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From: joko@NOSPAMconcentric.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Spectrum Internet Suite
Date: 05 May 1999 09:11:57 PDT
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The long awaited update to the Spectrum Internet Suite web browser for the
Apple IIGS is on the brink of release.
 
However, Seven Hills Software went ahead and changed the URL of their
world wide web site, making it a little difficult for folks to find the
information about the SIS update.
 
Seven Hills is now online at www.myesource.com, and the SIS URL is:
 
http://www.myesource.com/sevenhills/applesoftware/iigs/sis/sis.htm
 

         New Features & Improvements in Spectrum Internet Suite 1.1
 
     * Control-Double-Click in the Browser Window provides information on
       the item selected:
          + Link shows the full URL and optionally save the Web link's
            content to disk
          + Graphic icon shows the full URL
          + Anywhere else on a page brings up a new Document Information
            window
     * Conforms to the HTML 4.0 security issues:
          + Provide warning if sending data by email
          + Provide warning if sending data insecurely
     * Support more Network architectures:
          + Delphi customers
          + VAX/VMS users
          + AIX UNIX and equivalent environments
          + Debian LINUX and equivalent environments
     * More Network Access:
          + Netscape cookie support
          + HTTP 1.1 Proxy Authentication
     * "Single Click Internet Search":
          + New toolbar button takes you to an Internet Search home page
          + Internet Search home page can be customized in the
            Preferences
     * Included Bookmark Editor featuring:
          + Sorting, editing, copying, cutting, pasting, and creating
            bookmarks
          + Imports Lynx 2.6 and newer Netscape (to 4.x) and Mac Internet
            Explorer (to 4.x) Bookmark files
          + Imports links from any HTML based file including Lynx 2.5 and
            earlier bookmarks files
     * Email and related enhancements
          + Accepts all valid Internet standard (RFC 822) email addresses
          + Include a signature file as part of your email messages
          + Supports Netscape's 'mailto:' URL enhancements
          + Send Web Page Location via Email for others to view
          + Spell check messages with NiftySpell (distributed by
            Shareware Solutions)
     * Preference options use a modern index-file tabbed page interface
     * Bookmark menu can now have dividers
     * Browse directories of all disks, including local GS/OS networked
       drives
     * Cached Web pages won't be read from disk if they have expired
     * Compatible with Spectrum's 2.2 telnet ability
     * Interface updated to conform to the latest Apple Human Interface
       Guidelines
     * Several speed optimizations--pages retrieve faster!
     * Numerous HTML display fixes
     * Year 2000 compliant (until February 2040, the IIGS toolbox date
       limit)
     * Many "behind the scene" enhancements
     * Over one hundred bug fixes
     _________________________________________________________________
 
Requirements
 
     * ROM 01 or ROM 03 IIGS or Bernie II the Rescue 2.0 with
          + Minimum 4 megs of RAM
          + Hard drive with minimum 1 meg free, preferably more for
            caching pages
          + GS/OS 6.0.1
     * Spectrum 2.1 or higher
     * Modem (recommended 28.8 or higher) or direct serial connection
     * Hardware handshaking cable
     * Command-line shell account on UNIX, VAX/VMS, Delphi, or Genie
       system
 
Joe Kohn
http://www.concentric.net/~joko