On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Eliran wrote: > Hello, > I have recently checked the meaning of the word 'Mozilla' > in Babylon and I got something like this: > > "Netscape is based on Mozilla" > > the full hebrew description is: > > "������, ����� ������� ����� ����� ������ ������� �������������" > > What I know is that mozilla was programmed after netscape as a free > replacment based on the Gecko engine, when netscape was about to > be bought by AOL, if I recall correctly. Fix me. > > Is this an error ?
If you check some old docs by netscape you'll see there something like: Remeber, it is spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it is pronounced "Mozilla" Netscape originally wanted to name their browser "mosaic", but they were not allowed. Still, they named it internally Mozilla (Mosaic Godsilla). Years later, in 1998, netscape decided to release the source code of the netscape communicator. They formed a seperate project called mozilla. Mozilla produced, among other stuff (stuff like Bugzilla) a browser-suite called Mozilla. That browser is generally aimed for developers. Its aim is not for end-users. The browser suite mozilla is technically based on a component called gecko that ernders HTML (more than HTML, actually, but this is not relevant here) in a (hopefully) efficient-cross-platform-standard_conforming manner. The browser that Netscape Inc. releases (Netscape Communicator) is basically the same browser produced by mozilla, but also includes some other components (AIM integration, speller, netscape portal) and some tweaks to the user interface (e.g: less bookmarks from mozilla.org, more bookmarks from netscape.com, no image blocking, and also generally more stable code). Another browser that is a repackaging of mozilla (however with minimal changes, including the license) is beonex: http://www.beonex.com Various linux distros also repeckage mozilla. I know that at least debian's mozilla copy is considered a different "browser" due to the amount of patches that they have added. There are a number of browsers that are based on gecko as an html-rendering engine, however, without the mjor bloat of the mozilla cross-platform user interface. Such browsers are Galeon (for X11/gnome), skipstone (for X11) [is there some konqueror module for using gecko?] and k-meleon for win32 (http://kmeleon.sf.net) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
