Netscape 7 Pre-release now available

[Marcia]

Now available for download at their site:

We are working hard to create features and services you want in Netscape 7.0. Netscape 7.0 PR1 is a pre-release version for users to test and provide feedback.

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[tedster]

Is there any good reason (outside of advertising) that this should be named version 7 instead of 6.3?

Once upon a time browser version numbers corresponded, roughly at least, to HTML versions that they supported. By that logic, this browser should support XHTML 3.0, right?

[papabaer]

Then NN4.79 should be renamed NN3.9, since it still does not (nor ever will) fully support HTML4 (iframes anyone?).

It's a pretty safe bet that those whacky guys in marketing were (wisely) trying to distance the new release from the bitter taste of 6.0 & 6.1 - I guess it's their way of saying the entire 6.x family was no more than an extended beta... ;)

Netscape v.7 is what v.6 Final should have been: a solid, feature rich web standards compliant browser. Thank goodness for the Mozilla project!

By the way... I've been perusing the Opera forums and I here the rumbling of Opera 7 (can you say DOM support? Look for GOOD things to come! Beta late summer/early fall?).