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So, if it's not a coincidence that ISS was the Netscape of security in Atlanta, what do you think the reason is?

Why did Netscape think they could base a business on selling something that users could get for free?

In fact, Microsoft had more and better programmers and just out-iterated and out-distributed Netscape in a fast-moving market.

When Netscape was the best browser, it had an 80% market share even while Microsoft was bundling IE.

It's the first successful IT security startup (the Netscape of its field), which sets you up for post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc.

AOL open-sourced Netscape because it lost, for a wide range of different reasons.

If it didn't work in Netscape it was no big deal.

But I don't think its coincidence that ISS was the netscape of its field, and the fact that we have a sustaining cluster in security.

At home my dad taught me how to create my own website (so 1997 or 1998) using Netscape Composer (on win 95 or 98) and uploading it to a free host.

I was just commenting on how Microsoft's monopolistic behavior caused Netscape to open-source and eventually get bought out by AOL, thus forming Mozilla through the open-source release.

There's a balance to be struck I think - you can't look too Netscape 4.0 but I'd, if anything, be made suspicious by an obvious focus on marketing bling.

They included trying to charge for browsers while giving away free betas, not letting PC magazines distribute the code, not letting ISPs customize the branding, discontinuing Netscape and replacing it with Commander (?

"What would have happened if Netscape wasn't forced to make their browser free because Microsoft subsidised the development of IE using profits from unrelated software?" Browsers were free before IE came along.

I work for a lot of artists and designers, these guys want fast, retina full-screen responsive images, and I’m not sure that it’s an unreasonable expectation, but I’ve got enough technological hoops to jump through to recall the days of “Netscape Now!” and “IE 5” badges.

In 1999, IE was the best available browser (Netscape would have been your other option).

Hence the display:table-* properties which mimics the layout of html tables as designed by Netscape.

We did connect JS and Java via LiveConnect, which led to the JRI (Warren Harris at Netscape), which led to the JNI.