Byte.com: Talking About Mozilla: Many Different Visions For The Project

"For Web developers, supporting the Netscape browser has become a thankless chore."

"There are two of them now. The creaky 4.x browser, which still has significant (but diminishing) market share, offers only a 1997-era glimpse of what CSS, DOM, and DHTML have become. Its rendering engine fails dramatically on complex, table-heavy pages.The rewritten Mozilla browser, with negligible market share, makes great improvements in all these areas. But it has its own quirks, and developers won't want to sort these out until and unless there's demand."

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