Yes, an experimental plugin is available for 68K compatible, AmigaOS4.0 and MorphOS platforms, and can be found on the Download page.

Yes, to registered IBrowse 2.x owners 2.4 is free. Just download the demo from IOSPIRIT and either install over your 2.3 installation, or copy your IBrowse2Key file to your 2.4 directory. For IBrowse 1.x owners 2.4 is available for a reduced price the same as IBrowse 2.3 was.

This is still the case, and will be a fully usable, but feature limited version of IBrowse 2.4. ie. no time outs, but may be limited to 5 browser tabs, for example. There will be a special upgrade fee from 2.4OEM to 2.4Full.

No CSS, and only limited DOM support. CSS and full DOM support is planned for IBrowse 3.0. IBrowse 2.4 was only ever meant to be a bug fix release with a single new feature, namely the plugin API, so it has already become more than was originally planned.

No. There appears to have been some confusion with the announcement originally made by Amiga Inc. Stefan never licensed a PPC version of IBrowse for AOS4.

Stefan and Oliver have also been working on OS4 development, which has clearly taken away resources and time from IBrowse. Sadly this has delayed IBrowse's release, but has obviously benefitted OS4's development. Unfortunately with so few developers remaining, things like this can happen and something, somewhere will suffer. Additionally, Stefan and Meldon have been very busy with work which has compounded the problem. Also Dave took up kayaking and re-started rock climbing and hiking ;)

No idea is the honest answer. However, we plan to change the release policy for IBrowse 3 and beyond to ensure the lengthy delays are avoided. For example, matured beta releases could be released every 6 months for those registered users wishing to use it, before a full release is created once the feature set is complete. This is currently in discussion and subject to change.

Yes. AmiSSL v3 was enhanced and worked on in parallel with IBrowse 2.4 by Stefan, and is available to all from IOSPIRIT's IBrowse download page.

Usually, this error is caused by a bug which we have identified in the AmiTCP/Genesis and Roadshow TCP/IP stacks. For OS4 users, the Roadshow bug is fixed in Update 3, whilst for AmiTCP/Genesis users, there is a page available via the resources page which fixes the bug in the AmiTCP kernel.

Potentially yes, but it will depend on other requirements as well. IBrowse 2.4 doesn't support CSS or Layers, and as there is no Java Virtual Machine in AmigaOS3.x or AmigaOS4.0, it will also not support Java.

No, this is out of the scope of the IBrowse Development Team.

Yes.

No. We feel this area is open to abuse - not intentionally, but the format of the spoofstring is such that a slight error will cause all kinds of problems to get it working properly, if at all. Instead, a selection of useful/popular spoof strings are available to use in IBrowse 2.4.

Simply, so that IBrowse 2.4 could be released sooner, rather than later. A line had to be drawn in the feature list at some point, so that a release could happen.

Yes. Please visit IOSPIRIT's IBrowse pages.

Sadly no. IBrowse 2.4 has had improvements made to the printing, but currently only to the postscript printing. Graphical printing is another big job, and was beyond the scope of the 2.4 release.

Yes, for images. Text remains black.

Partially. The pages will be decoded in UTF-8, but Unicode characters will be mapped back to the windows-1252 codepage for display.

No. Parts are, such as the JavaScript library, and possibly the Flash plugin, but the main executable remains 68k for this release.

No. Whilst this is possible, they will not be much faster due to the context switches betwen the 68K IBrowse, and the PPC decoders. Rather than spending the time working on these decoders, the time is better spent on IBrowse 3.0 which will be PPC native completely.

Just as with OS4, there is a PPC native JavaScript library and flash plugin for MorphOS.

IBrowse 2.4 is available for purchase from IOSPIRIT.

Please report it on the IBrowse support mailing list at Yahoo! Groups, or direct to bugs@ibrowse-dev.net.

No. IBrowse uses the graphics.library routines to draw the images, and those (at least for 68k programs) support only a 1-bit maskplane. We will need to add support directly for the full 8-bit alpha channel of RGBA images. The functions added to OS4.0 final to support 32-bit imagery were a) added right near the end which was too late for 2.4 as we were finalising more important issues (like crashes ;-)) and b) were not sufficently documented at the time.

No, as long as there is a market for 68k versions, IBrowse will continue to be released in a 68k format. However, from IBrowse 3.0 onwards, a PPC native version will be available.

The OEM version will not be time restricted, and will allow five windows (or browsers) to be opened, rather than just two as per the demo.

AmiSSLv2 and MiamiSSL both support 128bit encryption. The error message reported on these sites are, in 99% of the cases, bogus. The site often checks what your browser identifies itself as, and also what features it supports. If it doesn't support feature "xyz", then it's usually assumed not to be IE or Netscape, and therefore can't possibly support 128bit encryption, which is of course rubbish. Sometimes spoofing as a different browser will help this, sometimes it won't.

The preference you need to change in MUI, is that of Newstring. If the Newstring preferences are not listed in MUI, check the spelling of the following file, is IDENTICAL to this, as it is case sensitive:

MUI:libs/mui/Newstring.mcp

If you'd like to suggest your idea, mention it on the IBrowse support mailing list, or direct to suggestions@ibrowse-dev.net.

Yes - please see the mailing lists page for subscription details.

Entirely up to you :) Using the datatypes has both pros and cons: The PPC datatypes will be faster, but you will loose the ability to have progressive display, and for GIFs, the ability to display GIFAnims.

If you use picture.datatype v45+ then no, otherwise yes you will.