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Sunday, December 05, 2004
An early beta of the new Netscape browser is said to be able to render web pages in FireFox, and get this -- Internet Explorer. My first reaction to this was, "Um, what's the point?" But having thought about it a bit more from a power user's perspective, this is actually a very useful feature.
Having been clean of IE for a few weeks, I still run across the occasional site that doesn't work well in FireFox, especially my online banking site. When that happens, even the most anti-IE of us must fire up that blast from the past and go about our business. With the new Netscape (version #... uh, who knows) that problem will be averted. You just switch views and keep on going.
An early screenshot is very Netscape-centric and way too green, but it's promising nonetheless. I'd have to check the definition of the word "irony," but I do believe it would be ironic (don't ya think?) if Netscape made a comeback in part by stealing from Microsoft!
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Cory Kleinschmidt
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