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> but I'm sure that's the way Netscape thought of it as well Don't really think so. At least as far Netscape 6 went, they came up with an entirely different fr

> but I'm sure that's the way Netscape thought of it as well Don't really think so. At least as far Netscape 6 went, they came up with an entirely different framework and moved over to Java (as far as I remember). I have rarely seen that sort of thing characterized as a refactor (even on their mailing lists).

hnisnotreddit 13y ago
The Seamonkey Project [1] is the current state of the Mozilla Application Suite[2], which Netscape 6 and 7 were branched from[3][4]. Written in C++ mostly. Some of us have been using Gecko as their renderer for almost sixteen years now. Seems KHTML(w), the base of both Webkit and Blink[5], is the same age. Seems we've gotten a good run out of the existing codebases. In fact, this means that Gecko (and khtml) have been in use twice as long as NCSA Mosaic, which the first Netscape was based on[6]. Imagine how Spolsky must feel about the Servo rewrite. 1. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite#Market_adoption_and_project_end https://en.wikipedia.orgwiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite#Marke... 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_6 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_7 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#KHTML_and_Apple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML#KHTML_and_Apple 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_%28web_browser%29