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THE H-REPORT: Internetby Daniel P. Dern The Extendible BrowserThe Web's abuzz with talk of about Hot Java, a Web server from Sun that can tell whether or not your browser's got the viewers it needs to display something you requested, and if you don't, it downloads and sets them up. For info, http://java.sun.com.Watch The Browsers!Do you want to see what people are saying about the various Web browsers or add your opinion? Hop on over to BrowserWatch for lists, opinions, statistics and more. It is located at http://www.ski.mskcc.org/ browserwatch/index.html .Hot PicksIf you are looking for a moderately short, free periodic update on the on-line services' Internet and general strategy, see the "In, Around and Online" report by Robert Seidman (robert@clark.net), periodically posted to UseNet Newsgroups: alt.online-service, alt.internet. services and alt.business.Dueling BrowsersIt's been another exciting month for Internet "browser-watchers." After releasing new features like "blink," Netscape Communications "opened the kimono" on its grander strategy--not surprisingly--commerce-oriented products and servers, and turnkey systems, starting with a secure NNTP (UseNet News) server.Spyglass has returned the volley with the newest release of Spyglass MOSAIC 2.0 Beta 4 of its Windows version, adding the now de rigeur "text ASAP" presentation plus viewers for more data types and other features. Licensing wars continue apace as well. Microsoft and Quarterdeck have gone with Spyglass MOSAIC; Delphi Internet Services and MCI with Netscape, to name a few. But Internet commerce has a new patron saint: Terisa. Terisa Systems was able to mediate the holy war brewing between EIT's Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol, which Spyglass was using, and Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer by promising to support both security approaches in a June developers kit. It also pulled in investors, including such heavy-hitters as America Online, CompuServe, IBM/Prodigy and Netscape. Terisa was founded by EIT and RSA Data Security.
Free Agent Looks GoodWinSock users who are looking for a new UseNet Newsreader may be interested in checking out Free Agent, a new WinSock-compliant UseNet Newsreader from Forte. Features include on-line and off-line operation, picture viewing and binary attachments. The Beta version is free. Post-Beta, there will be commercial and freeware versions.Get a copy from ftp.forteinc.com/ pub/agent/agent038.zip; for information and code, see http://www.forteinc.com/forte/ ; to receive information and be added automatically to Forte's mailing list, you can send a message to agent-info@forteinc.com. Daniel P. Dern can be reached at ddern@world.std.com. You can also e-mail Daniel directly . Back to H-Report Menu. |
