Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 3rd Edition

Appendix F. The Mozilla Browser Version Trail

Keeping track of browser versions gets complicated when discussing browsers built using the open source browser engine produced by what is known today as The Mozilla Foundation. At least three well-known browsers—Firefox, Netscape 6 or later, and Camino (for the Macintosh)—are built upon Mozilla. Unfortunately, each browser (including Mozilla, itself) has its own version numbering system. Detailing the version number of each browser to signify compatibility with or support for a particular language feature gets tedious and confusing very quickly. Instead, this book relies on the underlying Mozilla version number to reference all browsers spawned therefrom. The following conversion table will help you identify corresponding versions of major releases of the different trade-named browsers. For example, if an item is designated as implemented in Mozilla 1.4, then it is also supported in Netscape 7.1 or later, Firefox 1.0 or later, and Camino 1.0 or later. Pre-1.0 versions of Firefox (including those under abandoned names) and Camino are intentionally omitted from the table on the assumption that users of pre-release versions of these browsers have very likely upgraded to 1.0 or greater versions. The m18 desgination stands for milestone build number 18, a convention later dropped in favor of traditional numbering.

Mozilla	Netscape	Firefox	Camino
m18	6.0
0.9.4	6.2
1.0.1	7.0
1.4	7.1
1.7.2	7.2
1.7.5	8.0–8.1	1.0