Netscape posts Netcaster Preview Release 3

To subscribe to Netcaster Channels, you now have to sign up with Netscape's "Inbox direct" program. I don't use Netscape Mail, and I suspect most other Navigator users don't either. This should not be a pre-condition.

Viewing a Channel full-screen is now the default (as it should be). But when you click on most links in the Channel that is displayed full-screen, it opens a floating Navigator window! Come on, Netscape, I want that to open in the pre-existing full-screen navigator Webtop, not in a new window. Besides, the floating window that appears is usually too tall for my display and you CAN'T resize it! This should be customizable. Microsoft's IE 4.0 does this right: when you click on a link in the IE 4.0 Active Desktop, a new window does NOT open.

I don't know if this is a problem with Netscape's "dynamic" HTML or just a fundamental problem with Netcaster, but the display is SLOW. I have a Pentium 166 with 64 MB of RAM and 4 MB of video RAM and nothing should display this poorly on my system. If you're really interested in trying something slllloowwwwww, try one of the Marimba Castanet channels.