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When Netscape 8.0 came out a few days ago, I decided to read about its improvements. Well, I was sure as hell surprised when I saw that it gives you the option of rendering "trusted" pages (as to how it determines what to trust, I have no clue) with the Internet Explorer rendering engine. It didn?t take long before this gave me an idea however. I decided to install Netscape on a copy of Windows that did not have IE installed. From there I would see how Netscape ran. As you can tell from this screenshot, I did this with 98lite. Interestingly enough, it turns out that you must have Internet Explorer before you can even install Netscape 8.0!

Rosco Member Posts: 24 Joined: 2005-02-09

#60992 Posted on: 05/25/2005 02:02 PM this story needs a Nelson (The Simpson's) "Ha ha" applied here.

Mertsch Moderator Posts: 3002 Joined: 2002-08-22

#60994 Posted on: 05/25/2005 02:59 PM whooooo what a suprise ... sure it does need IE cause it uses IEs activeX engine ...

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#60995 Posted on: 05/25/2005 05:51 PM They first explain they were interested in it offer the option to render pages with IE, then somehow its a shock when installing it on a PC without IE it doesn't work. Clearly such a keen mind is wasted here. They should be out tackling supervillains.

scyphe Unregistered

#60996 Posted on: 05/25/2005 07:05 PM They should've made the dual-rendering optional. I mean, with Netscape 8.0 you're FORCED to run 2 different browsers, whereof one is the browser you're trying to escape from

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#60998 Posted on: 05/25/2005 07:29 PM Nonsense, you get the best of both worlds. The security vulnerabilities of Internet Explorer & the site incompatibilities of Firefox. It's a winning combination

BetrayerX Unregistered

#61000 Posted on: 05/25/2005 08:33 PM Keep in mind that the Ghecko engine (firefox) is never mentioned. I'd appreciate someone to confirm/deny this.

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