Technical Analysis of Browsers 
This is an analysis of some browsers technical abilities:
- Netscape Navigator (all major versions)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (all major versions)
- Opera 3.0 and 3.5
Note; in the table below the colors mean: red: no, green: yes, blue: partial, white: unknown.
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Netscape Navigator |
Microsoft Internet Explorer |
Opera |
| Techniques |
1.2 |
2.X |
3.X |
4.X |
1.X |
2.X |
3.X |
4.X |
5.X |
3.0 |
3.5 |
| Transparent gifs |
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| Latin-1 characters using &code; notation |
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| Forms |
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| Tables |
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| Frames |
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Netscape Navigator |
Microsoft Internet Explorer |
Opera |
| Techniques |
1.2 |
2.X |
3.X |
4.X |
1.X |
2.X |
3.X |
4.X |
5.X |
3.0 |
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| Client Side Image Maps |
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| Cascaded Style Sheets 1.0 |
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| Transparent Image Swapping |
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| JavaScript Cookies |
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| Browser dependent links |
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| ActiveX |
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| Style Swapping with Microsoft JScript |
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| JavaScript 1.0 |
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| JavaScript 1.1 |
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| JavaScript 1.2 |
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| VBScript |
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