Taking Your Talent to the Web: A Guide for the Transitioning Designer- P8:It was a simple solution to a complex problem. On one side, thousands of designers and art directors are eager to take their talents to the Web but aren’t sure how. On the other, web agencies could not find enough good web designers to get their work done. | Taking Your Talent to the Web 121 Netscape goes open source unveiling the secrets of its code in the hopes that thousands of programmers around the world will join together to create a newer better version of the Netscape browser. The open source project for the Netscape Navigator source code is named Mozilla. The Department of Justice begins an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. 1999 America Online AOL though partially responsible for the growth and popularity of the Web has long been despised by Internet connoisseurs. Many holding this view are die-hard Netscape users who see AOL as a proprietary service for frightened newbies neophyte Internet users . In a move that shocks the online world AOL buys Netscape. Netscape announces that its upcoming browser being built by the Mozilla open source project will fully support the five key standards demanded by The Web Standards Project . The browser never sees the light of day but in late 2000 the project and Netscape will give birth to Netscape Navigator 6. Microsoft announces that its upcoming browser for the Mac will fully support two key web standards and offer 90 percent support for others. At least 100 000 web-related jobs cannot be filled because of lack of qualified personnel. Populi the Web Talent Incubator is launched to solve this problem. Your humble web author who appears to enjoy typing the phrase your humble web author will later help Populi develop a curriculum in web communication design which will still later become the basis for the book you are now reading which will yet later be unearthed by archeologists of the thirty-first century along with a Pepsi bottle. 2000 The year web standards broke 1 Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition is released in March offering near perfect support for HTML 4 CSS-1 and JavaScript stories ie5mac . 122 WHO How This Web Thing Got Started Why We Mentioned These Things The year web standards broke 2 .
