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Imagine if Netscape Navigator had arrived first on the Newton, along with a WAN card. > Unfortunately, I think Apple lost a lot of the institutional knowledge
by musicale 4y ago
Imagine if Netscape Navigator had arrived first on the Newton, along with a WAN card.
> Unfortunately, I think Apple lost a lot of the institutional knowledge from the Newton project before the iPhone was developed, or perhaps it was never that widespread even inside Apple
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- scarface74 4y agoIt would have been a crash prone buggy piece of shit like it was on every other platform?
- musicale 4y agoI see not much has changed in terms of the web, web browsers, and web apps.
- scarface74 4y agoNo, modern browsers aren’t crash prone. They are just memory hogging, battery killing monstrosities - except for Safari.
- musicale 4y agoWeb browsers have definitely progressed: In the bad old days you'd have to restart your web browser because it crashed. Now you have to restart your web browser because it has consumed all system resources, spun up the fans to maximum, and slowed performance to a crawl. And those weekly severe security vulnerabilities don't crash your browser anymore - they just enable it to be taken over by criminals.
- scarface74 4y agoNetscape would crash the entire Mac pre OS X back in the day. I didn’t have any such issues with Adobe, Aldus, or Microsoft software. While MS did do some crazy stuff to kill Netscape, IE was just a better browser. IE 3.0 for the Mac was native code and the most standards compliant browser in existence for awhile.
- KerrAvon 4y agoYou really need to consider Safari instead if that’s how bad it is with Chrome etc.
- Bluecobra 4y agoIn the bad old days, you would have to restart your computer as well. I remember Netscape frequently crashing back in the day and that bomb icon from Mac OS System 7.