http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/happy-15th-birthday-netscape-navigator--642394Netscape, one of the most influential names in the history of the web, is 15 today.Announced on 13 October 1994, its flagship browser Netscape Navigator introduced coloured backgrounds, media embedding, JavaScript and advanced text styling.Its layout capability and image features kick-started the web design industry. Before its release, the web was a very grey place indeed.There were other graphical browsers before Netscape, but none so easy to use. NCSA Mosaic, a federally funded project based at the University of Illinois, shared many of Netscape Navigator's interface features.That's because many of the team working on that browser - including co-author Marc Andreesen - jumped ship to form a commercial company.The result of their labours was Netscape Navigator, a browser so far ahead of the competition that it replaced Mosaic in the market while still in beta, with an 80 per cent share by 1996.Those first years were packed with rapid development. Navigator went from version 1.1 to version four in just three years, introducing Javascript, CSS support and table layout features along the way.
