Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:08:35 -0400
From: WINSERVER SUPPORT
To: all
Subject: VERSION v6.2.451.2 ALMOST READY FOR GAMMA TESTING
Newsgroups: winserver.public.gamma.testing
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This week we will be preparing the new WINSERVER v6.2 BUILD 452.1 for
AUP GAMMA testing. GAMMA means all AUP subscribers have access the new
version where we fell it is stable enough for final comments before
final release.

There are a lot of new enhancements, some fixes to 452.1, in particular
a big emphasis on cleaning up the web side HTML, WCT and CSS style
sheets making it more flexible for WEB customization.

Please visit http://www.winserver.com, review and comment on the following:

- Personal Properties (PP)
http://www.winserver/client?personal.wcn

- Who's Online
http://www.winserver/client?who.wcn

One reason why we changed the personal properties view to have vertical buttons is because sysops and 3rd party developers now have the ability
to add their own buttons to offer users custom "personal properties."
So we needed the space to add buttons vertically. The beauty of this
is that even if you don't the buttons, you can remove the BUTTONS.CSS
style sheet and it will appear differently using a normal ordered list
of links.

More importantly, is a great new feature in 452.1 which allows sysops
and 3rd party developers to read/write extended user variables (i.e,
profile variables). The user session only had READ access only. Now it
can write to its own extended user database.

And example of this new capability is the new AUDIO options in the
personal properties. Since we added some of the wcNavigator audio notification stuff, obviously we wanted the user to have the option to
turn it off/on.

Including with this new audio logic is a new WCAUDIOPLAY.JS javascript
that now supports WEB-BASED Flash sound playing which is faster than the
SUN JAVA based we added in the last released. Also, FLASH is HOT, and
its on 90% of all machines! The JAVA version was ok, but it required installation from SUN because Microsoft no longer supports JAVA for its
web browsers (not included any more). Using the new WCAUDIOPLAY.JS is
better and it will allow you to add STREAMING AUDIO to your web site!!

The Who's Online was "enhanced" with the idea again to allow admins and
3rd party developers to add their own stuff to the interface. For now,
we are calling these add-ons "WHO BOTS". Some examples of who bots as
shown at our site are:

- An icon link to email the online user,
- A "Who Called Today" box added to the display.

Anyway, if you have any comments, please do. We will be spending the
next few days this week to prepare for the AUP GAMMA so you will be able
to get and test out the new version.

Thanks

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