netscape 4.73 and 6.2 at the same time

[David A. Bandel]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 14:41:40 -0800
begin  Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> spewed forth:

> Hi Gang!
> 
> I'm trying to design a website from the O'Reilly books.  They warn 
> about browser incompatability so I want to make sure my pages render 
> properly on various browsers.  I now (still! ) use netscape 4.73 and 
> konqueror and clearly see differences.  So I'd like to also run 
> netscape 6.2 to be able to check compatability across old and new 
> netscape.  

If you're using CSS, they won't render the same.  I'm using things like:
p.copyright:after { content: "Copyright? 1999-2002 Pananix, SA, All Rights
Reserved." }

which render fine in Netscape 6.2, but don't show up in 4.78 (bummer).  I
have _no_ idea what IE will do to the pages.  (Only my home page
http://pananix.com/ has been CSSized, but the rest will come soon.)

> If I rpm netscape in, it will (I assume) replace all of the current 
> /opt/netscape directory along with /usr/bin/netscape.  Does anybody 
> know how I might load and label 4.73 and 6.2 as two different versions 
> and run them separately or is this a potential disaster?  For example, 
> I suppose I would have to modify the script /usr/bin/netscape to look 
> in the right places.

What I did was not touch 4.78 (or is it 4.77 that 3.1.1 installs?).  I
used the netscape installer to install the other in /opt/ns6, and I have
two icons, one for one, one that points to the other.  No problems at all.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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