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Yeah no kidding. That's one thing people seem to forget about that Joel article ... the new code base he's mocking went on to become the only browser capable of
by shangrila 15y ago
Yeah no kidding. That's one thing people seem to forget about that Joel article ... the new code base he's mocking went on to become the only browser capable of taking on Microsoft's juggernaut for many years. It was faster & better than everything else out there. Eventually the only thing capable of overtaking it was WebKit ... another from-scratch code base!
- nknight 15y agoThat new codebase was iterated on for five years before a viable browser was released, and two more before Firefox 1.0 appeared. The history of the WebKit codebase stretches back as far as Gecko. The earliest KDE HTML work I can definitively establish is in 1997. We got Konquerer in 2000, but Safari didn't emerge until 2003. 5-7 years before something other than IE could again be competitive... Do you really think that disproves Joel's point? I think it may be quite the opposite...