I just got Netscape 2.0 beta for DEC Alpha. Here are my initial impressions: * Still no Java support (for DEC Alpha) :-(. * I saw no hints of S/MIME support. Did I miss something? Do the binaries for other platforms support S/MIME? I have access to HP, and will probably demand a Sun account from the powers that be here, just so I can run Java. I _really_ want to test S/MIME. * The mail reader facility looks pretty good. The smooth integration of MIME and HTML objects is really quite nice. On the other hand, there are a few UI quirks that will no doubt get ironed out over the coming months. * The .mailcap parser _still_ doesn't recognize %{variable} style entries. Thus, I wasn't able to test Michael Elkins' PGP/MIME format for compatibility with Netscape. The %{} syntax is in the spec (RFC 1524), guys. * To send mail, Netscape apparently connects to the SMTP server running on localhost. I haven't confirmed this. Thus, I don't see any way to integrate Netscape and premail :-(. Guess I'll just have to wait for Netscape script (from what I've seen so far, it's not possible in pure Java). * No user-defined headers from mail :-(. Thus, I couldn't put an "In-Reply-To: " header in this followup. * News is also not bad, but I find I can't zip through tons of low S/N newsgroups the way I can with trn. I tend to rate newsreaders in number of messages deleted per second. I think with a bit more tweaking on the UI, it could really sing. * One slick feature of news is its ability to decode binary postings, apparently in both MIME and uuencode formats. However, I wasn't able to figure out how to decode multiparts. * The UI render code has a number of cosmetic defects (possibly related to the DECness of my machine). One new one is that drag-and-drops leave the Bookmarks window in an inconsistent state, leading one to want to press ctrl-L :-). Overall, nicely done. Mozilla will clearly remain the standard in Web browsers, for the next few months anyway. Raph