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Registration

Newt's Cape is shareware. Newer versions, especially beta versions, may have a 45-day time limit, with expiration warnings after the first 30 days. Even if you decide not to register, please let us know, if you have problems, suggestions or questions. The current registration fee for Newt's Cape version 2.0/2.1 is (now) $20 via PayPal .

You can mail checks to:

Steve Weyer
102 Dillon Way
Washington Crossing, PA 18977

Although the Newton has been discontinued, by registering, you encourage us to provide support and continue some development. You also receive

additional documentation
NewtPack plug-in to save books as packages
Newt's Cape Graphic Converter for Mac/Windows to convert to Newton format
latest versions of Sloup for transferring graphics or Notes text
updated and more examples
better support and faster answers
priority in requesting fixes/features
earlier access to new versions and tools
a discount for the Newt Development Environment (if you are interested in additional NewtonScript tools or general application development)

If you distribute books created with Newt's Cape, we would appreciate that you mention (in your book or Readme) something like:

This book created from HTML
using <A HREF="http://communicrossings.com/html/newton/index.htm">Newt's Cape</A>

Also let us know the URLs of your web site or ftp archives for us to include in our list of Newt's Cape books

Plans

Despite some inevitable bugs and missing features, we believe that Newt's Cape should be quite usable for many users and kinds of HTML documents. Over time we will fix problems and may add new functionality to track evolving HTML standards and address new user needs. Your feedback and support are critical to encourage us and shape the product. Based on difficulties and dependencies, we have grouped some anticipated work into several rough categories:

short-term (~3? months)
medium-term (~6? months)
long-term (~12? months)

This a working list (not a firm commitment!), influenced by our HTML/http understanding, available time, other resources/distractions, ease of implementation, user reports and requests, and level of registrations.

Short Term

1-3 months?

bug fixes
more support for APIs, 3rd party apps; email attachments -- see helper apps

Medium Term

3-6 months?

use file:// URL for local docs (Notes, NewtWorks, Paper, etc.?), possibly using application and folder in path?
table fixes: borders; splitting rows with mixed height (graphics)
HTTP/1.1 client support
more HTML 4.0 features (style sheets? XML? dynamic HTML?)
mailto: -- popup routing slip rather than completed message in Outbox?
even smaller books, e.g., form definitions/support from Newt's Cape at run-time
IMG anywhere? nested tables (and ROWSPAN)
more horizontal layout, use of size and alignment attributes

Long Term

6-? months?

Java, VRML
JavaScript support? (well, not syntax initially; maybe just object/event model). Although NewtonScript is not that different from JavaScript, supporting JavaScript as a language directly on the Newton appears to be a non-trivial undertaking. As a start, we might support the JavaScript object model; you will define NewtonScript methods using <SCRIPT LANG="NewtonScript"> rather than via META. You should also be able to add event handlers to FORM objects. Or, maybe we'll just to wait to see what happens with Java.
PNG graphics
SSL (secure socket layer)
parser: other text formats for input (e.g., RTF, setext)

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Version 2.1. Last updated: Dec 2000