[WarpCast] Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp is Now Available - 9/20/99




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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! 





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