Subj : Re: Microsoft
To   : MRO
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Apr 02 2023 09:51 am

 Re: Re: Microsoft
 By: MRO to hollowone on Thu Mar 23 2023 00:22:30

>> I think the moment when Netscape was rewritten into Java killed the
>> adoption completely. It was NN6 if I recall. Looked fancy from UI/UX
>> perspective as we call it today, but slow as hell and unbearable for

MR> i used netscape and i don't even remember that happening. i looked it up
MR> and it said it was using the gecko engine.

Gecko is Mozilla's (formerly Netscape) HTML rendering engine... XUL was the templating language used for the UI/Chrome around that (the browser's UI, not the web page).  It was also JavaScript, not Java.


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