Comments on: Mosaic-Killer http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:56:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alex Bishop http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-30755 Alex Bishop Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:22:08 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/#comment-30755 Wladimir: It's more complicated than that. The NCSA licensed the Mosaic technology and trademarks to Spyglass, who wrote Spyglass Mosaic from scratch (contrary to popular belief, they didn't use any NCSA code). Spyglass then licensed their browser to Microsoft, who used it as the basis for Internet Explorer. The "Based on NCSA Mosaic" phrasing is therefore a little inaccurate ("Based on Spyglass Mosaic" would be better) and down to this complex licensing arrangement. In any case, there's probably very little (if any) Spyglass code left in IE and the "Based on NCSA Mosaic" small print is gone in IE7. This is interesting: http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html The original Netscape code may well have had more in common with NCSA Mosaic than IE, given that the original Netscape team was made up of many ex-NCSA developers. And there's still pre-1998 Netscape code in Mozilla today... (NSPR and NSS spring to mind.) Wladimir: It’s more complicated than that. The NCSA licensed the Mosaic technology and trademarks to Spyglass, who wrote Spyglass Mosaic from scratch (contrary to popular belief, they didn’t use any NCSA code). Spyglass then licensed their browser to Microsoft, who used it as the basis for Internet Explorer.

The “Based on NCSA Mosaic” phrasing is therefore a little inaccurate (“Based on Spyglass Mosaic” would be better) and down to this complex licensing arrangement.

In any case, there’s probably very little (if any) Spyglass code left in IE and the “Based on NCSA Mosaic” small print is gone in IE7.

This is interesting: http://www.ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html

The original Netscape code may well have had more in common with NCSA Mosaic than IE, given that the original Netscape team was made up of many ex-NCSA developers.

And there’s still pre-1998 Netscape code in Mozilla today… (NSPR and NSS spring to mind.)

]]> By: sipaq http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-30733 sipaq Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:56:01 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/#comment-30733 See http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html for how the Mozilla name was created. Just search for the first occurrence of "Mozilla" on that page. See http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html for how the Mozilla name was created. Just search for the first occurrence of “Mozilla” on that page.

]]> By: Wladimir Palant http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/comment-page-1/#comment-30726 Wladimir Palant Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:17:58 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/04/15/mosaic-killer/#comment-30726 You forgot to mention one interesting detail: Mosaic has been bought by Microsoft and became the base for Internet Explorer. About Internet Explorer dialog still says: "Based on NCSA Mosaic" ;) You forgot to mention one interesting detail: Mosaic has been bought by Microsoft and became the base for Internet Explorer. About Internet Explorer dialog still says: “Based on NCSA Mosaic” ;)

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