Communicator 4.0b2 is out

[Earl Young]

     I downloaded it to my home machine yesterday morning - from the server 
     at the University of North Carolina - and got a routine 140+ Kps 
     transfer rate on my residential ADSL line.  It took just a couple of 
     minutes to download the file.  I mention this because ADSL is an 
     emerging technology considerably cheaper than ISDN (and a great deal 
     faster) and is beginning to show in both the Pac Bell and Bell 
     Atlantic service areas.  The era of long downloads will end soon.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Communicator 4.0b2 is out
Author:  tdowling at ohiolink.edu at INTERNET
Date:    2/24/97 8:36 AM


Netscape Communicator 4.0b2 ("Preview Release 2") is out.  Download 
sizes range from 7.1MB to 11.4MB.  Claimed additions to Navigator since 
preview 1:
     
  + Style sheet support (CSS1 and dynamic style sheets) 
  + Enhanced kiosk mode 
  + Automatic installation of plug-ins 
      (must be explicitly enabled in preferences)
  + Java and LiveConnect available on all platforms  
  + Macromedia Fireworks  
  + Improved OLE support 
     
Other release notes at
<URL:http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.0/relnotes/windows-4.0b2.htm 
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At its current rate, my download should complete about the time preview 
3 comes out, so I'll leave it for others to comment on this release's 
stability.
     
Thomas Dowling
Ohio Library and Information Network 
tdowling at ohiolink.edu