A friend writes: “this page looks like crap” (I’m paraphrasing here) and sent me a screen shot to prove his point. Hmmm, works for me. So I took a look at it in the Leading Brand, in both browsers I can expect to see visits from. The left image is from Mozilla 1.6, the other IE 6.0.2800.xpsp2.030422-1633.
Not that my stuff is a work of art, but the most beautiful sight you can imagine won’t be improved by looking at it through a broken window. Replacing it seems like the right thing to do.
[Posted with ecto]
(apropos of the About box: why does it still say “Based on NCSA Mosaic”? Is some of the code still there? Netscape was based on a post-Mosaic codebase and Mozilla’s is post Netscape (the rendering engine was developed after the source was freed). Odd.)
Is some of the code still there?
Yes. Explorer is built on Mosaic.
Netscape was based on a post-Mosaic codebase and Mozilla’s is post Netscape (the rendering engine was developed after the source was freed). Odd
Mozilla (and Netscape) uses a complete new (from the ground written off) renderer, the one known as Gecko. The browser war is over and guess what, Explorer didn’t win.