Java Glossary : Netscape

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Netscape is the leading web browser. You can download it free. Click the icon to download. The latest, Netscape 7.02, is considerably slower than previous versions, so you might want to download one of the earlier ones or upgrade your machine.

People with older equipment often stay with the older version 4.79 which has only Java 1.1.5. It supports the Java 1.4.2 Plug-in, but only as Plug-in, not as its native Java. You need special <OBJECT tags instead of <APPLET tags to invoke applets. You need the HTML Converter to create them because they are so complicated.

Netscape 7.02, supports Java Plug-in 1.4.2 both qua plug-in and as its native Java. If you install JDK 1.4 after Netscape it will be installed automatically. If not, copy NPOJI600.DLL from J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\jre\bin to \program files\Netscape\Netscape 6\Plugins.

Netscape 7.02 is quite slow both to load and to run.

Click any ball to view the corresponding colour palette.

Named Colours	Alphabetically	BHS: by Brightness, Hue, Saturation	HBS: by Hue, Brightness, Saturation	SBH: by Saturation, Brightness, Hue
Named Colours	RGB: Numerically	BSH: by Brightness, Saturation, Hue	HSB: by Hue, Saturation, Brightness	SHB: by Saturation, Hue, Brightness
Numbered Colours	HTML 3.2	Websafe	Rainbow	X11
Selected Colours	Pale	Dark	Simple	Greys	Colour Schemes

The above colour chart shows Netscape's 133 standard colours, and HTML 3.2's 16 standard colours. It shows the colours displayed eight ways, (colour on white, colour on black, black on colour, white on colour) both using alpha names and hex names. You can check out your browser for Netscape colour compatibility. It shows the Standard Netscape 7.02 alpha names such as "aliceblue" and also the hex, RGB an HSB values both as HTML and raw ASCII text.

For a discussion of browser-safe colours see Lynda Weinman's essay.

To put the Netscape logo on your web page, see their Netscape Now Program. Netscape has an Applet security system known as capabilities and a digital signing tool called signtool. See the Netscape FAQ on the quirks of using Java in Netscape. There are many Netscape specific classes. Some let you write plug-ins for Netscape. For example the Crescendo MIDI plug-in was implemented that way.

capabilities ¤ IE ¤ Java Plug-In ¤ list of Netscape FAQs ¤ Opera ¤ signed Applets ¤ signtool ¤ Testing Java in your browser

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