Speaking for The Web Standards Project, we don't care who wins and who loses in this next round. All we care about is full implementation of core W3C standards in all browsers. The Web Standards Project is as agnostic as the Web itself. We don't take sides with regard to companies, products, and platforms. All we care about is full compliance with core standards to keep the Web from fragmenting, and to allow it to develop to its full potential - a potential none of us can completely imagine at this point.
Standards are the way to that future.
So we applaud Netscape for taking this risk and developing Gecko via the Mozilla project, and we expect, after testing, to be able to endorse it. Regardless of who is leading the market at any given moment, the existence of a fully standards-compliant browser will change everything. It will allow us to begin to build the Web the right way . The whole Web didn't start using frames and JavaScript the minute these technologies became available. It took time.