Editing Netscape (section)

====Netscape Navigator (versions 0.9–4.08)====
{{Main|Netscape Navigator}}

Netscape Navigator was Netscape's web browser from versions 1.0–4.8. The first [[beta version]]s were released in 1994 and were called Mosaic and later Mosaic Netscape. Then, a legal challenge from the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]] (makers of [[NCSA Mosaic]]), which many of Netscape's founders used to develop, led to the name Netscape Navigator. The company's name also changed from Mosaic Communications Corporation to Netscape Communications Corporation.

The browser was easily the most advanced available{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}} and so was an instant success, becoming a market leader while still in beta.<ref name=":0"/> Netscape's feature-count and market share continued to grow rapidly after version 1.0 was released. Version 2.0 added a full email reader called Netscape Mail, thus transforming Netscape from a single-purpose web browser to an [[Internet suite]]. The email client's main distinguishing feature was its ability to display [[HTML email]]. During this period, the entire suite was called Netscape Navigator.

Version 3.0 of Netscape (the first beta was codenamed "Atlas") was the first to face any serious competition in the form of [[Microsoft]] [[Internet Explorer]] 3.0.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/10/history-of-netscape/|title=Whatever happened to Netscape?|website=Engadget|date=May 10, 2014|access-date=2017-03-22|archive-date=March 23, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323052629/https://www.engadget.com/2014/05/10/history-of-netscape/|url-status=live}}</ref> But Netscape remained the most popular browser at that time.

Netscape also released a Gold version of Navigator 3.0 that incorporated [[WYSIWYG]] editing with [[drag and drop]] between web editor and email components.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intercom.co.cr/www/research/1996/0910.htm|title=Netscape Navigator Gold 3.0 Now Available, Adding Momentum to Netscape Client Software|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020102517/http://www.intercom.co.cr/www/research/1996/0910.htm|archive-date=October 20, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>