On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 00:08:51 -0700, "John Hokanson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> > Well on their way?
> >
> > They obtained the code from another company who had made it as a
> > variant of the Mosaic client. The deal was for a "percentage of
> > sales". Wow, did that other company make a killing! 95% market
> > share times nothing!
>
> If you're referring to MSIE 1.0/2.0 (which was indeed very similar
> to Mosaic), that's a completely different animal. I was specifically
> referring to MSIE 3.x and beyond.
>
> - John
Actually, all versions of MSIE are based on Mosaic. Microsoft never completely
rewrote it, and if they did they'd be telling everyone. They just made it look
like there was no Mosaic in it, which is especially easy to do when the source
is closed. From that point, they built more and more on top.
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