From tjw at omnigroup.com Sun Jan 11 20:17:12 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniObjectAlloc Beta2 Available Message-ID: <199801120417.UAA28259@ignem.omnigroup.com> The second beta of OmniObjectAlloc is now available. This beta includes support for OpenStep/Mach 4.2, Rhapsody/Intel RDR and Rhapsody/PPC RDR. Please see http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniObjectAlloc/ for documentation and download details. Problems with or questions about this release should be directed to mailto:ooa@omnigroup.com -tim Unsupported Beta-2, Released Jan 11, 1998 * Runs on Rhapsody/PPC now. * Added 'Wait For Debugger Attach' and 'Start Child Task Manually' switches in the Settings panel to ease debugging applications while they are also being examined by OmniObjectAlloc. * Minimal parsing of gdb initialization files ease entering source directories. * Major optimizations to the internal data structures that should make OOA faster and less memory hungry. * Changed environment variable handling so that if the target process launches child processes of its own, they won't create /tmp/{alloc,zone}_stats files on OpenStep/Mach. * OOA will not detect attempts to retain objects that have a ref count of zero (ie, it should be deallocated). This is a no-no. * Cleaned up internals of getting log messages to the output text view from the various threads. * Removed the restrictions that all frameworks must have base addresses. Now OOA uses the dyld API to determine what frameworks are loaded and how far they were slid upon load. This also gives OOA the ability to notice that bundles have been dynamically loaded an read the symbol information from them. * Included scripts to help users get rid of non-YellowBox memory allocation calls. * Split out OOAClient framework resource into its own top-level framework to make it easier to statically link. From kc Wed Jan 14 03:28:40 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 4 is now available Message-ID: <199801141128.DAA07831@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is an early beta release of OmniWeb 3. There are still bugs, it is still slow, and there are still features that we haven't yet implemented. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. This release expires May 31, 1998. Enjoy! Ken Release notes for 3.0 beta 4 (from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html, where they're formatted better): · General - Many memory leaks fixed. Still a memory-hog, but not as bad. Work continues. - Quitting while there are active downloads now pops up a warning panel. - On Rhapsody, Japanese EUC and Shift-JIS pages work, and Japanese characters should display correctly throughout the program (bookmarks, progress panels, etc), although the interfaces still aren't localized. - Setting up a proxy no longer disables accessing machines in your local net (duh). · Bookmarks - Dragging into bookmarks won't leave the insert marker lying around after you finish an operation. - Dragging between bookmarks windows doesn't fail. - A bookmark won't lose its annotation text as soon as you look at it. - Bookmarks no longer temporarily overdraw or draw incorrectly, then look OK. - Bookmark checking is now limited to only using 3 of the 32 available threads, so you can no longer lock up OmniWeb by checking all your bookmarks at once. Check out the preferences panel for bookmarks, and try it! - There is now a tiny check button on the bookmark panel that toggles whether a tiny check is drawn to the left of bookmarks which have automatic checking enabled. - The bookmark checking for changes since last viewed algorithm has been changed since so many sites now don't return a correct 'last-modified-date' header (dynamic HTML killed that). Now we actually look at the raw text of the page (skipping tags) and see if that has changed since the last time you viewed the page. This is nice because pages with dynamic, graphic ads won't trigger the "new" flag, as they do in Internet Explorer 4.0's lame attempt to copy our feature. (No, we don't store the page text itself, we store a SHA1 signature in the bookmarks file. Tricky, eh?) · HTML - Text outside of tables now wraps to the right edge of the window even if some cells are wider than the window (just like Netscape and OmniWeb 2). - We now highlight the selected anchor with a dashed box (like IE), and use the 'active anchor color' only on links that are actively being fetched (like IE and Netscape). This fixes the annoying bug where clever HTML authors set the active anchor color to be the background color, so as you would select anchors (via right-click or whatever) they'd disappear. - Tables ¨ support vertical alignment again. ¨ background colors work again. ¨ better layout, more closely imitates Netscape's 'algorithm'. · Browser - Context menus ¨ Added context menus for links. ¨ Added context menus for the page-back and page-forward buttons. ¨ All context menus currently only work on Rhapsody/Intel and Win95/NT. Apple is working on Rhapsody/PPC support (it was there for a while, but dropped out). - Clicking between characters in a link no longer fails. (No more ignored mouse clicks.) - Fixed random crasher with bringing up find panel. - Frames draw border in highlightColor (definable in Win95 and Rhapsody) around themselves when they are the first responder, which lets you know that the history and arrow keys are applying to them, not the whole window. Border isn't drawn if the HTML frame 'border' attribute is off (like in Netscape 4.0, which incidentally copied this feature from OmniWeb 2.0). - Broswer address field (combo box now, actually) now has a title on it, which changes from "Page address:" to "Goto address:" depending on whether the address it's showing is the address of the page or the address of the page you're thinking about going to. Works nifty. - The selected anchor nows draw a little dotted box around itself a la IE. We used to draw the selected anchor in the "selected anchor" color, but since no one else was doing this bad HTML authors would make the selected color be the same as their background color (don't ask me why) and so the selected link would disappear. Now we only draw a link in the selected color if it's actually being followed, like IE and NS. · History - New history preferences panel. - New persistant history panel remembers where you've been, sorts addresses by site. - History for frames works again (hitting arrow keys with frame selected moves the frame back). - Combo box can work off of persistant history or window history. · Processes panel - New layout. More information on processes, presented in a clearer manner. - New process queueing and priorities system: ¨ All processes are now sorted into 5 headers, currently "Saving Files", "Web Pages", "Downloads", "Search Engines", and "Checking Bookmarks". ¨ Processes now have a priority based on which header they belong to. Thus, file saving will always grab a thread before web pages, and web pages will always have precedence over checking bookmarks. ¨ In addition, each header will only allow its children to tie up a limited number of the available threads (currently 32). For example, checking bookmarks can only use 3 threads at once. ¨ The number of available threads has been increased from 8 to 32. There is now a hidden preference (which will be brought out later) so experts can play with this. - Headers now show the progress of all their children, combined, in their status bars. They also give an indication of how long their children will take. - Process's status bars will draw in gray outline if the process doesn't have a thread yet, rather than drawing the spinny barber pole. This gives a good indication of whether you are waiting for your machine or the remote machine. From kc Wed Jan 14 06:07:11 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniPDF 3.0 beta 2 is now available Message-ID: <199801141407.GAA12407@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniPDF is an Adobe Portable Document Format (Acrobat) file viewer for Rhapsody, OpenStep/Mach, and Yellow Box for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniPDF/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. This release expires May 31, 1998. Enjoy! Ken Release notes for 3.0 beta 4 (from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniPDF/3/ReleaseNotes.html, where they're formatted better): · Destinations - PDF 1.2 string destinations now work. (For example, all the links in the Adobe PDF 1.2 spec document itelf now work.) - PDF 1.1 named destinations now work. · Actions - PDF 1.2 named actions are implemented (eg "FirstPage", "LastPage", "PrevPage", "NextPage") - PDF 1.1 GoTo actions now work. - PDF 1.2 NOP actions are implemented (oooh, hard) - PDF 1.1 GoToR actions (which open another file) now accept string and named destinations. · Annotations now obey the invisible, hidden, and print flags. · Fixed bug where only first file opened will show bookmarks. · Updated to use correct colors under Windows 95 and Rhapsody. · Modified to work with new Omni frameworks. From kc Fri Feb 20 03:34:48 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 5 is now available Message-ID: <199802201134.DAA05720@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is a beta release of OmniWeb. There are still bugs, it is still unoptimized, and there are still features that we haven't yet implemented. On the other hand, everyone at Omni uses OmniWeb 3 in preference to OmniWeb 2.5. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. We will be updating the release notes for OmniWeb 3.0 beta 5 (at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html) tomorrow. We'll also be releasing OmniWeb for Windows (both for Yellow Box and for OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.2). This release expires May 31, 1998. Enjoy! Ken P.S. -- OmniImage 4.0 beta 1 is also available from the ftp site, we just haven't created a web page for it yet. OmniImage 4.0 is multithreaded, displays images incrementally, and supports the same image formats as OmniWeb (e.g., animated gifs, progressive jpegs, pngs), but in this first beta release it doesn't yet support saving. From kc Fri Feb 20 04:07:50 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniPDF 3.0 beta 3 is now available Message-ID: <199802201207.EAA06100@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniPDF is an Adobe Portable Document Format (Acrobat) file viewer for Rhapsody, OpenStep/Mach, and Yellow Box for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniPDF/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. This release expires May 31, 1998. Enjoy! Ken From bud at heinous.music.uiowa.edu Sat Feb 21 20:54:05 1998 From: bud at heinous.music.uiowa.edu (Jeff Fields) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: 3.0 betas and NS 3.3 Message-ID: <9802220454.AA11658@water.music.uiowa.edu> All 3.0 betas still require NeXTStep 4.2 on black hardware, right? I'm still clinging to NS 3.3. Jeff Fields From kc Mon Apr 27 14:10:45 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 6b is now available Message-ID: <199804272110.OAA22851@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is a beta release of OmniWeb. There are still bugs, it is still unoptimized, and there are still features that we haven't yet implemented. On the other hand, everyone at Omni uses OmniWeb 3.0 beta 6b in preference to OmniWeb 2.5 (and anything else). See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. We will be updating the release notes for OmniWeb 3.0 beta 5 (at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html) very soon. This release expires September 30, 1998. Enjoy! Ken From kc Thu Apr 30 12:01:31 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Updated OmniBase and OmniNetworking source code available Message-ID: <199804301901.MAA16355@ignem.omnigroup.com> See http://www.omnigroup.com/DeveloperResources/ for more information, including release notes describing the changes from the last source release. (One of the most notable changes is that they no longer require OmniMake, which makes it much easier to use them in environments to which OmniMake has not yet been ported or where perl is not installed.) This is a release of the source code which is used by the latest OmniWeb. The OmniBase framework is a small framework encapsulating some code and resources used by virtually all of our other frameworks and applications. The OmniNetworking framework is a set of Objective-C classes which wrap the native operating system BSD-based networking APIs of Rhapsody, OpenStep/Mach, and Windows 95/NT in an object-oriented form, allowing developers to write networking code which works on all three platforms without platform-specific changes. The source code to both OmniBase and OmniNetworking is provided free of charge, and may be freely used by any application. Ken From tjw at omnigroup.com Mon May 4 17:20:47 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniObjectAlloc beta3 released Message-ID: <199805050020.RAA27182@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniObjectAlloc beta-3 is now available for download from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniObjectAlloc/ This is an unsupported beta release. Please send bug reports to ooa@omnigroup.com Changes in this release include: - This release is currently only for OpenStep/Mach 4.2 Intel. I haven't had time to build, package and test it to Rhapsody DR Intel/PPC. I will definitely do so after the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. - I have not updated the documentation to reflect the changes in this release, mostly since I haven't build this version under Rhapsody DR and I'd like to keep all of the screenshots using the Rhapsody UI. Also, I'm somewhat pressed for time. As above, this will be done after WWDC. - Added basic support for zones. Zones are displayed in the object table view in the main document window (assuming that table column is included). The default zone (returned by NSDefaultMallocZone()) is displayed as 'Default'. Others are displayed as a integer corresponding to the order in which the zone was created. This allows you to make sure that you are putting objects in the zone that you expect. In the case of OmniWeb, we use this to make sure that long lived objects (ie, those objects left after you open a web page, close it, and then flush the cache) are in a zone dedicated to such objects. This reduces memory fragmentation and can improve locality of reference. - Added a 'page display' tool. This will list all of the pages that are being used for heap or VM allocated memory obtained via NSAllocateMemoryPages. You can select each page of memory and see a graphical display of what nodes are on that page. If you click on one of the nodes, it will be selected in the main document window. For each page, you can see how many nodes are allocated in that page, how many bytes the nodes take and what the percentage efficiency is for that page. This allows you to find pages that have only a few nodes on them, thus wasting most of the page, and do something to group them more effectively with other nodes (perhaps by putting them in a zone). - Added a prototype garbage detection facility. Currently, this looks at all of the nodes in the selected mark and runs a conservative garbage detector over those blocks of memory. This is useful when you are trying to figure out which object out of a large group is the root of a leak. This won't help track down retain-cycles unfortunately. In the future there will be some enhancements to this functionality (and the UI presenting it). - Fixed a thread locking bug that had been around for a while, possibly since beta-1. - Optimized storage of node statistics. This renders the stack outline tool inoperative since it used the old inefficent storage method. In the future, this tool will regenerate the information it needs from the compact information that is now stored. This sames a ton of memory and makes OOA faster. - The OOA files are now released as two packages. The first contains the frameworks necessary in addition to the normal OmniFrameworks package. The second contains the application itself. This should make installation easier and less error prone. -- Timothy J. Wood Omni Development, Inc. From kc Mon May 18 12:20:11 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: New rhapsody-admin mailing list Message-ID: <199805181920.MAA03540@ignem.omnigroup.com> The rhapsody-admin mailing list is a place where you can take all of your Rhapsody administration questions, including any questions about initial installation and configuration. See http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/rhapsody-admin/ for details. 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Atentamente Alberto Martinez MIller Business Consultant Consultores en Internet Marketing From kc Thu Jun 4 02:56:11 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 7 is now available Message-ID: <199806040956.CAA15716@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is a beta release of OmniWeb. There are still bugs, it is still unoptimized, and there are still features that we haven't yet implemented. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. Release notes for OmniWeb 3.0 beta 7 are available at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html. This release expires September 30, 1998. Enjoy! Ken Release notes for 3.0 beta 7 (from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html, where they're formatted more nicely): Released on June 4, 1998. Changes include: * New plugins: - Java: this is our first public beta of Java, ONLY for Rhapsody DR2 and newer. Still some stuff to be done, but, hey, you asked for Java, here's Java. - Macromedia flash: We don't do JPEGs or sound yet, but you can watch the South Park movies and take the quiz. - QuickTime downloader: While we're waiting for info on how to use QuickTime from Rhapsody, we've temporarily made OmniWeb at least show a nice big button for QT movies that you can click on so they'll download and open in the viewer. * New features: - Services now work on text selected in the new HTML view. Took nine minutes of coding. OpenStep rules. - Plugins now end in ".plugin" so people will stop asking us if we support plugins. - Plugins now can register what version they are and what versions of other components they require, so we won't load out-of-date plugins any more. - Added a menu item for "Stop Animations". Also, made animations stop when you leave a page, which seems like a darn good thing, really. - We now parse mailto URL parameters, i.e. mailto:x@y.com?subject=hi&cc=z@q.com&body=blah - Added support for and . Right now we have the flash and QT plugins that use this. - Table cells can now have background images, like Netscape and IE 4.0. - By popular demand, removed the "check" button from the bookmarks panel -- it is now effectively always on. - Removed seperate preferences for gray colors. Been a long time since 2-bit grayscale was hip. * Bugs fixed: - Pages are now always completely rendered. (For example, http://www.eff.org/papers/eegtti/eeg_toc.html would stop drawing after the bullet following "Ontario".) - Closing the browser window after rendering a particular HTML page (and presumably similar pages) caused OmniWeb to start chewing CPU. This has been fixed (and that page now displays faster initially as well). - Find now works correctly in pages with tables, including side-aligned tables. It actually works a lot better than in OmniWeb 2.x, as I've fixed a bunch of longstanding thinkos. Find won't get stuck in TEXTAREAs any more (but will find text in them). - 'Jump to Selection' now works for all text objects. - Turned off the 'Netscape compatible nonterminated entities' preference by default, since Netscape 4.0 has finally thrown away this hack. Good for them! Also, cut down our entities list to only support the ones Netscape and IE do, because people do stupid things like write URLs of the form: 'http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/submit&prod=blah'. Since &prod is an HTML 4.0 entity, it will be turned into a big 'x' (the mathematical product symbol) by browsers that understand extra entities. So, since we can't change the world, we restricted our browser's entities, so now if it doesn't trip up Netscape and IE, it won't trip us up. Fixes a LOT of problems people have been having with forms not submitting correctly on some sites. - Cookies were sometimes lost inappropriately due to STUPID SERVERS NOT FOLLOWING THE HTTP SPEC FOR DATES. Since lots of servers don't follow the spec, we totally rewrote our date parsing to encompass all the servers we've seen. Let us know if we're missing any. - If you have the preference set for auto-checking bookmarks, now they only check as often as you asked, rather than EVERY time you open your bookmarks. - The setting of the "Netscape compatible nonterminated entities" and several other preferences wasn't saved. - The "Use Defaults" button on the preferences panel didn't work for most preferences. - Formatting o On OPENSTEP/Mach, form input text fields would sometimes be too narrow if you'd changed your fixed-width font. o Special-cased two windows characters that weren't displaying correctly by the NSText system. o tags now always display the number of rows the user asks for (the way Netscape always has), which allows forms pages to be formatted purdier. o was failing if it was the next-to-last thing in a text object and a side-aligned image was last. - OmniWeb sometimes crashed on launch when it tried to send a message to an NSString constant from two threads simultaneously. (This is a bug in Foundation which we've worked around in other places, but we needed to work around it in OIAnimationFrame too.) - Fixed a display bug where the last line of a paragraph before a paragraph with a much bigger font would sometimes be WAY too tall. - Fixed a bug that caused unkillable processes which would hang out in the processes panel forever. - Worked around a crasher with secure text fields that is actually Apple's bug, so hopefully they'll fix it themselves soon. - Worked around a Rhapsody bug with accessing the font panel before you render a page and then not being able to see any other pages. - Fixed URL parsing bug that was pretty obscure but resulted in multiple slashes between the hostname and the path. From kc Thu Jun 4 09:41:12 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniFrameworks 1998E3 now available Message-ID: <199806041641.JAA23023@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is a minor revision to last night's release of OmniFrameworks. It fixes a bug in the HTML/XML parser where we didn't understand some non-conforming but very common HTML, such as rather than You can download the updated OmniFrameworks 1998E3 package from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/. (You don't need to download anything else if you've already downloaded 3.0 beta 7 in the last 8 hours.) Ken From kc Thu Jun 4 13:56:15 1998 From: kc (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniPDF 3.0 beta 3e and OmniImage 4.0 beta 1c are now available Message-ID: <199806042056.NAA01664@ignem.omnigroup.com> These minor updates to OmniPDF and OmniImage use the new 1998E OmniFrameworks from OmniWeb 3.0 beta 7, and expire with OmniWeb on Sep 30, 1998. Ken From bungi at omnigroup.com Thu Aug 6 16:11:24 1998 From: bungi at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniCD 2.0 beta released Message-ID: <199808062311.QAA02852@ignem.omnigroup.com> The first beta release of OmniCD 2.0 for MacOS X Server (Rhapsody DR2, PPC and Intel) is now available from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniCD2. OmniCD 2.0 is a complete rewrite of OmniCD for NEXTSTEP that current provides most of the same functionality except for CDDA recording (which will be added later), but also add integration with CDDB. This allows OmniCD to display artist, title and track information for most CDs automatically. Please see the web page for download details. Problems with or questions about this release should be directed to mailto:omnicd@omnigroup.com -tim From tjw at omnigroup.com Tue Aug 11 20:27:41 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniCD 2.0 beta2 now available Message-ID: <199808120327.UAA06905@ignem.omnigroup.com> http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniCD2 This is a small upgrade from beta1 that includes the following: * Added exception handling around connection to CDDB so OmniCD will not exit if the connection fails. * Added preferences to set the CDDB server hostname and port number. * Added preferences UI to display a list of CDDB servers (obtained from the current CDDB server) and to allow you to select a new server from that list. * Added a preference to turn off CDDB lookups. This will probably only be used by those on a disconnected network or those behind a firewall. * Added preference to automatically start playing discs when they are inserted. This should fix problems that those of you on unconnected or firewalled networks are seeing with errors connecting to the CDDB server. Please let me know (at omnicd@omnigroup.com) if there are still issues. Please note that you need to download and install all of the packages (including the frameworks package) even if you have installed beta1. -tim From tjw at omnigroup.com Mon Aug 17 23:27:58 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniCD 2.0 beta3 Message-ID: <199808180627.XAA23694@ignem.omnigroup.com> beta3 adds support for ATAPI devices and CDDB over HTTP, including using a proxy HTTP server. This should allow many more people to run OmniCD 2.0 successfully. Please see http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniCD2 for more information. -tim OmniCD 2.0 beta3, Released Aug 17, 1998 * Fixed support for ATAPI drives. This has been tested on my G3 tower which seems to be very restrictive, so hopefully this means that it will actually work on a wide variety of drives. Please let me know if it doesn't work on your ATAPI drive (and send in the results of running with OSCSIGenericDebug as described on the Trouble Shooting page. * Added support for CDDB over HTTP, including sending requests through an HTTP proxy server. This does not include support for proxy servers that require authentication. If this is a problem for you, please let me know. * Revamped the preferences UI for selecting the CDDB server, including the ability to select a proxy server if the selected protocol is http. * Added a menu item to force a query of the database. This is useful when testing whether your new CDDB configuration works or when you have automatic CDDB queries disabled and wish to only occasionally query the database. * Added a 'Help' menu item. Currently this brings up a html file that doesn't contain any real content. It will get filled in more later. * If you are using PPC hardware with an internal SCIS or ATAPI CDROM, please see the Trouble Shooting page if you don't get any audio. From kc at omnigroup.com Tue Sep 29 18:04:48 1998 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 is now available Message-ID: <199809300108.SAA18462@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 is now available. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. (As most of you are probably aware, OmniWeb 3.0 beta 7 expires on September 30, so if you're currently using it you'll probably want to upgrade to beta 8 very soon.) Release notes for OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 are available at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html. The 10-user beta license included with beta 8 expires on January 31, 1999. Enjoy! Ken Release notes (from http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html): 3.0 beta 8 Released on Sep 29, 1998. Changes include: * Licensing + This is the first version of OmniWeb 3 to use our licensing framework. An expiring 10-user license has been provided for this beta release; a non-expiring 1-user license will be provided for the final release. If you would like additional licenses please contact sales@omnigroup.com. * Features + Added "Shortcut" preferences, which allow you to add shortcuts for URLs. (For example, you can enter a shortcut so that typing "ow3" will take you to "http://www.omnigroup.com/Omniweb/3/".) + Keyboard navigation of form elements is now supported. + We've added support for the tag. (Handy for CyberStudio-generated pages.) * Optimizations + Pages with lots of links render much more quickly. + Memory usage is reduced and much more localized. * Bug fixes + Refetching an inline image twice no longer causes a spinning cursor and event lagging. + Dragging from an image map or an image inside an anchor drags the image rather than following the selected link. + The stop button actually works properly now. + Find works in frames. + Top-aligned cells now align along the true top of a line, rather than aligning with the top of the text to that point of the line. + You can jump to named anchors with no contained text. + Several bugs with cookies have been fixed. + Fixed a bug in the time remaining calculation in downloads. + Saving edited HTML source no longer changes the source's encoding. + Fixed some bugs in the proxy server preferences panel. + Fixed some bugs in frame targetting. + Fixed a bug where images would be scaled proportional to their alternate text before being fetched if only one dimension was specified. (This made the graphics on The Apple Store's main page jump around a lot as it was loading.) + Probably a bunch of other minor bugs. From andrew at omnigroup.com Tue Sep 29 23:54:54 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: ALERT: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 incompatible with NeXT hardware Message-ID: <199809300654.XAA23071@ignem.omnigroup.com> We've just discovered that there is an incompatibility which prevents OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 from running on NeXT hardware. We are working on a solution and will post a new version when we have resolved the issue. We're sorry about the inconvenience and will post another notice when a fixed version is available. --- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com From andrew at omnigroup.com Wed Sep 30 01:02:29 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 now available / some problems In-Reply-To: <199809300655.XAA23077@ignem.omnigroup.com> References: <199809300655.XAA23077@ignem.omnigroup.com> Message-ID: <199809300802.BAA24159@ignem.omnigroup.com> This is an update to the previous notice of an incompatibility between OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8 and NeXT hardware. We now believe that the problem may be more based on network configuration. We have been able to confirm that beta 8 runs fine on some NeXT hardware, and we suspect that it may give problems with certain configurations no matter what the hardware, though we currently believe that the suspect configuration is fairly rare. At this point we're still trying to nail down the exact problem and come up with a solution. The problem manifests itself as a crash while the application is attempting to launch. An error message is logged to the system console (accessible via the Tools menu). This error message concludes something like "failed to join the address 224.12.56.19". If you are experiencing this problem, we encourage you to send email to omniweb3@omnigroup.com with details of your system configuration (hardware, OS version, whether or not you use PPP, whether or not you have an ethernet card, etc). PPP users encountering this problem may wish to check and make sure that their PPP connection is up as this may have an effect on the behavior. --- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com From kc at omnigroup.com Thu Oct 1 00:50:16 1998 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8b is now available Message-ID: <199810010750.AAA01022@tapeworm.omnigroup.com> OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8b is now available. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ for more information (including a list of download sites), or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. Release notes for OmniWeb 3.0 beta 8b are available at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/3/ReleaseNotes.html. The 10-user beta license included with beta 8b expires on January 31, 1999. Enjoy! Ken Release notes for 3.0 beta 8b: * Our licensing framework no longer uses multicast (which failed in some configurations). * OmniWeb plug-ins are now required to specify which version of the frameworks they use, so that we don't crash due to incompatible plug-ins. From andrew at omnigroup.com Fri Oct 2 03:50:05 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniImage 4.0 beta 3 is now available Message-ID: <199810021050.DAA15308@ignem.omnigroup.com> Beta 3 of OmniImage 4.0 has been released for MacOS X Server DR2 (AKA Rhapsody) on PowerPC and Intel and OPENSTEP/Mach 4.2 on NeXT, Intel and SPARC. This release is compatible with the new 1998G2 Omni frameworks. Also, preferences have been fixed and, due to the updated frameworks, PNG support is improved, including the addition of support for partially transparent PNGs. For more information or to download this new release, see http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniImage/4/, or you can download the app directly from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/. --- This announcement should only be received by members of the Omni News mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive such announcements, please visit http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/OmniNews/ for instructions on unsubscribing from this list. From andrew at omnigroup.com Fri Oct 2 21:39:15 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: updated versions of OmniPDF (MacOS X Server and OpenStep/Mach) and OmniCD (MacOS X Server only) Message-ID: <199810030439.VAA00718@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniPDF 3.0 beta 4b for MacOS X Server DR2 (PowerPC and Intel) and OPENSTEP/Mach 4.2 (NeXT, Intel and SPARC) is now available. This release fixes some bugs, provides a few enhancements, and updates OmniPDF to use the newest Omni frameworks. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniPDF/3/ to download this software. Changes include: - Annotations are now drawn in utility windows. - Fixed the Show Previous Page and Show Next Page menu items (previously reversed). - Fixed a crasher that would occur when searching through empty pages. - Fixed another find-related crasher. - Cleaned up some find-related loose ends. - Returned some window controls which had inadvertently been previously removed. - Updated for the new Omni frameworks. - Turned off bundle registration logging. Also, OmniCD 2.0 beta 3b is now available. This release updates OmniCD to use the newest Omni frameworks, distributed with the new releases of OmniWeb and OmniPDF. It is also re-packaged in a form suitable for installation by installer.sh. There are no other changes. -- This announcement should only be received by subscribers to the Omni News mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive such announcements, please visit http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/OmniNews/ for instructions on unsubscribing from this list. From tjw at omnigroup.com Mon Nov 30 01:01:34 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: OmniObjectAlloc beta4 released Message-ID: <199811300901.BAA24963@ignem.omnigroup.com> OmniObjectAlloc beta4 is now available for Rhapsody DR2 PPC/Intel and OpenStep/Mach 4.2 Intel. This version includes an expiring single-user license. Contact ooa@omnigroup.com if you need additional demo licenses. Improvements in this version include (among other stuff): - Finally making public the support for Rhapsody DR2 PPC and Intel. - Lots of UI improvements. - Improved support for zones, includding support for handling NSRecycleZone events. - Can now kill applications that OOA has started and you can restart them after they have died (either naturally or due to otherwise). - Reimplemented the Stack Outline tool and expanded its functionality to allow you to view node counts or byte counts (depending upon whether the byte count makes any sense). - Integrates new Omni licensing code. This will all Omni to issue new expiring licenses w/o having to ship a new binary. - Removed the prototype Garbage Detection tool since it wasn't very useful. - A bunch of other bug fixes and optimizations. - Documentation updated. From andrew at omnigroup.com Mon Nov 30 01:17:22 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Followup: OmniObjectAlloc beta4 released Message-ID: <199811300917.BAA25243@ignem.omnigroup.com> We forgot to mention where you could get OmniObjectAlloc or more information. For release notes or to download OmniObjectAlloc for Rhapsody or OpenStep/Mach, see http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniObjectAlloc/. If you are unfamiliar with OmniObjectAlloc, you may wish to view the documentation at that same address in order to get a feel for what OmniObjectAlloc provides. -- This announcement should only be received by subscribers to the Omni News mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive such announcements, please visit http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/OmniNews/ for instructions on unsubscribing from this list. From tjw at omnigroup.com Mon Nov 30 12:00:09 1998 From: tjw at omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Updated OmniObjectAlloc beta4b Message-ID: <199811302000.MAA19095@ignem.omnigroup.com> As some of you have noticed, there was a problem with the beta4 that was released last night. There is now a new beta4b set of packages at http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniObjectAlloc that address these issues. As always, additional bug reports are appreciated. -tim From kc at omnigroup.com Thu Dec 10 13:34:11 1998 From: kc at omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Omni source code release Message-ID: <199812102134.NAA14575@tapeworm.omnigroup.com> We have just released the source code to OmniFoundation, OmniAppKit, OWF (Omni Web Framework) and OIF (Omni Imaging Framework), along with the source to our animated gif and appkit plugins for OmniWeb 3. We've also updated the source code distributions for our OmniBase and OmniNetworking frameworks. You'll find more information about this release on our web site at http://www.omnigroup.com/DeveloperResources/. Questions and other feedback should be sent to omnisource@omnigroup.com. Enjoy, Ken From andrew at omnigroup.com Wed Dec 23 09:44:47 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Quake II for Rhapsody DR2: first public release Message-ID: <199812231744.JAA03336@radium.omnigroup.com> Quake II for Rhapsody DR2 is now available for download from ftp://ftp.omnigroup.com/pub/software/RhapsodyDR/. To play, you'll need the Quake 2 levels (either the full levels from the Quake2 CD-ROM, or possibly the demo levels from id's web site). To unpack the .tar.gz file, use the command: gnutar xzf Quake2.19-1998-12-22-RDR2.tar.gz This will create Quake2.app. This first public release does not support hardware rendering. Any feedback on this port should be sent to quake2@omnigroup.com. Happy Holidays! From andrew at omnigroup.com Thu Dec 24 01:06:40 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: We've set up a web page for the Rhapsody Quake II port Message-ID: <199812240906.BAA01895@ignem.omnigroup.com> For those interested, we've now set up a web page for the Rhapsody port of Quake II. While not perfect, this should be a lot more helpful than the ftp URL and terse instructions I mailed out before. We may also be adding some tips if people report on any hardware-specific oddities or run up against common problems installing. Also, unclear from my first message is that we've released only a PowerPC build of Quake II, no Intel build. http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/Quake2/ --- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com From andrew at omnigroup.com Fri Dec 25 09:31:58 1998 From: andrew at omnigroup.com (Andrew Abernathy) Date: Thu Nov 3 13:04:57 2005 Subject: Charon 0.2, Internet game server finder (read: Quake II) released Message-ID: <199812251731.JAA05037@ignem.omnigroup.com> Charon 0.2 is now available for Rhapsody DR2. This is a very preliminary release of an Internet game server locator, released so all you people grabbing the Rhapsody version of Quake II will be able to find all those Quake II servers on the net. See http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/Charon/ for more information or to download the application. Questions and other feedback should be sent to charon@omnigroup.com -- This announcement should only be received by subscribers to the Omni News mailing list. 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