About this product: Sitting at your desk, not getting much done, you finally give in to the temptation and click onto www.coolwaytokilltime.com. Little do you know, as you check on the price of cattle futures in Bolivia, that you have Jim Clark to thank for this wonderful research tool and time waster. Clark didn't invent the Internet (that was the Pentagon, looking for an inscrutable way to transmit classified information--or Al Gore, if you can believe him) or even the World Wide Web (that was a Swiss researcher named Tim Berners-Lee). Nor did he invent the first Web browser with a graphical interface; that was a pair of University of Illinois computer geeks named Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina. What Clark did was team up with Andreessen to create Netscape, and their first product, Netscape Navigator, made the Net more universally accessible than it had ever been. It also made a lot of people really rich, a fact Clark dwells on in perhaps too much detail.
The story of Netscape alone is thrilling enough, but Clark also gives tremendous insight into the real way American business operates nowadays--the speed, the risks, and the hatred for rivals (lots of hatred, mostly for Microsoft and Bill Gates.) Most of the book covers the founding of Netscape Communications, but there's an epilogue, too, discussing the merger of Netscape with America Online, the ongoing battle with Microsoft, and, most important, the impact the Web has had on everyday life. Clark makes a sound argument that Netscape had a lot to do with that. Oh, and did you know it made him rich? --Lou Schuler
About this product: Brew Up Instant Scripts--Even if You're Not a Programmer
With this book you can get to know JavaScript; Jump-start your Web Site with ready-to-use scripts; write basic scripts from scratch, add versatility; plus use the interactive lesson plan to try the scripts for yourself.
About this product: Netscape® Mozilla™ source code guide All the Techniques You Need to Put Mozilla to Work Mozilla, the open source version of Netscape Communicator, is an indispensable resource if you want to develop custom Internet applications. But Mozilla is also dauntingly complex, with over 50 separate modules comprising more than 30 million lines of code. This unique guide, developed in collaboration with Netscape Communications, provides a lucid overview of each Mozilla module — and shows you step by step how to harness the cross-platform power of this versatile Internet application. Working Solutions for Internet Development Challenges
Understand the legal ground rules that govern the use of Mozilla code
Master key Mozilla concepts such as virtual interfaces, interface identifiers, factories, repositories, and linked libraries
Grasp how each Mozilla module is organized, named, and used
Get up to speed on powerful Mozilla development tools such as CVS, Bonsai, Tinderbox, and Bugzilla
Learn step-by-step programming techniques for customizing the Mozilla back end and front end
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Join the Mozilla open source movement — and stay in touch through mozilla.
About this product: Speeding the Net is a thrilling read, and Quittner and Slatalla revel in their storytelling. The excitement and informality of the early browse-design sessions is apparent and infuses the book with a dynamic, raucous energy. The book tells the story of the creation of the Mosaic browser, the precursor to the wildly successful Netscape Navigator. Speeding the Net presents a thorough and compelling history of the programmers and business minds behind Navigator. Along the way, the authors also place ongoing developments in context: the universality (up until the explosion of the Web) of LANs, the creation of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the release of Java by Sun Microsystems. Speeding the Net is the best of all worlds: part biography, part primer on Web history, and part journal of the history of an infamous and revolutionary start-up company. --Jennifer Buckendorff
About this product: No other business rivalry has captured the public imagination quite like the one between Netscape and Microsoft. And for good reason. It pits the world's richest corporation against a relatively recent startup. The implications of this battle--for everything from electronic commerce to network communications--extend well into the next millennium. Competing on Internet Time, by Michael A. Cusumano and David B. Yoffie, is the definitive blow-by-blow analysis of Netscape's battle with Microsoft, starting with the founding of Netscape in 1994 through the summer of 1998, just as Microsoft was about to enter the courtroom with the Justice department over its alleged monopolistic practices.
Based on a series of interviews with Netscape employees and others, Competing on Internet Time is more than a breathless corporate biography. Rather, the authors draw lessons from the mistakes and victories that both Netscape and Microsoft have suffered and enjoyed in their war for 'Net turf--in terms of browsers, server software, and portal space. The authors come up with some surprising conclusions. For example, in examining the competitive strategies of both companies, Cusumano and Yoffie conclude that Microsoft, more than Netscape, exhibited what they call a "judo flexibility." Here they point to Microsoft's now famous December 7, 1995 Internet Day announcement of the company's embrace-and-extend strategy and its subsequent sacrifice of MSN in a deal with AOL--prime examples of how Microsoft redefined the battle in a way that avoided a direct confrontation with Netscape but nevertheless placed them center stage in the fight for Internet mindshare. The authors also go into fascinating detail about how each company operates--from the hiring of staffers to the conception, development, and marketing of products.
But this book is more than just about the conflict between Netscape and Microsoft. Anyone interested in how network-based businesses grow and change will find Competing on Internet Time a glimpse into the not-too-distant network economy. It belongs on the bookshelf of every Internet junkie and entrepreneur. --Harry C. Edwards
About this product: A tutorial and reference explains how to use and customize the Web browser Netscape for any intended use, covering the creation of world class home pages and demonstrating such tools as ShockWave and HotJava. Original. (Intermediate).
About this product: Que's Netscape Fast Track Server Starter Kit has everything you need to build your own eye-catching Web site with Netscape FastTrack Server. This all-in-one guide helps you implement and take full advantage of FastTrack's exciting features and options. You'll find comprehensive, concise references to HTML, HTTP, server config files, and an annotated list of sites for additional help. You'll have everything you need to succeed on the Web! Take control of your site by hosting it yourself on this inexpensive but powerful Web server; dazzle visitors to your site and keep them coming back for more with killer content and interactive features; optimize your server for maximum speed and performance; monitor and report server activity with log files to understand how effective your site is; utilize basic and advanced server security features, such as encryption, authentication, certification, and private keys.
About this product: Netscape Navigator 2.0 Gold is the new product from Netscape which contains the Navigator browser and an array of Web authoring tools.
About this product: The swift and simple approach of this book will show readers Netscape basics such as browsing the Web, sending and receiving e-mail, and exploring Usenet newsgroups. The book also gives a helpful list of popular sites and how to find them.
About this product: Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, Netscape Navigator 3.0--Surfing the Web and Exploring the Internet uses Netscape Navigator as its centerpiece and explores the surface of the Internet as a whole rather than limiting its information to the World Wide Web. Netscape Navigatior 3.0 discusses file transfer protocol (FTP), gopher, Usenet, and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and explains how to configure the Navigator client to use these and other resources. The book successfully covers the browser client, pointing out many features and options that new users might overlook. A solid list of helper applications and plug-ins, all of which are on the bundled CD-ROM, are also included. Of course, each chapter has plenty of helpful and reliable URLs, which is perhaps the best "gentle push" available for beginners.
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