[ Thanks to Lin Kuei
for this link. ]
“Code-named Photon, Communicator has been in development for
close to two years, although AOL has made no decisions on how to
market the product. But sources say a faction of the company is
pushing for Communicator to succeed Netscape, which has all but
disappeared from users’ screens.“AOL began work on Photon after the release of Netscape 6 in
November 2000 was met with harsh criticism. Netscape 6 was based on
slow and unstable beta builds of Mozilla, the open-source Web
browser, and developers within AOL wished to make the mail and IM
clients more appealing to experienced users.“Communicator utilizes the Gecko engine and XUL user interface
language found in Mozilla, but it was developed entirely in-house
and is not open source, according to AOL…”
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