"Microsoft does in another one"

[ryokimball]

I'm no fan of Netscape or anything, but this still seems like pretty sad news....

End of Support for Netscape web browsers - The Netscape Blog

P.S. The title is what my dad said when I mentioned it to him. I'm not flaming; I just thought it fitting title.

[techieMoe]

I don't see that as a fitting title at all - Microsoft has nothing to do with this. Netscape was bought by AOL and it was just a matter of time before the browser was end-of-lifed. I don't understand why this is such big news. It's sucked as a browser for several years now and been completely eclipsed by its cribmate Firefox.

What does Microsoft have to do with AOL's internal marketing decisions?

[oz]

I quit using Netscape about 10 years ago, so its official death didn't bother me. I'm really surprised it hung on as long as it did, though.

[ryokimball]

I was thinking mainly from the aspect that Netscape was the first big browser, and Microsoft's I.E. was it's death in "the browser wars." I suppose in this way it had been "dead" for years (as you said) but now it's officially out of the game.

And just out of curiosity, didn't Firefox spawn from Mozilla, which came from Netscape? (the term "cribmate" confused me... this is not meant as an argument on any level)

[techieMoe]

And just out of curiosity, didn't Firefox spawn from Mozilla, which came from Netscape? (the term "cribmate" confused me... this is not meant as an argument on any level)

Yeah, should have said "Mozilla" there. Sorry. Mozilla did spawn from similar roots as Netscape, and then Firefox sprang out of Mozilla.

[carlosponti]

AOL did in netscape.

the story goes that one of the lead developers on netscape left some time after aol bought it to go form mozilla and then later on mozilla created firefox a short time before that though netscape became based on mozilla as its base.

[fingal]

I recently read that many of Netscape's developers now code for Firefox. I tried Netscape but I couldn't get on with the bugs. For me, it was always crashing. I loved the idea, but hated the thing itself.

[elija]

It's kind of a shame as back in the V3 browsers, Netscape was
definately the best browser. It started to go downhill with
version 4, aptly named Netscape Complicator*

It did have that <censored> blink tag. A tag that had only one
valid use...

<h1>schrodinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead</h1>

* Not Really - but close enough

[Oxygen]

Netscape is dead? Meh...

[ryokimball]

It's kind of a shame as back in the V3 browsers, Netscape was
definately the best browser. It started to go downhill with
version 4, aptly named Netscape Complicator*

It did have that <censored> blink tag. A tag that had only one
valid use...

<h1>schrodinger's cat is <blink>not</blink> dead</h1>

* Not Really - but close enough

COOOL!!!! I never heard of that tag.... I must find a valid use!!
(P.S. Just checked it out --it does work in Firefox!)