April 6, 2000
More than just skin deep.
The best and the worst thing about Netscape 6.0 or Mozilla M14 or whatever it happens to be called when you download it, is the skins. Because the skins (or chrome as it’s referred to by Netscape) are comprised of a billion tiny gif images, the entire package takes up way too much drive space compared to an app that uses standard OS defined widgets. On the positive side, having externally definable user interface elements means that the look and feel is infinitely customizable. Case in point: Alphanumerica has designed three skins for Netscape 6.0, of which one called Sullivan is extremely sweet and (gasp!) usable.
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