Netscape builtin bits

Browser destinations

There are surprising amount of things that are built into the browser:

some interesting things

`<a href=livescript:> <a href=javascript:> <a href=mocha:> <a href=mocha:>`	starts the interactive javascript console
`<a href=view-source:url>`	show me the source of the selected url
`<a href=mailbox:box>`	show me the mail window

About what

<a href=about:> tell me about the browser

<a href=about:authors> Germans may not like this one.

<a href=about:1994> UNIX only Show me some mugshots of the development team

<a href=about:editfilenew> Fancy a blank document anyone

<a href=about:FeCoNtExT=1> Is this window active? how about 00A7E7AC

<a href=about:document> whats the status of this document

<a href=about:license> whats the license

<a href=about:plugins> whats plugins are loaded?

<a href=about:mailintro> what sort of things does netscape do then

<a href=about:mozilla>

whats mozilla then? on UNIX systems, your icons should change to something like

This image above is a looped version of a Mozilla Illustration that can be found at: http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/starter/samples/mozilla.gif.

Mozilla illustrations may be used on your page but you must mention somewhere on your page that Mozilla is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.

About the client

The links wont work for Netscape3, but try typing these into the box marked location at the top of the screen

`about:cache`	whats in the cache?
`about:config`	GPF's netscape 4.03, but what should it do?
`about:fonts`	show me about the fonts (Netscape4.03)
`about:global`	show me a history
`about:image-cache`	whats in the image cache?
`about:memory-cache`	whats in the memory cache?
`about:pics`	eh?

keyboard things

`CTRL-ATL-T`	what's the transfer status?
`CTRL-ATL-F`	goes to the amazing fishcam
`CTRL-ATL-S`	toggles the status bar, try this in the dialogs started from the security options and wonder why the heck it works
`CTRL-ATL-ESC`	errr - is this a windows feature

compiling and executing java

in versions 3 and above, netscape has an undocumented command line argument that allows you to compile and run java independently of the browser. Theres no point in trying to do on platforms where the Java development kit (JDK) is available free of charge.

This is possible as the java compiler is itself written in java and is contained in the class file that accompanies the sun JDK (java development kit).

to compile

setenv NCLASSPATH .:netscape/java_30:JDKclasses.zip
netscape -java sun.tools.javac.Main -verbose myclass.java

And To run the java you would do a

setenv NCLASSPATH .:netscape/java_30:JDKclasses.zip
netscape -java myclass

where

JDK: is where the classes.zip file from the java development kit has been installed.
/usr/local/lib/netscape
netscape: is where the data files of netscape have been installed, e.g. /usr/local/lib/netscape