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Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd
Following up a story from May, linux2004 writes "for those who thought Netscape was dead after firing all their staff and spinning Mozilla off into a non-profit foundation, then think again. It was announced a while back that Netscape would continue releases of their browser suite and now the release date has been confirmed as August 3rd as a free download or by buying a CD. I don't think it'll take the attention away from Firefox but will be a decent upgrade for those using Netscape 7.1. The 7.2 release will be based on Mozilla 1.7 and will probably have the usual Netscape additions."
why does the post read like this is the first NS release ever since Mozilla was founded?
...and that's all there is to it.
Had that problem with firefox then got user agent switcher and use that when I need to lie about my brower type.
You can mess around with the message that is send, so for instance you can report that you are internet explorer running on a commodore-64.
The Mozilla project if I am not mistaken is funded by Netscape.
Well, since the formation of the Mozilla Foundation in July 2003 then Mozilla was totally independent of Netscape, they did get some cash off them and they still host some of mozilla.org's FTP mirrors (others are hosted at various volunteers) but now mozilla.org are not controlled by any way with Netscape. I'm sure they've done what they can to help Netscape with this release, but the Foundation are concentrating on standalone apps now rather than the Netscape style suite.
If Netscape decides to make a Netscape 8.0 based on Firefox, great for them, but Firefox is now becoming a brand in its own right.
Yes, firefox is the best for most people, but it still may not suit everyone. There's reasons some people may install netscape:
- They've always used it, happy with it and don't want to change even though there's obvious benefits (the same sorta people who still use IE) - at least Netcape is standards compliant.
- Some people prefer the suite to standalone apps, Netscape builds on Mozilla by adding common plugins which make it easier for the normal user.
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Beer is best!
More pain in developing webpages/sites, since there will be yet another browser in the market, and the yuppies in marketing and sales will scream their throats off for "compatibility" with it
Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape are all standards compliant browsers you don't have to design your website with any special code to achieve full compatibility with them. You would only have a problem if you have a non-standards compliant website, then you *would* have to rewrite it. But hey if you decided to have a non-standard site, you deserve to have to do extra work.
Standards are your friends.
It's not useless to me. I use Mozilla at home, but at work, I'm stuck with Netscape. And if NS wasn't around, I'd have to use that M$ browser that sounds like a scream (and causes them).
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
There are actually several nice things Netscape has that Mozilla doesn't:
- support for the extended IMAP for accessing free netscape.net accounts (as you said)
- support for syncing your address book with your netscape.net account address book (very handy to keep your address book on all your computers in sync)
- on Linux Netscape 7.X has always shipped with extra fonts, which IMHO are very decent, and were better than any X fonts a few years back (unfortunately these fonts only seem to be available to Netscape itself)
- Netscape ships with it's own spell checker, which was great when Mozilla didn't have one, now it is just somewhat better than the Mozilla spell checker
- Netscape ships with some plugins like Flash included and preconfigured, which is nice if you are lazy like me or a newbie
- if you think that a red dinosaur is dorky, the Netscape theme is a bit more tasteful
- when Mozilla required uninstalling old versions, Netscape let you install over the old versions (maybe the install did the removal for you)
- I am probably missing something with AIM, but I don't use it, and don't know if Mozilla can do it too
For some reason I never see the address book syncing or extra fonts on Linux mentioned as Netscape assets, although to me they are quite valuable.