Mozilla Poised for Revival?

MarkedMan writes "An interesting and fairly lengthy CNET article on Mozilla and the pending 1.0 release. Kind of shallow research, making some common mistakes (Like many others, he half implies that AOL picking Mozilla as the default browser automatically puts 35 million users in the Netscape camp.) Good to see this getting some fairly mainline press."

Jurrasic park

[line-bundle]

Maybe it will turn out like the dinosours in Jurassic Park, and destroy Internet Explorer?

Cell Phones

[guinnessnwhiskey]

The next generation of cell phones, pagers, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and set-top boxes will require slimmed-down technology to access the Web, and Mozilla could model itself as the technology of choice.

So the next generation of cell phones will have 256MB RAM?

Mistakes

[Knunov]

"Kind of shallow research, making a some common mistakes..."

Yeah a it is a easy to a make a some a common mostakes.

Knunov

Re:AOL Using Mozilla/Netscape

[zulux]

because something tells me the typical AOL user will happily complain about anything. :)


ME TOO!

Note to idiot moderators.

[Doktor Memory]

I am not trolling. The actual article under discussion makes reference to the prediction that AOL is going to replace IE with a gecko-based browser. I am stating my reasons for believing that prediction to be incorrect. This is on-topic and relvant.

If you disagree with that prediction, I'd be happy to wager a Guinness over the matter.

Re:All right

[bofkentucky]

Oh I beg to differ, they are morons, by and large, we have some customers at our ISP (AOL doesn't have a pop here...yet) who insist on paying the full $20+/month for AOL instead of droping AOL together or switching to the bring your own. I'm just waiting for our DSL customers to start doing this.

Here's a Good Question

[tswinzig]

In the past, Netscape browsers had Mozilla/x.x at the beginning of their user agent string. Then MSIE mimicked that in their early browsers so that sites built for Netscape would see MSIE 3.x as compatible (or whenever they started doing this). Now MSIE 6 continues this, with a user agent like:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

The new Mozilla browser, which AOL calls Netscape 6, is showing a user agent string like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)

So when the 1.0 version is released, are they really going to follow that same trend? Or will they use the user agent I propose here:

Mozilla/1.0 (No, really, this is Mozilla 1.0, not Netscape or shitty old MSIE pretending to be Mozilla.)

And just imagine when we get to Mozilla 4.0:

Mozilla/4.0 (No, not Netscape 4.x or MSIE 6.x, this is truly Mozilla 4.0... PLEASE, YOU MUST BELIEVE ME!)

Will it be better than mosaic 1.2?

[Alien Being]

You be the judge.

http://home.attbi.com/~beef.jerky/xmosaic.bin