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Voyager NG 2.70 is a full featured WWW Browser.
Note that this is the so-called "USA" version of the V-NG archive. Due to
US patent laws, it comes without internal SSL support and internal GIF
decoding. Non-US citizens can get the international version from
http://www.vapor.com/. US-citizens can use the MiamiSSL library provided
with Miami 2.1 to get SSL support. Miami is available from
http://www.nordicglobal.com/.
Major changes to Voyager since Version 1.0:
· Supports Frames as introduced by Netscape 2.x.
· Supports Secure Socket Layer SSL encrypted
http transfers ("https:" scheme). Uses full
strength 128 bit encryption. Can use the MiamiSSL
library provided with Miami 2.1 to support SSL
even for US citizens.
· Uses internal image decoding routines for JPEG, GIF (non-USA
version only) and PNG. 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 and Picasso 96 HiColor/TrueColor screens.
· 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 vanilla
extensions
· Shipped with a 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 2.x only. Specified in RFC 1644. As far as
we know, Voyager is the first browser on any
platform supporting this!
· Totally reworked preference setting. The transfer anim is
now configurable, too.
· Supports Shift & Click downloading of files even from
servers with broken configuration which state
that binary data is of type "text/plain" (which
happens frequently with .lha and .lzx files,
because these suffixes are missing in many
http server example mime.types files)
· Popup menus for links offering link specific options.
· Added internal SMTP send capability. Also
supports mailto: forms now. Improved news
handling.
· Many minor enhancements, and of course
All The Popular Bugs were fixed, too.
A full list of changes is included in the archive.
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