Mozilla.org/Technology List

Technology Projects

• Accessibility
• Blackwood
• CCK
• Component Security
• Directory (LDAP)
• DOM Inspector
• Embedding
• Footprint
• Help Viewer
• Internationalization (I18N)
• JavaScript
• Localization (L10N)
• Mail/News
• Marketing Project
• MathML
• Mozbot
• Mozilla Documentation Project
• Netlib (Necko)
• Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)
• Network Security Services (NSS)
• Network Security Services for Java (JSS)
• New Layout (Gecko)
• Open JVM Integration
• Penelope
• Performance
• Personal Security Manager (PSM)
• Plug-ins
• Ports
• PyXPCOM
• RDF
• Rhino
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• SQL Support
• Tamarin
• Technology Evangelism
• Web Services
• Venkman (JS Debugging)
• XBL
• XForms
• XML Extras
• XML-RPC
• XPCOM
• XPConnect -- The binding between XPCOM and JavaScript.
• XPInstall -- A technology for doing cross-platform installations, packaging, and software updates
• Toolkit -- A set of programming interfaces (APIs) built on top of Gecko which provide advanced services to XUL applications
• XSL Transformations (XSLT) -- The TransforMiiX module implements both a XSLT component for Mozilla, and a standalone commandline tool
• XUL -- XML User Interface Language, basis of Mozilla's cross-platform user interface

Archived Technologies

• BiDi -- A project to enable bi-directional text. This feature will enable Mozilla to render Arabic, Persian and Hebrew
• ColorSync -- The ColorSync project, sponsored by Apple Computer, attempts to manage color displayed from source html to destination browsers, compensating for various viewing conditions. It allows for pages to viewed as intended with the correct colors.
• Editor -- The editor project is focused on developing an HTML 4.0 compliant WYSIWYG editor. Composer is designed to be easy to use, fast and reliable; facilitating web page authors to make quick edits to their web pages. Composer is also the underlying editor within Mail/News.
• Grendel -- In 1997, Netscape embarked on a project to rewrite Navigator/Communicator in Java. This project was cancelled before completion, but the mail/news component of it was nearly finished. Grendel is that mail/news client. Recently, work has been restarted on Grendel.
• PKCS #11 Conformance Testing -- Test suites designed to test PKCS #11 implementations.
• Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) -- An implementation of the W3C P3P specification.
• Search -- The internet search component provides support for aggregating search results (via RDF) from one or multiple search engines and is used by the sidebar's "Search" panel.
• SilentDownload -- SilentDownload is a background transfer method that allows files to be downloaded to the users machine without interfering with their network performance. SilentDownload does this by only downloading while the network library is not busy. In this way, users can "silently download" large files over a period of time and be notified when the file transfer is complete.
• Unix -- Unix Front End. GTK 1.1, Linux/glibc2 is the reference developer platform. Support for other OS's and toolkits also exists.
• User Interface -- The user interface for Mozilla has a new look and feel. Check out the list of available UI specifications for details.
• XPNet -- XPNet is a cross-platform, lightweight download library used by the native installers. It has support for HTTP/1.1, FTP, pause/resume/cancel and HTTP proxies.
• Xprint -- Very advanced print module for Unix/Linux which supports automatic printer and printer feature lookup, TrueType font support, support for international printing (including languages and scripts like Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Indic (Devanagari, Tamil, etc.), Japanese, Korean, Polish, etc.) and MathML.