MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.
MIME is a specification for multimedia document formats.
Netscape Navigator 2.0, a major new release of the widely popular navigator for enterprise networks and the Internet, offers support for MIME.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 integrates a full suite of Internet applications -- including secure electronic mail, threaded discussion groups, and state-of-the-art navigation capabilities -- with advanced features such as rich layout and Live Objects support to give users access to a new generation of live online applications. A public beta version of Netscape Navigator 2.0 for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX operating environments will be available next week for downloading from Netscape's home page.
Netscape Navigator 2.0 is part of an array of Netscape products unveiled today that deliver a new level of interactivity to users accessing or sharing information on enterprise networks and the Internet. In addition to the 2.0 version, Netscape announced today Netscape Navigator Gold 2.0, a next-generation software tool that enables everyone to navigate, create, and edit live online documents; and Netscape LiveWire and Netscape LiveWire Pro visual development environments for creating, deploying, and maintaining entire online application systems. The products expand Netscape's client/server software line, designed to link people and information, into a full application platform for enterprise networks and the Internet.
"Netscape Navigator 2.0 is the desktop engine for building a new generation of live online applications," said Mike Homer, vice president of marketing at Netscape. "By integrating advanced features such as Java support, sophisticated layout capabilities, and inline multimedia plug-ins with core applications such as secure email and threaded discussion groups, Netscape Navigator 2.0 provides users with a secure, interactive, and open environment for communicating and conducting business on the Internet or across their enterprise networks."
Available for all popular desktop environments, Netscape Navigator 2.0 is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use online environment, combining secure point-and-click network navigation, email, threaded discussion groups, file transfers, and other Internet services in a seamlessly integrated package. It is optimized to run smoothly over 14.4 kilobit/second modems as well as higher bandwidth lines. Netscape Navigator provides a common feature set and graphical user interface across computers running the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, or X Window System operating environments. Netscape's products are based on industry standards and protocols and are compatible with the installed base of World Wide Web clients and servers
Netscape Navigator 2.0 provides a host of new capabilities within the Netscape Navigator environment including:
Integrated secure email, enabling users to both read and send standards-based email. Users can embed live Internet hyperlinks into mail messages; list, view, sort, drag and drop messages; read messages offline; and read and send mail securely using the Secure MIME (S/MIME) open protocol for encryption and digital signatures. Netscape Navigator email includes a personal address book and supports MIME attachments for multimedia messages
Integrated threaded discussion groups, allowing users to sort and list messages from subscribed folders. Netscape Navigator 2.0 provides fully threaded and MIME-compliant news reading and posting, for multimedia news articles
Support for Live Objects -- or interactive multimedia content -- including: Netscape inline plug-ins support, which enables new capabilities to be seamlessly integrated into Netscape Navigator. Netscape inline plug-ins, being developed by hundreds of third party companies, include such applications as a player for Macromedia Director presentations and a viewer for Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents Support for Java applets, or mini-applications created in the Java programming language. Java applets include security features and bring a range of new functionality to enterprise networks and the Internet, enabling live updating, two-way interaction, and platform-independent client/server applications Frames, a new page presentation capability that enables the display of multiple, independently scrollable panels on a single screen, each with its own distinct Internet address. They also enable a region of the screen to be frozen in place as the user scrolls through information on a page
Next level security for financial transactions through the Secure Courier open protocol, which creates a secure digital envelope for financial data on the Internet.