I thought they were all based on fusebox....
At 10:23 AM 11/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>> 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/
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