[DRAFT] Mozilla Features
Mozilla is a suite of applications including a Web browser, email client, HTML composer, IRC chat client, and a set of Web developer tools. Mozilla is fast, featureful, secure and customizable.
Mozilla offers a host of features to make browsing easier, faster and more convenient.
- Pop-up blocking keeps annoying ads from interfering with your browsing
- Sidebar helps you to keep information you want close at hand as you browse
- Password and auto form fill managers
- Junkmail controls
- Image and plugin blocking in mail (or view as plaintext)
- Mail message views
- Edit page...
- WYSIWYG editing
- one button publishing
Mozilla is also the most powerful browser on the planet. With dozens of advanced features and unparalelled customizability and extensibility Mozilla is the clear choice for power-users.
- Tabbed browsing
- Image blocking
- Bookmark custom keywords
- Extensible search
- Themes
- Find as you type and caret browsing
- Fine-grained js controls
- Extensibility (mozdev)
- Multiple mail accounts
Mozilla supports everything needed for a great Web browsing experience. This includes the ability to handle all of the agreed upon standards (w3c, ecma, etc.), as well as almost all of the emerging and draft standards
- HTML 4.01 (w3c recommendation)
- XHTML 1.0/1.1 (w3c recommendation)
- CSS1 (w3c recommendation)
- CSS2 (w3c recommendation)
- some of CSS3 (w3c working draft)
- DOM1 (w3c recommendation)
- DOM2 (w3c recommendation)
- some of DOM3 (baseURI, load, and some namespace handling methods) (w3c working draft)
- XLink (simple XLinks only) (w3c recommendation)
- XML 1.0 (w3c recommendation)
- Namespaces in XML, (w3c recommendation)
- Associating Style Sheets with XML Documents (w3c recommendation)
- XML Base (currently for links only; not used for :visited, etc. CSS properties) (w3c recommendation)
- XSLT (w3c recommendation)
- XPath 1.0 (w3c recommendation)
- FIXptr (w3c note)
- RDF (w3c recommendation)
- SOAP (w3c note)
- XPath (w3c recommendation)
- XMLHttpRequest
- DOMParser and XMLSerializer
- XML-RPC
- SVG (w3c proposed recommendation)
- MathML (w3c recommendation)
- P3P (w3c candidate recommendation)
- XBL (w3c note)
But the Web isn't all standards-based content. It includes a great mix of proprietary plug-in content and Mozilla can handle it all.
- Flash Shockwave from Macromedia
- Java from Sun, Apple, and IBM
- Windows Media Player from Microsoft
- Quicktime from Apple
- Acrobat from Adobe
- RealOne and RealPlayer G2 from Real
In addition to supporting the Web standards and common proprietary plug-ins, Mozilla has great support for the millions of non-standard Web pages. Mozilla's "quirks" mode and "almost standards" mode ensure that even buggy Web pages display quickly and correctly.
For more information on Mozilla and supporting Web standards take a look at http://www.mozilla.org/why/why-support-mozilla.html
Mozilla is also a platform for development of web and intranet applications with sophisticated support for web service protocols,its own cross-platform toolkit for taking your application beyond plain old forms and DHTML and a set of tools that make building and debugging applications a breeze.
- JavaScript and powerful DOM
- SOAP
- XML RPC
- RDF
- JavaScript Debugger
- DOM Inspector
- View Selection Source and Advanced Page Info
For more on developing applications using Mozilla see http://www.mozilla.org/why/framework.html and http://devedge.netscape.com/central/xml/