Net-who?

From Slashdot, BoingBoing, and almost everyone else comes word of the new Netscape browser, which will let you switch between IE and Firefox rendering engines. Will it work? I don’t know. I do know that most folks no longer care, now that Netscape has been rebranded as a bargain-basement dialup ISP by America Online. And the fact that a user can choose either IE or Firefox makes it unpredictable and irrelevant from a testing standpoint: we know we must focus on either IE or Firefox when building, but if there is some odd bug that spans across how Netscape selects between the two… well, that’s just Netscape’s problem, because thanks to permutations they’ve unleashed a handful of potential states when it comes to render bugs (Firefox selected with an IE carry-over glitch, IE rendering with a Netscape implementation glitch, etc., etc.).