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Tracking Gecko Browser Statistics

Learn how to accurately track website visitors using Netscape Gecko-based browsers. For more information regarding detecting browsers related to content development, please see Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support.

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Background
Tracking Netscape Gecko Server Side
Tracking Netscape Gecko Client Side
Conclusion
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Popup Window Controls and Your Website

Netscape 7.01 allows users to control most unsolicited attempts to open new windows such as popup and popunder windows. Learn how to detect Popup Controls, how to ask your readers to enable popups for your site and how to get the benefits of popup windows without using popup windows.

Gecko's "Almost Standards" Mode

Browser Detection and Cross Browser Support

Improper browser detection can lead to web maintenance nightmares. Rethinking the basics of when and how to detect user agents is crucial to creating maintainable, cross browser web content. This article reviews several approaches to browser detection, their usefulness in specific circumstances to arrive at a common sense approach to browser detection.

When reporting browser statistics, you should aggregate traffic for all Gecko based browsers. Please see Browser Statistics for more information on how to accurately report Gecko based users.

Visit Gecko Central for more specific information on supporting Gecko based browsers. Visit DHTML Central, CSS Central and DOM Central for more information regarding cross browser web development.

Netscape Gecko User Agent Strings

List of released user agents based upon Netscape Gecko^TM

Netscape Browser Add Ons and Application Development

Netscape 6/Gecko Browser Compatibility Handbook

Please refer to the Gecko Compatibility Handbook for the most current information regarding supporting Gecko based browsers.

The Netscape Technology Evangelism team is working to educate developers about cross-browser development techniques that follow the W3C Web standards to provide the desired experience Netscape 6+/Gecko browser users, as well as users of other browsers. This document gives an overview of common problems that occur on websites and how to resolve them.

In general, http://devedge.netscape.com/ is a great place to look for resources for developing along the lines of what's prescribed by the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/).

If you were familiar with pre-Netscape 6.2 versions, check out what's new in 6.2 for developers.