MozillaNews.orgMozillaNews!BetaNews Interviews with Gary Schare (Microsoft) and Blake Ross on Browsers- December 1, 2004 In a recent interview with BetaNews (Nov 15), Microsoft's product director Gary Schare discussed Internet Explorer and Firefox 1.0. Schare notes the need to market Internet Explorer aggressively (without any material development on IE) while echoing Microsoft's denial on Firefox's threat to Internet Explorer. Yesterday (Nov 29), BetaNews published another interview with Firefox developer, Blake Ross. In the interview, Ross fires back at Schare's claims on security and feature innovation and...http://mozillanews.org/?article=f7e7c722ccf15110cda1325922e3eb3c Firefox-Based Netscape Prototype Released- December 1, 2004 Today, AOL releases the prototype of its Netscape Browser, a standalone browser based on Firefox 0.9.3. According to an article by BetaNews, the software is outsourced to the Canadian software firm Mercurial Communications. This Windows-only release includes some features not found in Firefox. A notable addition is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer (IE) engine. The browser uses Gecko, the same layout engine in Firefox and Mozilla, but the user can easily switch to IE mode through..http://mozillanews.org/?article=d667e2d0f3d8e0372ea92ac571bd7d4f |