[thelist] Netscape 7.0 Prerelease 1

[James Aylard]

Jonathan,

> Interesting. Does anyone know where the NS7PR1 branch comes off the
Mozilla
> code tree?

    It's an RC2 variant:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512/7.0b1

    The Mozilla 1.0 RC2 release had a date of 20020510, so presumably
Netscape 7 PR1 is from a nightly build shortly thereafter.
    In my guesstimation, the reason for the new version number is tied to
AOL's version number, and would seem to be further evidence that Netscape
will eventually be integrated into AOL software. But Netscape has shown a
penchant to play loose with version numbers in the past, so it may just be
marketing.

James Aylard