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Saturday, April 1, 2006

It's been a while, but it's worth the wait (hopefully!)

Mischievous


It's been a long time since I've last posted, and I've got so much that I want to talk about - the AIM Developer program, for one, and in the same vein, the Mapquest Open APIs.  There's also news from the 65th IETF meeting in Dallas, Texas, enhanced by real Texas downpour complete with flash floods.

But those will have to wait until next time (which will be soon, I promise), because today, what I really want to talk about is something really pretty exciting, the B3 browser.  B3 is the embodiment of something I worked on way back when when I was at Netscape, but for which the technology wasn't quite ready for at the time.  B3 is an entire web-browsing experience built with Dynamic HTML.  It's not quite AJAX, but that's actually a plus, since B3 will actually run in almost every browser - probably even the one you're using right now.

Now, of course, this is only an alpha version; future versions will include better support for bookmarks (though in the meantime, you can use our Favorites Plus, which also includes automatic RSS feed reading), as well as new skins and customizations, but even this early preview is quite usable.  Go check it out!



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  • #3 Comment from rgutleber11 
    4/7/06 2:05 PM | Permalink
    Sree:  

    Is there any coincidence to the date on which you made your comment?

    Rick

  • #2 Comment from jeraldm1115 
    4/4/06 11:40 AM | Permalink
    I love to hear from people who have never tried AOL Explorer.  They soundoff, before they ever know anything about a product, or it has been so long since they tried it, that AOL has moved on at least 2 or 3 products.  Amazing.

    Jerry
  • #1 Comment from sreekotay1 
    4/1/06 3:00 PM | Permalink
    So although this is a cool idea, I have to admit I think its a BIG mistake for AOL - why would anyone EVER use any software from AOL, especially a browser?  I don't understand why AOL doesn't ditch support for ALL browsers, and just adopt Firefox only - even for content.  Especially with XULRunner coming....

    It would be a BIG boost to the Free Web if sites like Mapquest, Moviefone, and AOL.com only worked in Firefox - I know it sounds radical, but just IMAGINE what would happen. Down with the Empire!