MOZILLA.ORG LAUNCHES MOZILLA 1.0
Open Source Browser Suite Powered by Gecko Enables Developers
To Create Standards-Based Web Applications and Devices
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/
About Mozilla.org
Mozilla.org (www.mozilla.org) is the group that exists to make Mozilla a
successful open source project; it supports the entire Mozilla community.
Mozilla.org provides a central point of contact and community for those
interested in using or improving the Mozilla code base. Mozilla.org provides
Open-Source Internet client software that includes a browser, mail and news
functionality, and a toolkit for developing Web-based applications. Mozilla's
code is designed for performance and portability, features industry-leading
standards-support, and makes extensive use of XUL (Extensible User-interface
Language) as an easy-to-use interface programming tool. Mozilla.org receives
code and contributions from both individual volunteers and from commercial
entities which use Mozilla code as a foundation for product releases.
Mozilla.org was founded by Netscape Communications Corporation.
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