Mozilla.org: Browser Innovation, Gecko and the Mozilla Project

“The goal of the Mozilla project is to promote innovation and
enable the creation of standards-compliant client technology to
help keep content on the web open. The key to open content is not
any particular browser application, but openness, standards
compliance and cross-platform technologies. The more people who use
browsers based on open, standards-compliant technologies, the
better the chances we will all enjoy viable choices in the way we
conduct digital transactions.

“To meet this goal, mozilla.org hosts the development of key
components necessary to develop applications that make use of the
web. These include Gecko, our rendering engine, which takes data
from the server and displays it for the user; JavaScript, a
scripting language standardized as ‘ECMAScript,’ which is
ubiquitous in both web pages and server applications; and XUL
(pronounced ‘zool’), an XML-based language for creating
cross-platform applications.

“Mozilla also hosts and/or supports the development of a number
of browser applications. Mozilla 1.0 was released last June to
great reviews and has continued to mature since then. (Some of the
improvements since the 1.0 release can be found in the 1.1, 1.2.1
and 1.3b release notes.) Mozilla 1.0 includes browsing, mail/news,
web-page editing and chat applications, as well as a framework for
application development. Other Gecko-based browsers include
K-Meleon, a browser for the Windows platform, Galeon, a browser for
Linux’s GNOME desktop environment, Epiphany, an additional browser
for GNOME, and AppMac’s set of three Gecko-based browsers for Mac
OS X…”

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