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PC World: Gecko Gains Developer Support

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 21, 1999

“Gecko, Netscape’s next-generation standards-based browser
technology, is scampering among developers soliciting support as
the engine for a variety of Web programs.

“More than 10,000 open source developers have downloaded
Gecko…”

“Gecko, Netscape’s first software product based on mozilla.org
contributions, will power Communicator 5.0.”

“Gecko also supports incremental Web page layouts that evaluate
page structure, and follows W3C standards. Gecko supports
extensible user interface language (XUL) to make it more
portable.”

“… the roster of niche companies bundling Gecko and
contributing changes to the Communicator 5.0 code is
swelling…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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