Cyberdog
2.0 Features
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
1.
Bugs
fixed for 2.0 Beta 2
2.
Features
Added/Changed for 2.0 Beta 1
3.
Bugs
fixed for 2.0 Beta 1
Bugs
Fixed for 2.0 Beta 2
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
Bugs
Fixed for 2.0 Beta 1
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)
Cyberdog
2.0 Known Bugs List
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.
Release
Notes for 2.0 Alpha 1
1.
Features
Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1
2.
Bugs
Fixed 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
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)
More reports on bugs fixed
coming after holidays!
Cyberdog
1.2 Known Bugs List
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
2.
Bugs
Fixed for 1.2
3.
Bugs
Fixed for 1.2 Beta 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
Bugs
Fixed for 1.2
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
Bugs
Fixed for 1.2 Beta 2
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
Mail
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.
Cyberdog
1.0 Bugs
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.
Cyberdog
1.0 Release Notes
--
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.
Cyberdog
b4 release notes
--
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
Cyberdog
b2 release notes
--
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
A
Primer on MIME Types
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
browser that a particular kind of file is coming.
This is how plug-ins work: to put music on my site,
for example, I have midi sound files (which are raw
binaries, not Mac binaries, or text) on my UNIX
account, and I have configured my server to tell
inquiring web browsers that any file that ends in
.midi or .mid has the MIME type audio/midi; when
you click on a link representing a midi file on my
machine, your browser receives the message that it
is getting a file of MIME type audio/midi, and
before going to the helper application list, it
checks to see if there is plug-in which serves this
MIME type; if so, your browser lets the plug-in
take over. You can tell which MIME types you have
plug-ins for by viewing the About Plugins ... menu
item under the Apple Menu in Netscape.
In general, web servers
are configured to make the MIME type text/html the
default (which is the MIME type of a web page). So,
if a web server is serving a file with a suffix
about which it has no MIME type information, it
will send it to your web browser as a web page, and
your browser will dutifully display it as
such.
Copyright ©1996-2000
Eric D. Belsley of the Mac
Resource Page All
rights reserved.
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