JTK wrote:
> - It was and is not even now the "right product".
That is your opinion. And the opposite is my opinion. Thus there is no wrong or
right.
> - It did not deliver standards support nor much of anything else. Mainly it
> just crashed and acted flakey when it wasn't crashing.
YEah, it crashed more than a drunk NASCAR driver, but it was still more
standards compliant than any other browser at the time.
> - The market was not, and is not now, clamoring for standards support. They
> were clamoring for a better Netscape Communicator. They got nothing but a
> huge dissapointment.
Why did they want NS if they didn't want standards? If they didn't want
standards, then they had IE. If NS conformed to various IE oddities then they
become a defacto standard. Thus, they wanted a standard after all.
> > The problem was that the right product was a dog of a
> > program that wasn't done at the time.
> Replace "right product" with "Netscape 6.0" and we're in complete agreement.
Even as it is, I agree. NS6 was a real bitch.
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