Re: Excel to HTML Browser Problems

As (almost) always, you are right, Paul.

On the Versiontracker page the first review (by Cubeboy) states: "...it's the successor to Netscape in that it incoporates browser, email, web design, etc in one program."

The SeaMonkey folks themselves are not billing it as Netscape's successor.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 6/22/06 5:49 PM, in article eebPl7llGHA.3468@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Jim
Gordon" <goldkey74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SeaMonkey (used to be
called Netscape)

Huh? www.netscape.com /Browser says that Netscape 8 for Mac OS X is "not
ready yet" but 7.2 still is. It doesn't sound like it's changed its name. No
mention of "SeaMonkey" anywhere (and it would be very strange for them to
dump such a well-known brand as "Netscape").

A google of SeaMonkey seems to indicate that it's, yes, yet another Mozilla
project. It does sound awfully similar to the full Netscape Communicator of
yore (i.e. not broken up into browser and email like FireFox and
Thunderbird). But it's just a "project", i.e. beta at present. Who needs yet
another Mozilla?

Meanwhile there's still a Mozilla app available but it's at 1.7.13. Maybe
it's not being developed further and SeaMonkey is the next version. Yes, it
explicitly says

"The SeaMonkey project is an effort to deliver production-quality releases
of code derived from the application formerly known as "Mozilla Application
Suite" and is the codename for the Mozilla browser. They include the
NGLayout/Gecko layout engine and are built atop the XPCOM component
architecture."

.

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