Quarterdeck Mosaic PreRelease - READ.ME File
This file include tips on installing Quarterdeck
Mosaic, last minute additions to the documentation and
a list of known problems and bugs in this pre-release.
We are anxious to receive problem reports and
suggestions. Refer to Section 5 for details
on submitting reports to Quarterdeck.
Contents
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Section 1 - Requirements for using Quarterdeck Mosaic
Section 2 - Installing Quarterdeck Mosaic
Section 3 - Known problems with this pre-release
Section 4 - Features missing from this pre-release
Section 5 - How To Report Bugs to Quarterdeck
Section 1 - Requirements for using Quarterdeck Mosaic
1. A working Windows WINSOCK.DLL.
2. A TCP/IP connection or SLIP/PPP configured for
your PC.
3. An Internet service provider.
4. 2 Megabytes of available disk space.
Section 2 - Installing Quarterdeck Mosaic
1. Be sure that you've downloaded the QMZIP2.EXE
file, a self-extracting zip file, into a temporary
directory (i.e., C:\TEMP)
2. Execute QMZIP1.EXE in order to extract the
installation files.
3. Once the installation files have been extracted,
Run INSTALL.EXE using the Windows Program Manager
or File Manager.
4. You will be presented with an welcome screen that
describes system requirements. Click on Continue
to proceed.
5. You will then be presented with the Quarterdeck
Mosaic End User License Agreement. Read this
agreement carefully and click on the Accept
button to continue the installation procedure.
6. The next screen is used to personalize your copy
of Quarterdeck Mosaic. Your Beta tester default
ID, and the product serial number have
been provided. Click Continue to proceed.
7. Quarterdeck Mosaic asks to confirm path and
directory, which looks something like:
C:\QMOSAIC
8. Click Continue to approve (or type a new path and
click Continue). When the installation is
complete, a program manager group named
Quarterdeck Mosaic and a Quarterdeck Mosaic
program icon will be created.
Section 3 - Known problems with this pre-release
General
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1. Low memory conditions can cause truncated document
displays and other strange things.
File / Properties
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1. If you change the title of a document using File /
Properties, the Window title does not change.
2. When you change the icon using File / Properties,
the change takes effect immediately, rather than
after selecting OK. There is no way to Cancel the
change.
3. There is no way to select the default document icon
when choosing an icon.
Saving documents
================
1. The File / Save As... dialog lists the MIME-types
to save as. This is confusing, since no real
conversion takes place. The selection of MIME-type
is purely to choose the extension of the saved
file.
2. If a file is not saved successfully, no error
message is displayed.
3. File / Save As... might save incorrect information
if used on a document that changes every time it is
retrieved or on the response to a form that was
POSTed.
Printing problems
=================
1. Printing does not break pages at reasonable places.
It will sometimes break even in the middle of a
line.
2. While the Printing status box is displayed, the
document beneath will not redraw parts of itself.
3. Printing displays "Printing page 1 of 1" even if
there are more pages to print.
4. The Esc key does not cancel Print Preview.
5. If the browser window is maximized when beginning
Print Preview, the Restore button will be gone when
finished.
6. If the toolbar is disabled when beginning Print
Preview, the status bar will be gone when finished.
7. Print Preview changes the title of Quarterdeck
Mosaic to a page count.
Toolbar
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1. When you click on the toolbar, it gets keyboard
focus. This can cause various unexpected symptoms.
These symptoms include File / Properties not being
available when it should be and keyboard input to
forms not working. Clicking in the browser window
will correct this temporary condition.
2. If you click on a toolbar button and then move the
mouse away before releasing the button, the button
action is still taken.
3. Toolbar buttons that are unavailable are not grayed
out.
4. More items can be placed in the tray than can be
displayed, but there is no scrolling or other means
to display them all.
Folders
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1. In an Icon List or Tree view, you cannot drag a
folder above the top folder.
2. Dragging a folder into one of its children
generates a GPF.
3. Plus and minus signs do not get drawn in tree view
if they are only partially exposed.
4. The View As options on the View menu are not
available unless an item is selected in a folder.
History Pane
============
1. When you click on a history tab, it gets keyboard
focus. This can cause various unexpected symptoms.
These symptoms include File / Properties not being
available when it should be and keyboard input to
forms not working. Clicking in the browser window
will correct this temporary condition.
3. Only one of the histories can be dragged out of the
history pane at a time. The other must stay in the
history pane.
Drag and Drop
=============
1. Dragging a document onto itself does a Go To
itself.
2. Sometimes parts of icons that are being dragged are
left displayed on browser or folder backgrounds.
Parts of the system menu button may also be left
behind after a window closes.
HTML Viewer
===========
1. There is not enough vertical whitespace after a
Header.
2. Certain HTML constructs, such as definitions,
, and block quotes, should be displayed in a
more interesting way.
3. Tabs are not expanded in plain text or preformatted
text.
4. Tabbing to text that is on the same line as a
bottom-aligned image draws a box in the wrong
place.
5. HTML documents with inline graphics do not manage
the palette as well as they should.
6. Specifying bold or italics for a font does not
work.
7. Certain HTML constructs such as should be
treated as modifiers of the current style.
FTP
===
1. Navigating through an FTP tree is too slow.
2. If there is no file extension, the default Mime
type should be text/plain.
Data Access
===========
1. Reloading a document that was the result of POSTing
a form does not work properly.
2. Network activity stops when a menu or dialog is
displayed. This can sometimes cause the remote
server to drop the connection if the menu or dialog
is up for too long. This can generate truncated
documents or other undesirable conditions.
3. If a document does get unexpectedly truncated, the
truncated version stays in the cache. The only way
to try to get the full document again is to
temporarily set the cache size to 0 and get the
document again, which will flush the cache.
4. The status bar does not state when the full
document is done.
5. If a file name is specified as a URL, it must have
a fully qualified path, or it will not work.
Section 4 - Features missing from this pre-release
Unimplemented Features: Found in other Web browsers
===================================================
1. There is no XBM or JPEG viewer. When an XBM is
encountered as an inline image, an icon saying
"XBM" is displayed. When a JPEG is encountered as
an inline image, an icon saying "JPG" is
displayed.
2. URL access schemes mailto:, news:, nntp:, and
telnet: are not implemented.
3. URL access scheme file: does not support directory
display.
4. Named labels (URLs containing "#text") are not
supported outside the current document. Within the
current document, they function but are not
registered in the Forward/Back history.
5. Edit / Find... and Find Next are not implemented.
6. View / Document Source is not implemented.
7. The configuration option to change the toolbar
size is not implemented.
8. HTML configuration options "Display Inline
Images", "Wait for Images", "Paragraph" spacing,
and "Hypertext Link Style" are not implemented.
9. Hypertext links that have already been visited are
not marked in any special way.
10. HTTP Authentication is not implemented.
11. Image form fields are not implemented.
Unimplemented Features: Quarterdeck Mosaic specific
===================================================
1. There will be another tab in the history pane
displaying a tree of hypertext links from the current
document.
2. Marking text and copying into the clipboard will
be supported in all the viewers.
3. Some amount of data conversion will be available
from File / Save As.
4. The menus that pop up on a right button click will
offer many more options.
5. A specification for outside vendors to write add-
on document viewers will be published.
Forthcoming Major User Interface Changes
========================================
1. Quarterdeck Mosaic suffers from "window-itis".
There are too many ways to create a new browser
window and too few ways to navigate in the current
one. This part of the user interface will change
so that more actions will affect the current
browser and fewer actions will create a new
window.
2. Quarterdeck Mosaic performs unlimited simultaneous
network requests. All too often, this causes a
temporary shortage of network resources, making
requests that could otherwise succeed fail. This
will change to allow a limit on simultaneous
requests and more effort will be taken to recover
from a temporary lack of resources.
Section 5 - How To Report Bugs to Quarterdeck
Here are the various methods of communicating with
Quarterdeck during the beta test period. We prefer
that you submit bug reports via the bug report form on
our Web Site (http://www.qdeck.com/) or by sending us
bug reports via Internet mail (qmosaic@qdeck.com). If
either of these pose a problem for you, please feel
free to use one of the alternative methods of
communication listed below.
Before submitting problem reports to Quarterdeck, please
verify that the problem is not documented in Sections 3
and 4 above or on the list maintained on the Beta
Information section of the Quarterdeck Web Site
(http://www.qdeck.com/).
When reporting bugs to Quarterdeck, please try to
provide sufficient information for someone else to be
able reproduce the problem. If you're having problems
with a specific hypertext link, please include the URL
address in your report.
In addition to receiving your bug reports, we are also
interested in hearing any enhancement suggestions you
may have.
Due to the magnitude of this beta project, we will be
unable to respond to each individual report that is
submitted. However, we assure you that each report we
receive will be read and processed.
PREFERED METHODS OF COMMUNICATION
---------------------------------
Quarterdeck Web Site:
Go the the Quarterdeck Home Page (http://www.qdeck.com/)
and select the link to Beta information. If you prefer
you may go directly to http://www.qdeck.com/beta/tester.html
and click on the Submit Problem Report link.
Internet Mail:
You can send electronic mail to qmosaic@qdeck.com.
ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF COMMUNICATION
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CompuServe:
Quarterdeck maintains a forum on CompuServe. To
access it, type GO QUARTERDECK at any ! prompt. Beta
Testers with CompuServe accounts can leave messages
pertaining to the beta test in Library 17. You should
be able to access this section at any time after
sending us your CompuServe ID. You can also send
private CompuServe messages directly to 76711,1423.
Quarterdeck BBS:
The Quarterdeck BBS can be reached at (310) 314-3227.
A special message area, called Conference 7 - Beta
Testers, should be used for reporting problems with
our beta software. If you have never called the QOS
BBS before, or if you do not have access to this beta
test conference, log onto the BBS and leave a message
to the sysop asking for access. Once you have access
to the conference, you may leave messages regarding
the beta program there.
FAX:
Quarterdeck maintains a 24-hour line for incoming
faxes at (310) 314-3217.
US Mail:
You may mail your beta test reports or any other
correspondence directly to us at the following
address:
Beta Test Manager
Quarterdeck Office Systems
150 Pico Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405