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 Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Mozilla browser??? |
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Anyone know the different between Mozilla and IE? I check my browser through some website and it all said my browser is Mozilla but actually my browser is IE.
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Mozilla and IE both have very different engines. Mozilla is based on the old Netscape.
Besides that, they both have different features.
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OK, history lesson. :wink:
Most of today's major browsers trace their ancestry back to the ancient “Mosaic” browser project from the early 1990's. When Mosaic first started to become a commercial product, it was beefed up and made into a "killer" browser that the developers hoped would beat the competition. They named the new browser “Mozilla” after (believe it or not) Mosaic + Godzilla. (That's where the fire-breathing dragon logo comes from!)
"Mozilla" eventually became the Netscape browser, which later got eaten by AOL, which then released the Netscape browser source code to the Open Source community, which used it to produce a new, reborn Mozilla browser. AOL/Netscape then used that reborn Mozilla code as the core of a new generation of "Netscape" branded browsers: In other words, Netscape browsers are today really just AOL-modified cousins of the Open Source Mozilla browser.
Internet Explorer also is a descendant of Mosaic/Mozilla: A separate company arising from Mosaic/Mozilla was called "Spyglass," and that source code was licensed by Microsoft and used as the basis for the first versions of IE.
Today's Mozilla browser ( http://www.mozilla.org/ ) is quite good. It has all the essential stuff that the "Netscape" version has, without the extra, um, baggage layered in by AOL.
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/netrev.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla
http://www.pcsympathy.com/article234.html |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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yea thats why they say Mozilla 1.x/Netscape 4 .
also why it looks so much like netscape 8O
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iNaNimAtE
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| Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 1:29 am Post subject: |
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Well there it is; I've always wondered what Mosaic was...
Good research.
EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot. If you scroll down, it says:
"Distributed under a licensing agreement with Spyglass, Inc."
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| maybe the mosiac will be faster then ie or better :wink: |
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iNaNimAtE
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| Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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"Windows 95/NT(Intel) (2,936 KB)"
Well... anyone have an emulator?
I tried it, and I got to the Yahoo 404 page; which loaded quite fast. Then it crashed, so I put it under compatibility mode for Windows 95. Didn't even load, so I conclude that the old ways aren't always the best.
It's nice to have a piece of history sitting on my hard drive.
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yeah loaded google fine.
didn't show most images on my site .
was rejected by my site on my apache rent a server.
and crashed when yahoo loaded.
Thank God they don't make em like the used to. |
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iNaNimAtE
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 12:27 am Post subject: |
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I got it to load my site also, but it didn't work with the CGI counter I have, and the Forum sort of worked. Also, apparently it doesn't support Frames.
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iNaNimAtE
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:26 am Post subject: |
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Your site (PAH) looks atrociously bad. CSS is spilling all over the place, and none of the menu contents are next to each other.
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I wasn't kidding. Let's be thankful that Mosaic isn't exactly a "popular" browser.
EDIT: Oh yes, and I forgot to mention: On the Mosaic page: "Last Modified: January 26, 1997"
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:06 am Post subject: |
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well it still runs (starts up) :lol: :lol: :lol:
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iNaNimAtE
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:12 am Post subject: |
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Well, I wouldn't quite call that running...
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:13 am Post subject: |
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for all you that are fans of the oldies here is an emulator for
all the classic browsers
http://www.dejavu.org/emulator.htm |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:41 am Post subject: |
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wow, thats nice stuff
*makes it her home page* :D |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:20 am Post subject: |
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Wow... that is some old school stuff.
Seems like all of the browsers are incompatibe with something. Too bad there is no Lynx emulation, because I would have liked to use it.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| there is one.. :? |
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iNaNimAtE
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Notice how it says "Sorry, no lynx emulation yet..." after clicking on "Lynx on the main page.
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Don't expect Mosaic to support modern browser technologies. It will support basic HTML, GIF and JPG only. No CSS, no DHTML, no Javascript, and not even descent forms processing (it seems that file uploading isn't supported.)
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| Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| I would still say its better then cell phone surfing 8) |
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