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Thunderbird came out of the Netscape 6 rewrite by way of the Mozilla Application Suite, not either of the Netscape 3 or Netscape 4 mail clients.
by cxr 6y ago
Thunderbird came out of the Netscape 6 rewrite by way of the Mozilla Application Suite, not either of the Netscape 3 or Netscape 4 mail clients.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoI find it hard to believe it doesn't share any code, it was a near copy.
- cxr 6y agoNear copy how? Their UIs? Rebooting a project or cloning another project and copying the old UI without sharing code isn't necessarily hard. I've done it plenty. Netscape was already doing it internally—each platform's (Unix, Windows, etc) GUI was a separate project. The details don't really match up, either. Netscape 3 was written in C. Netscape 6, Thunderbird et al are drawn by Gecko and written in JavaScript and XUL—which didn't even exist at the time of Netscape 3.