Cyberdog Release Notes

Bugs fixed for 2.0 Beta 2
Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Beta 1
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.

Web Browser Features

Général

Amélioration du support des proxys
Préférences du cache
Utilisation de contrôlés standard

Navigateur Web

Frames
Gifs animées
Client pull
Support HTTP Cookies (W3C et Netscape) et préférences
Couleurs de fond pour les tables
Choix de l'encodage du texte par menu
Sélections des tables et des cellules plus rapide
Analyse du code HTML plus rapide

Tags HTML

Alignement gauche ou droit des images autour du texte
Couleurs nommées
Nouveaux élément de texte HTML - BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP
<BR> clear tags
<IMG> HSPACE et VSPACE

FTP

Ne fait pas de BinHex lors de exportation de fichiers de préférences

Mail et News

Conversion d'image lors de l'envoie
Amélioration des performances (ouverture de fenêtres, de boîtes aux lettres)
Barre de status lors de l'ouverture de grandes boîtes aux lettres
support de APOP
Support des fichiers binaires dans les articles des News
Affiche le nombre d'articles/articles non lus dans la fenêtre des News.
Affiche le nombre d'articles/articles non lus par groupes d'articles (threads).
Vérificateur d'orthographe (si LEXI est installé)
Boutons suivant/précédent dans les messages lus
Affiche "article i of n" dans les messages lus de la fenêtre des News
Letterhead est une préférence dans la configuration de Mail & News
Valeur par défaut de reply-to est une préférences dans la configuration de Mail & News
Préférence d'inclusion de texte dans la configuration de Mail & News
Authentification pour les News
Glisser/Déplacer des articles des News vers les mails
support de UTF-7 et UTF-8 pour les mails

Bugs fixed for 2.0 Alpha 1

Navigateur AppleTalk

Correction des noms AppleTalk qui peuvent être composés de 32 caractères (au lieu de 31).
Meilleurs messages d'erreurs
Choisit le volume correct lorsqu'il y en a deux de même nom.

Mail & News

Fixed moving addresses around in message editor fields (so that it no longer copies)

26 février 1997

FutureShare

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