Netscape was ahead of it's time with a touch friendly Interface in 1994


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A few large buttons makes it a touch-friendly app? :sleep:

Most of the buttons are still too small to hit with touch, as are all the menu items (File, Edit, View, etc), the address bar and scrollbars.

There isn't anything touch friendly about that screenshot. That early in the GUI, they wanted something everyone could see and recognize. A touch friendly UI gets the buttons out of your way when browsing. my opinion.

Now rumored to be owned by Microsoft, AOL apparently sold

the division to MS at the same time as the patent sales.

AOL still owns what little remains of the former Netscape. Type netscape.com into your browser Location Bar

and it re-directs to your local AOL content portal site. In my case, it goes to AOL.co.uk. The only bit of AOL

that still retains Netscape branding is the Netscape Internet Service (isp.netscape.com) the homepage of

which carries a "Copyright ? 2012 AOL Inc. All rights reserved." copyright message.

The last Netsape branded web browser was Netscape Navigator 9, which was little more than a rebranded

version of Firefox with a few extra features added, which made it a slightly better choice than Firefox itself

There's nothing friendly about that ui.. touch or otherwise.

That was back in early 1995 when Netscape was the only browser worth having at the time, and just

before Microsoft acquired the rights to a NCSA Mosaic based browser called . . . Internet Explorer.

That was back in early 1995 when Netscape was the only browser worth having at the time, and just

before Microsoft acquired the rights to a NCSA Mosaic based browser called . . . Internet Explorer.

Oh I know.. And it was functional..

But not friendly :p [ much like the internet at the time ]

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