The true winner of the browser wars is the one who uses both Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 to access the Web. Together, these tools will give you far more of the Internet than either one can alone. But if you're limited to a single browser, Netscape Navigator 3.0, the world's most popular and influential browser application, is still the best choice. Too many Web sites are optimized for Navigator plug-ins and JavaScript features that Internet Explorer, Navigator's only real competitor, does not yet fully support. Navigator's newly introduced LiveConnect standard, which integrates Java, JavaScript, and plug-ins, will be particularly attractive to Web developers who want to reach the largest possible audience on all platforms.
Navigator still has a hard fight ahead to stay number one.
Needed improvements we hope to see in the near future include support for rich style sheets, better stability and speed in its Java environment, and a substantially beefed-up collaboration suite. Internet Explorer 3.0 will wake up anyone who still doubts Microsoft's commitment to the Web. End users will enjoy Internet Explorer's highly customizable user interface, easy navigation features, and powerful collaboration tools. Webmasters will appreciate its strong HTML implementation and welcome its pioneering adoption of HTML Cascading Style Sheets, a powerful feature based on a proposed W3C standard that brings basic typographic control to page design for the first time. Microsoft's integration of Java, JavaScript, and plug-ins into the ActiveX model is particularly impressive.