Many pieces are in place but just as many have yet to be delivered.
When completed, the Notes environment promises to be a rich collection of tools for giving Web browser users access to Notes databases and applications, while also allowing Notes clients to access the world of the Internet. Lotus's approach to Internet access divides along client and server lines. For the end user, a built-in Web browser was shipped with Release 4 at the beginning of this year. The Release 4 client does ship with a browser application, built from these collections of commands. While not as rich as products such as Netscape Navigator Gold with authoring, JavaScript, and frames support, the browser tools in Notes do support the Internet basics.