Who is the badshah among browsers?
A preview version of Netscape’s browser has just been released even as experts size up a `beta’ of Microsoft’s next upgrade of `Internet Explorer’. Anand Parthasarathy assesses the promised new features of the two major contenders – and checks out a cheeky challenger. YOU WANT to send an urgent email to a business associate on the east coast of the U.S. As you type your message using `Netscape Mail’, you notice that it’s almost midnight. That would make it about 9.30 in the morning in New Jersey, where the clocks have been set forward for spring. Your friend usually looks at his email around this time – an hour after getting in to his office. Could he be “online” at this very moment? You decide to check – and look up his name in the “Buddy” list that pops up on your screen. Hitting the key fetches his email address from the memory and Netscape’s Instant Messenger takes over and checks whether the recipient is online. By luck he is – so you swing into “instant” mode and your messa
