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Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by tyingq » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:08 AM UTC

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #3

Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.

The search works well too: https://isp.netscape.com/pf/newssearch?q=business%20OR%20mon...

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by thought_alarm » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:08 AM UTC

"Designed for AOL Netscape 6"

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by WarOnPrivacy » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:09 AM UTC

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #3

Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.

> Who here is still maintaining this

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by DaiPlusPlus » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

statenjason wrote: post #8

That loaded fast. Also, seeing the network request for background gradients takes me back to an era of CSS I don't miss. Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

> Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

Originally it was kinda simple: just a 3x3 with stretched images in the outer cells, then -itis. Fortunately we rarely needed 9 nested elements - a common trick was to create a 2000x2000px-sized PNG containing the top-left, top, and left-edge border and then another for the other side and make that a background image - the only problem was the lack of support for transparency and how IE would get PNG colors wrong for some reason until IE8 unless you altered the gamma ( https://salman-w.blogspot.com/2011/03/png-color-problem-in-i... )

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by DaiPlusPlus » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #3

Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.

> Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this

Likely just a rendered RSS feed.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by consumer451 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #11

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #3

Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.

The search works well too: https://isp.netscape.com/pf/newssearch?q=business%20OR%20mon...

It's also GDPR compliant! I guess there still must be enough traffic on it to continue updates.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by hoppyhoppy2 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

thought_alarm wrote: post #12

"Designed for AOL Netscape 6"

https://help.aol.com/products/netscape-isp

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by kivlad » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

https://www.compuserve.com is the same thing.

Oath/Verizon is keeping these sites on some kind of life support to this day.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by jandrese » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:23 AM UTC

Some people are going to call the design dated, but to me that kind of layout is timeless. Just the facts and it has good information density.

But LOL that the "Maps" link goes to mapquest.com. In other news Mapquest still exist.

Re: Netscape ISP Homepage

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Post by visiblink » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 2:31 AM UTC

tombert wrote: post #7

buildbuildbuild wrote: post #3

Surprising to see recent headlines. Who here is still maintaining this. I am so nostalgic and intrigued.

I have SeaMonkey installed alongside Firefox on my laptop simply because it's kind of fun to browse the web in a browser that sort of looks like the late Netscape Navigator, or early Mozilla browser. It's fun loading a Netscape site in it.

Ditto. While Mozilla shut down the mailing lists this week, there's now an alt.comp.software.seamonkey newsgroup.