How to browse Arabic WWW pages

SINDBAD plugin for Netscape 3.x and 4.x is FREE (minimized version) from http://www.sakhr.com.

OPERA browser is very light and quick (recommended if you are under Arabic Windows) - 30 days evaluation from www.operasoftware.com

Netscape Communicator 4.04 is FREE. Under Arabic Windows it renders cp1256 (win) encoding fairly well. Go to EDIT ---< PREFERENCES ---< APPEARANCE ---< FONTS and set "For Encoding: User Defined" Arabic Variable and Fixed Width fonts. Try different fonts for best results.

For a detailed evaluation of the available solutions refer to this page at www.ayna.com

This is an attempt to evaluate the performance of different browsers rendering the Arabic HTML pages that I author. Your feedback will help improve this and other Arabic text sites.
Browser/page performance	Opera	Tango	Navigator 3x-4x	Sindbad 3x-4x	MSIE	Mosaic
If you are under Arabic-enabled MS Windows	Exellent Click here	Good Click here	Fair Click here	Good Click here	Good Click here	Good Click here
If you are on a Machintosh with Arabic support	N/A	N/A	Exellent Click here	N/A	Good Click here	N/A
If you are on a Unix machine	N/A	N/A	No idea. Send comments to surur@hotmail.com