Mozilla 1.3 was named best web browser in IDG'S PC World 21st Annual World Class Awards
World Class: Best of 2003 PC World Editors From the July 2003 issue of PC World magazine Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2003The browser wars may be over, but browser innovation isn't. For five years, the open-source community has hacked away on Mozilla, a free program that is now stable, speedy, standards-compliant, and full of useful features. Unlike Internet Explorer, Mozilla blocks pop-ups with a built-in tool, manages cookies and passwords site-by-site, and includes both an IRC chat client and a powerful mail reader with intelligent spam filtering. You can surf multiple sites in one tabbed browser window (as you can in Opera, another alternative Web browser we like).
And they even include a screenshot.
Posted by asa at June 5, 2003 01:47 AMJust because IDG owns PCWorld doesn't make it their award. Now if you can get Infoworld and Computerworld to do it also...
Congratulations anywho.
Posted by: alanjstr on June 5, 2003 12:26 PMDunno if you can see that, but it's the article I wrote on Mozilla 1.0. If not, I can blast you the PDF.
Posted by: Chris Pirillo on June 5, 2003 12:38 PMI am wondering, is the modern theme being totaly droped?
The screenshot made me think about that.
I guess given the userbase of mozilla in general this question isn't all that important.
But i personally like the modern theme, and think it makes a nice brand distinction.
Posted by: Cameron on June 5, 2003 03:26 PM"But i personally like the modern theme, and think it makes a nice brand distinction."
Me too. I am not quite sure why Mozilla uses the ugly-looking, classic theme by default. The reasoning is probably that it allows for easier transition for Netscape 4 users... but come on...i think web users, in general, are mature enough at this point to look at a browser UI and realize what's what in about 2 seconds...the addess field still looks like an address field...the navigation buttons are still in the general area they've always been...
Every TV set looks slightly different, but people deal with it...it takes 2 seconds to find the "power" button...channel up/channel down...vol. up/vol. down... I think we sometimes don't give people enough credit...
Posted by: MikeyC on June 7, 2003 10:16 PM