cursor when over the Parts palette.
• Multiple page support with optional display (no display, arrows, or folded "notepad" metaphor).
• Added support for Embedded Parts Frame Iterator.
• Opening a Telnet item while network is disconnected will cause a crash.
• Can not connect to a secure server while proxy server is enabled.
• Cyberdog 1.0 does not support QuickDraw GX.
• Can not paste into Address Dialogs or the Find Dialog.
-- Features Added/Changed • There were no features added or removed between B4 and 1.0.
-- Bug Fixes
• Fixed the bug that would cause a crash when you closed the last Cyberdog document.
• Fixed a bug in mail that was causing Cyberdog to only download one mail message at time from some servers.
• Fixed the bug where duplicate mail trays would show in Mail Trays window if it was opened with trays already "dinked".
• Fixed a bug that was causing Cyberdog to crash when reading in very large tables.
• Fixed a formatting problem in tables related to the COLSPAN tag.
• Fixed bug where HTTP server repeatedly asks you for your username and password.
• Fixed crashes on web sites where the URL was greater than 255 characters.
-- Features Added/Changed
• There is a brand new container editor for Cyberdog, Cyberdog DocBuilder. You will see many features in this area as a result.
• We have removed our dependcy on the Stuffit Extension to do our decoding and encoding. What this means is that all binhexing will be done by Cyberdog after file is downloaded or before file is uploaded. The Stuffit Extension is no longer installed.
• Cyberdog now uses the post-processing settings in Internet Config.
• Cyberdog now uses the Internet Config preference for the location of the default download folder.
• Support for a822 (rfc 822 addresses) clipboard drag format
• Drag of multiple links into notebook; If you select many links on a web page and drag that to your notebook, it will save each link as a seperate cyberitem icon.
• Drag of multiple links to Finder will create a new notebook; If you drag more than one link from a web page to the Finder, or more than one cyberitem icon from the notebook to the Finder, Cyberdog will create a new notebook and embedd those links within.
-- Bug Fixes
• Fixed the password-save bug in Mail.
• Fixed many forms and tables bugs in the web viewer.
• Fixed problem of log file getting corrupted.
• Fixed bug where you would crash if you download mail in the background. • And many, many more (see cyberdog web site for more details as the become available).
Bugs fixed for Beta 3 (posted August 14th)
• Fixed SMTP incompatibility with BSD-OS SMTP Servers • Fixed many instabilities with 68k AV machines • Fixed plain text letterhead reply to rich text messages sending as rich text instead of plain text • Fixed space bar on last message does not close message and option-delete not deleting and closing message • Fixed space bar/return next message bug that would randomly open a message • Fixed de-binhexer writes over existing files • Fixed modal dialog appearing behind open windows • Fixed menuitems not being active when selecting all (CMD-A) • Fixed Mail & News Setup, Mail Trays Modify and Delete buttons were incorrectly active • Fixed problem of some news groups not appearing, such as comp.sys.* • Fixed the many active windows problem • Fixed the munged icons in the Mail Trays • Fixed the buttons in the Mail windows being incorrectly active after deleting a message • Fixed reply being broken after a Next Message command • Fixed the bug in mail addresses that would duplicate the mail address in the <> symbols • Fixed some form submitting bugs • Fixed a crash when priting images using the Laserwriter driver • Fixed text field posts where two or more words being submitted were being treated as one word
-- Features Added/Changed
+ Cyberdog b2 now contains security software. This means that all items with saved passwords will be cleared. For mail In Trays, you can reset them by selecting each In Tray you have a saved password for and re-entering the password and saving it. For FTP items, you need to throw them away and re-connect to them.
+ There is also a new preference panel for Security.
+ Mail message databases for each mail tray has been updated. When you launch b2 and load the mail trays, Cyberdog will take sometime to re-index existing mail in the new format. This will only been done once. Note: Once this has been done, there is no going back to B1 version of Cyberdog so back up BEFORE launching B2!!
+ Mail Preferences now includes a text field to include a default SMTP server. This preference will be the same as the Internet Config preference if there is already one. If no SMTP preference is set, Cyberdog will use the default address from the default server prerference.
+ All Human Interface elements such as dialogs, buttons, colors and windows have been synched up to give a consitent look and feel.
+ The many Cyberdog shared libraries have been combined into one shared library called "Cyberdog". This greatly increased performance in both speed and memory footprints.
+ New message opening performance has been improved.
+ Selecting a threaded article in a News window will now select all articles in that thread thereby making it easier to mark many articles read without having to do a lot of "dinking"
+ Synched to OpenDoc 1.0.2
+ Support for Passive FTP was added.
+ Support for Quicktime VR movies was added.
-- Bug Fixes
+ Web forms can now send the complete text instead of getting cut off at 255 characters.
+ Messages can now be handled automatically without corrupting mailboxes.
+ Cyberdog should not quit when it makes the first connection to the internet.
+ Messages are no longer inserting extra blank lines
+ Better drawing of background images
+ Align attributes no longer ignored
+ Cyberdog should not crash when making a network connection by dialing a modem
+ Newsgroups can now be downloaded without crashing/hanging
+ Out going hanlders now function correctly
+ Mail now downloads correctly from known POP3 servers
MRP Feature, April 12, 1996 I have received many questions about MIME types (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), and queries that a basic understanding of a file's MIME type would resolve. Here is a small example that I hope will help. Suppose I want to make a new Mac application available on my web site; first, I would take the Mac binary file (the application), stuff it, creating a new smaller Mac binary file, and then binhex it, which converts the archive into a ASCII text file (which are easier to transfer, in general) with a name resembling app.hqx. I would then upload app.hqx onto my UNIX account, with all the other files that make up my web site, and create a link for that file on my web page. Done right? Wrong!! My web server needs to be given information about the file app.hqx, or else, when your web browser communicates with it (after you click on the link for the file app.hqx) the server will reply, "here is a plain text file," at which point your web browser will fill your page with what looks like keyboard garbage, but is really the ASCII characters of the file app.hqx. So, I have told my web server that any file ending in .hqx has the MIME type application/mac-binhex40. When it serves a file ending in .hqx, it tells the web browser of the inquiring party (you, in this example), "the file I am about to send you has the MIME type, application/mac-binhex40," at which point your web browser looks into its helper preferences to see if it has been given any specific instructions regarding files with that MIME type. For example, most of us have told our browsers to pipe application/mac-binhex40-typed files through Stuffit Expander (which de-binhexes, and then unstuffs the archive, reconstituting the original file). If you haven't instructed your browser vis-a-vis application/mac-binhex40 files, you will generally get a dialog asking you how the browser should handle this unknown-typed file being sent to it. In a nutshell, MIME types let programs that serve web sites, tell your web browse |