Netscape is really not that bad, trust me. Same engine as Firefox (Gecko)

Hee. I was talking about the mid-'90s, when FF wasn't even a twinkle in the mind's eye of it's creator. When NN first came on the scene, and throughout the time when it dominated the browser wars, it was famous (or infamous, depending on who you talked to) for implementing non-standard HTML extensions and generally not giving a crap about standards compliance. This was awesome at the beginning (and led to all sorts of innovation, and gave us much of the HTML & Javascript standards we see today), cos everyone just designed for NN and said "Fuck it!" to IE. But as the decade wore on it got to be frustrating, and the bugs in the program weren't being fixed, and why should people be stuck using just one browser anyway? I bowed out around the end of '98 and I'm glad of it. Of course, this means I'm basically useless here (as after a decade of non-use I've forgotten nearly everything I knew) but I can't help but find it amusing that the more things change, the more they really do stay the same.

The origin of non-standard "blink": http://www.w3.org/Style/HTML40-plus-blink.dtd

Seen first in Netscape. Not even supported in IE. That little jog through Netscape's history was an eye-opener - thanks.

Funny how the more things change, though, the more they change; now Netscape gets few complaints from anyone who's familiar with more recent versions, while IE gets nothing but contempt for being the only non-standards compliant browser, not to mention MS achieving their stanglehold on the market through monopolistic prctices such as forced and irreversible browser/OS intergration.

Just thought I'd point that out :)

True. ^_^