What Happened to Netscape 5.0???

[Lost User 8002]

What Happened to Netscape 5.0? As far as I can tell, the Netscape Releases go from 4.7, then jump up to version 6.0. Can Netscape Count???

[Tak]

I am not sure if this is right, but I thought I should at least try.

After a Google search, I got this:

Netscape 5.0 was based on the 4.x code base that Netscape released in 1998. Netscape also released the beginnings of Netscape Gecko -- a new code base -- at about the same time. Soon the Web was clamoring for Gecko's superior performance and standards support. So, [in 1999], Netscape switched code bases and rewrote the new software based on Gecko, canceling 5.0 (Mozilla classic) in favour of Netscape 6.

[marc00s]

This link wlll give you more information: http://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/communicator5.html

You can even download a Windows version of the cancelled pre-alpha Netscape 5 from
ftp://ftp.sillydog.org/pub/ns_alpha/mozilla5.zip

[willll]

This link wlll give you more information: http://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/communicator5.html

You can even download a Windows version of the cancelled pre-alpha Netscape 5 from
ftp://ftp.sillydog.org/pub/ns_alpha/mozilla5.zip

Is <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/">this</a> the source for NS5? I wonder if you could pull it off cvs and build it.

[mcbridematt]

This link wlll give you more information: http://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/communicator5.html

You can even download a Windows version of the cancelled pre-alpha Netscape 5 from
ftp://ftp.sillydog.org/pub/ns_alpha/mozilla5.zip

Is <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/classic/source/">this</a> the source for NS5? I wonder if you could pull it off cvs and build it.

Nope. Instead, its a snapshot from the day that the first Mozilla roadmap came out and work started based on Gecko/NGLayout.

(In other words, that old Mosaic based Netscape 1.0 - 4.8)