justin wrote:

close... the Gecko engine was actually the new one, which was used in
Netscape 6. Netscape 5 was abandoned because it was being built on
their older, and generally inferior, rendering engine.

justin

Thank you Justin, I remembered wrong. I was thinking of the Mariner layout engine. It went open source and was soon scrapped in favor of Gecko, but it became Gecko /before/ NS 6 was released. Reading this article cleared up my cloudy memory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_5

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org

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