Comments on: Netscape Navigator Goes Quietly Into the Night http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:39:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-605772 Anonymous Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:59:50 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-605772 Oddly, if people would take the time to do the research, they'd find that NN 9.0.0.5 is the most mature, sophisticated and stable implementation of Gecko to date! I plan on using Navigator for the foreseeable future as my default browser: IT"S THAT GOOD! Oddly, if people would take the time to do the research, they’d find that NN 9.0.0.5 is the most mature, sophisticated and stable implementation of Gecko to date! I plan on using Navigator for the foreseeable future as my default browser: IT”S THAT GOOD!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-605770 Anonymous Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:58:36 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-605770 Oddly, if people would tat the time to do the research, they'd find that NN 9.0.0.5 is the most mature, sophisticated and stable implementation of Gecko to date! I plan on using Navigator for the foreseeable future as my default browser: IT"S THAT GOOD! Oddly, if people would tat the time to do the research, they’d find that NN 9.0.0.5 is the most mature, sophisticated and stable implementation of Gecko to date! I plan on using Navigator for the foreseeable future as my default browser: IT”S THAT GOOD!

]]> By: deaconmpg http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-604483 deaconmpg Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:41:27 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-604483 good times, good times, fond memories running the Navigator across the internet waters. She always was a pretty browser then IE and you never had the feeling of the Microsoft slime after you were done. And the logo was very nice, comets whizzing in the upper right. Good Night Navigator :) good times, good times, fond memories running the Navigator across the internet waters. She always was a pretty browser then IE and you never had the feeling of the Microsoft slime after you were done. And the logo was very nice, comets whizzing in the upper right.

Good Night Navigator :)

]]> By: t94xr http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-596467 t94xr Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:30:26 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-596467 @ParkinT Yeah it was the opensource movement that made them make it free, they realised that they could get a bigger market share if they actually gave it away free and provided support and they make money on other things. The Start of the end for Netscape was the case against Microsoft back in the day, Netscape took a majorly fatal hit, basically its only survived by loyal developers. but then again i remember a couple of years ago AOL did fire almost every one of their netscape devs (who were promptly intergrated into the firefox movement!) lol @ParkinT
Yeah it was the opensource movement that made them make it free, they realised that they could get a bigger market share if they actually gave it away free and provided support and they make money on other things.

The Start of the end for Netscape was the case against Microsoft back in the day, Netscape took a majorly fatal hit, basically its only survived by loyal developers. but then again i remember a couple of years ago AOL did fire almost every one of their netscape devs (who were promptly intergrated into the firefox movement!)

lol

]]> By: MaidenRockDan http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-593462 MaidenRockDan Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:46:42 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-593462 THANK GOD! Netscrape Internet Exploder Two browsers whose time has long since gone by. THANK GOD!

Netscrape
Internet Exploder

Two browsers whose time has long since gone by.

]]> By: IE, Safari, & FF Only! http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-592409 IE, Safari, & FF Only! Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:51:08 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-592409 Out with the old, and in with the new! Now if we could only get rid of those other "poser" type browsers out there, then things will be better off. Out with the old, and in with the new! Now if we could only get rid of those other “poser” type browsers out there, then things will be better off.

]]> By: PAA http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-590592 PAA Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:48:44 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-590592 I guess I'm on the outside of everyone else. I've always liked using Netscape and am still using the Netscape.net mail link. With Netscape gone does that mean my mail will be as well? I've fought with IE too much on things that Netscape could do. Like another person further up, when checking out your web work, you've got to have more than one browser to see how it works in it. It's really easy to tell on some websites that the webmaster hasn't bother to do this, especially if you are a Netscape or even Firefox user because the coding is left open often times. So while most of you are saving a happy farewell to her, I have a tear coming down my cheek because I will miss her dearly. I guess I’m on the outside of everyone else. I’ve always liked using Netscape and am still using the Netscape.net mail link. With Netscape gone does that mean my mail will be as well? I’ve fought with IE too much on things that Netscape could do. Like another person further up, when checking out your web work, you’ve got to have more than one browser to see how it works in it. It’s really easy to tell on some websites that the webmaster hasn’t bother to do this, especially if you are a Netscape or even Firefox user because the coding is left open often times. So while most of you are saving a happy farewell to her, I have a tear coming down my cheek because I will miss her dearly.

]]> By: bloodofeve http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-590142 bloodofeve Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:27:34 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-590142 I'm sad to see it go, I have used it as a test system as well as the usual browsers for all my web projects. I always found it an excellent product especially in the early days. The only thing now is how the hell do I do my web masters degree course work as they use Netscape as their course work browser. I’m sad to see it go, I have used it as a test system as well as the usual browsers for all my web projects. I always found it an excellent product especially in the early days.

The only thing now is how the hell do I do my web masters degree course work as they use Netscape as their course work browser.

]]> By: schlub http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-589595 schlub Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-589595 Good riddance. I started off using Mosaic and was an avid supporter of Netscape (although I never paid for it) until AOL took it over and so I switched to IE. This is also corresponded to my haitus from web development so I didn't see any point in using anything but the default installed browser. Now I'm back in web development I am hoping that Opera and Safari go the way of the dodo and leave us with just two browsers. Cross-browser compatibility is a b*tch at the best of times and we need a unified UI - definitely NOT more diversity. Good riddance. I started off using Mosaic and was an avid supporter of Netscape (although I never paid for it) until AOL took it over and so I switched to IE.
This is also corresponded to my haitus from web development so I didn’t see any point in using anything but the default installed browser.
Now I’m back in web development I am hoping that Opera and Safari go the way of the dodo and leave us with just two browsers. Cross-browser compatibility is a b*tch at the best of times and we need a unified UI – definitely NOT more diversity.

]]> By: pennywit http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/comment-page-1/#comment-589590 pennywit Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:50:17 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/01/04/netscape-navigator-goes-quietly-into-the-night/#comment-589590 Is Lynx still out there somewhere? I fondly remember it as my first Web browser. Is Lynx still out there somewhere? I fondly remember it as my first Web browser.

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