Mozilla fever!

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Thu Apr 3 16:50:04 CST 2003


I thought it felt cold in here today. 
So I have lived to see Hell Freeze Over.

> -----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.
> 




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