[WEB4LIB] Re: Why upgrade to Communicator?

[Thomas Dowling]

On the other hand, if you've gone this long without upgrading to 4.x (its
first beta came out almost two years ago), you may just want to sit tight
for a while and plan to make your upgrade to 5.0.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Andrew I. Mutch
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 9:57 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Why upgrade to Communicator?
>
>
> Michael,
>
> If your machines will support running the 4.0 version, there are several
> benefits to running Navigator 4.0 over version 3.0.
>
> Probably the biggest benefit is that you can run a stand-alone
> version of
> Navigator that does not have any of the mail components that you find in
> version 3.0.  This is often a source of problems for both patrons and
> staff.
>
> Other benefits of version 4.0 include:
>
> Better support for running Java and handling Javascript
> Support of style sheets (well, not really, but sort of!)
> Ability to lock-in preferences using the prefs.js file
> "Self-cleaning" caches
>
> In general, I've found that version 4.0 Navigators perform
> better than 3.0
> versions and that they can handle the wide variety of web sites
> employing
> Java, Javascript, Dynamic HTML and other features that version 3.0 will
> often trip up on.
>
> If you decide not to upgrade to 4.0, make sure that you are running the
> most current version 3.0, which is 3.04 (last time I checked!).  It
> handles Java reasonably well while earlier versions choke on it quite
> often.
>
> Andrew Mutch
> Electronic Services Support
> Northville District Library
> Northville, MI
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> >
> > Are there any advantages to upgrading from Netscape Navigator
> > to Communicator. I'm currently running Navigator 3.0 on all of
> > our Internet workstations, but have yet to be convinced that
> > there is a need to upgrade to the latest version of
> > Communicator. If anyone has upgraded from Navigator to
> > Communicator, I'd be interested to hear why and what were the
> > reasons or advantages of upgrading.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael J. Lucas
> > Reference and Information Services
> > Jefferson-Madison Regional Library
> > Charlottesville, Virginia  22902
> > Email: mlucas at avenue.org
> > Phone: (804)979-7151, ext. 400 Fax: (804) 971-7035
> >
>
>