Yet almost as fast as it grew, Mosaic's popularity has declined. In its place are numerous other WWW browsers, led by Netscape Communications Corp.'s Netscape Navigator . These figures are not scientifically quantifiable, but there is enough evidence to indicate that Netscape is the current champion of WWW browsers. One indicator is that most WWW authors now target their documents for the default settings of Netscape and use Netscape's extended HTML tag set. The current trend in Web browser development is to create larger, more powerful browsers with more native helper programs.
Web browsers continue to be the convergence point of many Internet technologies.
For example, future browsers will include more sophisticated e-mail functionality and Usenet News readers. There is also much discussion among WWW developers about including richer document formats within the HTML code which would provide enhanced character-formatting information. Future browsers are also likely to be able to translate increasingly diverse types of protocols. Future browsers must have improved data encryption capabilities to decrease on-line fraud and, thereby, create a more secure environment for transmitting digicash . In March 1995, the Internet draft for HTML version 3.0 was released.