> I think you will al find that **ALL** browser were/ and are
> "based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the
> National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign."
I'd have to disagree with this. Just because Mosaic was the first publicly
available browser doesn't mean that it's been the codebase for every
browser! I kind of doubt that there's a lot of original Mosaic code left in
either Netscape's or Microsoft's browsers, although MS does still
acknowledge Mosaic and Spyglass in its about screen. Spyglass, which was the
commercial arm of NCSA's browser distribution, was used as the starting
point for IE. I don't think there's any Mosaic code in the mozilla.org
codebase, either.
Since then, many people have written browsers from scratch simply by using
the HTTP RFCs as their guide. Claiming that all browsers are based on Mosaic
would be analogous to claiming that all automobiles are based on the Ford
Model A.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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