SillyDog701's Netscape Version Guide

new feature
(based on Mozilla Application Suite 1.4)
* Web Services via JavaScript APIs.
* Support for Windows Media Player Active X control
* Support for Internationalised Domain Names (non-ASCII characters)
* image resizing (can be disabled)
* Improved Stability and Performance
* Improved Mail notification and filtering

support P3P (Privacy Preference Project), New corporate features in Netscape Mail including S/MIME, Shared folders for IMAP, Secure LDAP, and Offline LDAP
> more information

System Requirement:
Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 52MB of free HD space
Mac OS X 10.1, PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or G3 or G4, 64MB of RAM, 72MB of free HD space, QuickTime
Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later with X11 R6, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 52MB of HD and Linux kernel - 2.2.14 with following library (or compatible) are required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.0.
> Netscape 7.1 Release Notes
> Netscape 7.0 FAQ
> Netscape 7.1 user report/feedback

new feature (designed to allow consumers to get the most from their time online.) * Tabbed browsing, pop-up ad blocker (7.01), click-to-search, bookmark keywords, full screen mode, print preview, update notification, download manager * Mail notification, mail labels, return receipts * Save whole web pages, get map (address book) support P3P (Privacy Preference Project), New corporate features in Netscape Mail including S/MIME, Shared folders for IMAP, Secure LDAP, and Offline LDAP > more information System Requirement: Windows 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 52MB of free HD space Mac OS 8.6 (9.1 and later recommended), MacOSX, PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or G3 or G4, 64MB of RAM, 72MB of free HD space Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later with X11 R6, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 52MB of HD and Linux kernel - 2.2.14 with following library (or compatible) are required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.0. > Netscape 7.0 Release Notes > Netscape 7.0 FAQ > Mark's Netscape 7.0 Help and Tips > Netscape 7.0 user report/feedback

new feature (over Netscape 6.1)
* Improved Quick Launch for Windows
* Improved Autocomplete, downloading
* New Address Book tab
* Ability to access Netscape Mail within other Windows applications (Simple MAPI)
* Improved stability
* New MacOSX (certified) and Windows XP platforms support.
support improved Quirk mode (Compatibility mode) for better agreement with IE5 and other old design tricks. Quirks mode is intended solely to support already existing content on the web which for practical purposes must support non standards compliant browsers.
System Requirement:
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 26MB of HD
Mac OS 8.6 or later, PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or G3, 64MB of RAM, 36MB of HD
Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later with X11 R6, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM
> Netscape 6.2 Release Notes

new feature (over Netscape 6) * improved user interface for Navigator, Mail, and Instant Messenger * new History tab and Bookmark Management features * one click search from the URL bar * offline access to Netscape email * new download interface that lets you know where you downloaded a file and/or lets you launch it from the download dialog * performance and stability enhancements have also been made in Navigator and Mail. * New Mac OS X platform support (as preview release). System Requirement: Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, or 2000, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM, 26MB of HD Mac OS 8.6 or later, PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or G3, 64MB of RAM, 36MB of HD Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later with X11 R6, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM > Netscape 6.1 Release Notes

new feature My Sidebar, Customisable, Smaller Download Size, Powerful, Integrated Search, Built-in Instant Messaging, Themes, Privacy Protection, multiple e-mail accounts
support industry's best standard support including full W3C HTML 4, full CSS1 and partial CSS2, JavaScript1.5, XML, RDF, Document Object Model level 1(DOM1), Pluglets (Plug-ins Implemented in Java), Sun Java 2 plug-in. Also has backward compatibility with existing scripts and features of CSS2 positioning, supports DOM2 Events, and the DOM2 CSS Interface
note Netscape 6 does not support Netscape 4's proprietary features, such as <LAYER>, <ILAYER>, <NOLAYER> and associated JavaScript / DOM. (more information about transition websites to W3C standard) <IFRAME> is supported. innerHTML DOM extension is supported from NS6 PR2.
System Requirement:
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, or 2000, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM
Mac OS 8.6 or later, PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or G3, 64MB of RAM
Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later with X11 R6, Pentium 233 MHz, 64MB of RAM
> Netscape 6 Release Notes

note This is a maintain release with some bug fixes and enhancements.
(quoted from ufaq.org: [T]he ongoing 4.7x work is being done by iPlanet to fix bugs demanded by corporate clients with whom iPlanet has support contracts. Netscape gets to release those versions to end users as a by-product of the iPlanet work.)
System Requirements:
for Windows 32bit: PC with 486 or higher, 16MB RAM
for Macintosh: PowerPC with MacOS 8.1, 16MB RAM
for UNIX: 64MB RAM
> Communicator 4.8 Release Notes

new feature Netscape Radio, Shop@Netscape Button, Search and Internet Keyword Improvements.
It includes Netscape AIM 3 (Instant Messenger), RealPlayer G2, Winamp (Windows), PalmPilot Synch tools (Windows), and multimedia plug-ins
support Global IME (Windows), Java Plug-in (from 4.78)
note As of version 4.72, the Netscape Calendar client will no longer be included, but is available from iPlanet. In other words, there will be no longer Professional Version of Netscape Communicator.
From version 4.73 all Netscape browsers are available in strong encryption (128-bit).
System Requirements:
for Windows 32bit: PC with 486 or higher, 16MB RAM
for Macintosh: PowerPC with MacOS 7.6.1, 16MB RAM
(Netscape 4.79+ requires MacOS 8.1 or above)
for UNIX: 64MB RAM
> Communicator 4.7 Release Notes

Netscape Communicator suite contains Navigator (WWW browser), Composer (web page authoring tool), Messenger (e-mail client), Collabra (newsgroups reader), Netcaster (web channel) and Conference (multi-user communication) support HTML 3.2 and Netscape's proprietary dynamic tags, such as <LAYER>, partial CSS-1 (Cascading Style Sheets - Level 1), CSS-P (Cascading Style Sheets - Positioning), and JavaScript1.2 . New image format, *.png, supported from version 4.04. VRML 2.0 via the integrated Cosmo Player 1.0 from Silicon Graphics. System Requirement: 8 MB RAM for Windows, 64MB RAM for UNIX, MacOS 7.5 with 16MB RAM for Macintosh > Communicator 4.0 Release Notes

new feature Three-pane configurability, CoolTalk-an internet phone, Live3D, LiveAudio, LiveVideo, QuickTime support, new HTML layout capabilities. Show recipient in Sent Folder and Outbox, POP3 servers, JavaScript Evaluation in HTML support HTML 3.2 and extra tags: Frame Border Control, <MULTICOL>, <SPACER>, <S>, <U> and JavaScript1.1: <NOSCRIPT>, SRC attribute SSL3.0, > Navigator 3.0 Release Notes System Requirements: for Windows 3.1: PC with a 386 or higher processor, 4MB RAM, 3MB HD for Windows 95/NT: PC with a 386 or higher processor, 6MB RAM, 6MB HD for Mac: Macintosh with a 68020 or higher processor, System 7, or greater, 12MB RAM, 6MB HD, for Unix: Unix workstations, 16MB RAM sound card and speakers for CoolTalk

feature Frames, Built-in JavaScript, Support for Java Applets (32bit Windows platform) (Java™ technology from Sun Microsystems, Inc), Plug-ins, integrated Mail and News, Automatic Dithering. Live3D support FRAME, HTML 3 plus Netscape's enhancements, FONT COLOR tag, <DIV> tag, WRAP attribute in the TEXTAREA tag, Superscripts and Subscripts; animated GIF (GIF-89a) System Requirements: 386 or higher with 4MB Ram (8 recommended), a VGA Display (Super VGA with 256 colours or higher recommended), and at least 6MB of hard disk space, Windows 3.1x, Windows for Workgroups 3.1x , Windows 95 or Windows NT running the appropriate TCP/IP software > Navigator 2.0 Release Notes

feature Drop-down URL Menu, MAPI, Page Headers, Downloading in a Separate Context support <EMBED> tag on the Windows platform, ALT tags & Loading Image, Japanese character set encodings (JIS (ISO-2022-JP), SJIS (Shift-JIS) and EUC-JP (Extended UNIX Code for Japanese)) System Requirements: To run the 32bit Navigator, you MUST have a 32-bit TCP/IP stack. > Netscape Online Handbook (1995)

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