Netscape Navigator 2
| Netscape Navigator 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Netscape Communications Corporation |
| Initial release | September 18, 1995 |
| Platform | Windows 3.1/95/NT Classic Mac OS 68K OS/2 Warp Linux 1.2, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, JavaOS, FreeBSD |
| Type | Web browser |
Netscape Navigator 2 is a discontinued proprietary web browser released by Netscape Communications Corporation as its flagship product. Versions were available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, Linux, IRIX, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, SunOS, JavaOS, and FreeBSD.
The browser introduced and improved a number of features and also added proprietary extensions to the HTML standard. Notably, Netscape 2 was the first browser to support JavaScript and animated GIFs, two technologies still predominant on the web today.