[TheForge] stopping pop windows

Wed Oct 16 08:54:01 2002

Thank you for the information. That is where me and a lot of people I
know were getting confused at.

Chad

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Subject: Re: [TheForge] stopping pop windows

At 11:35 PM 10/15/2002, Gabriel  wrote:
>Marthanis wrote:
>>Mozzilla[sic] was the predecessor to Netscape.
>
>Hardly.  Mozilla is in active development, and has not been around as
long as
>the netscape browser.  Mozilla just released version 1.2a.  Works very 
>nicely --
>it's what I'm composing this email in now.
Actually, it's a bit more complex than that.  The short version:

" Mozilla.org is the developer community for Mozilla developers, many of

whom work for
Netscape. (Ah, here's where some folks get confused ... and rightly so.)

Netscape, in this
instance, is the corporate entity behind the Mozilla project, providing 
overall direction,
funding, and a sense of purpose and control. At the same time, Netscape 
uses mozilla.org and  the developer community around it to leverage
their 
development of Netscape 6, which is a commercial web browser built on
top 
of the Mozilla codebase.

Netscape 6 can be thought of as a branded version of Mozilla with some 
extra functionality and software components thrown in. For instance, 
Netscape is a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, so AOL has funded the 
development of a Mozilla-based AOL Instant Messenger client, which is 
included in the default installation of Netscape 6. This is an example
of 
software that isn't available in the default Mozilla installation, and 
serves as an important distinction between the two."

For a far longer explanation, from which the preceding was lifted, go
to:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/18/magazine/moz_aint_net
scape.html

Terry

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