[UPHPU] XHTML & PHP

[justin]

On 6/13/07, Brandon Stout <bms at mscis.org> wrote:
> As an interesting sidenote, in 98 or so, they abandoned a code trunk and
> moved to a new one.  That's why we never say Netscape 5 - they abandoned
> it in favor of the code for Netscape 6.  I forget what they called the
> branch codename for Netscape 6, but the version they abandoned was later
> picked up by Mozilla and resumed.  The codename was "Gecko".  What would
> have been Netscape 5 is Firefox, which is the backbone for Netscape 8.
> So, ancient Netscape fans have even more reason to abandon version 4.

close... the Gecko engine was actually the new one, which was used in
Netscape 6. Netscape 5 was abandoned because it was being built on
their older, and generally inferior, rendering engine.

justin
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