Comments on: Farewell Netscape http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/ Working together for standards Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: News » Best Of January 2008 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-60397 News » Best Of January 2008 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:10:46 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-60397 [...] Farewell Netscape AOL announced that it won’t support Netscape any longer. Will the browser ‘be sorely missed’? Did it pass away peacefully in the night, a lot later than many of us thought it would? The discussion about the browser many of us used once and dismissed afterwards. [...] [...] Farewell Netscape AOL announced that it won’t support Netscape any longer. Will the browser ‘be sorely missed’? Did it pass away peacefully in the night, a lot later than many of us thought it would? The discussion about the browser many of us used once and dismissed afterwards. [...]

]]> By: KillerT http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-60290 KillerT Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:59:15 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-60290 The closure of support for Netscape was a really negative surprise. I didn't understand why this had to happen after Netscape had started off with a completely revised and easy-to-use interface in the version 9. Hey - the browser wasn't even given the time to get known among the old Netscape users, of whom there are tens of millions (if not hundreds). That just wasn't an honest test! The dumbest thing about it all was the lack of advertisement for Netscape by AOL, even on its own sites - I mean, why pay almost ten billion for a company and then do nothing for the acquisition? Just doesn't make economic sense! Well, I've been using Netscape since early 1998 and I'll continue using version 9.0.0.5 in the near future (It usually takes something like two to three years before a browser starts developing insufficiency problems). Still got to try out the e-mail suite, but at the moment the 7.1 client is sufficient. I do hope somebody with the necessary intelligence and finances takes over the brand and restarts it under more favourable circumstances than NS got from AOL! I mean - the name is a household word in the Internet! Some years ago I owned an Internet cafe here in Germany with 24 PCs for visitors - Netscape 4.78 was the last standard browser we used. Sometime we were forced to uninstall Outlook from all systems because of the increasing number of virus infections caused by careless e-mail users. - KillerT Netscape for ever! The closure of support for Netscape was a really negative surprise. I didn’t understand why this had to happen after Netscape had started off with a completely revised and easy-to-use interface in the version 9. Hey – the browser wasn’t even given the time to get known among the old Netscape users, of whom there are tens of millions (if not hundreds). That just wasn’t an honest test! The dumbest thing about it all was the lack of advertisement for Netscape by AOL, even on its own sites – I mean, why pay almost ten billion for a company and then do nothing for the acquisition? Just doesn’t make economic sense!

Well, I’ve been using Netscape since early 1998 and I’ll continue using version 9.0.0.5 in the near future (It usually takes something like two to three years before a browser starts developing insufficiency problems). Still got to try out the e-mail suite, but at the moment the 7.1 client is sufficient.

I do hope somebody with the necessary intelligence and finances takes over the brand and restarts it under more favourable circumstances than NS got from AOL! I mean – the name is a household word in the Internet!

Some years ago I owned an Internet cafe here in Germany with 24 PCs for visitors – Netscape 4.78 was the last standard browser we used. Sometime we were forced to uninstall Outlook from all systems because of the increasing number of virus infections caused by careless e-mail users.

- KillerT

Netscape for ever!

]]> By: Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » Requiem por un motor de visualización web http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59872 Memoria de Acceso Aleatorio » Requiem por un motor de visualización web Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:45:14 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59872 [...] Mientras el resto de la web está haciendo notar la ignominiosa y definitiva muerte del navegador que se hizo con uno de los más importantes nombres de la Internet de antes de la guerra, yo quisiera lamentar la muerte de algo diferente, la de un motor de visualización web notorio aunque nunca demasiado sonado. [...] [...] Mientras el resto de la web está haciendo notar la ignominiosa y definitiva muerte del navegador que se hizo con uno de los más importantes nombres de la Internet de antes de la guerra, yo quisiera lamentar la muerte de algo diferente, la de un motor de visualización web notorio aunque nunca demasiado sonado. [...]

]]> By: Best Of January 2008 | Best of the Month | Smashing Magazine http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59812 Best Of January 2008 | Best of the Month | Smashing Magazine Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:11:25 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59812 [...] Farewell NetscapeAOL announced that it won’t support Netscape any longer. Will the browser ‘be sorely missed’? Did it pass away peacefully in the night, a lot later than many of us thought it would? The discussion about the browser many of us used once and dismissed afterwards. [...] [...] Farewell NetscapeAOL announced that it won’t support Netscape any longer. Will the browser ‘be sorely missed’? Did it pass away peacefully in the night, a lot later than many of us thought it would? The discussion about the browser many of us used once and dismissed afterwards. [...]

]]> By: Uhren Tom http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59674 Uhren Tom Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:32:36 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59674 I use ICQ for a long time, but I got back to do my conversation by email, becauce you allways get interupt in your work by an ICQ call. Nevertheless I wont be rechable for anyone at any time in the internet.... I use ICQ for a long time, but I got back to do my conversation by email, becauce you allways get interupt in your work by an ICQ call. Nevertheless I wont be rechable for anyone at any time in the internet….

]]> By: Dave http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59385 Dave Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:33:36 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59385 Wow I don't remember seeing to many reviews about software that compare the experience to a mortal passing. But beyond that fact the netscape demise just shows what happens when corporate companies try to wrestle with independent internet business models. It been over for Netscape for sometime but now its official. Wow I don’t remember seeing to many reviews about software that compare the experience to a mortal passing. But beyond that fact the netscape demise just shows what happens when corporate companies try to wrestle with independent internet business models. It been over for Netscape for sometime but now its official.

]]> By: Télécharger des fichier .DLL http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59367 Télécharger des fichier .DLL Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:56:00 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59367 Too much choices now. But I still missing the time when I suf with netscape. Like the first girl in your life, you love her forever, even can't accompany her forever. Too much choices now.
But I still missing the time when I suf with netscape. Like the first girl in your life, you love her forever, even can’t accompany her forever.

]]> By: Daemon http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59351 Daemon Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:24:23 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59351 I am curious whether there again in a few years looks different. Nobody knows how the Internet will develop. Netscape is certainly in the next few years to come, the only question is how! I am curious whether there again in a few years looks different. Nobody knows how the Internet will develop. Netscape is certainly in the next few years to come, the only question is how!

]]> By: Markus http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59292 Markus Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:42:48 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59292 I do agree with Ian's article. Netscape had his importance, but management obviously made many wrong decisions. A good indication for this is offered by the Alexa Tool. Looking at the traffic details, you can see that currently around 0,06 % of the Alexa user visit Netscape.com every day versus nearly 1 % in the years 2002 and 2003. So the website was amongs the 200 most visited websites in the www: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/netscape.com As Google has showed us impressively, a good product will automaticly find more users. Netscape already hat the users, but they did not recommend the browser to their friends, while Google users recommended search and nowadays maps, news, finance to their friends. The world is moving forward and obviously Netscape has moved and improved too slowly ... I do agree with Ian’s article. Netscape had his importance, but management obviously made many wrong decisions. A good indication for this is offered by the Alexa Tool. Looking at the traffic details, you can see that currently around 0,06 % of the Alexa user visit Netscape.com every day versus nearly 1 % in the years 2002 and 2003. So the website was amongs the 200 most visited websites in the www:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/netscape.com

As Google has showed us impressively, a good product will automaticly find more users. Netscape already hat the users, but they did not recommend the browser to their friends, while Google users recommended search and nowadays maps, news, finance to their friends.

The world is moving forward and obviously Netscape has moved and improved too slowly …

]]> By: Daniel http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/comment-page-1/#comment-59280 Daniel Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:36:18 +0000 http://www.webstandards.org/2007/12/28/farewell-netscape/#comment-59280 @faruk and Alex: I can understand your feelings an all. But please remember. If "Mozilla" had not been rewritten from scratch, web standards probalby weren't where they are now today. Sadly, NS 4 made IE 5 to implement the CSS Box model wrong, which is just awful... Anyway. Could you guys <strong>please</strong> chat with Netscape again? The german portal (netscape.de) still offers NS7.1 which is <em>old</em> and <strong>unsupported</strong>. Why is AOL still doing this? It's annoying to have this old browser on the market. They should recommend Firefox there as well! @faruk and Alex:
I can understand your feelings an all. But please remember. If “Mozilla” had not been rewritten from scratch, web standards probalby weren’t where they are now today.

Sadly, NS 4 made IE 5 to implement the CSS Box model wrong, which is just awful…

Anyway. Could you guys please chat with Netscape again? The german portal (netscape.de) still offers NS7.1 which is old and unsupported. Why is AOL still doing this? It’s annoying to have this old browser on the market. They should recommend Firefox there as well!

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