On December 21, 2001 mozilla.org made available for download binaries of
the Mozilla 0.9.7 Milestone. The builds and release notes are
availbable at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. New to this milestone
are fixes for about 1,400 bugs including:
* The Labels feature in Mail&News is now fully implemented. Organize
your mail messages with the following new features:
* Add labels to messages via context menus or the Message menu.
* Clear labels from messages.
* Change description and color of the labels via preferences
(Edit|Preferences|Mail & Newsgroups|Labels). Five different
labels are supported.
* Add filter rules to set labels to spec.
* Mozilla Mail&News now supports basic S/MIME functionality although
the UI is still incomplete.
* The Document Inspector is now enabled in complete installations. The
DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live
DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be
navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of
different views on the document and all nodes within. If you're using
the Mozilla installer, be sure to switch from typical, to complete or
custom install to install the DOM inspector and JS Debugger.
* The Mac OSX toolbar collapse button is now implemented. Press this
button in the title bar to toggle display of toolbars.
* The latest and greatest ChatZilla 0.8.5 now shipping in Mozilla.
* Springloaded folders -- Dragging and hovering over a bookmark or
message folder will expand the folder.
* Mozilla works again on Mac OS 8.5.
* Mozilla now supports shortcut icons (a.k.a favicons) and custom page
icons in bookmarks and in the personal toolbar.
* If you type into the URL bar while a page is loading, your text is no
longer overwritten when the page load completes. (Bug 15050)
* The sidebar now has a Close button.
* Print preview is now available on Macintosh.
* Mozilla now has support for digest access authentication. (RFC 2617)
* The Save Page operation now also saves images, stylesheets, objects
and applets included in the page.
* Mozilla now supports the longdesc attribute of the img tag. The
longdesc attribute contains a link to a file describing the image in
detail, for those times where the image cannot be downloaded. To view
the longdesc, right click on an image, click 'properties' in the
context menu, then click on the description url in the properties
dialog.
* Mozilla has a new advanced preference panel for fine-grained JavaScript
control. For instance, you can disallow pop up and pop-under windows
without turning off JavaScript altogether.
--Asa
