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My husband was a lead on Constellation, if anyone has any questions I will be happy to ask him and copy his answers here.
by LeoPanthera 4y ago
My husband was a lead on Constellation, if anyone has any questions I will be happy to ask him and copy his answers here.
- Lammy 4y agoDid any of this ever make it into the "Maui"/"Xena"/"Javagator" codebase?
- LeoPanthera 4y agoHe says: No. Some of the Javascript/DHTML concepts were submitted for standardization and I think some of those became part of HTML and therefore made it into the codebase, but not directly.
- earthboundkid 4y agoWhat was his impression of IE4 / Active Desktop? Was it a serious competitor or a sideshow?
- LeoPanthera 4y agoHe says: It was clear that Active Desktop was basically invented as a response/me-too to compete against Constellation and for Pointcast. We didn’t think it was a particularly good product, but because it was Microsoft and bundled with IE and they started locking up content providers, we had to take it seriously. At one point late at night after some trade show they had in San Francisco, they dropped off their giant IE4 logo on the lawn in front of the Netscape sign on campus. We were still working and saw them drive off, so we went out and bought a bunch of spray paint and graffitied the ‘e’ so it was properly defaced before morning