Their main function is to interpret a web page's HTML code, and to display what the code tells it to display. There are two major players in the Browser software cataegory along with a large number of small players. The two major players are Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer . Both products have their advantages and disadvantages. Netscape Navigator is the de-facto standard on the Wesleyan campus .
Navigator is the name of the browser.
You may also heat to it referred to as Netscape Communicator. Communicator, however, is the name of a product that includes other Internet features, such as email, a Usenet newsreader and a web browser. Most people at Wesleyan use Netscape's browser, but they use other programs, such as Eudora, for email and for reading Usenet News. For more infomration about other browsers go to the web site BrowserWatch . Many of the features in the menus and the tools bars will be discussed in the upcoming pages.