Other · October 26, 2014 0

Netscape Composer

netscapecomposer

When I first started browsing the web, my browser of choice was Netscape. Back in the 90s, Netscape Navigator actually had less credibility than IE, and the browser was often referred to as netcake by 1990s website elitists.  However, one vital feature that was bundled in with the browser, which started me off designing very badly coded but visually decent pages, was Netscape Composer. Composer was a predecessor to the more advanced WYSIWYG HTML editors that have since become such as FrontPage, GoLive, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Web, etc. I remember one quirk of the program was that it added the code &nsbp literally all over the place. Cleaning up the code of the pages after designing it in composer was always a fun task.