My article for Digital Web Magazine, The Evolution of Corporate Websites, has now been published. It's a high-level look at web design trends over the past 10 years. Here's the introductory paragraph:
Hard to believe, but corporate Web sites have been around for over 10 years now. It’s fascinating to see how they have evolved over the years, from the early days of magazine-style brochureware to the most recent trends of two-way Web interfaces.
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Interesting article, Richard, but I'm not sure you are correct on one point. You say: "At around the same time Netscape transformed its flailing flagship product into an open source browser called Mozilla..".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Netscape just take the free code for the already existing open source Mozilla browser and wrap their chrome/extras around it for N6? AFAIK, Mozilla has always been independent from any corporation. There are probably some folks at Mozilla.org that would be miffed to read you saying they are a creature of Netscape.
On a side note, I'm a CSS expert and I can say that Mozilla is considered the "gold standard" among browsers, thanks to the fanatical standards adherence demanded by its developers. Sometimes they actually go a bit TOO far. IE on the other hand is notorious for it's many bugs and deliberate violations of the standards that MS helped to write. It's kind of a sore point with me.
Posted by: Big John | May 1, 2004 12:30 PM
Thanks for your feedback Big John. Do bear in mind that my article is necessarily a high-level look at web design, as it encompasses over 10 years! :-) So I didn't have room for the details you have added here.
Re Mozilla: although I'm not a Mozilla fanatic, I understand its origins did come from Netscape. i.e. see this from Wikipedia:
"In March 1998, Netscape released most of the code base for its popular Netscape Communicator suite (including the Netscape Navigator browser) under an open source license. The name of the application developed from this would be Mozilla, co-ordinated by the newly-created Mozilla organization, at the mozilla.org website."
However where I would like to edit my article is in the timeframes - Netscape released its code in 1998, not 2001 as my article perhaps implies.
Thanks again for your informative comments.
Cheers,
Posted by: Richard MacManus | May 1, 2004 7:58 PM