User:Sardisson/Gecko is Gecko: Difference between revisions

→‎Sniffing for “Gecko” : Good: notes about rendering-engine based utilities, too
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Instead, with '''absolutely no additional work on the part of the author''', the site could work correctly on dozens of other Gecko-based browsers on multiple operating systems and hardware configurations: Camino, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, K-Meleon, SeaMonkey (and Mozilla 1.7.x and Netscape 8, for Gecko 1.7.x).
Instead, with '''absolutely no additional work on the part of the author''', the site could work correctly on dozens of other Gecko-based browsers on multiple operating systems and hardware configurations: Camino, Epiphany, Flock, Galeon, K-Meleon, SeaMonkey (and Mozilla 1.7.x and Netscape 8, for Gecko 1.7.x).


(this is a good thing)
(also Gecko/XULRunner apps that aren’t primarily browsers, like NNW and friends are with WebKit)
 
(this is a good thing)  


(something about how the rv: compatibility works: 1.7.x, 1.8.0.x, 1.8.1.x, 1.9.x, with aN, bN)
(something about how the rv: compatibility works: 1.7.x, 1.8.0.x, 1.8.1.x, 1.9.x, with aN, bN)


(similar applies to WebKit on the Mac: Safari, OmniWeb, Shiira, Sunrise Browser..., and perhaps WinIE & derivatives?)
(similar applies to WebKit on the Mac: Safari, OmniWeb, Shiira, Sunrise Browser, "utilities" like Paparazzi and NNW..., and perhaps WinIE & derivatives?)




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