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The State, Columbia, S.C., Computing Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2000 by Paschal, Charlie

May 1--NETSCAPE UPGRADE'S EARLY RELEASE IS A MIXED BAG OF GOOD AND BAD: An early version of the long-awaited upgrade to Netscape is finally on the street. But unless you have a lot of patience and eagerness to learn a new interface, you might decide to save the bandwidth needed to download the new product that leaps version 4.72 to 6.0.

There's a lot to like about it, but there's a lot not to like, too. I think the biggest disappointment is that some Web sites' pages are incorrectly displayed, even though those sites are apparently using correct coding.

For example, if you visit www.infoworld.com with either Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.72, pages you browse will display correctly. But with the new version, you might see a blank spot where the...

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