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Admin: /* About Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 */

2006-04-19T06:43:02Z

About Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1

Mento: /* Known Issues */ 326195

2006-02-10T17:36:04Z

Known Issues: 326195

Sardisson: /* Features in Camino 1.0 */ fix web page

2006-02-07T09:34:04Z

Features in Camino 1.0: fix web page

Mento: /* Known Issues */ 326140

2006-02-07T00:23:05Z

Known Issues: 326140

Mento: /* Features in Camino 1.0 */

2006-02-03T16:14:33Z

Features in Camino 1.0

Mento at 07:19, 3 February 2006

2006-02-03T07:19:52Z

Mento at 07:15, 3 February 2006

2006-02-03T07:15:19Z

Sardisson: /* Known Issues */ fix link

2006-02-03T06:48:38Z

Known Issues: fix link

Sardisson: /* Features in Camino 1.0 */ edit

2006-02-03T06:21:01Z

Features in Camino 1.0: edit

Sardisson: /* Known Issues */ try to fix

2006-02-03T04:56:15Z

Known Issues: try to fix

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-== About Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 ==
+== About Camino 1.0 ==
-Thank you for downloading Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This is not the final version of Camino 1.0. It is a high-quality pre-release that demonstrates what we expect to release as Camino 1.0 shortly. <s>After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0.</s> This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
+After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
 Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved web page compatibility.

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 * Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardware rendering is enabled. Switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
 * Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x, Norwegian users of the Camino Multilingual edition will need to manually select their desired user interface language and manually set their 'accept-language' string. To make Camino Multilingual run in Nynorsk or Bokmål, select Camino Multilingual in the Finder and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the resulting window, click the triangle next to "Languages:" and uncheck every language except the one desired as Camino's UI language.<br><br>
 *: To set the accept-language string, add the string user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "nb,nn,no,en"); to your [http://www-stage.caminobrowser.org/support/hiddenprefs/ user.js file], where the languages are listed in the order in which you'd prefer them if a server can send content in multiple languages. (In this example, you want Bokmål first, then Nynorsk, then generic Norwegian, then English if none of the other three languages are available.) You may now launch Camino.<br><br>
 *:Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.4, so no work-arounds are necessary.

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 ** Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
 ** Moving backward and forward through history is now “blazingly fast”.
-** The “Fill Form” menu item and toolbar button use your personal Address Book card to automatically fill out forms on the current webpage.
+** The “Fill Form” menu item and toolbar button use your personal Address Book card to automatically fill out forms on the current web page.
 ** Ad-blocking is now built-in, but turned off by default.
 ** The “Camino” menu now has a “Reset Camino…” menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, and clear all site permissions.

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 * Although typing performance has improved in Camino 1.0, typing in form fields can be slow when Flash or animated images are present. Turning off animations can improve performance in some cases.
-* Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardwre rendering is enabled. Switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
+* Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardware rendering is enabled. Switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
 * Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x, Norwegian users of the Camino Multilingual edition will need to manually select their desired user interface language and manually set their 'accept-language' string. To make Camino Multilingual run in Nynorsk or Bokmål, select Camino Multilingual in the Finder and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the resulting window, click the triangle next to "Languages:" and uncheck every language except the one desired as Camino's UI language.<br><br>
 *: To set the accept-language string, add the string user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "nb,nn,no,en"); to your [http://www-stage.caminobrowser.org/support/hiddenprefs/ user.js file], where the languages are listed in the order in which you'd prefer them if a server can send content in multiple languages. (In this example, you want Bokmål first, then Nynorsk, then generic Norwegian, then English if none of the other three languages are available.) You may now launch Camino.<br><br>
 *:Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.4, so no work-arounds are necessary.

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 ** Camino now uses version 1.8 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes.
 ** Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics for improved performance.
-** The pop-up blocker can now stop pop-ups generated by plugins (like Flash)
+** The pop-up blocker can now stop pop-ups generated by plugins (like Flash).
 * Plugins

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 Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved web page compatibility.
-The features listed below are just some of the many Camino 1.0.
+The features listed below are just some of the many in Camino 1.0.
 Note: Due to major changes in Camino, Mac OS X 10.1 is no longer supported. Users still running Mac OS X 10.1 should continue to use Camino 0.8.4.

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 == About Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1 ==
-Thank you for downloading Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This is not the final version of Camino 1.0. It is a high-quality pre-release that demonstrates what we expect to release as Camino 1.0 shortly.
+Thank you for downloading Camino 1.0 Release Candidate 1. This is not the final version of Camino 1.0. It is a high-quality pre-release that demonstrates what we expect to release as Camino 1.0 shortly. <s>After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0.</s> This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
-<s>After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.0.</s> This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
+Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily-updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved web page compatibility.
-Camino 1.0 brings you a heavily updated version of the only native Mac OS X browser using Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine. Thousands of bugs were fixed in Gecko 1.8, providing users with improved compatibility with web pages.
+The features listed below are just some of the many Camino 1.0.
 Note: Due to major changes in Camino, Mac OS X 10.1 is no longer supported. Users still running Mac OS X 10.1 should continue to use Camino 0.8.4.
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 * General
 ** Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
-** Moving backward and forward through history is now “blazingly-fast”.
+** Moving backward and forward through history is now “blazingly fast”.
-** The “Fill Form” menu item and toolbar button uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill out forms on the current webpage.
+** The “Fill Form” menu item and toolbar button use your personal Address Book card to automatically fill out forms on the current webpage.
 ** Ad-blocking is now built-in, but turned off by default.
 ** The “Camino” menu now has a “Reset Camino…” menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, and clear all site permissions.
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 ** Camino now has certificate-management capabilities.
 *** It is now possible to trust a new Certificate Authority.
-*** The Certificates window, accessible from the Security preference pane, shows the set of certificates included with Camino and any newly downloaded certificates.
+*** The Certificates window, accessible from the Security preference pane, shows the set of certificates included with Camino and any newly-downloaded certificates.
 ** The about:config preference editor is now mostly functional.
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 ** The “Go” menu now displays global history, showing sites you visited in any window, ordered by date.
 ** Spotlight will now index Camino bookmarks.
-** Camino now displays custom favorite icons for Bookmarks, History, and local files.
+** Camino now displays custom icons for Bookmarks, History, and local files.
 * Tabbed browsing
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 * Plugins
-** Camino now ships with the Java Embedding Plugin (http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/), which provides support for Java 1.4 (Java 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.4).
+** Camino now ships with the Java Embedding Plugin (http://javaplugin.sourceforge.net/), which provides support for Java 1.4. On Mac OS X 10.4, Java 5.0 is also supported.
 * Preferences
 ** Camino now supports third-party preference panes. These can be installed by placing them into the <tt>~/Library/Application Support/Camino/PreferencePanes</tt> folder.
 ** There is a new preference to make animated images play only once.
-** The cookies and cookie exceptions lists are now searchable.
+** The cookie and cookie exception lists are now searchable.
-** Camino now uses the language information in the International pane of the System Preferences to send data on what languages you understand to websites (HTTP accept-language header). This can be overridden by the "camino.accept_languages" hidden preference.
+** Camino now uses the language information in the International pane of the System Preferences to send data on what languages you understand to websites. This can be overridden by the "camino.accept_languages" hidden preference.
 ** Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings are now read from the entries in the Network pane of the System Preferences.
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 * Microsoft's Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin causes major rendering issues in Camino. Since Microsoft has discontinued WMP on Mac OS X, Camino no longer supports the use of the WMP plugin; instead, all users should download the free Flip4Mac (F4M) plugin, version 2.0.1 or higher, from http://www.flip4mac.com/.  Version 2.0.1 displays some WMP content off-center in Camino; this will be fixed in the next maintenance release of the F4M plugin.
-* Due to a combination of redraw issues in Gecko, typing in form fields can be slow when Flash or animated images are present. Turning off animations can improve performance in some cases.
+* Although typing performance has improved in Camino 1.0, typing in form fields can be slow when Flash or animated images are present. Turning off animations can improve performance in some cases.
-* Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardwre rendering is enabled; switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
+* Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardwre rendering is enabled. Switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
 * Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x, Norwegian users of the Camino Multilingual edition will need to manually select their desired user interface language and manually set their 'accept-language' string. To make Camino Multilingual run in Nynorsk or Bokmål, select Camino Multilingual in the Finder and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the resulting window, click the triangle next to "Languages:" and uncheck every language except the one desired as Camino's UI language.<br><br>
 *: To set the accept-language string, add the string user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "nb,nn,no,en"); to your [http://www-stage.caminobrowser.org/support/hiddenprefs/ user.js file], where the languages are listed in the order in which you'd prefer them if a server can send content in multiple languages. (In this example, you want Bokmål first, then Nynorsk, then generic Norwegian, then English if none of the other three languages are available.) You may now launch Camino.<br><br>
 *:Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.4, so no work-arounds are necessary.

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 * General
-** Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both the PPC- and Intel-based Macs.
+** Camino is now a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs.
-** Back and forward performance has been greatly improved by keeping the full page in memory.
+** Moving backward and forward through history is now “blazingly-fast”.
-** Added a Fill Form menu option and toolbar item which uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill forms on the current webpage.
+** The “Fill Form” menu item and toolbar button uses your personal Address Book card to automatically fill out forms on the current webpage.
 ** Ad-blocking is now built-in, but turned off by default.
-** The Camino menu now has a "Reset Camino..." menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, clear all site permissions, and remove all remembered user names and passwords.
+** The “Camino” menu now has a “Reset Camino…” menu item, which will erase your browsing history, empty the cache, clear downloads, clear all cookies, and clear all site permissions.
-** The Camino menu now has an "Empty Cache..." menu item.
+** The “Camino” menu now has an “Empty Cache…” menu item.
-** An optional warning is shown when closing windows or quitting with multiple tabs open.
+** An optional warning is shown when closing windows with multiple tabs or when quitting with multiple windows open.
-** Camino now has certificate management capabilities.
+** Camino now has certificate-management capabilities.
-*** It is now possible to trust a new Certificate Authority, and create certificates.
+*** It is now possible to trust a new Certificate Authority.
-*** You can view the set of certificates that Camino ships with, and any that you have downloaded, in the Certificates window accessible from the Security preferences panel.
+*** The Certificates window, accessible from the Security preference pane, shows the set of certificates included with Camino and any newly downloaded certificates.
 ** The about:config preference editor is now mostly functional.
 * Bookmarks and History
-** Bookmark and history management has been greatly improved.
+** Camino now includes live searching of bookmarks and history.
-*** Live searching
+** It is now possible to sort bookmarks alphabetically.
-*** Bookmark and history arranging
+** The “Go” menu now displays global history, showing sites you visited in any window, ordered by date.
-** The Go menu now displays a global history, showing sites you visited in any window ordered by date.
+** Spotlight will now index Camino bookmarks.
-** Spotlight will now index and open Camino bookmarks.
+** Camino now displays custom favorite icons for Bookmarks, History, and local files.
 * Tabbed browsing
-** The Tab Bar was rewritten from scratch, allowing more tabs in a window (with an overflow menu), a close button on each tab, and the ability to show the tab bar when a single tab is open.
+** The tab bar has been rewritten from scratch.
-** Double-clicking on an empty space in the tab bar creates a new tab.
+*** Tabs now appear on the left of the window, instead of in the center.
-** Command-enter in the URL bar or search field will now open a new tab or new window depending on preferences.
+*** Windows can now contain more than 16 tabs, and tabs which do not fit on the tab bar appear in an overflow menu.
 * Downloading
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 * Web Content
-** Web page access keys are now supported.
+** Camino now has support for “document.designMode” (inline HTML editing, also known as Midas), SVG, the <canvas> tag, and MathML.
-** Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics now, for improved performance.
+** Web page access keys now work in Camino.
-** XML files are now shown in a more sensical manner when viewed in Camino.
+** Camino now uses version 1.8 of Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes.
-** Camino now uses version 1.8 of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine, which contains thousands of bug fixes that also benefit Camino. Some of the major ones are:
+** Images are drawn and tiled using Core Graphics for improved performance.
-*** Gecko's DHTML performance improvements.
+** The pop-up blocker can now stop pop-ups generated by plugins (like Flash)
 * Plugins
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 * Preferences
-** Third-party preference panels, written in Cocoa, Applescript or Python are now supported. These can be installed by placing them into the (~)/Library/Application Support/Camino/PreferencePanels folder.
+** Camino now supports third-party preference panes. These can be installed by placing them into the <tt>~/Library/Application Support/Camino/PreferencePanes</tt> folder.
-** Camino now has a preference to limit image animations.
+** There is a new preference to make animated images play only once.
-** The cookie and cookie exceptions lists are now searchable.
+** The cookies and cookie exceptions lists are now searchable.
-** Camino now uses the language information in the System Preferences | International panel to send data on what languages you understand to websites (HTTP accept-language header). This can be overridden by the "camino.accept_languages" hidden preference.
+** Camino now uses the language information in the International pane of the System Preferences to send data on what languages you understand to websites (HTTP accept-language header). This can be overridden by the "camino.accept_languages" hidden preference.
-** Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings are now read from System Preferences.
+** Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) settings are now read from the entries in the Network pane of the System Preferences.
 == Known Issues ==

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	== Known Issues ==		== Known Issues ==
−	* ~~Camino has an issue when displaying web pages which use~~ Windows Media Player (WMP). Since ~~there are major problems with~~ WMP, Camino no longer supports ~~it but~~ instead ~~supports~~ the Flip4Mac plugin ~~which can be downloaded for free at~~ http://www.flip4mac.com/.	+	* Microsoft's Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin causes major rendering issues in Camino. Since Microsoft has discontinued WMP on Mac OS X, Camino no longer supports the use of the WMP plugin; instead, all users should download the free Flip4Mac (F4M) plugin, version 2.0.1 or higher, from http://www.flip4mac.com/. Version 2.0.1 displays some WMP content off-center in Camino; this will be fixed in the next maintenance release of the F4M plugin.
		+
		+	* Due to a combination of redraw issues in Gecko, typing in form fields can be slow when Flash or animated images are present. Turning off animations can improve performance in some cases.
		+
		+	* Shockwave Director content displays at the wrong location in the browser window when hardwre rendering is enabled; switch the plugin to software rendering to solve this.
		+
		+	* Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x and 10.3.x, Norwegian users of the Camino Multilingual edition will need to manually select their desired user interface language and manually set their 'accept-language' string. To make Camino Multilingual run in Nynorsk or Bokmål, select Camino Multilingual in the Finder and choose "Get Info" from the File menu. In the resulting window, click the triangle next to "Languages:" and uncheck every language except the one desired as Camino's UI language.<br><br>
		+	*: To set the accept-language string, add the string user_pref("camino.accept_languages", "nb,nn,no,en"); to your user.js file, where the languages are listed in the order in which you'd prefer them if a server can send content in multiple languages. (In this example, you want Bokmål first, then Nynorsk, then generic Norwegian, then English if none of the other three languages are available.) You may now launch Camino.<br><br>
		+	*:Apple fixed this bug in Mac OS X 10.4, so no work-arounds are necessary.