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Wasn't Joel's example Netscape Navigator, not Firefox?
by titanomachy 6y ago
Wasn't Joel's example Netscape Navigator, not Firefox?
- jcranmer 6y agoIt's basically the same thing. The big Netscape rewrite was from the 4.x code to the 6.x branch; the 6.x branch was what was released as open source, and when the decision was made to build a UI that encompassed only the browser and not the mailnews code, the resulting application became Firefox.
- coldtea 6y agoYes, but Netscape Navigator got rewrote to Mozilla who eventually turned to Firefox. So same thing -- I referred to his example by the (current) name of the rewritten product instead of the name of the name of the original product that got rewrote.