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According to MozillaZine, the development of Netscape has ceased. Could someone update to the article that 7.1 was the last release?

This is what the article says:

"It has been learned through public and private sources that AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled the logos off the buildings). Some will remain working on Mozilla during the transition, and will move to other jobs within AOL."

-- Hank Powers


The release dates I added to the list are based on Netscape press releases [1]. If someone know better feel free to edit them. -- Peter Winnberg


The "7" in the text is linking to an external source. Is it OK according to Wikipedia standards? Shouldn't the link be at the end of the article instead? - Olivier

Any chance we can cut down the size of this picture? It's spreading the page across the right margin. -- Zoe

Ive tried to resize the pic it doesn't give a good result. Ericd

How to link the big image ?

This latest one looks good, thanks, Ericd. -- Zoe

It's still too large for a float and doesn't provide enough information to seem to justify a full-width inline. Any objection to scaling it down more? --Brion 00:22 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

I have no objections. -- Zoe

Isn't it more appreciate to have a separate article about Broser war and the article should contain much more explanasions about Netscape Nagivator itself. -- Taku 04:32 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

That's a fair question, Taku, but my take on it is that it's not possible to describe or understand Netscape (the browser) without also describing the social context. Commercial products do not evolve in isolation, they shape and are shaped by the world around them. How else is it possible, for example, to understand the sale to AOL except in the context of the way that MS "cut off their air supply". (Not my words - Bill Gates. Or maybe it was Balmer - I forget.) Or to understand the huge difference between 4.x and 6.x without knowing about (a) the browser war and (b) the Mozilla project. Or (p[erhaps most of all) to understand about the reasons for the various proprietary extensions and their consequences for web users - an area I have barely touched on. If you have more detail to add about the programming side of things though, that would be great. Tannin 04:42 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

I agree. -- Taku 04:50 Jan 27, 2003 (UTC)

Should we dump the image of Navigator 1.xx and replace it with an image of Wikipedia using Navigator 7.xx instead??? Comments? - hoshie

Yes, but not 7.xx. 7.xx is atypical and just a niche market product of little interest to anyone - least of all AOL, they have 87 billion other problems right now! The illustration ought to be one of the definitive versions of NN from its golden era - i.e., a 4.x or close to that, I think. If pressed to pick one particular version as "most typical" I guess I'd go with Navigator 4.08, the last one before Commmunicator, but anything from about that time would do. Tannin 14:53 Feb 10, 2003 (UTC)
I think this article is long enough that it could live with more than one image. I'd say 3.x was the golden age, but 4.x was the version that went on for ever, so I guess we should use 1.1, 4.08 and 7.0 or something like that... --rbrwr
Sounds good. Tannin
Having said that, I don't actually have any version of Netscape installed at the moment - just Mozilla and IE. So I can't provide screenshots for any version, at least not without some trouble. Anybody here running Netscape? --rbrwr

Thanks for the comments everyone. On one of my backup CDs, I have NS versions from 0.9x to 7.01. I would be happy to take screenshots of any NS version. - hoshie

I think it would be a good idea to have pix of more than one version as it could be interesting to see how the interface evolved over time. How about 4.08 on this page with a link to Versions of Netscape Navigator or something similar with pix of the others? Tokerboy

As a Netscape user (v7.0?) I have to agree that this is now more a niche product. I only use netscape since it's what I was accustomed with through my "childhood" (and particular Netscape Mail). I think the article lost one of the nice features with v7.0?. I refer to the tab functions. So instead of having a lot of tabs down at the start bar, you have tabs inside netscape. But I guess this has nothing to do with a wikipedia entry.. ? :) Mendalus 20:07, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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