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Netscape Navigator 5
Netscape’s support of XML comes in its browser engine called Gecko. Strictly standards
speaking, Gecko has the tightest conformance, however, because of the current status of
the standards, that doesn’t mean you can do a lot. Certainly everyone (including us)
believes that Netscape will provide developers with the most standards-compliant
browser in the market. Unfortunately, seeing is believing to us, and we haven’t yet seen
much beyond hype.
At the time of writing this, Navigator 5’s beta version had not been released while Internet
Explorer 5’s release version had. As a result, we spent more time playing with Internet
Explorer 5 because it is much less likely to change than the pre-pre-prerelease versions
of Navigator 5 to which we had access. We’re not trying to knock Netscape here: They
are a great company and produce the most standards-compliant browsers in the market.
However, until the Navigator 5 preview comes out, there’s not a lot we can write about,
though we’re pretty sure that once Navigator 5 comes out, it will be a great browser and
have tons of XML support.
