Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back

securitas writes "Today CompuServe (an AOL subsidiary) launched CompuServe 7.0 with Netscape as the underlying browser. CompuServe started testing Komodo, a Gecko-based client, last year, and is now experimenting with Gecko-based AOL clients. CompuServe's 3 million-member user base is seen as a testbed before turning AOL's 34 million members into Netscape users later this year." Update: 04/16 20:54 GMT by T : Also an interesting story at CNN on the upcoming Mozilla 1.0. RC1 is very nice, as have been most recent builds.

Comments

Re:Mozilla: the coolest project - engine, maybe

[sheldon]

"XUL is very cool. Need a browser with no menus of buttons, as an interface to a web-based application for a control-freak client?"

Congratulations! You have now found the joy of doing something that Microsoft developers have taken for granted for at least the past 5 years.

Re:Mozilla: the coolest project - engine, maybe

[fanatic]

Congratulations! You have now found the joy of doing something that Microsoft developers have taken for granted for at least the past 5 years.

Interesting. This is done without writing new code? Or do you write some very short VB-script that uses the IE bits integrated into the OS?

In any event, IE is not what I'd want build apps on (see the 'using back button in IE is dangerous" article, as well 47 other Bugtraq listings...)