Leonidas Jones wrote:
MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 17/11/2009 17:12, John Doue told the world:
Richard wrote:
/snip/
I have seen two explanations regarding the skipping of version 5: one
coming from marketing and the other from the development process.
The marketing explanation was that they just jumped one version in order
to seem more advanced.
The development process is a bit more involved. Apparently, the idea at
first was to develop two new versions of Netscape in parallel: V5 would
be based on the old Netscape code, while V6 would be based on the new
Mozilla Project code. V5 was eventually dropped entirely.
Which is true? Probably a bit of both; people would talk about "Netscape
5" and "Netscape 6" internally, and when NS5 was cancelled, Marketing
saw no reason to lower the version number of the new Netscape.
Okay, my understanding was that Netscape released the Communicator code
to Open Source, hoping to develop a new version with help from the
community. However, the old code had become so convoluted that only
Netscape engineers could make much sense of it, leading to the founding
of the Mozilla project and Gecko, on which Netscape 6 and later version
was sourced.
Lee
Thanks all for this bit of interesting history.
--
John Doue
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