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Browser Wars II: CompuServe Strikes Back

Posted by timothy on from the lizards-are-crawling-everywhere dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Goodbye, ActiveX! Don't let the door hit you in by tomgilder · · Score: 2, Informative
    microsoft-oriented POS(iframes, their DOM, etc.)
    Iframes are in HTML4. Mozilla supports iframes. IE supports DOM1.
  2. Re:Goodbye, ActiveX! Don't let the door hit you in by tomgilder · · Score: 3, Informative
    All of Microsoft's programming documentation contains proprietary enhancements to the spec that are VERY IE specific. They make no distinction as to which objects, events, methods are standard, and which are cooked.
    Utter rubbish.

    The IE DHTML references on MSDN very clearly mark which objects, events, methods and properties are standard and which ones are not.

    Their CSS Property Index clearly lists non-standard entries.
  3. Re:From the office of the president by bartok · · Score: 2, Informative

    Erm, troll alert?

    Who do you think pays the salaries of about 95% of the developers that made Mozilla? Answer: AOL

    Without AOL's sponsorship of the project, Moz would still be at Milestone 0.5

  4. Re:Let us all try to realize... by roca · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Both companies will continue their practices as
    > they always have in order to appear to have the
    > 'better product'.

    You seem to have forgotten that the Gecko engine is open source. There are plenty of non-Netscape people working on Gecko and we will not deviate from Mozilla.org's stated policy of standards support, nor would we stand by and allow Netscape employees to violate that policy (which, by the way, they have shown absolutely NO sign of wanting to do).

  5. Re:From the office of the president by pyrrho · · Score: 2, Informative

    AOL paid 4 billion dollars for Netscape and then GAVE millions of dollars of development time to Mozilla...

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    -pyrrho

  6. Re:Slashdot Browser statistics by BruceRD · · Score: 2, Informative

    The stats from users visiting slashdot might be interesting for us, but are hardly going to be representative of the general population.

    The best ones I can find for general UK usage are by a consultancy called Proteus. They look reasonable, though I'd have more faith if they showed Mozilla at somewhere past 0.8!

    Interestingly these show a much higher percentage of Macs than I'd have expected - maybe MacOS X is really increasing their market penetration. (Thinks wishfully)

  7. Mozilla has NOT hit RC1 yet by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 3, Informative

    A minor correction for story on the home page. Mozilla RC1 is NOT out yet. The branch has been cut and there are builds inching toward the release within the next few days. However the latest "milestone" is still 0.9.9.

    --
    "Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
  8. Re:Just a tad too early. by Jay+L · · Score: 4, Informative

    None of those would apply, because none of those are in Gecko. The CompuServe client is still a client unto its own right; it sounds like it will just open browser windows with Gecko instead of IE.

  9. Get'um from Google by mplemmons · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the last couple of months, Google has posted web browser usage stats, as well as OS usage. That's about as unbiased as you can get. Google Zeitgest.