Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News: -
undefined Andre123 :tux: :gnu: ha condiviso questa discussione
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:@jwz If you could send yourself back in time, knowing how the web and marca turned out, would you sabotage it?
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@jwz If you could send yourself back in time, knowing how the web and marca turned out, would you sabotage it?
@dhess Sort-of covered in Previously: https://jwz.org/b/ykbD
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undefined Christine Lemmer-Webber ha condiviso questa discussione
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Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:@jwz did you have to code the support for audio files and stuff yourself or was there a already a library infrastructure for doing this around back then? I imagine it was a nightmare to get anything above the most basic stuff going, because all these libs and stuff didn’t exist, back then or was way more simple.
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undefined Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉 ha condiviso questa discussione
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@jwz did you have to code the support for audio files and stuff yourself or was there a already a library infrastructure for doing this around back then? I imagine it was a nightmare to get anything above the most basic stuff going, because all these libs and stuff didn’t exist, back then or was way more simple.
@Nfoonf The plugin architecture was basically: "Here's a rectangle for you to draw in with no memory safety, go hog wild". There was no infrastructure for any of this. Plugins were OS-specific, so it's a credit to RealAudio that they took our lead and did the work on Linux instead of being Windows- and Mac-only.
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