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Peeking at Netscape 8

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-da-hood dept.

Andrew Sayers writes "It seems like Netscape 8 has hit blogland, with generally positive review at blogspot.com - although it makes the point that the IE rendering mode could hurt Firefox in the long-run, because it gives sites an excuse to stick with their old IE-only designs." Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered?

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  1. Too young? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered?

    No, cant say I do.

  2. Misread it... by zecg · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as "Peeing at Netscape 8" and thought how, finally, here's an article that a geek could appreciate.

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    1. Re:Misread it... by bleckywelcky · · Score: 3, Funny

      I misread it as Peking at Netscape and thought some sort of Netscape Expo was taking place in Peking. I was wondering why anyone would go to the trouble of making up an expo for Netscape.

  3. Netscrap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one welcome our AOL loving Microsoft Rendering Butt Licking Netscrap overlords

  4. I do remember! by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered?

    For me, it went something like this:

    Netscape 1.0: Hey, cool! This World Wide Web thing is awesome!

    Netscape 2.0: Backgrounds! Word!

    Netscape 3.0: Different fonts, better frames, more plug-ins... keep it coming!

    Netscape 4.0: Why won't these links work? *click click click click* Grrrr...

    Netscape 6.0: Oh God.

    Netscape 7.0: Whatever, I'm using IE now.

    Netscape 8.0: Whatever, I'm using Firefox now.

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    1. Re:I do remember! by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... and for Microsoft it went like this ...

      IE 1.0: Let's get on this intarweb bandwagon! We'll start by taking code from Spyglass' NCSA Mosaic, since we still haven't figured out how to use the "New Project" feature in Visual Studio.

      IE 1.5: Introducing HTML TABLE support! Innovating faster than ever before! What, W3C was before us? Well, fuck that competitor to us!

      IE 2.0: Let's all welcome MARQUEEs and BGSOUNDs for an improved user experience on beautiful rich media web pages!

      IE 3.0: We now support frames! And we reverse-engineered your JavaScript, Netscape... to innovate JScript! We also innovated the new ActiveX technology for an almost unimaginable number of uses -- good or bad. How about that!? Starting to lay the foundation of a web browser the world will come to love.

      IE 4.0: Mass proprietary feature implementation! Also, DHTML and lots of CSS improvements! Ooh, a HTML link... *clicky* !L=#$Xz**A@@#__ LOST CARRIER. Ahh well, stability can come later, it's only a good reason for us to make people switch to IE 5 now that we have a decent marketshare.

      IE 5.0: We changed how the proprietary features in IE 4, linked to above, should be used to confuse you a bit. Hah! ANYWAY... More stable than ever before, and now supporting so many features that it's having a shitload of security issues so users will have a reason to download IE 6!

      IE 5.5: Introducing a great new... bump in the version number!

      IE 6.0: More stability improvements, and better standards compliant! At least we'll tell them so since that's becoming common complaints. Oh and fuck PNG! Heck, it's not even a proprietary format, and we refuse to give top notch support for communist technology. And are those W3C guys still competing with us, with their technologies they call "standards"? Damn, they never give up, do they. Security fixes? Hmm, later.

      IE 6.0 Ultra Windows XP SP2 Edition Turbo: OK, we'll add the security fixes then... for one specific service pack for a specific operating system.

      IE 7.0: This should crush Firefox by maybe innovating tabs... they're still confusing the hell out of us, but whatever. IE fans have asked for it, and we'll deliver by making this one a new version rich in innovations.

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  5. Remember? Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Ah, remember when the release of a Netscape mattered?

    No. And thank God for these magic little pills that let me forget.

  6. Re:Well by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 4, Funny
    It still has its name, people seem to have heard about Netscape.

    Netscape is that dialup service that competes with Netzero right?

  7. Re:Great Look by eric_brissette · · Score: 2, Funny

    Green is a very large color.

  8. Re:Well by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's right, it competes with NetZero, which provides Internet access for only $9.95 a month.

    Welcome to bizarro-net.

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  9. Young whippersnapper by nojomofo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in my day, we used Mosaic, and we liked it!

  10. Remember when the release of a Netscape mattered ? by jpiggot · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes.

    Milk was a nickle, and cars were called "trolley boxes" And I seem to remember walking five miles in the snow to school. Each way. Even during the summer.

    Man, that sucked. I sure am glad we have Firefox now.

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