Mariner (browser engine)
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Mariner was a canceled project to add performance and stability enhancements to the
Netscape released its client code and started the Mozilla
project.
Mariner added support for page reflow, a feature lacking in previous Netscape releases, making the layout of text and tables much faster. In addition, development work was done on a
CSS
were also made but these were not technically part of the Mariner project.
The original intention was to ship Mariner in
Gecko). However, in October 1998, Netscape decided to abandon the old layout engine in favour of NGLayout and work on Mariner ceased. Netscape Communicator 5.0 and Mariner never shipped. The next major Netscape revision (Netscape 6
, released in November 2000) was built around Gecko.
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