Sent by Richard Grevers on 14 September 2003 00:12
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 02:29:24 +1000, Justin French [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
gave utterance to the following:
> Hi all,
>
> Since Netscape was built off Mozilla's rendering engine, do I
> realistically need to test my CSS/Mark-up on Mozilla AND Netscape?
>
Netscape is usually based on a version of Gecko which is several months
old, whereas Mozilla and Firebird are much more current. Hence you may
encounter a few bugs in Netscape which are already fixed in the core
engine. It is somewhat less likely that further development of Gecko will
have created *new* bugs which are not apparent in Netscape. Thus, testing
in Netscape might be "safer", so long as you don't work around and bugs
yiu find in Netscape.
A methodology might be: Check in Netscape. If fine, that will do. If not,
check in latest Moz or FB. If problem occurs in both, fix it, if not, see
if you can live with it and Netscape users will eventually upgrade.
>
> Also, for Mozilla products on different platforms (win, mac, *nix), are
> they all built off the same engine? I guess what I'm asking is should I
> be testing Mozilla Mac and Win separately, or is testing on one of them
> enough?
They ought to be the same. Opera, incidentally, should be identical on Win
and *nix, but Mac is still lingering at the much inferior v6 engine.
--
Richard Grevers
Between two evils always pick the one you haven't tried
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