What Read Me

1.0b1 Freeware Public Beta written by Noah Mittman and Jim Correia what is it?! The Internet hasn't changed much since it started -- to get things done, you need an array of different applications. But keeping your URLs consistent with all these different applications proved difficult. Clearly, there should be a program just for URLs, which would "talk" to whichever application you wanted it to. That's when what URL?! showed up. what does it do? what URL?! started its life to do only two things, and do them as well as it could: drag-and-drop accept, and launch URLs. Within Netscape bookmarks, your ftp:, news:, and mailto: links all stay within Netscape. What if you wanted to send that mailto: to Eudora? or that news: to Newswatcher? or that ftp: to Anarchie? With what URL?!, this is possible. Not only that, but with what URL?!, you get a more intuitive interface and a richer environment than Netscape. And all for free. Since then, it has grown considerably. And in every step, we've thought "What can we add to this to make it a better URL launcher, without bloating it with excess features?" In 1.0, it's scriptability. Scripting allows what URL?! not only to be used in yet untold ways with current scriptable applications, but it allows it to be used with ones that don't even exist yet. Nifty, eh? And we've included just a sample of what's possible... what are the requirements? • Internet Config 1.1 or greater (current version, as of this writing, is 1.3) what URL?! relies on IC for your helpers settings and launching, and will not work without it. If you don't have it, get it. IC, rightly so, is becoming a worldwide standard for storing and fetching Internet preferences on the Macintosh. • at least 768 KB of available RAM, though 1000kb is recommended. • 68020, 030 or 040 processor (LC versions are fine) or PowerPC processor. WU?! will not run on 68000 systems. • System 7.0 or later. • for PowerPC systems, the Object Support Library, which is part of system System 7.5. For earlier systems, the user must have installed the ObjectSupportLib extension. This is included. • AppleScript and Drag-and-Drop is highly recommended (both are included in System 7.5 and up). See Apple's support site for the extensions for System 7.1 and later. <http://www.support.apple.com/> Version History 1.0b1 Final 1.0 feature set achieved! JC -1- • AppleScript support added • Undo/Redo started and mostly functional • Improved interface • Snazzy new grayscale appearance added • Refinement of document structure completed • Labelling enabled with saved view state • Stationery support added NM • Converter droplet to update old wU?! documents created Known Limitations: • AppleScript dictionary incomplete • Frontier support not yet implemented • Undo not fully implemented for property changes via script and via "Get Info…" dialog 1.0a5rev2 NM & JC • Fixed a problem with WU?! initializing with certain versi…