Who deserves the credit for the rapid growth in graphical computing?

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/24/2017 3:08 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:45:25PM +0000, Henry Melancon via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> Back in the day everything was IBM compatible and FilePro, Dbase, Lotus, WordPerfect and Netscape ruled......not OFFICE!!!!
>> And I think things were better.......
>
> Netscape was great in the 0.99.2beta days.
>
> By the time they hit Netscape Suite 6, it was a bloated piece of rubbish.
> The first thing the Mozilla team did when they got the code was toss out
> 60%+ of the codebase.
>
> Of course, Firefox has had its ups and downs in terms of bloat vs
> quality/functionality.  Sometimes I think they forget where they come from,
> and what their actual goals were.

On the other hand, HTML5+CSS3 is a bit more complex than what the first 
browsers needed to support.  :-)

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Kenneth Brody