Netscape Composer
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 Netscape Composer 7 | |
| Developer(s) | Netscape,AOL |
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| Initial release | 1997 |
| Stable release | 7.2 (August 17, 2004)[±] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | HTML editor |
| Website | browser |
Netscape Composeris aWYSIWYGHTML editorinitially developed byNetscape Communications Corporationin 1997, and packaged as part of theNetscape Communicator,Netscape 6andNetscape 7range ofInternet suites.In addition, Composer can also view and edit HTML code, preview pages inNetscape Navigator,check spelling, publish websites, and supports most major types of formatting.
Composer was initially developed by Netscape as a component of the company's internet suites; however, after the company was bought byAOLin 1998, further development of its codebase was madeopen sourceand overseen by theMozilla Foundation.Subsequent releases of Netscape Composer were based uponMozilla Composer,the same utility within theMozilla Application Suite.
The last version of Netscape Composer was released with theNetscape 7.2suite. It was not included with later releases, as Mozilla decided to focus on stand-alone applications, and as such, Netscape released the stand-alonebrowsersNetscape Browser 8in 2005 andNetscape Navigator 9in 2007, both based upon the stand-aloneMozilla Firefox.
SeaMonkey,the community-driven successor suite to Mozilla Application Suite and the Netscape suites, features an HTML editor named Composer that is developed from Mozilla Composer.Nvu,KompoZer,andBlueGriffonare separate editor projects derived from Composer; the first two have been discontinued, while BlueGriffon is still under active development.
