qooxdoo 0.8 to support Netscape 4
Filed under: Announcements, Development
By Fabian Jakobs @ April 1, 2008 12:00 am
In our constant quest for cross-platform compatibility we are especially proud to announce support for the legendary Netscape Navigator 4 browsers with qooxdoo 0.8. This browser, in its latest stable 4.08 release, has had a major impact on Internet usage and browser experience, and still maintains a small but die-hard community of users (Netscape's shares of the browser market total at about 0.68%).
This is another step forward to show qooxdoo's commitment to real world technologies and to help protect existing investments. We are particularly happy to present qooxdoo support for this platform in the 10th anniversary of its most recent release.
Happy Birthday, Netscape 4!
Comment by Alnicodon
Stunning ! I’m stunned ! Stunning and amazing !!!
Ok, I understand that the Ecmascript engine is the basis of the current Firefox/Mofo browsers, the memory leaks (circular garbage and other nuisances) are taken care of by qooxdoo already… but still what I’d really like to know: could you describe what the major incompatibilities you had to care about in order to make all this work ? Many workaround ? Or maybe I’ll browse someday through the SVN, after netscape 4 specific variants.
Ah the shock, anyway !
Al.
April 24, 2008 10:43 pm
Comment by Thomas Herchenröder
Um…, Al, you did mind the date of the post, did you?! If you need further proof, take a close look at a blow-up of the “screenshot”…
April 25, 2008 10:28 am
Comment by Alnicodon
Of course I did. And you did mind my faked enthusiastic tone ?
Actually I just happened to get myself an update on qooxdoo from the blog… April Fool’s day is long behind now, so wasn’t so sceptic and, from what I’ve learnt so far about qooxdoo, that was “only” stunning, but certainly not unbelievable/impossible.
It’s just too bad you did’nt let me make a fool out of myself any longer… I could already foresee the Slashdot headline “Netscape 4 ready for Web 2.0″ !
Al.
April 25, 2008 1:43 pm