2.1 What is it?
Voyager is your gateway to the World Wide Web. With it, you can browse
through hundreds of thousands of "pages" on the net - major companies
and minor, individuals who have placed themselves on the net to inform
others, or seek work. Whatever the website might be, Voyager is the
best way to experience it on your Amiga.
Voyager is fast, does not take up too many system resources (unlike
other browsers), makes the best of badly-written web
pages, and boasts many features that others lack. You can bookmark
a website you visit a lot to make it easier to get to, or even add it
as a Fastlink to Voyager's main window.
2.2 Features
Its range of features covers:
Supports the full HTML-2 standard as described in RFC-1866, Netscape
extesions and most HTML-3 features such as:
- HTML tables. Many more HTML commands and Netscapism's are understood
(including FONT SIZE and HR WIDTH). Improved general compatibility with broken
and nonstandard HTML code.
- Frames as introduced by Netscape 2.x
Supports Security Socket Layers (SSL).
Uses internal image decoding routines. Visually incremental
on-the-fly image decoding, leaving the program operational
during decode. No more hassle with datatypes related bugs.
Optimized memory usage. The routines are optimized for speed
and are very fast. Full support of CyberGFX HiColor/TrueColor
screens.
Support internal decoders for GIF, JPG and PNG images.
Supports versatile plugin interface for vanilla extensions
- SSL plugin included
- Web search engine plugin included
Supports T/TCP "TCP for Transactions" requests,
allowing for much faster establishment of HTTP links
to servers. This is currently supported by
Miami 1.9.x beta versions only. Specified
in RFC 1644. As far as we know, Voyager is the
first browser on any platform supporting this!
Totally reworked preference setting. The transfer anim is
now configurable, too.
Supports Shift & Click downloading of files even from
servers with broken configuration which state
that binary data is of type "text/plain" (which
happens frequently with .lha and .lzx files,
because these suffixes are missing in many
http server example mime.types files)
Popup menus for links offering link specific options.
Supports Client Side Image Maps.
Supports news: usenet news reading and posting.
Added internal SMTP send capability. Also
supports mailto: forms now. Improved news
handling.
Document cache with optional automatic last-modified-date-based verify.
Versatile hierarchical bookmark system, allowing export in HTML format,
menu selection and drag'n'drop sorting.
Asynchronous network handling. Multiple windows.
works with Miami, AmiTCP, as225r2, inet225 and mlink.
can be used without a network package as a local file viewer
(especially useful with client-side-image-maps)
2.3 System Requirements
| Minimum | Recommended |
|---|
| 2MB of free memory | 4MB of free memory |
| 5MB hard drive space | 10MB hard drive space |
| 68000 processor | 68020 processor |
| Workbench 2.0 | Workbench 3.0 |
| ECS chipset | AGA chipset |
| MUI v3.8 | MUI 3.8 |
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