A Look BackFriday March 31st, 2000For Mozilla's second birthday, we have put together a brief timeline of screenshots, showing the progression of Mozilla. Without further ado, behold, A Look Back... This is very well done. Wish I could find an old MozillaClassic binary... used to have em. -Andrew (aniese@efront.com) Yes, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on the final MozClassic build, just to see what they did :) Great work guys! http://mozilla.hypermart.net/ Must agree that they should've tried to ship this before aiming to ship a gecko based product :) ---Posted with Mozclassic--- Is that throbber at the bottom of the page going to be the official one? It rocks! yeah, but one thing that isn't so great in it: it doesn't look very...continuous, like the current 4.x one. But still, it's Great! Yeah, I was thinking that too. It looks really nice, but it's as if a few frames of animation is missing when it loops. The N jumps a few pixles to the right. I sure hope they will fix that.. If you look closly it's not that the N jumps, rather that the right vertical of the N gets corrupted as the light returns down the left vertical. Look at it again. ugh... lens flairs. Don't be fooled people. Its the old throbber with a lens flair covering up most of the image. They didn't do any REAL work on the animation... its a cheap hack IMHO Sorry, I just don't like lens flairs - they are used way too much. "Hmm this picture doesn't look too good. I know I'll add a lens flair! There, good enough to win a competition..." <sigh> Applause for the mozine people for the look back. I was thinking about how Mozilla had progressed myself. I also wondered if it would have been better PR to have released Netscape 5 (or even 4.5) based on MozillaClassic before the first anniversary. It would've got a more CSS1 compliant browser out there. Netscape and Mozilla.org wouldn't be under so much pressure and scrutiny to produce something quickly, and they could take their time and add more funky features. MozClassic really wasn't a substantial improvement in terms of standards support over 4.x. It still used the same rendering engine that had been abused for 4 versions of the software. Sure, it had some exceedingly cool new features, but it wouldn't have given much improvement in standards support. I was looking at the history section. You know how there have been three upper-right hand corner "Mozilla Is Working" animations, right? I like the second more than the third! BRING IT BACK, PLEASE! |