netscape 4.73 and 6.2 at the same time

[Tony Alfrey]

On Sunday 03 March 2002 04:07 pm,David A. Bandel wrote:
> 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." }

Yes, I know.  Style sheets are very problematic in old netscape.

<snip>

> 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.

Well, this sounds like the trick.  Joel Hammer seems to have done 
something similar.  I will try this.

Thanks Joel and David!

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd rather be sailing"