程序如此灵动！

好像自我接触的电脑书，
在叙述ie浏览器的时候，多会提到netscape这款曾经风光一时的浏览器，
而且在后来的web编程中，也会多多少少考虑到对netscape的兼容性问题。
而最近netscape宣布不再开发netscape，建议网民使用firefox。

Netscape主管汤姆·德雷派尔(Tom Drapeau)在其官方博客上称：
“尽管AOL内部团队投入了大量时间和精力，期望Netscape获得重生，但这些努力没能让我们从微软手中夺取市场份额。”
http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/

原文如下：
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AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime, it has been involved with a number of high profile acquisitions, perhaps the largest of which was the 1999 acquisition of the Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape was known to many as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools.

At the time of the acquisition, the Netscape team had begun working on converting their flagship product – the Netscape Communicator web suite – into open source software, under a new name: Mozilla. AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser, the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser that was released in 2000 and continued to solely fund the development and marketing efforts of Netscape-branded browsers. In 2003, an independent foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of the foundation.

While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.

AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.

Q: What will this mean?
A: We’ll continue to release security patches for the current version of the browser, Netscape Navigator until February 1, 2008. After February 1, there will be no more active product support for Navigator 9, or any previous Netscape Navigator browser. This includes Netscape v1-v4.x, Netscape v6, Netscape v7 Suite, Netscape Browser v8, and Netscape Navigator/Messenger 9.

Q: I use Netscape now. Now that Netscape is stopping support, what do I do?
A: The Netscape Team fully stands behind the fine work being done by the Mozilla Foundation. We recommend that you download Mozilla Firefox and give it a try. We know you’ll enjoy it!

Q: Will I still be able to use Netscape?
A: You will still be able to download old versions of Netscape from the Netscape Archive (link coming). However, these products are no longer supported. Our recommendation for the nostalgic out there is to download Mozilla Firefox, and add on the Netscape theme and Netscape extensions which are available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/56836

This way you’ll have a current web browser that is very secure, and has the look and feel you have grown accustomed to with Netscape.

Q: Will anyone be around to answer my questions?
A: The following sites will continue to exist and offer information about Netscape after February 1, 2008: The UFAQ (http://www.ufaq.org/), the Netscape Archive, the Netscape Community Forum (http://community.netscape.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ws-nscpbrowser&redirCnt=1).

Please bear in mind that no active product support will be available.

Q: Does this mean that Netscape is dead?
A: While we will no longer support the Netscape web browser as of February 1, 2008, Netscape.com (http://www.netscape.com) will still continue to serve as a general use Internet portal.
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大意就是
“希望netscape的用户能够转型为firefox用户，明年2月份开始就不在对netscape进行支持了，而官方网站将继续保留”

苏南认为，
从这件事情上可以体现出：

1、体现了netscape的宽大胸怀，赢得起也输得起。
毕竟netscape也是当然风光一时的浏览器，由于ie的随系统捆绑及其它问题，逐渐失掉市场份额。
现在他退出的时候，还推荐大家使用更好的firefox浏览器。

2、能够看到firefox和ie两雄争霸的局面也不远了。
好像现在还有opera浏览器等存在，opera是收费的软件，而MyIE2和腾讯TT之类的属于IE的衍生物，属于IE那边的份额。

3、我们如何选择？
我本人还是固执的使用IE，习惯了。呵呵。
但是firefox也是我必装的软件。有的时候，还确实非常有用。
比如我上传126附件的时候，IE下面似乎传不上去，但是firefox一下子就OKey了。
还有如果大家选用firefox的时候，记得一定要装一个插件，叫做ietab，他可以实现
firefox使用IE内核，当当前网页对firefox不兼容的时候，你就可以轻轻点击一下，
使Firefox切换到IE内核，页面就可以看了。

就说这么多吧，眼看就2008年了，奥运会就马上在北京召开了。
整体想一下，2007我过的还不错，希望我的2008会更好。哈哈~~
祝各位看客元旦快乐，2008年发大财，买彩票中500万。呵呵~~~
that’s all~~~