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Contributed Firefox a little bit two years ago. Here is the file I contributed: [1] You will immediately see a lot of NS_ (or ns) prefixed names in the source

Contributed Firefox a little bit two years ago. Here is the file I contributed: [1] You will immediately see a lot of NS_ (or ns) prefixed names in the source code. Without knowing about Firefox's history I thought like that Firefox has history with Apple (NeXTSTEP). But no, NS_ are the legacy from Netscape. It was fun to get to know its history from the source code when I was contributing it :) [1]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/media/MediaRecorder.cpp https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/media/Med...

DonHopkins 7y ago
Apple uses a lot of historical legacy NS prefixes too, but in their case it stands for NeXT Step! ;) I used to call the browser Netscapé, which rhymes with Nescafé, back in the 90's when it was the world's leading distributer of Java. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nescaf%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nescaf%C3%A9 >Nescafé is a brand of coffee made by Nestlé. It comes in many different forms. The name is a portmanteau of the words "Nestlé" and "café". Nestlé first introduced their flagship coffee brand in Switzerland on 1 April 1938.