Whoa, seems like Netscape might be onto a winner here! Last time I heard of Netscape doing anything, computers were still coming out with 4 and 8mb of RAM.
Who knew.
Anyways, they’ve developed a browser that’ll allow us to browse in both Mozilla and Internet Explorer. We have a winner ladies and gents! Haven’t tested it yet, but personally I know the hassles of ‘Alt-Tabbing’ between IE and Moz trying to get sites looking the same in both browsers.
However, before you get downloading Netscape 8, its worthwhile knowing that not all the reviews are as rosy…
Unfortunately the news about Netscape 8 is not all positive. The browser loses much of Firefox’s simplicity and a few of its useful features, while gaining plenty of extra heft: Netscape 8 takes up 35MB of hard-drive space on my test PC, compared with less than 16MB for Firefox. Surprisingly, Netscape 8 uses Firefox 1.0.3, not the more recent 1.0.4 build that corrected recent security breaches. According to AOL, the vulnerability that 1.0.4 plugs didn’t affect Netscape 8, so no update was required.
The Netscape 8.0 release notes make it clear that:
1. There are a few known inconsistencies with browser history when changing between rendering engines. 2. When changes are made to the Trust Preferences tab of Site Control Options ”Always use this setting as default” is always active even if not selected.
3. The Javascript property navigator.useragent will return an Internet Explorer user agent string and not the Netscape Browser 8.0 string when in Internet Explorer mode.
4. When changing the rendering engine from Firefox to Internet Explorer, ”Netscape/8.0” is sometimes missing from the user agent string.
5. In Internet Explorer mode, the stop/reload button doesn’t always display the appropriate state but it will function properly.
Still keen to give it a try? Let us know if you have/are using it. What you think of it?
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2 Responses to Netscape 8
I don’t get it. Which build of IE will it use? Surely not IE 6 … which will be outdated in a matter of months? Why do they want to be mother to those two instead of just focussing on creating a “better” browser? And I thought the whole point of web standards was to move away from this browser dependance crap? S-T-A-N-D-A-R-D-S … please?
Amen!
Its about time that the come out with a browser that sorts out the CSS compatibility crap once and for all. I can understand the possible success of such a browser that allows you to use both IE & MOZ at once, but i agree with you that it would’ve been better to focus their time and energies on creating a standardized browser…
Perhaps they were trying to grab some of the exponentially growing Moz market, plus the IE users. Understandable, but perhaps a bit shortsighted. Maybe it would’ve been better to have been the one browser to set the standard and raise the bar a bit.
Seems like they’re a bit of a crowd pleaser instead of a trend-setter.
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