LinkScan™ 11.4 -- Many Enhancements Plus Holiday Sale

San Jose, CA, November 30, 2004. Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) introduces LinkScan™ 11.4 along with special holiday sale prices. We are pleased to make two major announcements in this newsletter:

1. Linkscan™ Version 11.4 release

2. Our first Holiday sale

Holiday Sale Offer and Terms

We are offering a twenty percent ( 20% ) discount on all our products and upgrades ordered and paid for in the month of December, 2004. To receive this discount, you must pay for your order in 2004. The discount offer will not be honored for payments received after year end.

Linkscan™ Version 11.4 release

LinkScan™ 11.4 is available for immediate trial download and for purchase. Key features in the new release include the following.

• We have made several improvements to the processing of JavaScript constructs in complex documents. This results in improved test coverage and accuracy on websites that make extensive use of JavaScript.

• We have added the Substitutescript command which allows users to perform complex transformations on certain JavaScript and Dynamic HTML constructs. These transformations may be used by more advanced users to more effectively test functions invoked by complex JavaScript/DHTML function calls.

• We have added the new Ownerq command. This new option gives users even more flexibility and control over the ability to assign specific areas of web site content to specific Owners (content developers).

• We have improved some error checking and reporting functions to better detect and explain certain configuration or environmental errors and anomalies.

• We have added a new Autoencspace option. This will cause LinkScan to automatically compensate for certain HTML/HTTP errors that result when content developers fail to properly encode certain characters in a URL. More commonly this arises when authors fail to write space characters as "%20".

  By default, LinkScan reports a 911 Unsafe Character Error when it encounters links containing improperly encoded characters. With the Autoencspace option, LinkScan will automatically perform the encoding for you, mirroring the behavior of Microsoft Internet Explorer. We do not recommend the use of this option (since it masks real errors in the HTML documents) but it has been provided in response to user requests.

• We have incorporated a number of other minor enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements.

These developments underscore Elsop's ongoing commitment to meet the needs of organizations with very large intranet websites and public websites. The latest performance boost compliments the extraordinary and incomparable speed with which LinkScan validates external links. LinkScan uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing to check 20 or more links concurrently.

LinkScan delivers powerful test automation and website management capabilities to content developers and corporate management. It is highly accurate and offers exceptional performance and scalability to large enterprise facilities. Advanced customization features permit webmasters and quality assurance engineers to create completely automated test suites.

LinkScan operates on all Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X and Unix Systems. Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME and NT 4.0/2000/XP are all fully supported. Compatible Unix systems include AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, all major Linux distributions, and SunOS/Solaris.

Version 11.4 is a free upgrade to users of version 10.x and 11.x Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 11.4 may be downloaded from the company's website at: http://www.elsop.com/

Contact Information:

Kenneth R. Churilla
President
Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop)
[email protected]

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