Firefox As a Netscape Wrapper

For all you rendering engine zealots & fanatics out there:

Maxthon is as much an IE wrapper as Firefox is a Netscape wrapper. How many people really care what engine powers their car? A few nerds perhaps. Most people choose their cars based on important attributes as: comforts, design, speed, BRAND and cost. NOT engine. Get real you wackos! If you want to worry about something meaningful there are plenty of burning issues to get involved in out there such as: poverty, health, global issues, racism, anti-semitism, terrorism and better education.




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Comments

[Asa Dotzler]

You got it almost exactly backwards. The last Netscape engine shipped with Netscape 4 back in 1997. Firefox is built on the Mozilla engine. Today's Netscape is actually built around that same Mozilla/Firefox engine, not the other way around.

There are three main browser engines out there with any appreciable market share. IE's engine, which Maxthon uses, Webkit/KHTML which Safari uses, and Mozilla which Firefox uses.

I'm not discounting your point, (which, I think is to say that browsers, including Maxthon, are not simply "wrappers", they are full-blown applications that happen to depend on other technologies) I'm just trying to make it clear that it would be much more accurate to say that Netscape is to Mozilla what Maxthon is to IE.

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[oyunlar]

Cool blog

I hope everybody read this article

thank you for infos.

[Kuntau]

I think he got it right. from wikipedia about Gecko Engine state that that gecko engine (which all mozilla base application use) is originally created by Netscape Communication Corporation. It is just now the development take over by mozilla.

just my 2 cents