“Once the beast Mozilla roared, but now America Online’s
Netscape Communications division just grumbles. Netscape has slid
from owning the browser market with an 87 percent share in 1996 to
trailing with a current 36 percent share, behind nemesis
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, according to Zona Research….”
“Communicator 5.0 had better be outstanding, or it may share
the Titanic’s fate, analysts say. Mounting skepticism of
Netscape’s ability to deliver and its slow adoption of Web
standards has even some loyal developers considering jumping
ship….”
“Just as the Mosaic browser revolutionized the Web in 1993,
today the focus is instant messaging and tomorrow we’ll want
entirely new standards, such as XML, Krock says. Netscape is
positioning Communicator as a window to hundreds of Web-based
applications.”