Re: NetScape 5

[Ronald Clark <ron@pacifier.com>]

Mozilla has C scorce code

Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com> wrote:
> On 10 Dec 1998, Ronald Clark wrote:

>> Netscape 5 is coming out soon and it will be only 5megs
>> I do not see whay we can't make a netscape for the GS.
>> Please tell me what your think on this mater

> this one's been beat to death.  the biggest problem (besides any library
> conflicts and/or the fact that if all goes well it would probably take a
> couple weeks to compile it!) is that the GS's native graphic modes aren't
> very compatible with the .GIF, .JPG or .PNG formats commonly found these
> days...  8\

> ...then there's the realm of "impossibillity" if the Mozilla sources are
> in C++.  (i haven't seen them myself, so i don't know if they're in C or
> C++....)

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