On 6/13/07, Brandon Stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an interesting sidenote, in 98 or so, they abandoned a code trunk and moved to a new one. That's why we never say Netscape 5 - they abandoned it in favor of the code for Netscape 6. I forget what they called the branch codename for Netscape 6, but the version they abandoned was later picked up by Mozilla and resumed. The codename was "Gecko". What would have been Netscape 5 is Firefox, which is the backbone for Netscape 8. So, ancient Netscape fans have even more reason to abandon version 4.
close... the Gecko engine was actually the new one, which was used in Netscape 6. Netscape 5 was abandoned because it was being built on their older, and generally inferior, rendering engine. justin -- http://justinhileman.info _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
