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Nobody wants to explore a 100 story virtual mall when they can just type in exactly what they are looking for. In 3D I would have to walk over to my new task which could take a significant amount of time depending on how far away it is from me. If I want to switch apps or tabs, I can typically do it with a very quick flick of my mouse. This distinction is crucially important for navigating quickly through interfaces. The mouse is capable of recording velocity (which is why it is used for aiming), whereas the keyboard is binary. I think the problem with them is the keyboard.
#Netscape navigator 2018 update#
They (of course) ran into the typical-MS problem of "we implemented a draft and then they made a major change (to the box model, which ironically later got a configuration flag for and many many people actively prefer the old MS way P) and couldn't update very well as we now had existing users", but what I claim really caused them to stagnate was the massive lawsuit against them, which demoralized the IE team in a company that doesn't force people to work on project teams where they don't want to work (the culture in Microsoft was "if you want to build a new product, poach a team worth of people from other, more boring teams").įor more information and a million references, here is a comment I left detailing this history five years ago:ģD skeuomorphic interfaces were always good in theory. It is better than that: Netscape was actually the browser ignoring standards (and in particular was refusing to implement CSS) and Microsoft with IE came in as what someone from the W3C at the time called the "white knight" with a browser that cared about standards and published their DTDs and really implemented stuff like CSS. From my perspective, IE delayed the emergence of the modern web.
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IE 4 dominated the landscape so long that, in truth, you couldn't build real dynamic web applications until many years later. With Navigator you could reload timesheets all day long with IE the application became unusable after just a few timesheet changes. Using the DHTML games as a model, I built a timesheet entry and management application for Navigator (layers) and IE (innerHTML) that never reloaded the page. IE 4's innerHTML seemed more powerful but it was just plain unusable in practice. People were building amazing DHTML games using JavaScript and layers in Navigator 4. Arguably innerHTML won because this was the era where Microsoft was throwing its monopoly weight around to push IE and kill Netscape. Layers lost out and innerHTML won the day, but it's a stretch to say IE was more innovative than Netscape. And unlike layers, IE's innerHTML was unusable for dynamic updates because it leaked memory like a sieve and after dynamically reloading content a few times IE would grind to a halt. These security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.An add-on has been included in this version to help users migrate to either Flock or FirefoxThe WeatherBug add-on has been removed from this version of Navigator.Netscape Navigator had layers ( ) long before Internet Explorer made the innerHTML property mutable. These security fixes included in Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 have been included in Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.6.An add-on has been included in this version to help users migrate to either Flock or FirefoxThe WeatherBug add-on has been removed from this version of Navigator. The browser even includes a link to both Firefox and Flock. However I felt it all looked a little cluttered, especially when you can open pages in multiple tabs instead.Įnding support for Netscape essentially means this version will slowly turn into a museum piece. It essentially shows websites in simple text, in case there's some pages you just want to browse through quickly. The mini browser, on the other hand, seems a bit out of place. I found this quite useful for things I didn't really wanted to bookmark but still wanted to store somewhere. I quite like the link pad, which lets you drag and drop any link in the sidebar. Two features that Netscape offers that you won't find in Firefox though are the link pad and mini browser.
#Netscape navigator 2018 password#
Netscape also has a number of similar security features like master password and SSL and TLS encryption. In terms of performance, you can also expect identical speed and memory usage as Firefox.