Mozilla fever!

[Kevin Hodle]

I have also been highly impressed with the progress of the mozilla team.
I have been using it since they first started churing out developer
builds, and it has developed further than I ever thought it would.  I
now use mozilla on every platform I can, they have really done a great
job with the rendering engine, and they have dramatically sped up the
startup times.  Now, whenever I have to use internet explorer or outlook
(like I do at work), I feel a tad dirty.

And the beast shall be made legion.  Its numbers shall
be increased a thousand thousand fold.  The din of a
million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover
the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble.

from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31

(Red Letter Edition)

 
Kevin Hodle
CCNA, Network+, A+
Alexander Open Systems
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(913)-307-2367
kevinh at aos5.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Clinton [mailto:jasonclinton at kcpipeband.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:30 AM
To: Kansas City Linux Users Group
Subject: Mozilla fever!

Woohoo! I'm so proud of the Mozilla project. Yesterday, the Mozilla team

announced it's intentions to take Mozilla to the next level. The Mozilla

Suite will be broken in to major subcomponents:

     * A standalone browser based on the mozilla/toolkit XUL user 
interface named Phoenix
     * A standalone mail component also based on mozilla/toolkit name 
Thunderbird
     * A rock solid "Gecko Runtime Environment" on which the above 
applications and others like Calendar, Composer, and ChatZilla can all 
run (kind of like the Java Run Time environment, except Gecko is a 
Javascript, XUL, memory management and networking interface.)

There are additionally plans to port Venkman and the DOM Inspector over 
to Phoenix. The Mozilla team also wants to make the individual 
components more modular. There's even some mention that Scalable Vector 
Graphics (YES!) will be a major priority to be included in the Gecko 
Runtime Environment (GRE). (This may finally mean device independant 
web/interface design.)

Death to Internet Explorer!

-- 
Jason Clinton
I don't believe in witty sigs.