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 Netscape Composer 7 | |
| Developer(s) | Netscape,AOL |
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| Initial release | 1997; 28 years ago (1997) |
| Stable release | 7.2 (August 17, 2004) [±] |
| Available in | English |
| Type | HTML editor |
| Website | browser |
Netscape Composer is aWYSIWYGHTML editor initially developed byNetscape Communications Corporation in 1997, and packaged as part of theNetscape Communicator,Netscape 6 andNetscape 7 range 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 byAOL in 1998, further development of its codebase was madeopen source and 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 7.2 suite. 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 8 in 2005 andNetscape Navigator 9 in 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, andBlueGriffon are separate editor projects derived from Composer; all have been discontinued.
