[WarpCast] Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp is Now Available - 9/20/99 |
Warpstock 99 - Atlanta, October 16-17, 1999 Two fun filled days of OS/2 and YOU! Registration discount has been extended to October 14th! Visit http://www.warpstock.org for full details Source: Ava Rodriguez (avarod@us.ibm.com) Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com) ********************************************************************** Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp is now available for download at IBM's Software Choice -- http://service.software.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/index.htm This release of Communicator for OS/2 Warp includes: --Support for IBM's Java 1.1.7 or 1.1.8 --Drag and Drop (back again) --Twenty languages (improved) --Spellchecker dictionaries included for all languages except DBCS (improved) --Additional Spellchecker dictionaries available for download at IBM's Software Choice (new) --Support for speech recognition with an additional menu item 'Link' to enable a user to navigate to any link on a Web page --Bi-Directional language enablement (new) --16 color support --SmartUpdate (new) Features new to this version of Netscape Communicator include: --SmartBrowsing: Internet Keywords to find Web sites for you when you key in common words. --SmartBrowsing: What's Related may suggest Web sites related to the current site you are visiting --SmartBrowsing: Netwatch allows screening of Web sites based on PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection) standard. --SmartDownload enables you to pause and resume downloads and recover from a dropped Internet connection --Roaming Access allows access to your Communicator preferences and bookmarks from multiple locations or from laptops and 3Com PalmPilots. The Netscape Navigator 4.61 brings to OS/2 customers many improved features used by Web pages today, like HTML 3.2, dynamic HTML, JavaScript(TM) 1.3 and trusted applets. The Netscape Messenger has many improvements in user interface and Roaming Access to give you access to your voicemail or email from various locations. The twenty languages now available are: Brazilian Portuguese, Czechoslovakian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish. Watch for the availability of IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Toolkit for Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp later in October, 1999! Our beta preview is now over -- thanks to all who downloaded and reported problems -- your support helped make this browser release our best yet for OS/2 Warp! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe, or for more information on WarpCast, visit: http://www.warpcast.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------