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It was IE 5.5 that was particularly a champ compared to the terrible Netscape Communicator / Netscape 4 product. I continued to regularly use Netscape 4 through
by adventured 5y ago
It was IE 5.5 that was particularly a champ compared to the terrible Netscape Communicator / Netscape 4 product. I continued to regularly use Netscape 4 through those years, as I didn't like IE, and it was a real dog in most every respect. Netscape took their eye off the ball in an attempt to further build their business away from the browser (Communicator of course was their suite attempt), and failed at both things in the process.
- detritus 5y agoThanks for confirming - I wasn't sure if I was mixing up the version number with Photoshop, which 5.5 was (if memory serves) the one that fixed terribly-kerned typesetting in v5, and added some new web-export wizziness.
- ido 5y agoThere's an old post about that by Joel Spolsky that I remember thinking was particularly insightful at the time: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... I also vaguely remember jwz writing about the experience of developing it.