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The rewrite of Netscape's code actually turned into Firefox, which was fairly successful by any metric. Sometimes rewrites are necessary, but they have to be d
by ootachi 16y ago
The rewrite of Netscape's code actually turned into Firefox, which was fairly successful by any metric.
Sometimes rewrites are necessary, but they have to be driven from necessity, not simply from the desire to "start fresh".
- abstractbill 16y agoNot quite. There was the rewrite that killed the company, and then there was another rewrite, which turned into Firefox.
- metageek 16y agoThere was no rewrite that killed the company. There was an attempted rewrite that went nowhere, but the company was killed by IE4 being good enough and free.
- sokoloff 16y agoWas it successful for Netscape the company, or for the eventual users (MANY years later) of Firefox? I agree with you on the latter, but the decision makers at Netscape need[ed] to be concerned about the former.