Photo above shows Communicator 4.61 running fine on @Macarlos's Warp FP6 Netscape 4.61
GA for OS/2 |
IBM announced today September
20 that the GA release of 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! - saids IBM.
@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
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