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Well, I think the rewrite occurred after the codebase was open-sourced.
by statictype 16y ago
Well, I think the rewrite occurred after the codebase was open-sourced.
- thought_alarm 16y agoFirefox's rendering engine, Gecko (née NGLayout) was started well before Netscape went open source. Mozilla.org decided to scrap the classic rendering engine in favor of Gecko/NGLayout within a few months of going open source. Six short years after that, Firefox was ready for prime time. http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article177.html http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article177.html http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/screenshots/ http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/screenshots/