On January 22, 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation announced that all future versions of its software would be available free of charge and developed by an open source community, Mozilla. Netscape Communicator 5.0 was announced (codenamed "Gromit"). However, its release was greatly delayed, and meanwhile, there were newer versions of Internet Explorer, starting with version 4. These had more features than the old Netscape version, including better support of HTML 4, CSS, DOM, and ECMAScript; eventually, the more advanced Internet Explorer 5.0 became the market leader.
On January 22 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation announced that all future versions of its software would be available free of charge and developed by an open source community Mozilla Netscape Communicator 50 was announced (codenamed "Gromit") However its release was greatly delayed and meanwhile there were newer versions of Internet Explorer starting with version 4 These had more features than the old Netscape version including better support of HTML 4 CSS DOM and ECMAScript; eventually the more advanced Internet Explorer 50 became the market leader