Comments on: Cool browser archive and timeline http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2004/10/21/cool-browser-archive-and-timeline/ Web professional with deep frontend engineering expertise skilled in user experience design and product strategy. Successful team leader, manager, and executive. Sought-after speaker, writer, and trainer. Mon, 24 May 2010 15:52:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: martinb http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2004/10/21/cool-browser-archive-and-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-67 martinb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=198#comment-67 <p> The font tag arrived with Netscape 1.1, as did tables, in summer 1995. That was the first browser that hinted that any kind of Design/layout would be possible. IIRC, it was where Dave Siegel sat up and took notice - I remember reading Severe Tire Damage days after it appeared and thinking "shit! Complex tables+shims = near effective layout!" </p> <p> Missing 1.1 is a major omission! </p> <p> Netscape 2.0's big innovation was Frames, which I hated on sight. Yes it did have some Javascript, but not enough to do anything useful with. For that we had to wait until 3.0.</p> The font tag arrived with Netscape 1.1, as did tables, in summer 1995. That was the first browser that hinted that any kind of Design/layout would be possible. IIRC, it was where Dave Siegel sat up and took notice – I remember reading Severe Tire Damage days after it appeared and thinking “shit! Complex tables+shims = near effective layout!”

Missing 1.1 is a major omission!

Netscape 2.0’s big innovation was Frames, which I hated on sight.
Yes it did have some Javascript, but not enough to do anything useful with. For that we had to wait until 3.0.

]]> By: martinb http://nate.koechley.com/blog/2004/10/21/cool-browser-archive-and-timeline/comment-page-1/#comment-68 martinb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://nate.koechley.com/blog/?p=198#comment-68 Here's the download to prove it: <a href="http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/32bit/1.1" rel="nofollow">http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/32bit/1.1</a>, which was also the 1st 32 bit Netscape version, Win95 having just been released that summer. Here’s the download to prove it:
http://browsers.evolt.org/?navigator/32bit/1.1, which was also the 1st 32 bit Netscape version, Win95 having just been released that summer.

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