Mozilla 1.0 Released

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–June 5, 2002–Mozilla.org, the
organization that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and
provides services to assist the Mozilla community, today announced
the release of Mozilla 1.0, the first major-version public release
of the Mozilla software. A full-fledged browser suite based on the
latest Internet standards as well as a cross-platform toolkit,
Mozilla 1.0 is targeted at the developer community and enables the
creation of Internet-based applications. Mozilla 1.0 was developed
in an open source environment and built by harnessing the creative
power of thousands of programmers and tens of thousands of testers
on the Internet, incorporating their best enhancements.

Built on the Gecko layout engine, Mozilla 1.0 is cross-platform
and integrates a core set of applications that allow users to
access the capabilities of the Web, including a web browser, an
email reader and a chat client. Gecko is the core browser component
in Mozilla 1.0 and was developed as part of the mozilla.org open
source project; it is freely available for inclusion in third party
products. Mozilla 1.0 uses Gecko to deliver the most advanced,
standards-compliant browser across platforms; the ease of embedding
Gecko brings the same power to desktop applications as well as
devices. The release of Mozilla 1.0 signals a new level of
compatibility and maturity of the programming interfaces provided
by Gecko, and paves the way for the arrival of new Gecko-based
products.

In addition, Mozilla 1.0 is a cross-platform toolkit for
developing Internet-based applications. By offering a set of
components that can be used in a wide range of applications, are
all open source, free of charge and have been tested through their
use in Mozilla 1.0’s end-user applications, Mozilla 1.0 enables
developers to build applications for a cross-platform,
network-centric world. Mozilla 1.0 also expands the range of
developers who can write complex applications since Mozilla’s
architecture enables the creation of such complex applications by
building upon the same technologies that are used to create web
content. For instance, Gecko displays web content on the user’s
screen and parses and renders HTML and XML content, and this
ability to understand and display HTML and XML is valuable in
numerous applications beyond the browser. In addition, Mozilla’s
cross-platform component implementation, Mozilla’s cross-platform
XML-based user-interface development technology (“XUL”), its
networking libraries, its ECMAScript (JavaScript) implementation,
and its security and encryption libraries are all part of the
Mozilla 1.0 cross-platform toolkit for application development.

“Mozilla.org is excited about releasing the Mozilla 1.0 code and
development tools to the open source community, and providing
developers with the resources they need to freely create and view
the presentation of their content and data on the Web,” said
Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at mozilla.org. “As the
browser has become the main interface between users and the Web
over the past several years, the goal of the Mozilla project is to
innovate and enable the creation of standards-compliant technology
to keep content on the Web open. As more and more programmers and
companies are embracing Mozilla as a strategic technology, Mozilla
1.0 signals the advent of even further dissemination and adoption
of open source and standards-based software across the Web.”

“The Mozilla project has quietly become a key building block in
the open source infrastructure. In addition to the open source
Mozilla browser and the Netscape 7.0 browser, the Mozilla toolkit
has been used to create additional browsers for platforms such as
Linux and Mac OS X, instant messaging clients such as Chatzilla and
the cross-platform Jabber client, and software development tools
such as ActiveState’s Komodo IDE,” said Tim O’Reilly, Founder and
CEO, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. “Moreover, there are over 70
distinct projects hosted at mozdev.org, the community site for
Mozilla derivatives. This industry-wide momentum ought to be
considered a major success in anyone’s book.”

“The release of Mozilla 1.0 represents a huge milestone for the
free software community. From browser technology to software
development tools, the Mozilla project has had an enormous impact
on open source development,” said Nat Friedman, Vice President of
Product Development at Ximian Inc. “Most importantly, Mozilla 1.0
is a key part of an industrial-strength open source desktop.”

“The launch of Mozilla 1.0 is a key event for embedders across
the Web, it gives us a stable platform to develop upon in addition
to guaranteed APIs to build applications with,” added Philip
Langdale, Mozilla interfacing code maintainer for the Galeon web
browser project. “We would like to congratulate the entire
mozilla.org team for producing such an outstanding product, as key
open source projects including Galeon would not have reached this
level of quality or maturity without their hard work.”

By virtue of embedding Gecko, Mozilla 1.0 and products based on
Mozilla code support more web standards, more deeply, more
consistently across more platforms than any others. Mozilla 1.0
features full support for HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, Resource Description
Framework (RDF), Cascading Style Sheets level 1 (CSS1), and the W3C
Document Object Model level 1 (DOM1). Mozilla 1.0 also has the
industry’s best support for Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2),
the Document Object Model Level 2 (DOM2), and XHTML. Standards
support also includes XML data exchange and manipulation of XML
documents with SOAP 1.1, XSLT, XPath 1.0, and FIXptr, as well as
support for display of mathematical equations using MathML.
Finally, it features a solid foundation of support for data
transport protocols (HTTP, FTP, and SSL/TLS), multilingual
character data (Unicode), graphics (GIF, JPEG, PNG and MNG) and the
latest version of the world’s most popular scripting language,
JavaScript 1.5.

Further, Mozilla has been designed for easy localization into
languages other than English, and localized versions of Mozilla 1.0
will be available in the following languages (with more to follow):
Asturian, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Galician, German, Georgian,
Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Polish, Slovak, Sorbian
and Ukrainian. (For further details, please visit
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html).

Mozilla 1.0 is available for free download at:
http://www.mozilla.org. For additional information on Mozilla 1.0,
please visit mozilla.org for the Mozilla 1.0 Guide.

Mozilla will celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 with a party
at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco at 8pm on Wednesday, June 12,
2002. Details are available at
http://mozilla.org/party/2002/flyer.html. Additional parties are
also being planned by Mozilla participants at 126 locations
worldwide. Information on these parties can be found at:
http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/.

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