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JAN 06, 2008 06:01 PM
AceT said:
punk said:
flyboy757 said:
Didn't Firefox develop from the minds of Netscape developers? Thought I read a blurb that they started Mozilla after the AOL take over or went over to Mozilla after the buyout.
Yeah, it uses the same rendering engine as Netscape did: Gecko. If I remember things correctly, they started Firefox at Netscape but AOL ditched it, whereupon the boys and girls founded Mozilla and took Firefox open-source.
Mozilla was the codename for Netscape Navigator. When Netscape went open source in 97/98 (I forget) the ensuing project was called Mozilla.
Fed up with the bloat of Mozilla, Dave Hyatt and some 15 year old kid from Gulliver Prep (a high school near where I used to live in Miami) released a super lean browser based on the same rendering engine. Eventually the Firefox project overshadowed the Mozilla project.
Oops. 
JAN 06, 2008 06:10 PM
AceT
Portland, OR
April 2004
JAN 06, 2008 06:10 PM
punk said:
I remember when IE and Netscape were the Big Two, and I'd spend fucking hours writing poor HTML and JavaScript in order to compensate for the two browser's inability to render identical code in any way that looked the same.
OH GOD. Remember the days of IE-only and NS-only sites? JavaScript browser detect and redirect, FTW!
You can thank Jeffrey Zeldman for the end of that nonsense.
varukasalt said:
Sigh. IE5 for Mac was one of the best browser ever made, it was years ahead of its time, and if Microsoft had used its Tasman rendering engine for Windows we wouldn't have to deal with the stupid shit we do today.
AceT
Portland, OR
April 2004
JAN 06, 2008 05:56 PM