Quarterdeck Mosaic PreRelease - READ.ME File

This file include tips on installing Quarterdeck 
Mosaic, last minute additions to the documentation and 
a list of known problems and bugs in this pre-release.

We are anxious to receive problem reports and
suggestions.  Refer to Section 5 for details
on submitting reports to Quarterdeck.


Contents
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Section 1  - Requirements for using Quarterdeck Mosaic
Section 2  - Installing Quarterdeck Mosaic
Section 3  - Known problems with this pre-release
Section 4  - Features missing from this pre-release
Section 5  - How To Report Bugs to Quarterdeck


Section 1  - Requirements for using Quarterdeck Mosaic

1.  A working Windows WINSOCK.DLL.
2.  A TCP/IP connection or SLIP/PPP configured for          
    your PC.
3.  An Internet service provider.
4.  2 Megabytes of available disk space.


Section 2  - Installing Quarterdeck Mosaic

1.  Be sure that you've downloaded the QMZIP2.EXE
    file, a self-extracting zip file, into a temporary 
    directory (i.e., C:\TEMP)
2.  Execute QMZIP1.EXE in order to extract the 
    installation files.
3.  Once the installation files have been extracted, 
    Run INSTALL.EXE using the Windows Program Manager 
    or File Manager.
4.  You will be presented with an welcome screen that 
    describes system requirements. Click on Continue 
    to proceed.
5.  You will then be presented with the Quarterdeck 
    Mosaic End User License Agreement.  Read this 
    agreement carefully and click on the Accept 
    button to continue the installation procedure.
6.  The next screen is used to personalize your copy 
    of Quarterdeck Mosaic.  Your Beta tester default 
    ID, and the product serial number have
    been provided.  Click Continue to proceed.
7.  Quarterdeck Mosaic asks to confirm path and 
    directory, which looks something like:

                C:\QMOSAIC

8.  Click Continue to approve (or type a new path and 
    click Continue).  When the installation is 
    complete, a program manager group named 
    Quarterdeck Mosaic and a Quarterdeck Mosaic 
    program icon will be created.


Section 3  - Known problems with this pre-release

General
=======
1. Low memory conditions can cause truncated document 
   displays and other strange things.

File / Properties
=================
1. If you change the title of a document using File / 
   Properties, the Window title does not change.
2. When you change the icon using File / Properties, 
   the change takes effect immediately, rather than 
   after selecting OK. There is no way to Cancel the 
   change.
3. There is no way to select the default document icon 
   when choosing an icon.

Saving documents
================
1. The File / Save As... dialog lists the MIME-types 
   to save as. This is confusing, since no real 
   conversion takes place. The selection of MIME-type 
   is purely to choose the extension of the saved 
   file.
2. If a file is not saved successfully, no error 
   message is displayed.
3. File / Save As... might save incorrect information 
   if used on a document that changes every time it is 
   retrieved or on the response to a form that was
   POSTed.

Printing problems
=================
1. Printing does not break pages at reasonable places.
   It will sometimes break even in the middle of a
   line.
2. While the Printing status box is displayed, the
   document beneath will not redraw parts of itself.
3. Printing displays "Printing page 1 of 1" even if
   there are more pages to print.
4. The Esc key does not cancel Print Preview.
5. If the browser window is maximized when beginning 
   Print Preview, the Restore button will be gone when 
   finished.
6. If the toolbar is disabled when beginning Print 
   Preview, the status bar will be gone when finished.
7. Print Preview changes the title of Quarterdeck 
   Mosaic to a page count.

Toolbar
=======
1. When you click on the toolbar, it gets keyboard 
   focus. This can cause various unexpected symptoms. 
   These symptoms include File / Properties not being 
   available when it should be and keyboard input to 
   forms not working. Clicking in the browser window 
   will correct this temporary condition.
2. If you click on a toolbar button and then move the 
   mouse away before releasing the button, the button 
   action is still taken.
3. Toolbar buttons that are unavailable are not grayed 
   out.
4. More items can be placed in the tray than can be 
   displayed, but there is no scrolling or other means 
   to display them all.

Folders
=======
1. In an Icon List or Tree view, you cannot drag a 
   folder above the top folder.
2. Dragging a folder into one of its children 
   generates a GPF.
3. Plus and minus signs do not get drawn in tree view 
   if they are only partially exposed.
4. The View As options on the View menu are not 
   available unless an item is selected in a folder.

History Pane
============
1. When you click on a history tab, it gets keyboard
   focus. This can cause various unexpected symptoms. 
   These symptoms include File / Properties not being 
   available when it should be and keyboard input to 
   forms not working. Clicking in the browser window 
   will correct this temporary condition.
3. Only one of the histories can be dragged out of the 
   history pane at a time. The other must stay in the 
   history pane.

Drag and Drop
=============
1. Dragging a document onto itself does a Go To 
   itself.
2. Sometimes parts of icons that are being dragged are 
   left displayed on browser or folder backgrounds. 
   Parts of the system menu button may also be left 
   behind after a window closes.

HTML Viewer
===========
1. There is not enough vertical whitespace after a 
   Header.
2. Certain HTML constructs, such as definitions, 
   <DIR>, and block quotes, should be displayed in a 
   more interesting way.
3. Tabs are not expanded in plain text or preformatted 
   text.
4. Tabbing to text that is on the same line as a 
   bottom-aligned image draws a box in the wrong 
   place.
5. HTML documents with inline graphics do not manage 
   the palette as well as they should.
6. Specifying bold or italics for a font does not 
   work.
7. Certain HTML constructs such as <CITE> should be 
   treated as modifiers of the current style.

FTP
===
1. Navigating through an FTP tree is too slow.
2. If there is no file extension, the default Mime 
   type should be text/plain.

Data Access
===========
1. Reloading a document that was the result of POSTing 
   a form does not work properly.
2. Network activity stops when a menu or dialog is 
   displayed. This can sometimes cause the remote 
   server to drop the connection if the menu or dialog 
   is up for too long. This can generate truncated 
   documents or other undesirable conditions.
3. If a document does get unexpectedly truncated, the 
   truncated version stays in the cache. The only way 
   to try to get the full document again is to 
   temporarily set the cache size to 0 and get the 
   document again, which will flush the cache.
4. The status bar does not state when the full 
   document is done.
5. If a file name is specified as a URL, it must have 
   a fully qualified path, or it will not work.


Section 4  - Features missing from this pre-release

Unimplemented Features: Found in other Web browsers
===================================================
1.  There is no XBM or JPEG viewer. When an XBM is 
    encountered as an inline image, an icon saying 
    "XBM" is displayed. When a JPEG is encountered as 
    an inline image, an icon saying "JPG" is 
    displayed.
2.  URL access schemes mailto:, news:, nntp:, and 
    telnet: are not implemented. 
3.  URL access scheme file: does not support directory 
    display.
4.  Named labels (URLs containing "#text") are not 
    supported outside the current document. Within the 
    current document, they function but are not 
    registered in the Forward/Back history.
5.  Edit / Find... and Find Next are not implemented.
6.  View / Document Source is not implemented.
7.  The configuration option to change the toolbar 
    size is not implemented.
8.  HTML configuration options "Display Inline 
    Images", "Wait for Images",  "Paragraph" spacing, 
    and "Hypertext Link Style" are not implemented.
9.  Hypertext links that have already been visited are 
    not marked in any special way.
10. HTTP Authentication is not implemented.
11. Image form fields are not implemented.

Unimplemented Features: Quarterdeck Mosaic specific
===================================================
1.  There will be another tab in the history pane 
    displaying a tree of hypertext links from the current 
    document.
2.  Marking text and copying into the clipboard will 
    be supported in all the viewers.
3.  Some amount of data conversion will be available 
    from File / Save As.
4.  The menus that pop up on a right button click will 
    offer many more options.
5.  A specification for outside vendors to write add-
    on document viewers will be published.


Forthcoming Major User Interface Changes
========================================
1.  Quarterdeck Mosaic suffers from "window-itis". 
    There are too many ways to create a new browser 
    window and too few ways to navigate in the current 
    one. This part of the user interface will change 
    so that more actions will affect the current 
    browser and fewer actions will create a new 
    window.
2.  Quarterdeck Mosaic performs unlimited simultaneous 
    network requests. All too often, this causes a 
    temporary shortage of network resources, making 
    requests that could otherwise succeed fail. This 
    will change to allow a limit on simultaneous 
    requests and more effort will be taken to recover 
    from a temporary lack of resources.


Section 5 - How To Report Bugs to Quarterdeck

Here are the various methods of communicating with 
Quarterdeck during the beta test period.  We prefer 
that you submit bug reports via the bug report form on 
our Web Site (http://www.qdeck.com/) or by sending us 
bug reports via Internet mail (qmosaic@qdeck.com).  If 
either of these pose a problem for you, please feel 
free to use one of the alternative methods of
communication listed below.

Before submitting problem reports to Quarterdeck, please 
verify that the problem is not documented in Sections 3
and 4 above or on the list maintained on the Beta 
Information section of the Quarterdeck Web Site 
(http://www.qdeck.com/).

When reporting bugs to Quarterdeck, please try to 
provide sufficient information for someone else to be 
able reproduce the problem.  If you're having problems 
with a specific hypertext link, please include the URL
address in your report.

In addition to receiving your bug reports, we are also 
interested in hearing any enhancement suggestions you 
may have.

Due to the magnitude of this beta project, we will be 
unable to respond to each individual report that is 
submitted.  However, we assure you that each report we 
receive will be read and processed.


PREFERED METHODS OF COMMUNICATION
---------------------------------

Quarterdeck Web Site:

   Go the the Quarterdeck Home Page (http://www.qdeck.com/)
   and select the link to Beta information.  If you prefer
   you may go directly to  http://www.qdeck.com/beta/tester.html
   and click on the Submit Problem Report link.

Internet Mail:

  You can send electronic mail to qmosaic@qdeck.com.


ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF COMMUNICATION
------------------------------------

CompuServe:     

  Quarterdeck maintains a forum on CompuServe. To 
  access it, type GO QUARTERDECK at any ! prompt. Beta
  Testers with CompuServe accounts can leave messages
  pertaining to the beta test in Library 17. You should
  be able to access this section at any time after
  sending us your CompuServe ID. You can also send
  private CompuServe messages directly to 76711,1423.

Quarterdeck BBS:

  The Quarterdeck BBS can be reached at (310) 314-3227.
  A special message area, called Conference 7 - Beta
  Testers, should be used for reporting problems with
  our beta software. If you have never called the QOS
  BBS before, or if you do not have access to this beta
  test conference, log onto the BBS and leave a message
  to the sysop asking for access.  Once you have access
  to the conference, you may leave messages regarding 
  the beta program there.

FAX:

  Quarterdeck maintains a 24-hour line for incoming
  faxes at (310) 314-3217.

US Mail:

  You may mail your beta test reports or any other
  correspondence directly to us at the following 
  address:

  Beta Test Manager
  Quarterdeck Office Systems
  150 Pico Blvd.
  Santa Monica, CA  90405
