The once great, now irrelevant Netscape browser now has an official date to put on it’s tombstone.
As of February 1, 2008, Netscape will no longer be supporting the browser that helped start it all. Of course, they are the ones who started the Mozilla Foundation and became a victim of their own success with Firefox, but everyone pretty much saw this coming when AOL bought them.
Doesn’t seem like they are too broken up about it either. You can read the official announcement at the official Netscape Blog:
The job market for web designers and developers could get more crowded as millions of former web designers who quit to become grocery baggers and deodorant testers who left the field out of sheer frustration, may return to the once promising field now that there is hope that the world’s most popular browser will actually adhere to the standards that it should have been supporting for it’s entire life.
I will admit that I haven’t been following the whole net neutrality issue as closely as I should have, but I just dont’ see how anyone could have thought that this would fly and that the company won’t get reamed for trying it.
What is really strange is that it was a Canadian ISP - wouldn’t have thought that one of the sleaziest moves I’ve seen in a while would come from our oh-so-polite neighbors to the north. Just proves that stupidity knows no borders.
Sure, they may have cheap prescriptions, college paid for and Metric, but it isn’t worth putting up with that kind of bullshit.
But then again, they did give us Bryan Adams and Celine Dion, so I shouldn’t be surprised…
You’ve got to love those Google developers and that whole 20% time project thing they have going on.
One of the latest free offerings to stroll out of the Google labs is the Google Chart API, a really simple way to generate images of charts to easily embed in your website. Basically, you just set your image source as a formatted link with the chart parameters and it returns a PNG with the info
Here are some examples that use the number of blog posts broken down by month:
Pie Chart-
It also offers line charts, bar charts, 3d pie charts, and more.