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| About the Browser | Netscape unarguably has the current majority of all browser market share (at some reports as much as 70+ percent.) It has continually led the way in new features and HTML support. It was also the first major browser to create its own tags. Many of these tags were previously not supported under an official HTML specification, but that has changed. | |
| Version | Released | Features |
| 1.0B1 | Oct. 1994 | The First Beta of version 1. The original release of the browser supports all basic HTML 2 tags and some limited HTML 3 functionality. |
| 1.0 | Dec. 1994 | Final Release of version 1.0 |
| 1.1B1 | Mar. 1995 | The first Beta of version 1.1 added table support as well as many of its own new HTML tags and attributes. |
| 1.1 | Apr. 1995 | Final Release of version 1.1 |
| 1.2B1 | Jun. 1995 | First Beta of version 1.2 which updated the user interface for Windows 95 and added no new HTML support. |
| 1.2 | Jul. 1995 | Final Release of version 1.2 |
| 2.0B1 | Oct. 1995 | First Beta of the Navigator release added several HTML 3 tags, Frames as well as the ability to handle Java. |
| 2.0B3 | Dec. 1995 | This version added the ability to process JavaScript |
| 2.0 | Mar. 1996 | Final Release of version 2.0 |
| 3.0B1 | Apr. 1996 | First Beta which was originally titled Atlas, this release has added many new plug-ins, and support for background colors in tables. |
| 3.0B5 | Jul. 1996 | This version adds support for underlining, frame border control and Font FACE styles. It also adds new tags to allow for column layout (<Multicol>) and spacing control (<Spacer>) |
| 3.0B7 | Aug. 1996 | The only new HTML feature in this version appears to be the ARCHIVE attribute to the APPLET tag. |
| 3.0 | Aug. 1996 | Final Release of version 3 |
| 4.0B1 | Dec. 1996 | Preview release of 4.0 (Netscape Communicator.) This adds the new LAYER tag that allows precise positioning control in documents. |
| 4.0B2 | Feb. 1997 | Second preview release of 4.0 (Netscape Communicator.) This adds the in-line layering, Cascading and JavaScript Style Sheet Support. |
| 4.0B3 | Apr. 1997 | Third preview release of 4.0 (Netscape Communicator.) Improves upon the very rudimentary style sheet support in Beta 2 (PR2.) |
| 4.0B4/5 | May. 1997 | Fourth and fifth beta of 4.0. Beta 4 was a PC-only release with minor HTML improvements, while Beta 5 is cross-platform and adds the Netcaster push technology. |
| 4.0/4.01 | Jun. 1997 | Final Release of Communicator. Final tally adds more CSS support (much of the CSS1 spec and the CSS positioning draft are implemented), minimal dynamic font and OBJECT tag support. |