Having used Netscape 4 extensively, it was in a good place to throw out everything and start over. Joel is wrong on this in the cited blog post, > It worked p

Having used Netscape 4 extensively, it was in a good place to throw out everything and start over. Joel is wrong on this in the cited blog post, > It worked pretty darn well on an awful lot of real world computer systems. It worked adequately, but had no future - that was a big problem, since IE was so, so much better. They were totally screwed and a rewrite is all that would have saved them. Netscape 6 totally sucked, but it finally found its feet - and it took a few different versions/browsers based on the codebase to get right. Frankly, I'm amazed it's still around, given the pressure of Safari/Chrome/etc.