Netscape navigator

In 1994, Marc Andreessen joined w2oth computer industry veteran Jim Clark to form Netscape Corporation, one of the Web’s pioneering companies using $4 million seed capital provided by Clark.

Andreessen recruited many of his former colleagues at NCSA to help him write a new Web browser, which became known as Netscape Navigator. Navigator was faster and more graphically attractive than Mosaic.

Netscape Navigator was the first browser to gain widespread commercial acceptance. Navigator is extremely similar appearance and function to Mosaic.

By end of 1994, Navigator had gained 70 percent of the Web browser and Netscape was soon selling custom software to companies that wanted a presence on the Web.

The company offered shares to the public in August 1895 in one of the most lucrative and successful initial public offerings (IPOs) of stock in the history of US business; after one day of trading, the company was worth $4.4 billion.

In 1996 Netscape released Navigator 2.0 which supported Java’s embedded applet files, contained an easy-to-use email program and incorporated JavaScript, frames and plug-ins.

Netscape has been responsible for advances in HTML Netscape’s creative team introduced new ideas, web page tables and supported them with their web browser even before they became web standards.
Netscape navigator

HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language

The text in atypical web page is wrapped in HTML tags, which tell the browser about the structure of the document.

Know the HTML is the key to getting a browser to display the web pages. HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is the most widely used language on web.

Hyper Text is a way to organize information so that the user can click to jump from one piece of information to another. Markup is just something when the user added to a document to give it special meaning; for example, when the user use a highlighter pen the user are marking up a document. It is referring to the symbols that indicate how the text or images should be displayed in a browser.

When the browser reads HTML, it interprets all the tags that surround the text. The tags tell the browser about the structure and meaning of the text. With the information, the browser can decide how to display the information in a way that makes sense.

HTML tells the browser about the structure of the document: where the headings for a web page, what is a paragraph, what is part of a table and so on, so it can structure the document and render it properly.
HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language

Tables on the web

Using HTML tables on a web page allows the organized and specific arrangement of data. The data can be text, images, links, forms, form field, other tables, etc, arranged into rows and columns of cells.

Tables let you control the look of your websites by breaking your pages into precise segments while controlling the placement of text and graphics.

You can create columns and grids that can contain images and text. Cells can be utilized as templates or style sheets to give a uniform look and, through use of color, add visual contrast to your website.

If you use colored cells in your tables, some browsers might not display the cell in color unless there is text or an image in it.

For example, older browsers can only see the background coir described in the tag.

There are also other problems with tables. They may loaded more slowly than plain text since some browsers must “place” the items in a table, which means the table won’t be shown until al the text and graphic items have downloaded.

However, you can mitigate this problem by breaking a long table into smaller tables an specify the height and width for all the images.

This fix allows the browser to size the table before a series of smaller table instead of one long table is that it is easier to change the page’s design in the future.
Tables on the web

Applications of Intranets

Applications of Intranets
Communication and Collaboration
Intranet can significantly improve communications and collaboration within an enterprise. For example, intranet browser and PC can be used to send and receive e-mail, voice mail, and paging, and faxes to communicate with other within organization, and externally through the internet and extranet. Intranet groupware features also can be used to improve team and project collaboration with services such as discussion groups, chat rooms, and audio and teleconferencing.

Web Publishing
The advantages of developing and publishing hyperlinked multimedia documents to hypermedia databases accessible on World Wide Web servers has moved to corporate intranets. The comparative ease, attractiveness, and lower cost of publishing and accessing multimedia business information internally via intranet websites have been the primary reasons for the explosive growth in the use of intranets in business. For example, information products as varied as company newsletter, technical drawings, and product catalogs can be published in a variety of ways, including hypermedia Web pages, E-mail, and net broadcasting, and as part of in house business applications,. Intranet software browsers, servers, and search engines can help easily navigate and locate the business information needed.
Applications of Intranets