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It was already being rewritten as Gecko, which also reminds me of the Mariner fiasco which is part of why Netscape 4 stuck for so long.
by yuhong 11y ago
It was already being rewritten as Gecko, which also reminds me of the Mariner fiasco which is part of why Netscape 4 stuck for so long.
- i336_ 11y agoWhat do you mean by / what are you referring to with "it was already being rewritten as Gecko"? And what was the Mariner fiasco?
- yuhong 11y agoMariner was an attempt to upgrade the old Netscape 4 codebase that got cancelled. Gecko/NGLayout was the new rewritten layout engine. WaSP pushed for this cancellation: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=88 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=88 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1524 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1524 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1708 http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=1708
- i336_ 11y agoWow, wow and wow. This is full of TILs, and mind-bogglingly enlightening to read. In many ways the Web feels like exactly the same place as it was 16 years ago (especially to read about the WSP xD) but things have gotten significantly better for the user and standards of late. TIL that NS/Mozilla was really the thorn in everyone's side on the tech front, but M$ wore the blame for the Web's early history because of the antitrust cases... that's insane. Absolutely insane....... Are there any binary builds of Mariner, newlayout and NGLayout I can track down?