Quick Question: What browser is AOL based on?

[coder1]

What browser is the current version of AOL (7.0) based on? And are they planning on staying with this base?
Thanks for any info on the subject.

 

[XZeroII]

I believe IE still.

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: XZeroII
I believe IE still.

For now... but they'll probably try to leverage their investment in Netscape eventually...

-geoff

 

[Electrode]

2.0 up to 4.0 used AOL's proprietary browser, which really sucked badly.
5.0 up to 7.0 use Internet Explorer.
8.0 will use Mozilla! At last, AOL'ers will get SOMETHING decent!

 

[hoihtah]

considering that AOL bought netscape... it's the right move.

 

[coder1]

Thanks for the info guys.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Electrode
2.0 up to 4.0 used AOL's proprietary browser, which really sucked badly.
5.0 up to 7.0 use Internet Explorer.
8.0 will use Mozilla! At last, AOL'ers will get SOMETHING decent!

Doubtful. AOL will modify Mozilla to appeal to the below average user. It will be horrible. Trust me. AOL has not done one thing right. Look at netscape. They bought it and sat on it. WinAMP, will they ever release 3.0? AOL will just fill it up with ads and make it proprietary.

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Electrode
2.0 up to 4.0 used AOL's proprietary browser, which really sucked badly.
5.0 up to 7.0 use Internet Explorer.
8.0 will use Mozilla! At last, AOL'ers will get SOMETHING decent!

Doubtful. AOL will modify Mozilla to appeal to the below average user. It will be horrible. Trust me. AOL has not done one thing right. Look at netscape. They bought it and sat on it. WinAMP, will they ever release 3.0? AOL will just fill it up with ads and make it proprietary.

They are already beta testing AOL 7.0 with the Gecko browser and it works great. It doesn't really look or perform differently than IE 6 on my XP machine.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: yakko

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Electrode
2.0 up to 4.0 used AOL's proprietary browser, which really sucked badly.
5.0 up to 7.0 use Internet Explorer.
8.0 will use Mozilla! At last, AOL'ers will get SOMETHING decent!

Doubtful. AOL will modify Mozilla to appeal to the below average user. It will be horrible. Trust me. AOL has not done one thing right. Look at netscape. They bought it and sat on it. WinAMP, will they ever release 3.0? AOL will just fill it up with ads and make it proprietary.

They are already beta testing AOL 7.0 with the Gecko browser and it works great. It doesn't really look or perform differently than IE 6 on my XP machine.

Isn't there a NDA for Beta testers? You bad, bad boy

 

[chiwawa626]

Yeah currently uptill now its been IE, but they are beta testing a gecko/mozzilla one that is gonna take over, it all looks the same, i guess just the way it gets and parses the stuff is diffrent, no real improovment from the quick glance i saw of it....