[thelist] AOL test Gecko news - with human quotes

Jon Hall jonhall at ozline.net
Fri Mar 15 18:22:00 CST 2002


*cough*

<tip>
Want to know what your site is going to look like in AOL 8.0?
Go to http://www.mozilla.org
</tip>

Just to play devils advocate though, AOL did threatened this before, and
switched to IE at the last second...

Morgan Kelsey wrote:
> http://news.com.com/2100-1023-860710.html
>
> here's a news article from yesterday, that quotes real humans, like AOL
> spokespersons, and not 'company-insiders' and 'aol sysadmins'.
>
> in a nutshell, AOL spokespersons confirm they are testing Gecko in the AOL
> browser setting.
> they also say they have not slated Gecko to be shipped with any future
> versions of AOL as of yet.
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> <quote>
> The tests come amid speculation that AOL plans to dump IE for its 8.0
> version, due in the fall. However, Whitney (AOL spokesperson) downplayed the
> tests, noting that it is too early to speculate which browser technology
> will be used in the upcoming version.
> </quote>
>
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> morgan
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> http://www.morgankelsey.com
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