In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Micah Harwell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sky wrote:
>>
>> I just figured out how to solve this NS6 problem, if Netscape would be
>> to Release the source to 4.76 browser, couldn´t some real tekkie work
>> his magic on that code, i´m sure there would be several interested in
>> that. What do you think ?
>
> Yea, the 4.x versions of Netscape were quite nice. I still use 4.76 on a
> regular basis.
>
> Unfortunatly, the 4.x codebase was not designed to handle CSS, DOM, XML,
> etc. CSS support in 4.x was just a hack upon the Javascript engine. I
> guess before the CSS spec was published, Netscape was trying to
> standardize using style sheets through JavaScript.
Um, no, this happened *after* the CSS spec was published. Netscape did
this before getting the clue that Web developers thought that what the
W3C was doing was important. (Microsoft got this clue more than a year
earlier, and proceeded to (partially) implement W3C specs and run away
with developer mindshare, and thus the browser market.)
> Netscape _did_ try to extend the 4.x codebase to support the upcoming
> standards, but it was abundantly clear that it was too much work. That
> is why the Mozilla project was born - to architect and build a new
> browser platform that will be flexible enough to overcome any upcoming
> technology hurdles.
Actually that's why the *Seamonkey* project was born. Mozilla already
existed and was initially based on the 4.x codebase. Seamonkey "became"
Mozilla (for all practical purposes) when the decision was made to
abandon the Mozilla 5 codebase in favor of XPCOM and Gecko.
Braden
