8 posts tagged with netscape
Back in time
Sooo. Rewind the web to 7 years ago, when 640×480 screen resolutions were the most popular, Netscape 3.0 was the browser of choice, a proper domain name was second priority, and broadband was a dream. When educating potential clients on what the acronym WWW stands for, and asking them to report broken links on your site, were more important … view full post
Netscape is dead
In mid-1994, Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark collaborated with Marc Andreessen to found Mosaic Communications (later renamed to Netscape Communications.) Andreessen had just graduated from the University of Illinois, where he had been the leader of a certain software project known as “Mosaic”. By this time, the Mosaic browser was starting to make splashes outside … view full post
Minotaur
Introducing Minotaur, a project to create a stand-alone mail client based on the Mozilla suite’s Mail & Newsgroups component.
Read the full release and check out the mozilla.org project page – they desperately need contributors with UI experience to build a decent theme, … view full post
Netscape DevEdge redesign using XHTML/CSS
MozillaZine reports that the Netscape DevEdge team undertook a massive redesign in a relatively short timeframe to show how advanced CSS and XML can help web developers worldwide in their quest to create cross-browser sites based on … view full post
Version 4.x browsers are 5 years old
Their manufacturers no longer support them. Some new websites still choose to, like this one. How backward. They maintain three seperate style sheets instead of one single, standard, valid stylesheet – I only noticed this because I was served a “neither IE nor Navigator” non-existant one. How cute the way they comment in their … view full post
Netscape 4 forced out
WaSP have posted the following recent buzz on their site:
Visit Netscape’s homepage using Netscape 4, and you may be asked to download Netscape 7 before proceeding.
Great news!
Hmm enough with the geeky postings, I’m off to bed.
Backward thinking
Peel the skin of any major site, from Amazon to Microsoft.com, from Sony to ZDNet. Examine their tortuous non-standard markup, their proprietary ActiveX and JavaScript (often including broken detection scripts), and ill-conceived use of Cascading Style Sheets – when they use CSS at all. It’s a wonder such sites work in any browser.
They work in yesterday’s mainstream browsers because the
Browser evangelism
An article that sums up what I have been ranting about for the past year or two. If you consider yourself a web developer, you had better read it.
Selected quote:
A few years ago, it was Web developers who organized and ranted against the browser makers, specifically Microsoft and Netscape, demanding standards-compliant software.