iCab - the Internet Taxi for the Mac (Preview 1.25)
(a program by Alexander Clauss and the iCab company)
This is a Preview of the iCab Web Browser. It will function until the end of April and then will expire. This Preview does not yet exhibit all planned functions of the full version. The final version will be available at a price of 49 DM.
Contact us
We are very interested in your opinion and your suggestions about iCab. If you think iCab is missing certain features, or if you think certain parts of the interface are too complicated in iCab, please let us know.
Your feedback is very important to us. If you find error/bug in iCab, please let us know, so that we may quickly address issues as they appear.
Important email addresses:
For questions concerning iCab, bugreports and suggestions: support@icab.de.
concerning the concept, marketing etc: info@icab.de.
New (Preview) Versions and (Preview) Updates will be regularly made available on the iCab homepage:
http://www.icab.de/
System Requirements
• Mimimum 4MB available RAM
• System 7.5 or newer
• MacTCP or Open Transport
• ThreadManager (built into current versions the MacOS)
• InternetConfig 1.2 or newer (or Mac OS 8.5)
The following components are also recommended:
• Drag Manager (built into current versions of the MacOS)
• For Java support in iCab, Apple's Mac OS Runtime for Java, version 2.0 (2.1 was recently released, and is much faster and more stable than 2.0).
• QuickTime (preferably 3.0) for the ability of tone and music output, and to view QT Movies and many other file formats.
Special Features of iCab
• HTML 4.0 support
• Tag recognition for specific Netscape und Microsoft HTML enhancements (i.e <BLINK>, <MARQUEE>, <MULTICOL> and more).
• Flexible image filtering (for example banners)
• Flexible cookie filtering
• iCab can "bookmark" individual frames outside of their parent window
• iCab can generate an error report indicating syntax mistakes in the HTML source. This feature is especially interesting for those individuals who design their own web pages.
• iCab can automatically reload web pages as soon as they are edited in a separate application. This eliminates the need to constantly switch to a browser to see the results in an edited web page.
• Auto-complete URLs in the address field
• Display Java-Applets with the help of Apples MRJ 2.0 or better.
• iCab can search through HTML files on your local hard drive or cache
• A special search mode can display the c't rom CDs by Heise-Verlag
• Multiple search engines are available directly from the internet search option in iCab
• Import web archives (and cache) from Internet Explorers 4.X
• Download Manager
• Hotlist (Bookmarks), History
• MacOS 8.5 Appearance savvy
• Support for Navigation-Services, Contextual menus and proportional scrolling (MacOS 8.5)
• and much, much more...
Planned Features (for the English Version)
• Cascading StyleSheets Level 2 (CSS2)
• Creation of Web-Archives in the platform-independent ZIP-Format (for the Download of complete web sites)