Sky wrote:
>
> I just figured out how to solve this NS6 problem, if Netscape
> would be to Release the source to 4.76 browser, couldn´t some
> real tekkie work his magic on that code, i´m sure there would
> be several interested in that. What do you think ?
Yea, the 4.x versions of Netscape were quite nice. I still use 4.76 on
a regular basis.
Unfortunatly, the 4.x codebase was not designed to handle CSS, DOM,
XML, etc. CSS support in 4.x was just a hack upon the Javascript
engine. I guess before the CSS spec was published, Netscape was trying
to standardize using style sheets through JavaScript.
Netscape _did_ try to extend the 4.x codebase to support the upcoming
standards, but it was abundantly clear that it was too much work. That
is why the Mozilla project was born - to architect and build a new
browser platform that will be flexible enough to overcome any upcoming
technology hurdles. Even today, SVG and XSLT can be plugged in to
Mozilla via XPI files.
Just my thoughts, I am by no means an 'expert' on Mozilla.
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Micah Harwell
Industrial Techware
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