N netscape (Java (Ipower web hosting) package) Version 5 of
N netscape (Java package) Version 5 of Netscape was scrapped because its codebase became too unwieldy to work with. There seems little point in documenting its peculiarities. Netscape version 6.0 was in beta trials and until PR3 was so unstable and crash-prone that most of our testing bore little fruit. Right at the point where content was being finalized for publication Netscape 6.0 was released as a final product. It is clearly still a work in progress and there are quite a few non-working components. It looks good though. The potential for exercising the DOM standard document navigation is really exciting. There is a great deal yet to discover about the new browser and it will stabilize as bugs get fixed and new releases are shipped. Perhaps browser versions may become less important as they converge on a single standard benchmark of functionality. For the time being, current practice suggests that version 4 browsers of both traditions are rapidly being taken over by version 5 MSIE browsers. Version 2 and 3 of MSIE and Netscape have declined to such small usage levels as to not require any further serious attempts to support them on new projects. Netscape 6.0 may win back some market share but only if its bugs are fixed quickly. Version 6.0 of MSIE is about to go to beta testers and the standards bodies are still some way ahead of the browser manufacturers so there is a long way to go yet. Warnings: . Netscape 2.02 does not cope gracefully with dollar signs in identifier names. See also: Identifier, Platform, Script execution, Undocumented features, Web browser Cross-references: Wrox Instant JavaScript page 14 Web-references: http://www.mozilla.org/ http://www.netscape.com/ http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html netscape (Java package) A short-cut reference to the Packages.netscape object. It allows JavaScript to access the Java class hierarchy to instantiate Java objects. JavaScript 1.1 Netscape 3.0 Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0 Availability: Property/method value type: JavaScript syntax: JavaPackage netscape N N N N myWindow.netscape myWindow.Packages.netscape netscape Packages.netscape See also: Window.java, Window.netscape, Window.Packages, Packages.netscape 1517