misleading announce

[Basso]

I thank Fulvio for his recent answer to a question about ability of downloading
multiple files at once. This feature is announced at web address
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
the title is "What's new in Netscape 7.0" and clicking on "Netscape navigator"
lists all the new features of 7.0, particularly this ability to download multiple
files. Moreover it's a reason which induced me to upgrade my Netscape
installation.

You tell that feature will be installed in a future release. I hope it and I think
it would be fine if downloading of Netscape get equivalent possibilities as
Fetch, for example the ability to download folders at once.
Regards

P.Basso

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

[Mr. Tinkles]

Actually, everything it says it can do there, it can do. Here is exactly what it says on that page:

DOWNLOADING AND SAVING FILES

Download multiple files at once and reliably pause and resume a download if your Internet connection is interrupted or you need to use your connection to make a phone call.

Download Manager keeps track of all your downloads from one place. View information on the status of your download, percentage complete, download location, source, time remaining and more.

Save a complete web page --what used to take several steps to download and save a complete web page, now takes only one. In a single action, save a page with all of its graphics files (GIFs and JPEGs). No need to individually download each file to capture all the content on the page.

It can do all the things listed above just as it claims it can do. Now, you might run into sites that don't support pausing a download, but that isn't within Netscape's realm of control. They never claim to have a full-fledged download manager like DAP, Gozilla, GetRight, or what have you, but the claims they make are quite legitimate.