changes from 1.0 to 1.1b1:
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shared avatar gestures
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- there is now support for loading PROTO'ed avatars, which contain
  a list of gestures (see http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~sfwhite/VIP.html,
  section 6.0)
- when logging in using an avatar with gestures, the gestures will
  be automatically extracted from the avatar's VRML, and corresponding
  buttons added to the client UI
- avatar gestures are currently only supported on the EAI version
- most related changes are in TalkerPanel.java and EAIObject.java

improved networking
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- the networking code was improved to be more robust, and to
  prevent floods of position/orientation updates from swamping
  slow users

- both the client and server now have a WriterThread, which handles
  both timer-based flood prevention (using a 100ms clock) and also
  serves to buffer network output in its own thread

- WriterThread is "owned" by ClientThread in the client, and
  VUser in the server

general code cleanup
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- generally cleaned up code (esp in Dispatcher.java), which included
  removing some workarounds for bugs in CosmoPlayer 1.x for Win95/NT
  
- thus, CosmoPlayer 1.x for Win95/NT is *NO LONGER SUPPORTED*

changes from 1.0b2 to 1.0:
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- a new EventIn, "isConnected", notifies the scene that the user has
  successfully connected to the VNet server

- as an example, this is routed to the light in Simple.wrl and
  EAISimple.wrl, so that the lights in the scene turn on when the
  user connects to the server

changes from 1.0b1 to 1.0b2:
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- some files were renamed to reflect a more consistent naming structure:

  EAIVNetApplet.java	-> EAISceneInterface.java
  VNet.java	    	-> JSAISceneInterface.java
  TextVNetApplet.java	-> TextSceneInterface.java

- incorporated jeff sonstein's changes to the VNet EAI UI:
  - the applet now accepts parameters FGCOLOR and BGCOLOR to specify the
    foreground and background colours of the applet
  - colours are specified as in HTML:  #FFFFFF is white, #000000 is black
  - added a panel of instructions to the login screen

- some more robust code was used in the getBrowser() call

- Makefile changes
  - now distributing EAIVNet.zip and TextVNet.zip java archives
  - added code to build .zip distributions (make zipdist)
