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Mozilla Turns 1!
As the Mozilla effort turns one year old, we'd like to reflect a bit
on where we are after a year in the open-source community. Some key
accomplishments include:
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There have been many contributors to newsgroups, patches, and code.
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A roadmap laying out
the vision and advantages of a browser based around NGLayout.
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MozillaZine! provides independent
coverage of Mozilla-related events.
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Next Generation Layout engine (Gecko) is already one of the smallest, fastest
browser engines on the Web and has better standards
support than any commercial browser.
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NGLayout is being used as the basis for Citec's DocZilla
SGML browser.
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The M3
build which is the basis for Communicator 5 was released; 3rd party XUL
skins appeared shortly after the release.
And the best is yet to come:
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Netscape plans to ship a 5.0 version of their Communicator software based
on Mozilla; it's on track to go beta this summer and ship later in 1999.
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As more featureful and stable builds are released, mozilla.org is sure
to draw even more external participation.
At our first birthday, we also have some goodbyes
and hellos to the staff at mozilla.org
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Goodbye to Jamie Zawinski. Thanks, Jamie, for all your contributions over
the past year.
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Hello to three new full-time Mozilla staffers: Mitchell Baker (Chief Lizard
Wrangler), Mike Shaver (Talking Head), and Dan Mosedale (Tool Fashioner).
Finally, Frank Hecker has written up some more detailed thoughts
on what's happened over the past year and what we've learned.
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