23-6-1999
Release#6

                  M7 -- A Mozilla Alpha release from Warpzilla

              news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.os2


This file contains:

   0. Caveat
   1. License
   2. Installation and setup                          <--- THIS IS IMPORTANT!
   3. What works, what doesn't
   4. Reporting bugs, other feedback


0. Caveat

   This is not production-quality software.  This is not a beta of production
quality software.  This is (barely!) an alpha -- that is, development --
snapshot of the project.  Please don't run it on your production server.
Or if you do, don't blame us if wackiness ensues.


1. License

   This is free software.  The OS/2 specific code is distributed under the
Mozilla Public License, the rest under the Netscape Public License.  See
http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/ for more information.


2. Installation

   You will need: OS/2 Warp 3 or 4 at a recent fixpak level
                  EMX runtime 0.9c or higher.
                  An HPFS partition.

                  Probably at least a 256 colour display.  Please let us
                  know if the programs work on lower depths.

   Unzip the archive.
   
   Change to the mozilla/bin directory.  It is recommended that you preserve
this directory structure.

   The main program here is `apprunner'.  When you run this for the first time,
the Profile Manager will start.  As is the case with many of the dialogs in this
release, you must RESIZE the window (just a little) to get the content to show up.
When you move on to the second page of the wizard, again, RESIZE the window (just
a little) to see what's going on.

   When the Profile Manager has completed, the main browser will be launched.  It
is possible that the colours will be corrupted when the browser is launched in
this way -- if so, just close the window.  The next time you run apprunner, the
browser will start up directly and everything will be well.

   Your preferences are stored in /Users50/<profile-name>/prefs50.js.  To enable
gfx-rendered widgets (which I'd encourage you to do), add the line:

   user_pref("nglayout.widget.mode",2);

...to this file, having closed apprunner first.


3. What works, what doesn't

   The most obvious regression in this release is that tiled images don't draw
   correctly.

   See the official release notes at:

   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m7.html

   Generally, read "OS/2" for "Win32", but use common sense where appropriate.

   You should have the TMP environment variable set to an HPFS directory.

   Mail/News is still a bit flakey -- imap works, send message doesn't seem to
   be quite there, and news is untested.  Do let us know about any success you
   have.

   The editor works, after a fashion -- the editor area is often not redrawn
   correctly on, for example, "insert-image" and you may need to force a redraw
   by minimizing & restoring the window, for example.

   Printing to non-square resolutions is not advised.

   Existing Netscape 4.04 plugins should work with Mozilla.  We'd like to
   build up a list of those that do and those that don't -- please feedback
   with your experiences.  We don't know if Win16 plugins will work.

   You can check out the directory picker from its test harness, dirpicker.exe.


4. Reporting bugs, other feedback

   Please send feedback to the Warpzilla newsgroup,
netscape.public.mozilla.os2.  If you don't do news for whatever reason, you
may subscribe to it as a mailing list -- see
http://www.mozilla.org/community.html for more information.

   Bug-reporting is hard to call: a large proportion of the code is cross-
platform.  The Mozilla bug-tracking system, Bugzilla, can be found at
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.  If the thing always traps when you choose
menuitem X, then it's a fair bet we know about it!

   If you can verify that a feature which works on Linux, Mac or Win32
doesn't work on OS/2, definitely let us know.


John Fairhurst <john_fairhurst@iname.com>
