Netscape beta? Yes.

It was brought to my attention this weekend that the Netscape Communicatorbeta I mentioned in Friday's WinInfo was released for DevEdge developersand not for the general public. As such, it may not perform as well as areal beta, and may crash your

Paul Thurrott

December 22, 1996

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It was brought to my attention this weekend that the Netscape Communicatorbeta I mentioned in Friday's WinInfo was released for DevEdge developersand not for the general public. As such, it may not perform as well as areal beta, and may crash your system. Anyone who uses beta products, Netscape or otherwise, is probably used to such behavior, of course. I suggest using the program at your own risk, but I also suggest *using* it.This new version is the nicest product the company has ever produced.That said, C-Net posted a story today stating that the first beta was"quietly" released this weekend by Netscape. I suspect they found out about it here. :) Also, Netscape has posted the release to their Website. As usual, WinInfo subscribers found out first.In a related story, Navigator 4.0's handling of tables now conforms tothe HTML 3.2 standard, making tables appear slightly differently from Navigator 2.0 and 3.0. Internet Explorer 3.0 supports HTML 3.2 tablesas well

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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