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Watch
Out I.E. 4.5...
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By
Dennis Fletcher
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 and
netscape for that matter. iCab is a just toooo cool Mac only
web browser and email client developed by the German firm of
Alexander Clauss
and company. It uses a tiny 1.9 meg of disk & 1.4 of ram!!!
(though the documentation lists an available ram requirement
of 4 megs, it barely uses half of it's "preferred"
setting of 1.4 megs during my tests). I've been testing this
for a few days now and it's almost too good to be true. The
only thing seriously lacking at this point in the recently released
update to the english version (preview 1.2) are the implementation
of Java Script and Cascading Style Sheets 2 (oh, yeah, and release
of the 68k version). According to an email I recieved from the
developers the English Help Files will be complete in the next
week and Java Script will be ready by the year's end.
Check
out these web developer features:
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QuickTime (preferably 3.0) for the ability of tone and music
output, and to view QT Movies and many other file formats.
Special Features of iCab * HTML 4.0 support
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Tag
recognition for specific Netscape and Microsoft HTML enhancements
(i.e and
more).
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Flexible
image filtering (for example banners) * Flexible cookie filtering
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iCab can "bookmark" individual frames outside of their parent
window
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iCab can generate an error report indicating syntax mistakes
in the HTML source. This feature is especially interesting
for those individuals who design their own web pages.
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iCab can automatically reload web pages as soon as they are
edited in a separate application. This eliminates the need
to constantly switch to a browser to see the results in an
edited web page. * Auto-complete URLs in the address field
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Display Java-Applets with the help of Apples MRJ 2.0 or better.
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iCab can search through HTML files on your local hard drive
or cache
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A special search mode can display the c't rom CDs by Heise-Verlag
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Multiple search engines are available directly from the internet
search option in iCab
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Import web archives (and cache) from Internet Explorers 4.X
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Download Manager
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Hotlist
(Bookmarks), History
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MacOS 8.5 Appearance savvy * Support for Navigation-Services,
Contextual menus and proportional scrolling (MacOS 8.5) *
and much, much more...
This could be a SERIOUS contender for the mac platform. Most of
its current features are things I liked about IE, but (so far)
without the additional 10meg load on the system (in addition to
the apps ram requirement) and the frequent type 1, 2 & 3 errors
all that crap MS likes to hose your system folder with creates.
Features I specificallyliked were auto type and filling in of
forms data, and the really killer feature of Identifying a pages
tag conformity to web and browser 3 & 4 standards. Just make
the appropriate settings in the preferences and a little face
icon on the right side of the toolbar indicates standard compliancy.
Click on the icon and it opens a page (not unlike a source page)
that shows all of the tag problems on a page. This is REAL Mac
Software.
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