Bugs Fixed for 2.0 Final

A couple

Bugs Fixed for 2.0 Beta 2

Mail, News and Message Editor

Items dont show up when dragged to message.
Outgoing handlers with color only will not be handled.
International: Receiving a EUC plain text message will cause Cyberdog to hang while indexing.
Two same items in the Move popup menu in Mail Trays.
News handlers with capital letters in criteria won't ever match message.
International:Japanese characters in MIME mail are displayed in default font.
International: EUC 2-byte characters in the My Name field are unreadable.
Cyberitem changes to question mark if move with line of text in Plain Text message.
Potential long delay when you click on menu bar.
Message editor doesn't use the system's highlight color for selected text.
No default setting for mail notification after clean install.
Should allow uppercase account names to be sent to POP server.
No icon is displayed when a sound file is drag & dropped onto the Message Editor.
Reply does not respect preference when both mail and newsgroup are recipients.
Your mail address is automatically put into the "To:" field in the reply mail.
International: 2-byte characters cannot be input into the letterhead name field.
Crash with Adobe Type Reunion installed when use Message Editor and click menus.
Large amounts of text in MIME block cause crash.

FTP, Gopher and Telnet

Show modified date.
Can't drag upload to folder that was just created.
Can't change to a directory that has a # in it.
Crash when dink folder closed while file in folder is being deleted.
Crash when drag upload to dinked empty folder.
Crash when close window while uploading.

Text, Picture, Sound and Movie Viewers

Image not being drawn on first part of server push.
Server push pictures do not always get displayed.
Embeded QTVR movies drawn over window bounds.
Frame rate between animated gifs is too fast.
Images in message editor draw into title bar when scrolled.
Embedded Text parts now have an ugly border.
Cannot navigate with cursor in VR 2.0 movie embedded into CD 2.0 container.

Notebook, Log, Infrastructure and Installer

Show E-mail Address Contents is available for news URLs but gives error .
Menus go away after dismissing cookie dialog.
Norton Disk Doctor complains about Cyberdog installer custom icon bits.
A Cyberitem icon cannot be opened if it is locked on the Finder.
Intertnational: Encodings grayed out in language preferences on 68k.

Web browser and HTML

Performance: Web scrolling slows greatly the farther down the page you go.
Space too large from start of page when first element is a table.
Right aligned animated gif are not refreshed.
Scroll bars sometimes do not get drawn.
Resizing a CyberDog browser with an Embeded VR movie causes redraw problems.
HTML "<a href=???</a> file references creates empty navigator window.
Problem with empty anchors and table cells.
Running dog shows up in random spots at random times in navigator window.
Show more cookie dialogs after "Don't show again" sleected.
Right aligned image is drawn outside of the table border.
Resizing window makes the table get out of whack - cannot return it to original size.
Text is not inverted when text is selected in a colored table cell.
Client side imagemap broken at some sites.

Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Beta 1

Mail Trays (Not the All Mail Tray) remembers sort and sort order
Added a preference for skipping the Letterhead dialog
Viewing HTML Messages in the Cyberdog Message editor
Support for the more mail AppleEvents (check the Cyberdog Scripting Dictionary for more details)
Preference for turning off embedded Java, plug-ins or Cyberodg parts
Preference for turning off animated GIFs
Connect-To panel saves previously entered URLs
Support for MPEG extension in QuickTime to display MPEG movies
Triple-click lines in messages to select entire line
Unicode support - Send and Receive mail and news and browser web pages in UTF-7 UTF-8
Support for Text Encoding Converter 1.1 with added encodings: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Cyrllic and Turkish
Inline text editing for 2-byte characters in message header fields
Changed MIME enclosures to be more compatible with existing email clients
No longer sending multiple versions of Rich text email and news articles
Performance Improvement: Web page formatting
Performance Improvement: Next Message in Cyberdog Mail
Performance Improvement: Opening Messages from Cyberdog Mail trays
Performance Improvement: New Message
Performance Improvement: Typing speed in Cyberdog message editor
Performance Improvement: Downloading mail
Performance Improvement: Downloading message headers in the article browser

Bugs Fixed for 2.0 Beta 1

Mail, News and Message Editor

Enclosures with files of the same name but different paths are no longer deleted
Plain text messages with enclosures sent to Emailer no longer show up as raw binhex
Default "Reply to Mail:" in Mail & News Setup has been changed to Author
Multiple UUencoded files in non-MIME messages are now parsed correctly
Mail Trays window redraws correctly when creating a new mail tray
Correct error message when using APOP on a non-APOP server
Can double-click any part of the message info to open a message
Long subject lines no longer cause problems when replying or forwarding
No longer crash when using LEXI 1.0.2 Alpha in the Cyberdog message editor
Fixed some crashing bugs in downloading mail
Plain text messages with enclosures sent to Eudora no longer show up as raw binhex
UUencoded news enclosures now decode if "begin" is on second line
Scrolling in the "To:" field has been fixed
Dragging addresses to other envelope fields moves addresses instead of copying
Paste As Quote now respects the Rich and Plain text settings in messages
Sending message after deleting recipients from the "To:" no longer sends to a newsgroup
Messages can now receive messages in the Chicago font
Icon displayed for sound file when dragged and dropped onto a new message
Can now read messages from a newsfeed server
Fixed problem where some OK buttons would be highlited with an oval
Enclosed .sit files in news articles do not expand in the enclosure folder anymore
Downloading news messages to mail trays keeps the correct header information

FTP, Gopher and Telnet

Downloading files with a name that already exists correctly adds extension so as not to interfere with type extenion
Cancelling the download of movie file no longer causes an error
Delete files in FTP no longer causes an error on some FTP servers
Special characters are now encoded in FTP
Refresh now works correctly in FTP and AppleTalk browser windows
Does not crash when dinking and undinking folders rapidly
Does not give System Error when quitting while downloading
Uploads of files with no data fork now work correctly
Does not crash when dinking parent directory closed after dinking child directory open
FTP now uses the SYST command correctly
Does not crash when quitting while deleting files on FTP server
Changed "/" to "%2f" when in folder name
Enter now opens items in Gopher
Telnet protocol now negotiate s options and suboptions
Telnet no longer causes error on logout
Fixed incorrect dialog when logging off telnet sessions

Text, Picture, Sound and Movie Viewers

Fixed many issuess around animated and transparent GIFs
GIFs now display correctly when background color is black
Fixed many issues around using Desktop Pattern pictures
Animated GIFs no longer enlarge when dragged into message editor
Fixed problem with web browser not displaying pictures using the >EMBED< tag
Fixed problem with the Text viewer truncating files on slow connections
DocBuilder now correctly handles embedding a URL that has an embedded QuickTime VR file
Warning before deleting downloaded QuickTime movies or sounds

Notebook, Log, Infrastructure and Installer

Addres buton now finds default notebook even when it is not opened
Fixed problems that would cause System Errors when opening locked notebooks
Fixed problem with icons for applications in notebook when launched
Fixed crash when importing non-Emailer files with Emailer Import feature
Fixed problem with Add Selection/Item to Notebook so the notebook can be saved afterwards
Untitled cyberitems saved to the Finder are saved correctly
Non-lowercase URLs now qualify as valid URLs when selected and use the Connect to Selected Address menu item
Fixed problems with Legalize screen causing crashes on localized systems
Updated ".sit" MIME type in Internet Preferences installed (only on systems that do not already have Internet Preferences installed)
Added ".ram" and ".mpeg" extensions to Internet Preferences installed (only on systems that do not already have Internet Preferences installed)

AppleTalk

Changed browser to work with new AppleShare 5.0
Fixed a crash when afp volume/path URLs were used in Rapid-I buttons if loging dialog was required

Web browser and HTML

Stay tuned...

Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 2

No features we are added. No bugs were fixed. We simply removed the Holiday theme from the graphical elements.

Features Added/Changed for 2.0 Alpha 1

Web Browser Features

Frames
Animated gifs
Client pull
HTTP Cookies support (W3C and Netscape) and preferences
background colors for tables
Text encoding menu to select script to display page in
Can now select across cells and tables faster
HTML parsing speed improvements

HTML Tags

Align left/align right for images around text
Named colors
New HTML text elements - BIG, SMALL, SUB, SUP
<BR> clear tags
<IMG> HSPACE and VSPACE

FTP

Don't binhex when uploading files preference

General

Improved proxy support
Cache preferences
Use standard controls

Mail & News

Image conversion on send
Performance tuning (activating windows, opening mail trays)
Status bar for opening large mail tray
APOP support
Small/no button support for Mail Tray windows
Support binary files in news articles
Display number of articles/unread articles in news article browser
Display number of unread articles per thread in news article browser
Attribution to author in Message Editor
Spell Checker (if LEXI is installed)
Next/previous article buttons in Read Messages
Display "article i of n" in Read Messages for news groups
Default news server moved to the list in Mail & News setup
Letterhead is now a preference in Mail & News setup
Default reply-to is now a preference in the Mail & News setup
Prefs for reply text inclusion is now a preference in Mail & News setup
News Authentication
Move news articles to Mail Trays by Drag and Drop
UTF-7 and UTF-8 mail support

Bugs fixed for 2.0 Alpha 1

AppleTalk Browser

fixed length check in URL parsing (31 instead of 32 for AppleTalk names)
improved error messages
pick correct volume when 2 volumes have the same name

Mail & News

Fixed moving addresses around in message editor fields (so that it no longer copies)

Cyberdog 2.0 Release Notes

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