Web Page and Site Maintenance Tools
CS6204, Spring 1997
Netscape Navigator

Pros:
- Integration with Netscape browser and mailer
- Generates HTML 3.2
- WYSIWYG table editing; allows nested tables.
- Allows creation of image maps
- Allows creation of forms
- Integration with Navigator: Click on "edit document" on any
Web page to edit it.
- Super, subscripts possible
- Can use http (not just ftp) to upload page to Web server
- Can spawn editor (e.g., Notepad) to edit HTML directly
- Can set properties for various elements (character, paragraph, document,
...)
- Can add document keywords, classification to aid indexing by search
engines
Cons:
- If you open an existing document with HTML that is not understood (e.g.,
with frames), that HTML is deleted from your document!
- No form support
- No spellchecker
- Find function is goofy: always returns to top of page when restarted
after an edit, and no global replacement feature
- "Publish" feature only allows ftp'ing one doc (with images)
to/from Web site. Cannot automatically tell which files were locally modified
an must be uploaded.
- No way to set font family
- Crashes a lot (especially UNIX version)
- UNIX version lacks some features of Windows version
- Undo button won't undo format/style changes
Last modified on 14 March 1997 by abrams@vt.edu.
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