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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