Welcome to WebTabs!	

Version 2.0 Beta 4  5/28/1999   

WebTabs is a sophisticated bookmark manager and Web agent that 
helps you to organize your use of the World-Wide Web. With full support 
for annotations and cross-references, it is much more than a list 
of bookmarks --- it is a bibliographic database for sites and sounds. 
WebTabs works directly with Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Opera
to track the sites you visit and to re-visit those sites. 
Hot and cold lists help to tell you when pages are updated.
Import and export mean that WebTabs integrates into your existing environment.

Here are some of its features:

	* Tracks visits as you browse the World-Wide Web using 
		Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer.
	* Launches your browser
	* Opens documents from bookmarks in WebTabs.
	* Allows you to organize bookmarks into folders
	* Encourages you to annotate bookmarks and folders
	* Provides unlimited nesting of folders
	* Supports annotations on folders as well as bookmarks
	* Supports drag-and-drop operations for organizing folders and bookmarks.
	* Provides user-defined relationships among entries.
	* Cross-reference folders or bookmarks using user-defined relationships.
	* Supports unlimited searching of your collections.
	* Supports both public and private annotations on bookmarks
	* Defines a "watch list" to automatically update bookmark attributes.
	* Supports bookmarks that are either document URLs or search strings.
	* Imports Netscape and Internet Explorer bookmark files.
	* Exports information as NetScape bookmark files, HTML, or comma-delimited text.
	* Allows you to save Export and Search settings to be used again.

System Requirements
   + Windows 95, 98 or Windows NT 4.0
   + 24M of RAM (more preferred)
   + Web Browser
	   + Netscape Navigator Version 2.0 or above,
 	   + Microsoft Internet Explorer, or
	   + Opera

RELEASE NOTES


Version 2.0 Beta 4, 5/28/1999

	Reorder columns in report views.
	Hide columns in report views.
	New menu accessible by clicking mouse right button while cursor is over column 
	header in Details view
	    * Hide Column
	    * Show all columns
	    * Arrange all columns

	New toolbar buttons to
 	   Expand a selected folder in the folder view
	   Contract the selected folder
	   Expand all subfolders of the selected folder
	   Contract all subfolders of the selected folder

	Y2K compliance testing completed.
	Export now uses the sort order from the Explorer view.
	Drag/Drop in Explorer view works.
	Can tie/untie floating windows from the main windows. This means that there is now a 
	  Preferences... menu in most floating windows.
	Date format in report views user-configurable from Edit > Preferences... > Edit tab.

	Added keyboard shortcuts to access windows.

Version 2.0 Beta 3 Build 2, 5/12/1999

       Maintenance release: export no longer loses headers; date field in 
          search panel more predictable; Y2K compliance checks complete; WebTabs 
          shuts down cleanly when OS is shut down.
      
Version 2.0 Beta 3, 4/29/99
	Improved floating window behavior so that they are more predictable.
	Added Windows menu to the system menu that you get by right-clicking on the 
	   Taskbar icon. This means you can bring any WebTabs window to the top from
	   the TaskBar
	"Get current page" command in the Folder view now places the bookmark into the selected folder.
	Open in other window (Shift-Visit) no longer pops previous IE 4/5 window to top.


Version 2.0 Beta 2, 4/2/99
	Maintenance release; fixes and incremental performance improvements.


Version 2.0 Beta 1, 3/9/99
         
    Why is this a "Beta" release? WebTabs was substantially revised in order to support new features. Due to the breadth and depth 
of changes, WebTabs 2.0 comprises a major revision.

    User Interface
        + Main window redesigned to be more like the Windows File Explorer 
            - Multiple entry drag and drop
            - Detailed bookmark information
            - Bookmark icons reflect status (hot, broken, inaccessible, etc.) sized and positioned.
        + All Bookmarks window displays all (or filtered) bookmarks. 
            - Sortable by title, URL, and status
            - Great for finding duplicates
        + Favorites window shows your personal hot list
        + Shift-clicking on a Visit opens a new browser window
        + Create a bookmark for the browser's current page from within WebTabs
   
   Watch List
        + Rewritten to be faster and less troublesome
        + Check all bookmarks, watch list, or selected entries
        + Handles URL authentication for password-protected pages
        + Handles proxy authentication
   
   Other Improvements
        + Password-protect your WebTabs databases
        + Preferences menu item moved to Edit menu
        + Added Url menu for accessing commands
   
   Coming soon:
        + Expand/contract all buttons for topic view
		+ More import/export choices
        + Search on URL status
        + Improved help
        +  ... 
      

Version 1.0f	8/12/98
   + Improved search interface allows comparisons among fields.
   + Revised export features give much more user control over the data exported.
   + Search and export settings can be saved.
   + Opera browser supported.
   + Proxy servers now supported.
   + "Enter" on a bookmark launches browser.
   + Selecting a bookmark shows the URL in the status bar
   
   Fixes:
	 WebTabs no longer puts "Copy of" in front of each entry in a copied folder.
	 Deleting a carriage return now works correctly.


Version 1.0e	5/22/98
	Maintenance release

	Fixes:
		Correctly handles Folder descriptions ending with non-printing characters.


Version 1.0d	5/7/98
	+ Improved drag/drop handling for URLs
	+ Exports to comma-delimited text (CSV) files
	+ Search panels remember previous choices

	Fixes:
		Import of Netscape bookmarks more robust
		Window settings remembered more accurately
		Changing default home page improved
		
	Known issues:
		Netscape's Send Page intermittently crashes Netscape 4.05 when URL tracking is in effect. 


Version 1.0c	1/28/98
	+ Supports MS Internet Explorer 4.0 using the active desktop 
	  Check out http://www.rballance.com/products/faq.html
	  for more information about using MSIE 4.0, with or without the Active Desktop.  
	  Users of MSIE 4.0 will need to change their browser setting under
		View>Preferences>Browser
	+ Tracks site visits when using MSIE 4.0
	+ Added default profile for Netscape 4.0
	+ Session and Path Views now enable the visit button
	
	Fixes:
		File URLs and script parameters work with Active Desktop
		No longer crashes after dropping bookmark and then editing its notes.
		Minor Help updates
		Selection now correct in Session and Path views.
		 

Version 1.0b	1/16/98
	Fixes:
		Correctly sets input focus to Folder view on start-up.
		Fixed glitch that resulted in not being	able to edit
			annotations after deactivating, then reactivating WebTabs.
		Improved support for using multiple bookmark files.
		Revised interface to editing URLs, fixing a problem where
		  the URL protocol was getting lost in the process.

		Minor user interface and installer fixes.



See http://www.rballance.com/whatsnew.html for prior version data.

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