Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:57 UTC
Ten years ago, Netscape launched their Navigator Web browser. c|net is celebrating with special coverage.
I remember my first Web browser, back in 1995, was the Internet Chameleon, which apparently many early ISPs(Internet Service Providers) distributed to their customers. Chameleon supported standard HTML (back in the day when it was an infantile 2.0 that, for the record, I did use to create Web pages); however, it did not support colors or the FONT tag, so for a while I didn’t know that pages could have any background color other than the default gray. Soon, though, I found Netscape Navigator 2.0 and began using a nice, colorful and easy-to-use browser.
So, I’m a Netscape user of eight years, now—or, I should say, I’m a Firefox user. In 2003, Time Warner helped launch the Mozilla Foundation, which continues the development of the browser engine.
I always find it interesting to find old press releases and early Web pages on the Web. It’s sort of fun because I can say, “I remember when the page looked like that,” or, “I remember when that came out.” In keeping with this sense of nostalgia, take a look at the original Netscape Navigator press release from October 1994, and take a glipse through the eyes of the Wayback Machine at the Netscape Web site as it appeared in 1996 (the earliest version available).
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Thu, 16 Sep 2004 0:29 UTC
I found out about del.icio.us through a post by Chris Shiflett. In short, it’s a place to store and share your bookmarks in a central location, and it has a built-in community aspect, showing who has bookmarked the same links. I’ve already got over 125 bookmarks in my collection.
After playing around with del.icio.us for a while, I’ve come up with a wishlist for enhancements:
- OR operator
Currently, you’re able to add categories (or “tags”) together in an AND comparison, but I’d like to see something like an OR that pulls everything from two different tags.
- WITHOUT operator
Similar to my wish above, I’d like to see the ability to exclude any bookmarks with specific tags from a view.
- More than 30 links in RSS feed
I’ve noticed that the RSS feeds show only up to 30 bookmarks. I discovered this when I subscribed to my bookmarks from Firefox 1.0PR (with Live Bookmarks) and didn’t see them all.
I’m sure others have their own wishlists of enhancements, but I think these three items would definitely increase the power of del.icio.us.
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:14 UTC
I was hunting around today for a good RSS reader, when I found something called Pluck. It sounded interesting enough, so I decided to check it out. Boasting claims of no adware/spyware, I thought, “Well, maybe it’s okay.” Still, claims or no claims, I am always wary of freeware. Nonetheless, I wanted to see what it could do and whether it was what I wanted. In short, it wasn’t. It was a plugin for Microsoft Internet Explorer. This planted another seed in my head. “What if,” thought I, “Mozilla has such an extension for Firefox?” So, I proceeded to Mozilla.org.
I went to the extensions page for Firefox, where I found an RSS Reader Panel extension. It works great for what I wanted. I have now placed my entire blogroll into the panel, which pulls the RSS links from any specified bookmark folder. It also provides a Feedster search bar, and it can import and export OPML files. I’m thinking about exporting my OPML files regularly and importing them into my blogroll on this site. That way, I can keep both lists in sync.
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