NETSCAPE??? - kellymailinglist

Yep. Netscape. The new version is based on FF, but I find it to be more stable and less of a memory hog than FF.

Let me just say that Bookdog is fabulous. I wrote in asking about support for Netscape a couple of weeks ago, et voila! An update supporting Netscape! You can't ask for better. In fact, I think I will now post a separate review.

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Monday, December 31 2007 @ 04:13 AM PST

NETSCAPE??? - Jerry Krinock

A question has been raised as to whether or not I wasted my time supporting "The All-New Netscape Navigator" (version 9).

I would say that Netscape ^almost^ died, until a few months ago when they released this "all new" version 9. It didn't die. And when it was released, I got a half dozen requests from users to support it.

Personally, I'm not very impressed with the "all new" Navigator 9, because it seems to be literally just Firefox 2.0 in a different skin. Why not just use Firefox? Some people prefer green to orange, maybe. But, oh, well, this made it a rather easy programming task, since all I had to do was factor a superclass out of my Firefox code and make a new little subclass for Navigator.

Was it a waste of time? Maybe, but it wasn't much time.

Not like Firefox 3. That's going to take ^alot^ of time.

Thanks for all the comments,

Jerry Krinock
developer of Bookdog

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Friday, January 04 2008 @ 08:38 AM PST