Thanks for correcting me.
Further info on the history of Netscape is available at:
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/browsers.htm
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/netscape.htm
As Rick says "... initial release of Netscape 6.0 was considered slow
and buggy, and adoption has not been extremely high".
Brian
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> Sent: 12 June 2002 12:40
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> Subject: Re: netscape browsers
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Brian Kelly wrote:
>
> > > Any comments from those in the know.
> > > Are procedures say that all web sites must work
> > > with both Netscape and IE !
> > >
> > > A colleague said:-
> > > ----------------
> > > Quite amazingly I spotted that Netscape's own website
> does not work
> > > at all under Netscape 4.02, and works extremely badly
> under Netscape
> > > 6.02 for Linux (masses of bugs including text overlapping, poor
> > > table interpretation, forms that have boxes floating in the wrong
> > > places and more). Under Netscape 6.02 for windows there are still
> > > some bugs.
> > >
> > > What chance do we have if these people cannot even code for their
> > > own browsers?
> >
> > Hi Sally
> > The Netscape codebase is very poor (when they first developed
> > Netscape the software developers did not understand / care
> about SGML,
> > and the code processed tags sequentailly, rather than
> building a tree
> > for processing. They also deployed their own propritary ways of
> > implementing, for example, style sheets (JSS). This has now been
> > abandoned, and AOL Netscape say that they will support W3C
> standards,
> > but their software suffers from their history.
>
> This is true of the Netscape 4 browsers but not the Netscape
> 6 browsers, which are some of the most standard compliant
> browsers around and were rewritten from "the ground up".
> That said, Netscape 6.0x was a disaster - it was released
> long before it was anything like finished and contained lots
> of bugs. Fortunately 6.2x is much better. 6.2.3 is based on
> the same engine as Mozilla 0.9.4.1. Mozilla 1.0 is merely a
> development of this code, not a rewrite.
>
> > > The netscape website works fine under Internet Explorer. Has Bill
> > > Gates been hacking this site or what?
> >
> > This has got nothing to do with it. Admitting that the Netscape
> > browser is flawed does not mean that you have to like Microsoft!
> >
> > It will be interesting to see what will happen with Mozilla 1.0 (now
> > available) and Netscape 7.0 (pre-release currently available).
> >
> > Brian
> > > Sally Justice
>
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