Comments on: Netscape Officially Dead

By: Patrick T McGuire

Patrick T McGuire — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:11:05 +0000

...or figured out how to do what they did better.

It's called progress.

By: Wizbang

Wizbang — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:13:06 +0000

Netscape RIP...

The once mighty web browser was down to less than 1% of market share. AOL on Friday stopped development of the Netscape browser, saying the respected brand that launched the......

By: hln

hln — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:05:27 +0000

Yeah, sort of.

Mozilla still lives on in Firefox and Thunderbird and other variations favored by the geek world. Netscape's not DEAD - it's just dead by name to the masses.

The Mozilla engine is much more accurate, exposing scripting gaffes to the public. IE and other browsers tend to be more forgiving.

hln

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:38:22 +0000

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:58:37 +0000

Here's to the day Microsoft follows Netscape to the grave.