Excuse me for mentioning the obvious but, didn't Berners-Lee, et al. have to
use something when they created the World Wide Web?
To quote the man himself, "The first web browser - or browser-editor
rather - was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990
it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order
to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space
(which is now spelled with spaces)."
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html
... And to think, the web was created on a NeXT workstation. ;)
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:23 AM
To: CF-Talk
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Once and for all.
> 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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