Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Firefox is a fifth-generation web browser
Firefox represents a fifth generation in web browsing technology. Very briefly, those 4 generations are:
Along the way, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass, Inc. - who in turn had licensed Mosaic from UIUC who owned NCSA - and created Internet Explorer from it.
There are many web standards today. Fortunately, Firefox supports almost all the popular ones. That includes: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, MathML, Javascript, and a bunch of others.
A couple interesting spin-offs from Firefox are:
- original web browser created at CERN (Cello?)
- Mosaic from NCSA (first web browser created in the US)
- Netscape created by some members of the original Mosaic team
- Mozilla created by Netscape
- Firefox (Mozilla but with platform-native UI components
Along the way, Microsoft licensed Mosaic from Spyglass, Inc. - who in turn had licensed Mosaic from UIUC who owned NCSA - and created Internet Explorer from it.
There are many web standards today. Fortunately, Firefox supports almost all the popular ones. That includes: HTML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, MathML, Javascript, and a bunch of others.
A couple interesting spin-offs from Firefox are:
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
