On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:18:45 GMT, "George Copeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>"David Debono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Out of genuine interest why? I remember the first www type browsers
>> (they did make using the internet far easier!) but why particularly
>> Netscape and animated gifs and not the others?
>
>Netscape was the first commercial browser to support animated gifs.  At the
>time, it had a market share (if you can call it that) approaching 100%.
>

Yes indeed. it rather took over from Mosaic and at the time IE was a
bit of a no-goer. I suppose I was interested in your line of research
really. Netscape has rather lost the plot recently with
"feature-bloat" IMHO. Oh well

Take care


David D.
The Mediaeval Combat Society
The Historical Reenactment Web Site
http://www.montacute.net/histrenact/welcome.htm

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