Pages Tagged “Netscape”
Tech Tips
- Pure CSS Buttons As part of a minor site optimizing kick, I replaced the validation labels with something smaller, less obtrusive, and directly on the page. I tried to duplicate the look of the classic antipixel-style buttons in CSS.
Blog Posts
- Blast from the past: dredged up my old netscape.net address
Blast from the past. Doing some email testing & dredged up my old netscape.net address. Had to re-activate it, and the handful of messages I probably saved way back in the day were gone, and now it’s aim.com instead…but it’s still got my years-outdated contact list, including people I haven’t interacted with in a decade. […]
- Flocking from Netscape
When AOL first announced they were discontinuing Netscape, they recommended Firefox (a logical choice for many reasons). Since then, they’ve also started heavily promoting Flock—to the point of offering seamless upgrades from NS8 to Flock. (In theory, anyway; I fired up the copy I had for testing and couldn’t get it to do anything but […]
- Techno-weird Links
Lisa the Barbarian: A woman poses with a viking helmet and a sword…and an Opera Browser T-shirt. (via Espenao’s Opera the Barbarian) CNET UK presents The 30 dumbest videogame titles ever, including “Spanky’s Quest,” “Ninjabread Man,” “How to Be a Complete Bastard,” “Touch Dic” and “Attack of the Mutant Camels.” (via Slashdot). Cowboy Bebop at […]
- Behind the Times
While wandering the aisles at Micro Center, I stumbled on ancient versions of Netscape and Opera for sale…even though newer versions had been free for years!
- Farewell, Netscape!
It’s been a long time coming, but AOL has officially decided to shut down the Netscape web browser. The final security updates for Netscape 9 will go out in February, and then that’s it. It’s been on life support for a while now, as AOL has tried repeatedly to revive it. After they dismantled the […]
- More Netscape 8 Nuttiness
Q: What happens when you break up/fire your web browser-developing group with years of experience, and later hire an outside firm to build your next product? A: Netscape 8. IEBlog has an amazing report—which I’ve just verified. Netscape 8.0.1 disables IE’s XML rendering. So if you try to load an XML document—say, an XSLT-styled RSS […]
- Multi-Engine Web Browsers
Netscape 8’s ability to switch between IE (Trident) and Netscape (Gecko) isnââ¬â¢t exactly new: Maxthon does this already…and that’s not all.
- Trusted Site, Untrusted Browser
I installed the just-released Netscape 8 Beta. It imported most of my settings from Firefox, including bookmarks, cookies and even history. One of the first things I always check with a new browser is how it identifies itself, which in this case is as Firefox 0.9.6. (Presumably they’ll get on this by the time the […]
- Netscape: Re-Clutter the Web
CNET has posted a write-up of AOL’s new Netscape prototype based on Firefox, as well as a screenshot. It seems to be a combination of Firefox + theme + bundled extensions… plus a mode that embeds Internet Explorer for compatibility. There are some nice ideas: adapting Firefox’s RSS capabilities to create a headline ticker, for […]
- Netscape Returns!
Well, it’s official. After months of rumors and vague announcements, Netscape 7.2 has been released! It’s been just over a year since AOL closed down Netscape and spun off the independent Mozilla Foundation. Despite the uncertainty of that transition, no one can deny that Mozilla has flourished. People everywhere are switching to Firefox and recommending […]
- Netscape is dead. Long live Mozilla!
OK, that may be a bit melodramatic, but there are two interesting and complementary bits of news: The Mozilla Foundation was announced as a non-profit that will be the new home for Mozilla. AOL has donated $2 million for start-up funding, and various other companies have announced plans to support it. AOL is dismantling Netscape. […]