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Netscape 7.2 To Be Released August 3rd

Posted by timothy on from the installment-plan dept.

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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  1. whatever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yawn...

  2. Mod up if you hate beige. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Slashdot staff,

    We're not logging in, mostly because if we do your buggy slashcode won't show all the comments. Therefore we can't turn off your color schemes that really hurt our eyes a lot. Please give some money, just once, to some web designers who've gone to school and learned what color schemes impact the human visual cortex positively, and useably. Light beige on white is not an example of this, nor is stab-me-in-the-eyes purple and black. The much maligned "slashdot green" is a whole bucket of wonderful compared to this.

    KTHXBAI

    1. Re:Mod up if you hate beige. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      agreed, this scheme is crap. Hire someone competent taco.

  3. AGGH!! MY EYES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    For God's sake, please change the color scheme of this 'IT' section.

    It is godawful ugly, and a pain to look at.

    Can't you guys hire a graphic designer instead of throwing darts at a color wheel?

    1. Re:AGGH!! MY EYES!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I concur.
      These postings will continue unless this problem is fixed.

  4. Re:Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think it's cool that you said "stoopid" instead of "stupid". Really funny, man.

  5. it.Slashdot.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My eyes are being viciously raped by this atrocious color scheme. It's like staring into the sun, but worse. Don't expect Cum Taco to change this though, you'll be disappointed as always...

  6. Re:it's not the first time... by HaloZero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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