[WEB4LIB] Netscape 6.1

[Andrew Mutch]

Apparently, the coders must not have been down at the beach working on their
tans as it is browser release season.  Mozilla 0.9.3 was just released last
Friday and IE 6.0 is supposed to be out in the next week or so.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Thomas Dowling wrote:

> Netscape 6.1 Final is up on the Netscape ftp sites--I assume it will be
> going up on their download page today or tomorrow.  Whereas Netscape 6 and
> 6.01 were built on very early alpha versions of Mozilla, this is built on
> version 0.9.2, which is quite stable and a better performer all around
> (though a Mozilla-based browser is never going to be as snappy as Opera).
>
> NS6.1 does not come with LINK support, so it remains an HTML 2
> non-compliant browser, but it will load the LINK-related XPI files from
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87428 if you want them.
>
> Speaking only for the browser (not mail, news, messaging, etc.) this one
> looks like it might be ready for prime time.
>
> Thomas Dowling
> OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
> tdowling at ohiolink.edu