u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 12 hours agoNetscape browser is back... as a shitty Chromium fork.i.imgur.comimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageNetscape browser is back... as a shitty Chromium fork.i.imgur.comu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 hours agoI vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 hours agoHad to refresh my knowledge of that era. But it was Netscape version 8 that let users use the Trident engine (internet explorer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(software) Under use cases.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 hours ago to render web pages in IE mode Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that “Best viewed in Internet Explorer” badge Plus, 8 wasn’t the last release either
minus-squareToes♀@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 hours ago Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility Yeah it was, I don’t know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way. I never made a claim to the accuracy.
I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?
sauce?
Had to refresh my knowledge of that era.
But it was Netscape version 8 that let users use the Trident engine (internet explorer).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(software)
Under use cases.
Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that “Best viewed in Internet Explorer” badge
Plus, 8 wasn’t the last release either
Yeah it was, I don’t know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way.
I never made a claim to the accuracy.