Welcome to OmniWeb 2.0.1!

OmniWeb™ is the full-featured, standards-compliant World Wide Web browser for NEXTSTEP© and OpenStep™. With support for industry standard HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Adobe's emerging PDF (Portable Document Format) and numerous Netscape extentions such as backgrounds, frames and tables, OmniWeb is designed for surfing today's Internet, and tomorrow's.

OmniWeb Documentation and On-Line Help

Documentation and on-line help for OmniWeb are now formatted as on-line HTML documents, for your convenience . To display and search this documentation, click Info->Help. This will raise a browser and access the server (external to your organization) where the documentation is stored.

For users who do NOT have external access, a folder containing all of the documents is included on this CD, within the OmniWeb folder. You can access the documents directly from here, or install it on your system or network. To then access the documentation in a new location when choosing Info->Help, ask your system administrator for assistance. System adminstrators can refer to the "administrators.html" file in the documentation folder for information.

New Features in OmniWeb 2.0:

OmniWeb 2.0 has been completely overhauled to add extended support for many HTML features, as well as functionality available in no other web browser shipping for any platform. Some highlights from the extensive list of new features include:

• Support for additional HTML extensions, including:

• Netscape 1.2 background images and font size extensions
• Netscape style tables
• HTML 3.0 and Netscape style paragraph centering
• Netscape 2.0 frames
• HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0 tags: BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP.
• Netscape server push, client pull, and cookies extension

• HTML files from any source can be displayed inside OmniWeb. Users can view, edit, review, and save the HTML source using a new edit source feature.
• New searching panel allows quick and easy searching of indexes and forms, including local indexes and internet servers like WebCrawler.
• True multithreading, using OpenStep threads, allows users to download images and files in parallel, or continue browsing as downloads occur in the background.
• Extensible bundle architecture allows developers to add new types of addresses, converters, viewers, and preferences.
• Expanded preferences allows system administrators to add site-wide values for any preference via NetInfo.
• Completely updated FTP user interface and functionality.
• Bookmarked sites can be manually or automatically checked for changes since they were last viewed, and will be flagged with a special icon if they have new content.
• Rich text and images can be copied from the browser and pasted into other applications, or printed. Even tables are correctly printed.
• OmniWeb 2.0 no longer requires external image filters to understand JPEG, progressive JPEG, PNG, GIF, XPM, XBM, TIFF, or EPS images.

Bug Fixes in OmniWeb 2.0:

• OmniWeb spots unterminated comments and terminates them automatically.
• On complicated pages, OmniWeb 1.0 occasionally reported an "internal application error" (caused by too many levels of RTF nesting in the Text object). This has been fixed for 2.0.
• OmniWeb used to print an extra line after the bullet if authors put a header inside of a list, which is technically illegal but was commonly done to get larger fonts. This is fixed.
• <BR> (forced line break) is never ignored. The standard wasn't clear when OmniWeb 1.0 was written whether there were situations in which line breaks should be collapsed, now we never collapse them.

Bug Fixes in 2.0.1: (version included on this CD)

• Fixed an infinite loop in the processing of application/postscript.
• Fixed a hang in submitting file inputs using the default form encoding (an illegal operation, but one which shouldn't cause the app to hang).
• Directories beginning with file:/~ work again.
• Forced loading of all symbols from libNeXT_s.a and libsys_s.a, so they'll be available for bundles to use.
• Symbolic links are now displayed with a zap icon rather than a directory icon.
• Removed some unused code and resources.