Netscape 8

how well does it handle CSS?

[Storyman]

Just started using NS8 and at this point prefer it over IE or FF. (Hated all the previous version of NS--BTW).

Has anyone run it through the paces looking for CSS quirks?

[nigassma]

I have yet to see any faults in it. But it runs slower than FF for me. Why are you turned away from FF?

[collymellon]

Been an I.E man all way but new netscape is impressive, I like the way you can change page rendering (FF or I.E)..and looks nice too

I have had nothing out of the ordinary whilst testing my sites (most are full CSS) on the browser.

[JAB Creations]

NS8 is based on an odd version of the Gecko engine and is total bloatware. I'd say it's a nightly build of the Gecko engine... do Help...About in NS8's menu to tell the Gecko build date, Firefox 1.0 was released in mid November. Netscape 8 when using the Gecko rendering engine should act like a nightly build of Firefox perhaps a couple months after Firefox's 1.0 release.

Yes it looks nice but it's overbloated with crap. If it wasn't a resource hog and it's toolbars were actually customizable I'd consider using it to access Windows Update at least. :-\

[Storyman]

I have to agree that it does seem bloated, but not enough to keep me from using it. As to why a preference for NS8 over FF--NS8 doesn't have all of the features of FF, but what features it does have are easy to use and are intuitive.

To support the claim that it is Gecko at heart. Tonight while opening one site with NS8 an announcement came up saying that I was using an old browser and I needed to update. The site opened just fine in IE and FF.

[nigassma]

The only reason I have NS8 installed is to browser check, but nothing ever seems to fail on it. I just think the developing add-ons for Firefox make it worth it. The one by Chris Pederick makes source/css checking/editing so easy.

[Gabriele]

De gustibus disputandum non est. ^_^ :)

[nigassma]

This isn't an argument as much as a discussion.

[Gabriele]

I mean that we have to respect Netscape because it is a "big brother" of all modern browsers, where "modern" depends on the ideas of W3C developers and browsers programmers. cheers. :)

[explodingtick]

I've been testing fairly extensively with IE, NS8 and FF. As far I can tell NS8 is running the latest version for the Mozilla engine. I haven't yet found any display variations between NS8 and FF