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  • Netscape officers
    Netscape Communications Corp.
    / Browser enhancements

    …expanded Navigator’s capabilities; this “open-architecture” approach led in particular to a proliferation of plug-ins for digital audio, video, and animation. Netscape was among the first licensees of Sun Microsystems, Inc.’s Java programming language and virtual-machine technology. Sun and Netscape also collaborated to define JavaScript, a separate language designed to…

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    …expanded Navigator’s capabilities; this “open-architecture” approach led in particular to a proliferation of plug-ins for digital audio, video, and animation. Netscape was among the first licensees of Sun Microsystems, Inc.’s Java programming language and virtual-machine technology. Sun and Netscape also collaborated to define JavaScript, a separate language designed to…

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