By 2003, AOL, which had acquired Netscape, released the browser code to the newly created Mozilla Foundation, and by November 2004, the first version of Firefox was released.
When Netscape made its browser code open source via Mozilla.org, it was Baker who managed the operation as chief lizard wrangler.
A decree might appropriately require Microsoft to redesign its existing and planned products to remove browser code that is not required for non-browsing functions, but the cost and burden of implementing and enforcing such a provision could be significant.
But at exactly the same time Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, suggested that the two OSs would "likely converge over time" because they have Linux (OS) and WebKit (browser) code in common.
It started by licensing the browser code that Andreessen and his NCSA associates had written while students, and it feverishly developed Internet Explorer, a browser that gradually caught up with Navigator in features and performance.
This could very well be due to the Torch's significantly slower 624Mhz processor (rather than inefficient browser code) so this race isn't exactly 1 1.
It's most reminiscent of Microsoft's purchase of the Spyglass browser code, the first step along the road to Internet Explorer and the choking off of Netscape's air supply.
The browser code is sent to the Tomcat engine, which is a standard web server program for running web applications written in Java.
Wrapper classes are shared by the browser code, so any change made on the database schema can be handled easily by changing the related wrapper classes.
In addition, with the embedded SQLite database engine, we can easily port the genome browser to other OS environments; e.g. we can make a clone of the genome browser simply by copying the browser code and database files.
