Re: Netscape 1 Specs

Netscape 1.x's big feature that put it above what mosaic was doing was the
innovation of caching graphics and pages locally. It ran one browser at a time
(I'm not certain, as I was using a 16-bit system at the time). It also ran
Html 1 and 2. Later 1.x browsers also ran the early netscape extensions like
<blink>. No java, no javascript. No frames. these were all 2.x innovations

IE 1.0 was several steps below Netscapes 1.x browser, mostly because of speed,
but also because of capabilities. It used html+ standards and didnt even have
the ability for forms. 
IE 2.x Was a little better. It had forms, and the rest of the html 2.0 specs
as well at the microsoft extensions (like <marquee>) but was incapable of
handling javascript, java, or Active X , and in many cases these would casue
IE2.0 to crash. 
In a message dated 3/16/98 7:00:46 AM Eastern Standard Time,
duif(at)jaderiver.com writes:

<< I am working on a site and the client wants it to work well with Netscape
>1, and trouble is, I have never seen Netscape 1, only 2 and up.
>
>Is there any references on the HTML specifications for Netscape 1 and 2
>anywhere! Some on the early versions of IE (1+2) wouldn't be bad either.
>
  >>

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