Article on Mozilla at the German Magazine "Java Magazin"Saturday April 15th, 2000Claus Augusti writes, "This article by me was published hard-copied and online in April 2000 in the German 'Java Magazin'. There was a special about open-source projects like Mozilla and Apache. As far as I know this is the first full-length article about Mozilla in German speaking languages." Claus has also expressed interest in doing a German translation of MozillaZine. I know that a number of people have expressed interest in this in the past, but it never materialized. If you are interested in helping maintain a German translation, please contact Claus. This article is very detailed, and spreads many positive aspects of the mozilla-project. Good reading. Tintsch Well...I'd be glad to make a Spanish translation of Mozillazine...I would need some help though. my email is : jonlopez@iname.com A stupid question: What can Java benefit from Mozilla? (and vice-versa) For the first time, browser and jvm are delivered separately. This means that you can run applets with the latest JDK available from SUN/IBM/etc. rather than netscapes crappy implementation. This might finally make using applets worth the trouble since you can now use such things as Swing, java 2d and JDBC in your applets without requiring users to download things. In addition to that I remember reading something about an API to write browser plugins in Java. So Java benefits from mozilla since it uses the latest VM and mozilla benefits from Java since you now have an easy way to create platform independent browser plugins. The article goes very deep for a general coverage of Mozilla. Unfortunately, some of the infos are not correct to my knowledge. The corrections: - I hope, ns6 will *not* branch forever. This would mean a turning back from open-source and makes no sense to me. - Final is due in fall, not summer (at least, that's NS's current plan) - SeaMonkey = core + browser + Mailnews + chat app - Mailnews is *not* based on grendel. In fact, most 4.x and Mozilla Mailnews developers hardly ever worked on Grendel. - Jazilla != Mozilla port (if I'm right) - M14 != Mozilla beta - IDL interfaces are not necessarily sriptable - Do Java apps have access to XPCOM? - I doubt, that Linux is behind is point of browsers I´m sorry for some wrong or outdated information. This was actually written some months before, and even though there was a milestone plan, I almost abandomed hope to see mozilla that soon. The MailNews/Grendel info is *!?#@ - I´m going to correct this in the online version. As far as I know are the last three points correct, any developers in here ? Thank you for your comments, Claus > - I hope, ns6 will *not* branch forever I was speaking about Netscape's browser suite, of course (I guess, the new name is "Netscape"???), not version 6. It would be OK to branch version 6 forever. BTW: Apart from the errors, it's a really good article. Most other writers don't even dare to get so technical. Here is another good non-hype article about NS6. I don't know what to make of it. The first page sounded like he was going to bash NS6 into a pancake, but after that he sounded "almost" like a NS6 ad. ;-) http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/1734/1/ |