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NeoPlanet to Release Gecko-Based Browser
An anonymous reader writers "NeoPlanet will tommorow release a beta version of a Gecko-based browser. They plan to release a final version by May. Nice to see the technology see the light of day before the end of the year."
To bad its not for Linux.
While participating in the Mozilla development mailing lists, I read a post this morning that mentioned this exact same story. This guy writes something along the lines of:
An ActiveX component that delivers the Gecko rendering engine output was written by me. This component was checked out, and later returned with no code changes as something like "NeoAXCOM.xxx" or something and credited as their work. I am pissed off.
I would GREATLY appreciate it if someone could verify this and the technical details of what he was talking about, because I threw away the e-mail and don't have a copy anymore. But it is about as accurate as I can remember, it is NEEDING CONFIRMATION, and it is allegedly pissing off the author.
Mozilla is coming along extremely well with or without NeoPlanet. It can use all the corporate support it can get, but if this is the kind of poop we can expect from the corporate world, maybe we should remind them to be more responsible and open to their customers and the open source community.
In more entertaining terms, slashdot them to hell and back if it is CONFIRMED they are crassly claiming work they didn't do until we get an adequate response or an apology.
Cheers...
valpohl@hotmail.com
Isn't Gecko supposed to be the new 100% HTML standards compatible engine? I went to the test page for the new standards, and it failed miserably. It looked NOTHING like what it was supposed to. Granted, it did come out looking better than Netscape Communicator 4.5, but it is still wrong. That seems truely odd, as I tried the tests of the Mozilla engine that I got directly from Netscape the other day, and it rendered correctly! Perhaps I'm missing something here. Are these two seperate engines? Is Gecko not the same engine as what is being used with the test Mozilla?
On a side note, I do like the interface. It's about time someone made an attempt to make their software look nice. It's almost as good as the customizable interfaces from X (not quite, but it's a nice start). I'm interested to see just what this company is going to produce in the future. Worth a looksee.
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