MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – June 5, 2002 – Mozilla.org, the organization\u00a0 that coordinates Mozilla open-source development and provides services\u00a0 to assist the Mozilla community, today announced the release of Mozilla 1.0,\u00a0 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\u00a0 cross-platform toolkit, Mozilla 1.0 is targeted at the developer community\u00a0 and enables the creation of Internet-based applications. Mozilla 1.0 was\u00a0 developed in an open source environment and built by harnessing the creative\u00a0 power of thousands of programmers and tens of thousands of testers on the\u00a0 Internet, incorporating their best enhancements.<\/p>\n
Built on the Gecko layout engine, Mozilla 1.0 is cross-platform and\u00a0 integrates a core set of applications that allow users to access the\u00a0 capabilities of the Web, including a web browser, an email reader and a\u00a0 chat client. Gecko is the core browser component in Mozilla 1.0 and was\u00a0 developed as part of the mozilla.org open source project; it is freely\u00a0 available for inclusion in third party products. Mozilla 1.0 uses Gecko\u00a0 to deliver the most advanced, standards-compliant browser across platforms;\u00a0 the ease of embedding Gecko brings the same power to desktop applications\u00a0 as well as devices. The release of Mozilla 1.0 signals a new level of\u00a0 compatibility and maturity of the programming interfaces provided by Gecko,\u00a0 and paves the way for the arrival of new Gecko-based products.<\/p>\n
In addition, Mozilla 1.0 is a cross-platform toolkit for developing\u00a0 Internet-based applications. By offering a set of components that can be\u00a0 used in a wide range of applications, are all open source, free of charge\u00a0 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,\u00a0 network-centric world. Mozilla 1.0 also expands the range of developers who\u00a0 can write complex applications since Mozilla’s architecture enables the\u00a0 creation of such complex applications by building upon the same technologies\u00a0 that are used to create web content. For instance, Gecko displays web content\u00a0 on the user’s screen and parses and renders HTML and XML content, and this\u00a0 ability to understand and display HTML and XML is valuable in numerous\u00a0 applications beyond the browser. In addition, Mozilla’s cross-platform\u00a0 component implementation, Mozilla’s cross-platform XML-based user-interface\u00a0 development technology (“XUL”), its networking libraries, its ECMAScript\u00a0 (JavaScript) implementation, and its security and encryption libraries are\u00a0 all part of the Mozilla 1.0 cross-platform toolkit for application\u00a0 development.<\/p>\n
“Mozilla.org is excited about releasing the Mozilla 1.0 code and development\u00a0 tools to the open source community, and providing developers with the\u00a0 resources they need to freely create and view the presentation of their\u00a0 content and data on the Web,” said Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at\u00a0 mozilla.org. “As the browser has become the main interface between users and\u00a0 the Web over the past several years, the goal of the Mozilla project is to\u00a0 innovate and enable the creation of standards-compliant technology to keep\u00a0 content on the Web open. As more and more programmers and companies are\u00a0 embracing Mozilla as a strategic technology, Mozilla 1.0 signals the advent\u00a0 of even further dissemination and adoption of open source and standards-based\u00a0 software across the Web.”<\/p>\n
“The Mozilla project has quietly become a key building block in the open\u00a0 source infrastructure. In addition to the open source Mozilla browser and\u00a0 the Netscape 7.0 browser, the Mozilla toolkit has been used to create\u00a0 additional browsers for platforms such as Linux and Mac OS X, instant\u00a0 messaging clients such as Chatzilla and the cross-platform Jabber client,\u00a0 and software development tools such as ActiveState’s Komodo IDE,” said\u00a0 Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. “Moreover, there\u00a0 are over 70 distinct projects hosted at mozdev.org, the community site for\u00a0 Mozilla derivatives. This industry-wide momentum ought to be considered a\u00a0 major success in anyone’s book.”<\/p>\n
“The release of Mozilla 1.0 represents a huge milestone for the free\u00a0 software community.\u00a0 From browser technology to software development tools,\u00a0 the Mozilla project has had an enormous impact on open source development,”\u00a0 said Nat Friedman, Vice President of Product Development at Ximian Inc.\u00a0 “Most importantly, Mozilla 1.0 is a key part of an industrial-strength open\u00a0 source desktop.”\u00a0 “The launch of Mozilla 1.0 is a key event for embedders across the Web, it\u00a0 gives us a stable platform to develop upon in addition to guaranteed APIs to\u00a0 build applications with,” added Philip Langdale, Mozilla interfacing code\u00a0 maintainer for the Galeon web browser project. “We would like to congratulate\u00a0 the entire mozilla.org team for producing such an outstanding product, as\u00a0 key open source projects including Galeon would not have reached this level\u00a0 of quality or maturity without their hard work.”<\/p>\n
By virtue of embedding Gecko, Mozilla 1.0 and products based on Mozilla code\u00a0 support more web standards, more deeply, more consistently across more\u00a0 platforms than any others. Mozilla 1.0 features full support for HTML 4.0,\u00a0 XML 1.0, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Cascading Style Sheets level 1\u00a0 (CSS1), and the W3C Document Object Model level 1 (DOM1). Mozilla 1.0 also\u00a0 has the industry’s best support for Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 (CSS2),\u00a0 the Document Object Model Level 2 (DOM2), and XHTML. Standards support also\u00a0 includes XML data exchange and manipulation of XML documents with SOAP 1.1,\u00a0 XSLT, XPath 1.0, and FIXptr, as well as support for display of mathematical\u00a0 equations using MathML. Finally, it features a solid foundation of support\u00a0 for data transport protocols (HTTP, FTP, and SSL\/TLS), multilingual character\u00a0 data (Unicode), graphics (GIF, JPEG, PNG and MNG) and the latest version of\u00a0 the world’s most popular scripting language, JavaScript 1.5.<\/p>\n
Further, Mozilla has been designed for easy localization into languages\u00a0 other than English, and localized versions of Mozilla 1.0 will be available\u00a0 in the following languages (with more to follow): Asturian, Chinese, Dutch,\u00a0 Estonian, Galician, German, Georgian, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,\u00a0 Malay, Polish, Slovak, Sorbian and Ukrainian. (For further details, please\u00a0 visit http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/l10n\/mlp_status.html).<\/p>\n
Mozilla 1.0 is available for free download at: http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/. For\u00a0 additional information on Mozilla 1.0, please visit mozilla.org for the\u00a0 Mozilla 1.0 Guide.<\/p>\n
Mozilla will celebrate the release of Mozilla 1.0 with a party at the DNA\u00a0 Lounge in San Francisco at 8pm on Wednesday, June 12, 2002. Details are\u00a0 available at http:\/\/mozilla.org\/party\/2002\/flyer.html.\u00a0 Additional parties\u00a0 are also being planned by Mozilla participants at 126 locations worldwide.\u00a0 Information on these parties can be found at: http:\/\/www.schnitzer.at\/mozparty\/<\/p>\n
Mozilla.org (www.mozilla.org) is the group that exists to make Mozilla a\u00a0 successful open source project; it supports the entire Mozilla community.\u00a0 Mozilla.org provides a central point of contact and community for those\u00a0 interested in using or improving the Mozilla code base. Mozilla.org provides\u00a0 Open-Source Internet client software that includes a browser, mail and news\u00a0 functionality, and a toolkit for developing Web-based applications. Mozilla’s\u00a0 code is designed for performance and portability, features industry-leading\u00a0 standards-support, and makes extensive use of XUL (Extensible User-interface\u00a0 Language) as an easy-to-use interface programming tool. Mozilla.org receives\u00a0 code and contributions from both individual volunteers and from commercial\u00a0 entities which use Mozilla code as a foundation for product releases.\u00a0 Mozilla.org was founded by Netscape Communications Corporation.<\/p>\n
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