Mozilla 0.9.9 and AOL rumor

[Thomas Dowling]

Mozilla 0.9.9 is out.  It adds support (on some platforms) for science and 
math formulas via MathML which has cool potential in the long-range 
future.  Also, improvements to the mail client and to print preview. 
Release notes at <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.9/>.

You may want to take a look at 
this:  <http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/03/08/1957252&mode=thread>

Among other tidbits: "The Gecko rendering engine at the heart of the 
Mozilla Web browser is scheduled to replace Microsoft's Internet Explorer 
as AOL's default browser -- the one in the millions of free AOL CDs 
distributed every year -- in the 8.0 version of AOL's client software...A 
browser shift by AOL is going to leave an awful lot of companies that 
assume their Web sites only need to work with Explorer scrambling to 
rewrite their code so that they don't lose AOL's 30 million-plus 
subscribers, or about 30% of all U.S. Internet users."

A lot of libraries, too.

(2 caveats: AOL's "30%" figure is a bit slanted in their favor, including 
everyone who ever registered AIM for example.  Also, other computer 
industry news sources haven't carried this story yet, so there may be some 
flimsiness to its unnamed sources.)


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu