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You forget the fact that IE used to be the best browser out there.Netscape ended up being total shit.

by aikah 12y ago

baldfat 12y ago
I would say that Netscape lived on and became Firefox.
- hasenj 12y ago
  This interpretation entails that IE will live on and become Spartan
  - integraton 12y ago
    Except that Netscape was open sourced years before it became Firefox. That happened January 1998, which was 17 years ago, and 4 years before Firefox was released, which itself was over 12 years ago.
    - have_humility 12y ago
      March 1998, and it underwent a pretty well-publicized rewrite as well... Firefox is not built on top of what was released back then (Communicator 4.x); it's built on top of its rewrite.
      - yuhong 12y ago
        Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.
- whoopdedo 12y ago
  Netscape lives on as Seamonkey.
  - nashashmi 12y ago
    I cannot believe that Seamonkey still lives! In fact they just had a release a week ago. And by looking at the features, I think you are right. Netscape lives on as Seamonkey in its most complete form.
JimboOmega 12y ago
I remember a day when the most compelling reason for me to use Windows (over Linux) was that Windows had IE.
dredmorbius 12y ago
MSIE was never the "best" browser. It may have been better than Netscape, but there were numerous alternatives -- Opera, Galeon, Konqueror, and more. Eventually Mozilla / Phoenix / Firefox picked up the mantel. Then (somewhat) Chrome, though it's getting really effing annoying these days.
- mattmanser 12y ago
  They invented ajax, at that time it was the best.
  - integraton 12y ago
    Sort of. IE was actually a big part of the reason developing Ajax applications was an expensive pain for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) The original idea came from ActiveX, but it didn't take off until it was implemented across browsers via JavaScript as XMLHttpRequest over the next 6 years, and didn't become "Ajax" until the Adaptive Path blog post about Google's innovations with Maps and Gmail in 2005. Microsoft then added support for XMLHttpRequest a year and a half later in late 2006 with IE7, which of course had very little adoption, particular among businesses, because of IE6 (see IE6 @ 49.8% and IE7 @ 17.1% IE market share at beginning, March 2007, of this graph: http://www.w3counter.com/trends http://www.w3counter.com/trends).
    - brc 12y ago
      It's funny, I'm sitting here desperately trying to remember what AJAX stood for without resorting to a search. And I can't. Was it Async Javascript and XML? Or was it ActiveX related. It did change things immensely.
      - integraton 12y ago
        Asynchronous JavaScript and XML The name comes from this post: http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applications/ http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-appl...

You forget the fact that IE used to be the best browser out there.Netscape ended up being total shit.

by aikah 12y ago

You forget the fact that IE used to be the best browser out there.Netscape ended up being total shit.

baldfat 12y ago

I would say that Netscape lived on and became Firefox.

hasenj 12y ago
This interpretation entails that IE will live on and become Spartan
- integraton 12y ago
  Except that Netscape was open sourced years before it became Firefox. That happened January 1998, which was 17 years ago, and 4 years before Firefox was released, which itself was over 12 years ago.
  - have_humility 12y ago
    March 1998, and it underwent a pretty well-publicized rewrite as well... Firefox is not built on top of what was released back then (Communicator 4.x); it's built on top of its rewrite.
    - yuhong 12y ago
      Ah, the fiasco that was the Mariner cancellation.
whoopdedo 12y ago
Netscape lives on as Seamonkey.
- nashashmi 12y ago
  I cannot believe that Seamonkey still lives! In fact they just had a release a week ago. And by looking at the features, I think you are right. Netscape lives on as Seamonkey in its most complete form.

JimboOmega 12y ago

I remember a day when the most compelling reason for me to use Windows (over Linux) was that Windows had IE.

dredmorbius 12y ago

MSIE was never the "best" browser. It may have been better than Netscape, but there were numerous alternatives -- Opera, Galeon, Konqueror, and more. Eventually Mozilla / Phoenix / Firefox picked up the mantel. Then (somewhat) Chrome, though it's getting really effing annoying these days.

mattmanser 12y ago
They invented ajax, at that time it was the best.
- integraton 12y ago
  Sort of. IE was actually a big part of the reason developing Ajax applications was an expensive pain for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) The original idea came from ActiveX, but it didn't take off until it was implemented across browsers via JavaScript as XMLHttpRequest over the next 6 years, and didn't become "Ajax" until the Adaptive Path blog post about Google's innovations with Maps and Gmail in 2005. Microsoft then added support for XMLHttpRequest a year and a half later in late 2006 with IE7, which of course had very little adoption, particular among businesses, because of IE6 (see IE6 @ 49.8% and IE7 @ 17.1% IE market share at beginning, March 2007, of this graph: http://www.w3counter.com/trends http://www.w3counter.com/trends).
  - brc 12y ago
    It's funny, I'm sitting here desperately trying to remember what AJAX stood for without resorting to a search. And I can't. Was it Async Javascript and XML? Or was it ActiveX related. It did change things immensely.
    - integraton 12y ago
      Asynchronous JavaScript and XML The name comes from this post: http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applications/ http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-appl...