Netscape Releases Browser Theme Kit

By Nate Mook | Published September 19, 2005, 5:25 PM

With the revival of Netscape earlier this year, the browser has faced one major area of criticism: it's design. While the green user interface is meant to resemble the Netscape of old, critics have said Netscape 8 looks graphically bloated. In response, Netscape has launched a new Web site for user-created themes.

The Netscape Theme Park hosts skins for the new browser that can be submitted by users. Netscape has also posted an SDK that provides a step-by-step tutorial for creating a new interface using colors, buttons, graphics and more. Currently available themes include a new modern look, and a simple Firefox-like skin.

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They had "Theme Park" before and never updated the thing. This will likely be more of the same. The George Bush theme is funny, tho!

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Even if you dress a turd up in a suit, its still a turd

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The default skin of Netscape 7 is one of the best skins i have come across. The new skins are not even close.its very good that netscape has finally created a user theme section. i checked that out and found some of the skins realyy good.
(check out the Black Metal theme).

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Agreed, Black Metal is good.

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Netscape messed up on the default "skin". It's horrible and doesn't follow the layout of the rest of Windows. These themes may help a little bit, but then really it's just Firefox that has been made worse by Netscape.

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Polishing a terd.

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Rofl. Hey, at least they're trying =p

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Turd is written with an U, by the way. [/spelling nazi]

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Lets put some lipstick on this pig!

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