Netscape Founder Backs New Browser 243
wirelessjb writes to share that after a resounding defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first major browser war of the mid 1990s, Marc Andreessen is looking to have another go at the market by backing a new startup called "RockMelt." "Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. 'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said.
RockMelt was co-founded by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes, both former executives at Opsware, a company that Mr. Andreessen co-founded and then sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for about $1.6 billion. Mr. Howes also worked at Netscape with Mr. Andreessen."
You hear that Mr. Andreessen? (Score:5, Funny)
Marc: My name... is RockMelt!
Re:Chrome 2 (Score:4, Funny)
I imagine Marc Andreessen has enough change in his sofa cushions to keep a startup going for decades.
Silly Mr Andreessen (Score:2, Funny)
Its going to be off the hook! (Score:4, Funny)
Blink (Score:5, Funny)
it better support Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Its going to be off the hook! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:May I say (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Chrome 2 (Score:3, Funny)
Finally! I hate having to download all that spyware myself.
Re:It looks like a browser, it smells like a brows (Score:4, Funny)
Good thing it was on Slashdot where nothing is useful.
Man burns left hand on stove, will now try right (Score:4, Funny)
I just checked the date, I thought for sure it must be April 1st.
Marc Andreessen is jumping into the browser wars again? What's next, Ford announces a "re-imagined" Edsel?
Re:Tim Howes (Score:5, Funny)
Well, now I know which browser to avoid. Thanks for the warning!
Re:Keeping Pace with the Web (Score:3, Funny)
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
I thought that was the definition of an IE-centric web developer.
It seems... (Score:4, Funny)
Someone has forgotten the first rule of Loudcloud.
Re:Chrome 2 (Score:5, Funny)
So how bout you drop some of that wisdom on us Merlin, instead of just fucking telling us we are stupid.
Re:You hear that Mr. Andreessen? (Score:4, Funny)
Yep and it will feature a new scripting language called LavaScript.
Re:Chrome 2 (Score:4, Funny)
Ha! So true! Those hidebound sheep, still using HTML (instead of XIEJD), tabs (instead of buckets), links (instead of jellybeans), history (instead of triple-reverse history), a physical mouse/keyboard interface (instead of magnetic-induction frontal-cortex implants). In windows (instead of architectural glass blocks)! They really should get with the times.
bah, kids.... (Score:2, Funny)
..we were doing all that "flying through strange landscapes of flying numbers and other weird futuristic landscapes" stuff in the 60s, and didn't even need the goggles!
Re:Chrome 0 (Score:5, Funny)
Red wouldn't fade into the background if you could see it. Red is such a frightening color because it's the color of blood, so every time you see it, it looks like something's bleeding a little. It's horrifying really. Be glad you can't see it.
Re:Its going to be off the hook! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Chrome 2 (Score:1, Funny)
On a scale of one to pwned, I'd say you scored "Grandma just found your collection of erotic furry fanfics, and she's not mad... she's intrigued."
Re:May I say (Score:4, Funny)
No, that's German for, 'The Seamonkey, The.'
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.