AOL Releases Client for Mac OS X with Gecko Browser

Posted by pudge on Tuesday August 13, 2002 @12:40AM from the and-here-i-am-using-a-plain-old-isp dept.

DietFluffy writes "America Online released an update to their Mac OS X client. The built-in browser is powered by Gecko! However, America Online plans to stick with Internet Explorer for their Windows client. Will this make web designers think twice about tailoring their web pages to Internet Explorer? Or will they ignore this, given that the Windows client will still have Internet Explorer as the default browser?" And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?

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AOL + Apple market share is small by NotAnotherReboot · 2002-08-13 00:43 · Score: 2, Troll

Considering that Apple market share is fairly small and then add in those using AOL on it it's even smaller this won't make much of an impact. Most sites already work completely in Mozilla, the only ones being the ones who don't care about working on every browser, and never have.