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I wonder what caused Netscape Time to slow down so much that just one version(6 after skipping 5) took three years to release and allowed IE to catch up and act
by recoiledsnake 14y ago
I wonder what caused Netscape Time to slow down so much that just one version(6 after skipping 5) took three years to release and allowed IE to catch up and actually become a better browser than Netscape 4.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
- js2 14y agohttp://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
- guylhem 14y agoWow - reading this is highly suggested, especially given the article relevance in the still current browser-war history!
- wpietri 14y agoFrom people I've talked to who were there at the time, the basic answer is: technical debt. All their hacker bravery and Netscape Time drama had yielded a code base "just too complicated and crufty and hard to modify". Damned if they rewrote, and damned if they didn't.