Netscape down for the Count?

...looking that way

[Drastic]

Netscape President Jim Bankoff states:
"...six months from now, you won't consider Netscape to be a browser company."

story here [browserwatch.internet.com]

[knighty]

Shall I open the Champagne now or later? ;)

[Rusky]

Fingers crossed :)

[toolman]

Now it's time....
to say goodbye....
to all our agony....
M-I-C....see you later!
K-E-Y....Why? Why ask why?
M-O-U-S-E.

[agerhart]

this is the best news I have heard in a long time!

[knighty]

Wow, Netscape is actually going to implent a useful feature - dissapearing ;)

[Drastic]

Do I like Netscapes rendering? No. But, I could almost always code a page for NS, and it looked fine everywhere else.

Will I miss that? No.

However, to me, this is a bad thing because it means less competition for the Giant from Redmond. Not that they have recently had the foothold they always did, but at least they offered a free alternative to MicroShaft. Now, this will further open the door for stuff like "smart tags" and the like. More like Smack Tags if you ask me.

Go Opera!!

[knighty]

lets hope Opera gets Netscapes share of the market and maybe more

[seth_wilde]

more complete story [news.excite.com]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. As many of the current SE's are try to pull out of the mega portal model as quickly as possible, it's sounds like netscape will pushing full speed ahead.

"The formula of using Netscape to create a central Internet meeting place for Time Warner magazine readers and broadcast viewers echoes in certain respects the push by Time Warner in the first half of the 1990s to draw users to a single site."

"Netscape can tap an unprecedented wealth of exclusive media content ranging from music pop star Madonna to the hit crime-family drama "The Sopranos" now running on U.S. cable television"

[DaveAtIFG]

>this is a bad thing because it means less competition for the Giant from Redmond

So far Drastic is the only one who mentioned the major implications...

This is REAL BAD NEWS! Right up there with the "IE 6.0 renders more..." thread at [webmasterworld.com...]

Historicly, both browsers have made excursions away from the W3C standards as each tried to "hijack" those standards and gain market share. The incompatibilities that resulted always limited how far this could go and made the W3C standards a reference point... With only one major dominant browser, W3C becomes meaningless! M$ sets the standards. Welcome to MicroSoft's Internet.

REAL BAD NEWS!