11-6-1999
Release#5

                  M6 -- A Mozilla Alpha release from Warpzilla

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


This file contains:

   0. Caveat
   1. License
   2. Installation
   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.

   You will probably need to reboot your machine having run the program.


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 mozilla-os2-M6.zip file
   (the fact that you're reading these instructions means you've done
    this already...)
   
   Change to the mozilla/bin directory.  It is recommended that you preserve
this directory structure.

   There are two main programs here, viewer and apprunner.  The viewer is a thin
wrapper around the layout engine; apprunner provides a much more attractive user
interface and more browser-like functionality, mail/news and composer.  However,
the apprunner is currently much slower and resource-intensive than viewer.  We
suggest you start with the viewer.

   NOTE: The first time you run either program, there will be a delay while
Mozilla creates its registry file.  Subsequent runs will take a little less
time to start up.


3. What works, what doesn't

   First off, see the official release notes at:

   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m6.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.

   Native comboboxes (drop-down menus) in html forms cause corruption of the area
   of content vertically beneath them; gfx-rendered comboboxes are obscured by
   native textfields.

   The profile manager is disabled in this release.  Your prefs50.js file will
   be created in the Users50/Default/ directory, where Users50 is created by
   mozilla in the directory where you unzipped the mozilla-os2-M6 archive.

   The display of non-Latin encodings is not supported.

   Commands in popup menus do not execute.

   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.


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>
