ActiveWin.com - New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE

ActiveWin.com - New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE

"As of 8 a.m. PST Tuesday, Netscape fans were test-driving a prototype Netscape browser that runs on two different browsing engines: the Mozilla Foundation's Gecko engine, which powers up the Mozilla, Firefox and older Netscape browsers, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer engine, which many consider the de facto Web standard. The prototype's release follows earlier reports that the AOL unit planned a comeback for the Netscape browser and portal, as well as indications that the new browser would include some surprises under the hood. "

I was reading about this yesterday... What a great idea. I know other browsers/utilities have done this in a limited way, but seeing it in a mainstream browser is pretty cool. Once this is released I'll have to check it out.
It would be nice if you could save the engine that should be used for a given URL. So everytime you go to *.Hotmail.com the IE engine is used, etc.

Does this mean we're finally getting to the point where the HTML rendering engine is really seperate from the front end/browser? Let's hope so.

Anyway, talk about embrace and extend...