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Without Netscape 6, we wouldn't have had Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox, and probably wouldn't have IE7, IE8, IE9 and KHTML/Webkit would have come about very differently and all these would have had much less competition.

Netscape 6, or at least the mere fact that it existed and worked well enough and the fact that it was the first browser ever that did standards well and focused on not much else other than standards, made it the most important browser ever created.

Netscape 6 was the most revolutionary browser project ever created and had the development effort behind Netscape 6 not been done, we would possibly have had a much worse very IE-only web today.

Never mind that beyond all that, Netscape 4 was terrible and deserved to be thrown out.




> Netscape 6 was the most revolutionary browser project ever created

I dont disagree with the general sentiment of your comment. But as someone who attempted to use Netscape 6 at various stages of its development, I fear that statement might be stretching facts a little bit.




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