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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: TROLL TECH PRESENTS Qt-BASED VERSION OF NETSCAPE
> NAVIGATOR 5.0
>
> (April 6, 1998) Troll Tech today released the QtScape demonstration
> program to the public. A team of seven programmers have in five days
> ported to Qt the newly released Netscape Navigator web browser source
> code. Qt is Troll Tech's multi-platform Graphical User Interface (GUI)
> toolkit. The free QtScape is released as a "proof of concept" that Qt
> as a platform provides all the functionality required for making
> state-of-the-art GUI applications, as well as allowing rapid
> application development.
>
> "When Netscape Communications Corporation earlier this year announced
> that it would release the source code of Communicator 5.0, we decided
> that this was the perfect opportunity to show the world the
> flexibility and effectiveness of our GUI toolkit" said Eirik Eng, CEO
> of Troll Tech. "By giving a team of seven programmers only five days -
> a "mythical man-month" - to achieve a functioning Qt port of Netscape
> Navigator, we wanted to demonstrate the ease and speed of developing
> graphical user interfaces with Qt."
>
> The QtScape development team, consisting of five Troll Tech senior
> engineers as well as two programmers volunteering from the free
> software community. Netscape released the Communicator source code
> March 31, and the team came together the day after to face an immense
> task: to replace the 500 000 lines of C and C++ code in the
> X-Windows/Motif and Microsoft Windows specific parts of Communicator.
> Nonetheless, QtScape implements almost all the main web browser
> functionality of Netscape Navigator. In some areas, the port improves
> on the original: The pages are drawn noticeably faster, and the color
> handling on 256-color screens is better.
>
> "We were confident that we would achieve a satisfactory result,
> although the Communicator source code was not easily penetrated" said
> Haavard Nord, president of Troll Tech. "This represents definite
> evidence of the power and flexibility of Qt, as well as a
> demonstration of the skills of our programmers. I am very satisfied."
>
> QtScape is available at http://www.troll.no/qtscape/. It is presented
> as a Qt demonstration program only, not a Troll Tech product. The full
> source code is released under the Netscape Public License, which
> allows free distribution and modification. Further information about
> the release of Netscape Communicator is available at
> http://www.mozilla.org.
>
> One of the freeware developers, Kalle Dalheimer, is also available for
> Qt-related contract work. He can be contacted at
> kalle@dalheimer.hh.eunet.de.
>
> Troll Tech AS is a computer software company specializing in
> multi-platform C++ libraries for graphical user interfaces. Its
> flagship product Qt is used as a basis for successful commercial
> applications world wide. Troll Tech is located in Oslo,
> Norway. Further information is available at http://www.troll.no.
>
> Netscape, Navigator and Communicator are trademarks of Netscape
> Communications Corporation. Qt is a trademark of Troll Tech AS.