by Fulvio » Wed 11 Jan, 2006 12:08 am
Netscape was nothing than a branded form of Mozilla, since AOL took over, until they disbanded the Netscape group, and farmed out the operation.
I was an AOL member for several years, and I was very happy to see their AOL7.0 gecko, and the standalone mail client. AOL7.0 gecko was as good as what it was based on, i.e. up to 6.2.3. Most of the testers were scared stiff of having to put up with a bad programs, and their reactions ranged from threatening to leave AOL, to others who would have accepted a microsoft-based AOL as an option. I think that I was, along with a couple other people the only testers of AOL7.0 gecko. So, you can see that AOL did what any business would have done, and went with what people wanted.
And, I left AOL, but not before suggesting that they come out with a dual capability browser. I am sure that other people had the same idea, but it was logical that AOL would do something like NS8.
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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong
~ Henrik Ibsen
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