Welcome to Netscape Navigator Version 1.1

NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR 1.1 FOR WINDOWS

You are using Netscape 1.1 for Windows. These release notes cover

New Features
Netscape Initialization File
Japanese Character Set Support
Known Problems and Bugs
Notes, Tips and Information

WHAT'S NEW?

New Icon and Animation: The throbbing N has breathed its last. Christopher Skinner is the winner of the No Throbbing, Breathing, Pulsing N contest. Our new icon and animation is based on his design. Click on the new icon for a short cut to our home page.
Window's 32-Bit Version!
We are now shipping both a 16-bit version and a 32-bit version.
The 32-bit version will only run on 32-bit platforms (Windows NT & Windows 95 final beta release).
An External Audio Viewer on 16-bit and 32-bit: We now provide an external application to "view" audio files from the network in the Windows versions of Netscape 1.1. Read the Netscape Audio Player for more information.
Remote Control Mechanism: You can control Netscape from outside of the application. For more information, read Netscape Client APIs.
Support for <EMBED> tag: You can now embed documents inside an HTML document on the Windows version of Netscape using OLE. For more information, read Embed Tag Demonstration.
Cache Preferences: There are several Preferences available that refer to the Memory cache and the Disk cache. You can set the size of these caches through the Preferences window. A larger Disk cache means that as you browse, files will be saved on your disk so that when you re-visit them, they are brought up from disk rather than from the network. The cache files have a MOZ extension and normally reside in the \netscape\cache directory.
In Netscape 1.0, when you asked for a document already in your cache, Netscape would always contact the original document server and ask for the document's header information, for comparison. This affected the performance of the cache. In 1.1, you can control this through the Cache preference: Verify Documents. If you set this to "Every Time", you will have the same behavior as in Netscape 1.0. "Once per session" means that the document is only checked the first time you use it in a particular Netscape session. "Never" means that the server is contacted only if the document's header information indicates that it has expired. For the best cache performance, use "Once per session".
Security: The US version of the software now supports numerous cipher choices: RC4-40, RC4-128, RC2-40, RC2-128, DES-64, and DES-192. The cipher used in any particular document is displayed in the File Menu/Document Information dialog box. The export version of the software, including version 1.0, supports only RC4-40.
Secure News: There is support for secure news servers. The url for secure news is "snews://". You can see an example of secure news in our Netscape User Groups.
News and Mail Improvements: Improvements to the News and Mail interface, including:
- The Newsgroup button has returned.
- Subscribing to groups on multiple news hosts is supported.
- A new Mail Message window that also includes News Posting capabilities and file attachments. Binary files that are mailed or posted use base64 encoding. Attached files with high bit characters or long lines are encoded using quoted-printable.
- Improved presentation of newsgroups and articles. In addition, quoted-printable and base64 articles and attachments are decoded correctly.
- A new Preference to set the maximum number of articles to download and thread at a time: a low number will give much better performance over a modem line.
- A new Preference to allow 8-bit or MIME Compliant Quoted-Printable Content-Transfer-Encoding for mail and news articles that contain high bit characters. The default is to "Allow 8-bit".
- MIME-compliant news articles will be presented according to their content type. (This means that news articles may contain HTML, or even encoded JPEG or GIF images. Messages of type multipart/mixed are also understood.)
- Signature files are now supported in mail and in news.
Dynamic Documents: You can create documents whose contents are updated dynamically, either on a periodic basis or irregularly. See here for details.
Performance: Many operations should be faster. Going back to visited pages is now faster, because we've devoted 2/3 of the memory cache to decoded images.
Tables: These are as defined in the current HTML 3.0 draft specification. For a demonstration of tables, click here. We've also improved the appearance of table bevels when they're over a background.
Backgrounds: ... and the ability to change text colors. For a demonstration, click here. The demonstration pages will show you the correct HTML tag.
User Defined Backgrounds: You can now specify a default background image, as well as background colors in the Preferences.
ALT tags & Loading Images: We now show ALT text in images and allow you to load individual images when Auto Load Images is turned off. To load an image, click on the image replacement icon. To follow the image's link, click on the ALT text, or use the popup menu.
Save Next Link as... and more in a Popup Menu: A Popup menu with some key commands right at your fingertips. Position the mouse in the document area. Hold the right mouse button down. A popup menu will appear. Different menu commands are activated depending on whether the mouse is over an image, a link, or document whitespace.
Preference window: The preference window has been slightly rearranged.
Bug fixes:
- Many fixes since 1.0, including view source in external viewers, crashing with some video drivers on wide images, etc.
- Cache Bug: A bug in the disk cache was fixed which would sometimes cause Netscape to present out-of-date documents.
  IMPORTANT: After upgrading to 1.1 it is recommended that you flush your disk cache to remove any incorrect information that may have been saved by an earlier release of the Netscape Navigator.

INITIALIZATION FILE

    [Netscape]
    ini=

SURFING THE NET IN JAPANESE

Japanese Character Set Encodings: Netscape Navigator 1.1 has built-in support for browsing Japanese Web sites. Netscape can browse data in any of the three major Japanese character set encodings:

JIS (ISO-2022-JP),
SJIS (Shift-JIS) and
EUC-JP (Extended UNIX Code for Japanese)

New Japanese Support
- Automatic Selection for Japanese Character Encoding
  A new check box in the "Fonts and Colors" preference dialog enables the automatic selection of the Japanese character encodings supported by Netscape:
  JIS, Shift-JIS and EUC-JP. If the default document encoding is Japanese and the "Auto Select" check box is checked, documents will be heuristically scanned to determine which Japanese character encoding is being used in documents being displayed.
- Posting Japanese News Articles and Email
  Japanese email and news articles posted from Netscape will be converted to ISO-2022-JP (JIS). This is compliant with RFC1468 which specifies the standard for Japanese Internet messages.
  The MIME header will contain the following:
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
- Entering Japanese Text in HTML Forms
- Selection, Insertion, Copying & Pasting of Japanese Text
Line Wrapping for Japanese Text: Netscape relies upon "white space" to determine where to wrap lines when laying out HTML text files in English (and other alphabetic languages).
Japanese text does not normally include "white space" (e.g., spaces and tabs), so Netscape 1.1 wraps lines at Japanese character boundaries when laying out HTML text files in Japanese.
MIME Charset parameter in HTTP: If the MIME charset parameter is included in the HTTP header from the server, Netscape 1.1 parses this parameter to determine the encoding of text file. For example:
```
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
           or
        Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp
```
The charset names recognized by Netscape 1.1 are specified in RFC 1700 (except for the names that begin with "x-"). These include:
- us-ascii
- iso-8859-1
- iso-2022-jp
- x-sjis
- x-euc-jp
- x-mac-roman
Netscape also supports aliases for us-ascii:
ansi_x3.4-1968, iso-ir-6, ansi_x3.4-1986, iso_646.irv:1991, ascii, iso646-us, us, ibm367, cp367.
Netscape also supports aliases for iso_8859-1:
latin1, iso_8859-1, iso_8859-1:1987, iso-ir-100, l1, ibm819, cp819.
Preferences: If the MIME charset is not specified in the HTTP headers, then Netscape will determine the character set encoding of the text files from a user selectable preference.
Document Information: The character set encoding of the current document is included in the "Document Information..." box under the File menu.
System Requirements: To surf in Japanese on Windows Japanese Windows is required. It may also work on US Windows if third party Japanese enabling software such as Win/V is being used.
To surf in Japanese on Macintosh, either KanjiTalk7 or Japanese Language Kit (on System 7) is required.
Japanese demo: After configuring your system for Japanese-language support, you're ready to explore our Japanese demo.

KNOWN PROBLEMS/BUGS

Tables

You can't search for text that is contained within a table.

In rare cases, selecting text across multiple cells of a table can cause Netscape to go into an infinite loop.

Backgrounds and Transparency

In 16 color VGA mode, images with transparent backgrounds do not show properly over other background images. Instead of transparent, the background is opaque, usually black.

Image Display Bugs

For video boards with Cirrus Logic video chip sets on them, and possibly for other makers, an image can be displayed that may occasionally cause the program to "freeze" or GP Fault in the video driver. If this happens, ensure you are using the latest versions of drivers for your video board. You can download the latest version of the Cirrus Logic video driver from their ftp site ftp://ftp.cirrus.com

When a page (with an image on it) is re-sized so that the horizontal scroll bar appears, sometimes the right edge of the image does not draw all the way to the right edge of the window. The width of the vertical blank area on the right is about the width of the left margin, and is the color of the background.

When the video driver is in 4, 16, or 24 bits per pixel mode, drawing transparent images over backdrop images has black flicker during drawing. This does not happen when video mode is 8 bits per pixel.

NAPLAYER Audio Player Bugs

The NAPLAYER will report "Sound device not available" in Windows '95, even if you have one available and working.

Asynchronous DNS

If you think your winsock is not handling Async DNS correctly, try setting the Async option in the Netscape INI file to "no,"

    [Network]
    Use Async DNS=no

The default is to use Async DNS, not using it will result in lower performance and can cause problems when multiple simultaneous connections are attempted. You can also set

    [Network]
    Max Connections=1

which will prevent problems when not using Async DNS but will also result in much slower performance.

PC-NFS from Sun and Spry's newly updated stack are the only winsocks we know of that require setting the "Async DNS" flag to "no".

NOTES, TIPS, AND INFORMATION

Norton Desktop 3.0

Turn FileAssist OFF if you are having problems using Netscape's Find function.

Highlighting more than one Screen

To highlight more than one screen of text in a document, position the mouse where you want to start selecting text. Hold the mouse button down while pressing the down arrow key

Importing Hotlists as Bookmarks

Netscape has an import command on the Bookmarks window that will read any HTML file containing links and convert those links into bookmarks. If you would like to import your NCSA Hotlist into Netscape, you can use the Mozilize utility to convert your hotlist to a Netscape style bookmark list. This program is unsupported so your results may vary.

Helper Applications

For telnet, ftp, and for displaying audio and video, Netscape uses "Helper Applications". These applications are configured in your Preferences window. For help configuring this window, check out our documentation: Helper Applications

On Windows, LVIEW31.EXE (for JPEG images), MPEGPLAY.EXE (for MPEG movies), and WHAM.EXE (for audio files) are all useful applications. One site where these can be found is ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu, but that site is often difficult to reach. You can also try the mirror site on ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/. The files you want are:

Gif/Jpeg:
---------
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/desktop/lview31.zip


MPEG:
-----
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/desktop/mpegv11d.zip
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/desktop/mpegw32g.zip


Video for Windows (AVI)
-----------------------
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/desktop/avipro2.exe


Audio
-----
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/micro/msdos/win3/sounds/wham133.zip

Why do I have two icons on the desktop?

In order to get Netscape to show up in the task list and get multiple top-level windows at the same time Netscape needs to keep one of its windows iconized at all times. The icon will always be named "Netscape" and will not de-iconize if you click on it. Yup, its still there in 1.1.

How do I use Netscape without a network connection?

If you do not have a network connection but still want to user Netscape to browse local files you should get the file mozock.dll. If you install this file as winsock.dll Netscape will work fine with local file reads. Be sure to shift-click on the above link or else Netscape will treat it as a text document. Doh! If you want to get out to the rest of the net mozock.dll is not for you.


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