Website:1.1:Features

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c.f. http://www.caminobrowser.org/features/

Intro

presumably we want a bit of intro text

Building on the success of Camino 1.0, Camino 1.1 takes your web experience to the next level. From new features like the system spell-checker and session saving to improvements in trademark features like annoyance blocking, Camino 1.1 [makes all your web tasks more enjoyable]. Built on the world's most compatible rendering engine in Mozilla Gecko 1.8.1, Camino 1.1 displays more pages more accurately than any other Cocoa browser.

This page should also have a large Download button.

New Features

These features should have a [new] tag in their screenshots or designated somehow. They also get demos (screencasts).

Spellchecking

Camino 1.1 includes the built-in Mac OS X spellchecker on every text field. Unlike Firefox, this spellchecker is the same one used throughout Mac OS X. (Something about the ease of changing languages etc.) Now you don't have to worry about making spelling mistakes when writing for your blog, leaving comments, or posting on your favorite forum.

Screencast Script:

Open: Standard Mac OS X desktop with Camino open to /start/.

Voice: Camino now supports the system-wide Mac OS X spellchecker.

Action: Start typing text into search box. Type in: Camino Wikipedia

Voice: This spellchecker works with both single-line text fields...

Action: Click first result, then click "edit" link next to the Version History.

Voice: ... As well as multi-line text fields.

Action: Add a new row for 1.1 and type in "Aprril 12". Correct the spelling error.

Session Saving

Camino 1.1 now includes support for “session saving”, or remembering what pages you were visiting when you quit and automatically loading them the next time you start—perfect for all those times you have to install Mac OS X updates! In addition, while crashes are not common, Camino can now load the pages you were visting when you start Camino after it unexpectedly quit.

Screencast Script:

Open: Camino open with 3 tabs and perhaps a second window; standard (blank) desktop and Dock behind.

Voice: Camino can now remember the pages you were viewing before quitting and show them again the next time you start.

Action: Mouse up to the Camino menu; select Quit Camino. (Dismiss warning?) {Camino quits}

Voice: There go your pages...

Action: Click on Camino in the Dock to launch it again. {Pages load} 

Voice: ... And Camino shows them again.  Back to work!

Feed (RSS/Atom) detection

By popular demand, Camino 1.1 supports the detection of RSS/Atom feeds in web pages. When a feed is found, an icon appears in the location bar. Clicking that icon and selecting a feed will send the feed to your default Mac OS X feed reader.

Screencast Script

Improved tabbed browsing (SWM, jumpback, tooltips)

Camino’s legendary tabbed browsing is even better in version 1.1. New tooltips help you keep track of all your tabs when you can’t read their titles. “Single window mode” tames sites that insist on opening new windows by forcing their new windows to open in tabs, keeping window clutter to a minimum. With “tab jumpback”, when a site opens a new tab, you can “jump back” to the page you were viewing simply by closing the new tab.

Screencast script

Old Features

These features get a mention and a screenshot (maybe a demo too) but not [new] tag.

Annoyance blocking (updated)

  • New pop-up blocking UI
    • new, more obvious notification
    • can show a popup without reloading page
    • enhanced options to show, unblock [whitelist], and never be prompted again
  • flashblock
  • disable plugins
  • etc. [updated ad-blocking]

Keychain (updated)

  • Compatibility with Safari Keychain entries
  • httpAuth vs web forms (???)

Downloading (updated) (???)

  • new trash
  • options for when clearing

Privacy/security

(important to mention, but nothing non-geeky new here)

  • session cookies

Gecko

  • world's most standard-compliant engine
  • best page compatibility)

Pixel-perfect/more Mac-like (???)

  • error pages?