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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:29:30 GMT Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer':
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:06:19 GMT, Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com>
> wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Mike Stanley writes:
> > Mozilla != Netscape
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> You repeat this over and over again, as if simply stating it will
> somehow make it more obvious and more true.
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> Mozilla may turn out to be more than a browser. But who is making it?
I think you're misunderstanding the point. Mozilla (the browser Todd
is referring to) is _not_ written or sold by netscape. Go to
http://www.mozilla.org
to take a look. What it is, basicly, is an open sourced browser,
that's was loosly based on netscape's code (I think). I is free, and
I do not believe it belongs to netscape.
To answer your question, "who is making it?" - the open source
community.
Hope that helps,
:)
Dan
Dan Boger - Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
dan@giccs.georgetown.edu ICQ: 1130750
Georgetown University Medical Center Washington, DC
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 | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) Yeah, it does. Thanks. So what that probably means is that within a year or so we'll have a version of mozilla that ultra-geeks know and love, maybe within 5 years we'll get some media hype, then we'll see normal people move over to it, some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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| (...) My understanding is that very little of it is based on Navigator code at this point. Early versions of Mozilla were, but then the developers decided that there was too much cruft and started over from scratch, this time with A Plan. This is (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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