I hear Joel on this, I really do, but can one imagine using any code from Netscape Communicator 4 in whatever Firefox I'm typing this on? Perhaps it's rose tin

I hear Joel on this, I really do, but can one imagine using any code from Netscape Communicator 4 in whatever Firefox I'm typing this on? Perhaps it's rose tinted glasses, but I distinctly remember that Netscape 4 had to repaint the screen on window resize. Like the code was that bad. The product was rushed to market and features were bolted on because there was a browser race/war where quality suffered greatly. This POV would have been impossible to see if you use Netscape 6 because it was so unusable no one used Netscape 6 except for nerd points and to try out "does my browser support this CSS" tests.