RE: New Brwser NP - IE3&4

>Ok, so does NP act like IE3 when installed with IE3 and like IE4 when
>instaled along with that. As far as i'm awere you can't run IE3&4 on
>the same machine without having the two installed on either diferent
>drives or doing strange things to your main harddrive. Is this still
>the case? Can you perhaps use NP to "fake" one of these?
>The idea obviously being to have as many diferent browsers (and
>versions) available to check and test pages with, without shleping
>halfway across town?

Interesting question. It would be great on this case and you bet that
Neoplanet would have a new market share: web designers.

Unfortunately, for what I've seen, I'm afraid not. NeoPlanet it's only a
front-end. That's why it only occupies 1.854 KB (this is a small size
considering IE compatibility). The files that it installs deal, most of
them, with it's interface features.
You could do just the same with Visual Basic or MS Visual C++. Most probably
one or the two of them were used in the development of NeoPlanet.

Nevertheless, you point out a good question. It would be great indeed that
someone would be able to build an interface that could simulate IE3 and IE4
and, for what that matters, NN3 and NN4.
This just to name the most used. Of course such interface would be complete
if it could simulate Lynx, Opera and an hypothetical (unfortunately there is
none of this kind, yet) browser that was 100% W3C compliant.

But, hey, maybe I'm asking to much.

>
>Just wondering, haven't actually installed it yet - no time : )

In fact, for what I've seen on the site of Neoplanet, it was designed with
newbies in mind. The idea was to have has many features as possible and an
interface as user-friendly as possible in one package. I think they just did
it. Only, it encapsulates a well know browser. Since most of the people
nowadays buy Windows 95/98 systems (and this come with IE), Bigfoot (the
makers) hope to increase their presence (and their search engine on the web)
with Neoplanet.

As for me, I used the URLs that come on it's "channels" (do not mistake with
regular channels) bar and copy-pasted them to my browser. :)


Regards,
Mario Figueiredo

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