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Netscape Is Dead
AOL has now officially announced that they will end the development and support of all Netscape browsers.
After February 1st 2008, there will be no more development, support, or security patches for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browsers.
Users are advised to stop using the browser.
Is IE going to monopolize the browser market?
Lives on as firefox, laster generations of Netscape were based on some code I think.
Is IE going to monopolize the browser market?
Netscape was a good browser back in its time. I had no idea it was now dead!
Netscape was a good browser back in its time.
Netscape 3 was their apex. It was the standard of its day. Netscape 4.7, showing more features, and capable of displaying many pages shown even today, tried to include layers and other things. It was the beginning of the end. But the real nail was the release of IE 5.5 and Netscape going with NN6. That was the end of the 'browser wars'. M$ won, by defeating its primary competition. However, in this interim since, IE has tried to make the OS the web platform, when people were still eager to use the browser for the web. They've had to re-fund their browser team, while simultaneously pursuing the 'alternate' platform idea. So Firefox and Opera, Safari and a few others have whittled away what with the defeat of NN was over a 90% market share. M$ has seen that market share cut drastically. Some think a new 'war' will begin, with Firefox, Opera, posssibly Safari, and some others vying with M$ for new and non-standard additions. Lie at Opera has promised some improvement to setting up pages for video streams, and so on. Plus W3C keeps trying to get its stuff approved, and to catch on. ECMA same way, with its 'xml javascript'. So a lot of stuff seems ready to go. But what will catch on, who knows? There's supposedly even a new HTML coming along. Could be a lot of confusion in the next couple of years.
