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."

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Re:it's not the first time...

[HaloZero]

Too bad it wasn't.

Netscape is a dead browser. It needs to be depreciated, and pushed out the door. It's always, always had lackluster support for CSS/DHTML, and it's JavaScript system, while I understand that Netscape concieved of JavaScript, the standard sadly enough became Microsoft's interpretation of it. Yes, that sucks, but when you have to write three different versions of a single script to support one page (not that JavaScript is irreplaceable, mind you), it's time to use the most common one. Given that, once we get rid of Netscape's backwards requirements, every browser should adopt a unified standard for JavaScript, so it all works. Seamlessly. It's NOT that hard to pull off. People just have to be willing to do that.