Netscape 9 to Undo Netscape 8 Mistakes? 210
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine reports that Netscape 9 has been announced. The most interesting thing is how they seem to be re-evaluating many of the decisions they made with Netscape 8. Netscape 9 will be developed in-house (Netscape 8 was outsourced) and it will be available for Windows, OSX, and Linux (Netscape 8 was Windows only). Although Netscape 9 will be a standalone browser, the company is also considering resuming support for Netscape 7.2, the last suite version with an email client and Web page editor. It remains to be seen whether Netscape will reverse the disastrous decision to include the Internet Explorer rendering engine as an alternative to Gecko but given that there's no IE for OS X or Linux, here's hoping. After a series of substandard releases, could Netscape be on the verge of making of a version of their browser that enhances the awesomeness of Firefox, rather than distracts from it?"
There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:1, Funny)
New netscape (Score:4, Funny)
Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6? (Score:3, Funny)
revised Gopher client (Score:5, Funny)
C64 BBS Software (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, C*Base is the preferred flavor nowadays, and 3.3 was just released:
C*Base 3.3 [c64.org]
You gotta move with the times, man.
Re:Brand power (Score:5, Funny)
No, you really don't. You really, really, really don't. We got your point; there's no need to make evil threats like that.
Wha? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Underdog (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is Netscape still taken serious? (Score:5, Funny)
Wow. Welcome to 1999.
Re:In a word... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Yes the Netscape Dev Team is working on Netscap (Score:2, Funny)
not that bad (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There's a Netscape 9? And 8? 7? 6? (Score:3, Funny)
It's half as good as IBM's OS/2, but way better than Tandy's OS/9.