Netscape 9 planned

[BabyJeffy]

I stumbled across this announcement this morning:

Netscape Announces Cross-Platform Netscape 9 to be Developed In-House

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20397

The crux is that they are expecting to launch a new version of Netscape in 2 months time (or so) that is fully cross-platform, and based on Firefox.

Hopefully it'll not be a problem to support (as long as they stick with the standards compliance built-in to Firefox)!

Cheers,
Jeff

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[kaht]

I was pretty disappointed with the last version of Netscape. It came in with the option to render a page like IE, or render the page like Firefox - which I thought might be interesting because I could essentially test my pages for IE and firefox using only one browser. But, I found half the time that netscape wouldn't render the page like either of the 2 browsers, so not only would I have to test my page for IE and Firefox, but I had to test it twice for netscape as well. It ended up being more of a hassle than anything....

-kaht

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[BabyJeffy]

I agree kaht... and by the sounds of it, AOL were just as dissatisfied (since they are taking development away from the external company managing it, and returning it to the "fold" in-house).

They appear to have an aggressive timeline, but I'm concerned that we'll just end up with another pile of code that doesn't do what it said on the box. Again.

Cheers,
Jeff

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