OmniWeb 4.0 beta 9 is now available

Ken Case kc at omnigroup.com
Fri Jan 26 10:17:31 PST 2001


   OmniWeb 4.0 beta 9 is now available. OmniWeb is a
   full-featured native web browser for Mac OS X. Highly
   multi-threaded and written using Apple's advanced Cocoa
   frameworks, OmniWeb is designed to provide you with the best
   user experience you'll find in a web browser. We think it's
   important to polish every user interaction to make sure that
   the browser acts the way you want it to--so you can stop
   thinking about the application you're using and just get at
   the information you want, quickly. (If you don't like anything
   about OmniWeb's user experience, please let us know!)

   You may use OmniWeb for free, with no functional restrictions.
   If you like OmniWeb, we encourage you to support its
   development by purchasing an official license. Licenses are
   $29.95 ($19.95 edu) and full purchasing information is
   available at http://www.omnigroup.com/products/purchasing/.
   The more licenses of OmniWeb we sell, the more development
   time we can afford to spend on OmniWeb and other Mac OS X
   applications (and we love working on Mac OS X applications).
   However, we don't insist that you purchase a license, and the
   only behavioral difference between the licensed version and
   the unlicensed version is that the latter periodically
   displays a licensing "reminder" at startup and displays an
   "unlicensed" banner across browser windows that have been idle
   for a while.

   If you have any problems installing or using OmniWeb, please
   check the OmniWeb frequently-asked-questions at
   http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/faq/. Please send
   your bug reports and feature requests to
   omniweb4 at omnigroup.com. The latest version of OmniWeb can
   always be found at http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/.

   Beta 9 is geared towards enhancing stability. Highlights of
   beta 9 include:

     * Fixed a number of crashers - in our testing beta 9 is much
       more stable than beta 8. (Not yet perfect, but it appears
       to be much better.)
     * Disabled our CSS support (by default) because it is
       incomplete and the partial support was making a number of
       sites look worse than they look with no CSS support at
       all.
     * In a form with multiple <input type="file"> objects, if
       the first one was filled in but the others weren't, we
       sent the data for the first file multiple times. Now we
       only send what we should when we should.

   Full release notes can be found at
   http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniweb/releasenotes/.




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