Roo — Sat, 28 May 2005 21:22:02 +0000

It has an option to Display pages like IE under View>>Rendering Engine. It uses Firefox's rendering engine which actually was Netscape's rendering engine to begin with.

This supposedly is for displaying pages that won't display properly, i.e. poorly coded pages that shouldn't display *anyway*.

Busy — Sat, 28 May 2005 09:34:33 +0000

hmm, not a good start, 2nd time in two weeks to be taken down, now microsoft are jumping for joy with their "remove Netscape 8" because of latest problem read more here

Significant Change; or Piggy-Back Ride

SirCoistrel — Sat, 21 May 2005 01:06:35 +0000

Hi Roo, ....thanks for the information about Netscape 8. Whatever the facts and implications, it has definitely aroused much discussion. This is a related fact: Times-Warner/AOL have a solid track record of mismanaged third party acquisitions --- look at the WinAmp fiasco. Have they learnt anything?

Alll in all, browser loyalty is a pervasive and fascinating phenomenon. If this is nothing more than a piggy-back ride on Firefox into temporary prominence, a pile of folk are going to be ticked off.

In one of its former lives (7.2). Netscape used the Corel SVG Viewer, not the Adobe SVG viewer. This, though much, much more of an underground thing, was equivalent to the "browser wars," and was a serious set-back for SVG from which it is just now emerging.

Now it is testing time. Thanks again. SirCoistrel

timjpriebe — Fri, 20 May 2005 12:07:19 +0000

I would argue that just because they're releasing a new version doesn't necessarily mean anything. But I guess we'll have to wait and see.

02bunced — Fri, 20 May 2005 06:31:49 +0000

At school, it has to be our school homepage - awful! (http://www.neatherd.org)