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Byte.com: Talking About Mozilla: Many Different Visions For The Project

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 14, 2001

“For Web developers, supporting the Netscape browser has become
a thankless chore.”

“There are two of them now. The creaky 4.x browser, which still
has significant (but diminishing) market share, offers only a
1997-era glimpse of what CSS, DOM, and DHTML have become. Its
rendering engine fails dramatically on complex, table-heavy
pages.The rewritten Mozilla browser, with negligible market
share, makes great improvements in all these areas. But it has its
own quirks, and developers won’t want to sort these out until and
unless there’s demand.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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