[WEB4LIB] Re: Mozilla/Netscape 7.0 -- Students

[Kevin W. Bishop]

At 02:15 PM 7/25/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > Great ... we have a solution for the Mozilla issue -- why would it
> > blow up altogether in Netscape? Same issue, you think?
>
>Yep.  Netscape 7 is really just old Mozilla code with AOL's "stuff" added 
>on ...
>
>So if something doesn't work in one, it likely won't work in the other
>either.

Not necessarily.  Mozilla will perform XSL transformations.  Netscape 
won't.  (Old Mozilla code?)  It is the Gecko rendering engine they share, 
that thing which performs the HTML/CSS transformations, as it were.

Each browser includes its own slew of other features ... which they may or 
may not share.  They are very different browsers, but the way in which they 
render HTML documents should be very similar.  Why?  Because they share 
Gecko, and Gecko (intends to) work according to W3C recommendations.


-kb

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