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Why is K-Meleon called K-Meleon? (Sorry if this was answered earlier, but my connection prevents me from going back to older messages easily; and I didn't see it in the docs.)
Well, I'm speculating here, but it SEEMS obvious: (to me anyway)
1. K-Meleon is a small form of Mozilla, Mozilla is a browser, yes, but it was also Netscape's original mascot, Mozilla is a dinosaur, hence a very LARGE lizard, while a chameleon is a small lizard.
2. K-Meleon mimics the appearence of Internet Explorer to some degree, a chameleon blends in with it's surroundings by changing it's color, therefore K-Meleon blends in with it's surroundings (Windows) and has a rather Explorer-like interface.
As to why they called it K-Meleon, probably because it sounds cooler than Chameleon.
The reason it's K-Meleon rather than Chameleon is because the original author (christophe thibault) wrote K-Jöfol (http://www.kjofol.com/), so K-Meleon fit with that theme.
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K-Meleon
Posted by:
Matthew
Date: November 18, 2001 04:35PM
Why is K-Meleon called K-Meleon? (Sorry if this was answered earlier, but my connection prevents me from going back to older messages easily; and I didn't see it in the docs.)
Re: K-Meleon
Posted by:
Ryan Farmer
Date: November 18, 2001 05:13PM
Well, I'm speculating here, but it SEEMS obvious: (to me anyway)
1. K-Meleon is a small form of Mozilla, Mozilla is a browser, yes, but it was also Netscape's original mascot, Mozilla is a dinosaur, hence a very LARGE lizard, while a chameleon is a small lizard.
2. K-Meleon mimics the appearence of Internet Explorer to some degree, a chameleon blends in with it's surroundings by changing it's color, therefore K-Meleon blends in with it's surroundings (Windows) and has a rather Explorer-like interface.
As to why they called it K-Meleon, probably because it sounds cooler than Chameleon.
Re: K-Meleon
Posted by:
Brian
Date: November 19, 2001 08:14AM
The reason it's K-Meleon rather than Chameleon is because the original author (christophe thibault) wrote K-Jöfol (http://www.kjofol.com/), so K-Meleon fit with that theme.
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