[WEB4LIB] Finding Netscape API docs (was: finding netscape versions)

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Can't tell you where they hid that but on a related topic, I received
the following from Netscape Monday.  Instead of upgrading their Client
Customization Kit for newer versions of Netscape since 4.07.  I'm not
sure if Mission Control is still available or not yet.  Netscape will
now, for $50.00, create a Netscape setup to your specifications and send
you the CD.  The program that use to be the Education Agreement Program
now is the Browser Distribution Program which I believe you can still
become a free member.  Since the release of the Client Customization
Kit, they have only released one update which can only be used to
customize Communicator and I think the Communicator version is 4.5 for
that kit.  I think this new program has to do with AOL's tie to SUN with
Netscape now.  The Browser Distribution Program was essentially
targeting ISPs to create their own custom browser but it also replaced
the Educational Agreement.

Here is their announcement.


Dear Browser Distribution Program Member, 

We've just launched the updated Netscape Browser Distribution program.
As part of our regular communication to program members, we want you to
know about an important new service that our program provides to help
improve your user's experience while driving web traffic. 

Netscape is pleased to announce the new Communicator To Go service  to
quickly and inexpensively customize and duplicate a browser for your
organization. With Communicator To Go, Netscape saves you time and money
by creating a unique, customized browser on CD-ROM for as little as $50.
Just tell us what you want customized and we'll create a browser that
will open to your home page, display your company logo, and populate
your bookmarks. It's simple. 

Build your business by letting us:  
· Set the customizations you want.  Your start page - your logo - your
bookmarks - your mail settings - and many more!
· Make a custom CD-ROM master. 
· Produce as many disks as you like. 
· Develop the packaging you desire. 

Click on the link below to order your customized CDs and take advantage
of Netscape's time saving Communicator To Go service. 
http://dms-www1.netcenter.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/mcp?p=63EoC03EoP54nYMG01200W2GBX_6

Click here
http://dms-www1.netcenter.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/mcp?p=63Eo903EoP54nYMG01200W2GBX_6
toVisit our Web site to learn more about other innovative Netscape
programs. 

You can look forward to more e-mails as well as a quarterly newsletter
highlighting program developments with your Browser Distribution
Program. 

Thank you, and we hope to continue serving your business needs. 

Sincerely,


Netscape Netcenter




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Christopher Handy wrote:
> 
> At 01:36 AM 3/26/2000 -0800, Stacy Pober wrote:
> >Incidentally, when looking for older versions of Netscape to download, I
> >generally have the best luck in using a search engine like altavista
> 
> >Some of the older versions are archived
> >on Netscape's site, but they bury the links so well, I get weary poking
> >around for them.  It's easier to get a copy from another site.
> 
> On a related subject:
> 
> Netscape's site once contained a series of documents devoted to the "remote
> control" of Navigator on various platforms. I don't recall now the
> individual document titles, which were inconsistent and confusing, but
> something like Windows OLE API (for example) sounds vaguely familiar.
> 
> In any event, a year or more ago I noticed that most of these documents,
> which had long been located in the directory
> 
> http://home.netscape.com/newsref/std
> 
> suddenly disappeared. The UNIX page (located at .../std/x-remote.html) was
> still there last time I looked, but the Windows and Mac versions are long
> gone. I've searched the site up and down and have emailed everyone I can
> think to contact at Netscape (including at least one programmer there who
> had provided information in the past) without success, and have given up
> hope of getting copies of these pages from the company.
> 
> I notice that the UNIX document can be found elsewhere on the Internet, but
> not the documentation for the other platforms. At least nowhere I know of.
> But I wonder if any WEB4LIB subscribers have archived these lost documents
> (I'm especially interested in the file that was named:
> mac-remote-control.html).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Christopher Handy
> Indianapolis, Indiana
> Email: charta at inetdirect.net

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