[121] in Software_Announce
infoagents: netscape-2.02 and lynx-2.5fm to be default
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Tue May 28 14:25:30 1996
From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 May 96 14:21:59 -0400
To: cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
Starting tonight at about 11:33, anyone who starts netscape from dash or
with "add infoagents" will get version 2.02. This will have several
consequences:
1) Users will be asked to accept license terms for Netscape 2.02.
2) URL's using restricted, nonstandard ports may break with the error,
"This Location (URL) is not recognized:". Keep trying and they may
work. (This feature does not appear to be documented.)
3) It should no longer be necessary to hit Shift+Reload to get a page to
actually reload.
4) Some of the security holes in 2.0 and 2.01 have been fixed.
The old version is still available:
add infoagents
netscape-2.0 &
______________________________________________________________________
Starting tonight at about 11:33, anyone who starts lynx from dash or
with "add infoagents" will get version 2.5fm. The old version is still
available:
add infoagents
lynx-2.4
Here are highlights from the author's release notes:
Lynx 2.5 represents the efforts of the entire Lynx community at
maintaining a valuable tool while the Web develops. Lynx 2.5 has
significant advantages over older versions, some of my favourite
changes are:
* Cleaner handling for tables
* Graceful handling of those elements from the HTML 3.0 DTD (now
expired) that will probably be a part of HTML soon.
* Better printing options
* Lynx -dump enhancements (footnoted hrefs)
* Lynx -traversal & -crawl, used to build a database of pages at a
site
* More manueverability and ease of operation
* Support for Japanese and Russian character sets
* Auto-generation of links for all images with * key-stroke command
On the whole Lynx 2.5 is a breath of fresh air for those struggling
with older versions in a quickly evolving Web.
