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Nov 30, 2004, 10:39 AM
 
http://news.com.com/New+Netscape+emb...?tag=nefd.lede

Pretty slick. Wouldn't have to ever leave Netscape when developing websites.
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Nov 30, 2004, 11:10 AM
 
Yeah, but it's still Netscape.

     
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Nov 30, 2004, 11:23 AM
 
Originally posted by manofsteal:
Yeah, but it's still Netscape.

Only by name. It uses the same rendering engine as Mozilla/FireFox.
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Nov 30, 2004, 11:27 AM
 
Damn that screenshot of Netscape is ugly.
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Nov 30, 2004, 11:55 AM
 
Originally posted by olePigeon:
Only by name. It uses the same rendering engine as Mozilla/FireFox.
I would have been happier with a name change.
     
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Nov 30, 2004, 12:20 PM
 
Why?

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Nov 30, 2004, 03:45 PM
 
Originally posted by OptimusG4:
Damn that screenshot of Netscape is ugly.
I found a copy of the beta; it's worse when you're actually using it.

This said, it does work as advertised. You switch rendering engines with the right-click menu. All told, though, a browser with all of Firefox's strengths and all of IE's weaknesses still comes out quite poor in the end.
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Nov 30, 2004, 07:17 PM
 
Think there'll be a Mac version? Probably not. But it'd be nice to have an MSIE 6 compatible browser for single platform development. Wouldn't have to touch a damn PC.
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