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===The Gecko Rendering Engine===
===The Gecko Rendering Engine===
The [http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/ Gecko] rendering engine is the code that decides how all web content should be displayed.  Gecko has a well-deserved reputation for industry-leading support of web standards, alongside robust support for the proprietary extensions and "tag-soup" accepted by older browsers.  Gecko can render most pages on the web today; errors are few and far between and the Gecko rendering engine is usually a blessing for web developers who want to dabble in the latest and the newest in web technologies such as: [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/ SVG], [http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML], [http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ XSL], [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ CSS], [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#recommendations XHTML], [http://www.w3.org/DOM/ DOM], and other W3C recommendations. Gecko also generates the user interface for Mozilla Suite, Firebird, and Thunderbird using XUL, the XML User-interface Language.
The [http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/ Gecko] rendering engine is the code that decides how all web content should be displayed.  Gecko has a well-deserved reputation for industry-leading support of web standards, alongside robust support for the proprietary extensions and "tag-soup" accepted by older browsers.  Gecko can render most pages on the web today; errors are few and far between and the Gecko rendering engine is usually a blessing for web developers who want to dabble in the latest and the newest in web technologies such as: [http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/ SVG], [http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML], [http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/ XSL], [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ CSS], [http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#recommendations XHTML], [http://www.w3.org/DOM/ DOM], and other W3C recommendations. Gecko also generates the user interface for Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird using XUL, the XML User-interface Language.


===Other Links===
===Other Links===
*[http://mozilla.org/about/ About Mozilla]
*[http://mozilla.org/about/ About Mozilla]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla in Wikipedia]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla Mozilla in Wikipedia]

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What is Mozilla?

Mozilla, in the most concise form, is a web application. To be more precise, it is a suite of applications containing a browser, a mail client, and more. If you are referring to Mozilla as a organization, which is also true, it is an organization that creates the web suite, sub-projects involved with the web suite, a series of products that have spinned off that were created to aid the development of the web suite, spinoffs of the web suite itself, and more.

Mozilla and Netscape

Mozilla and Netscape have had an interesting relationship. Netscape was the company that created the open-source Mozilla project by contributing pre-5.0 Netscape beta code. This code was eventually abandoned in favor of a ground-up rewrite of the browser, from which future Netscape releases were made. Although it came too late to help Netscape in the Browser Wars, beta versions of the Mozilla Suite formed the basis for Netscape 6.x versions, and the version 1.0 release of Mozilla was combined with proprietary components such as AIM and Netscape Radio to create Netscape 7.

The Gecko Rendering Engine

The Gecko rendering engine is the code that decides how all web content should be displayed. Gecko has a well-deserved reputation for industry-leading support of web standards, alongside robust support for the proprietary extensions and "tag-soup" accepted by older browsers. Gecko can render most pages on the web today; errors are few and far between and the Gecko rendering engine is usually a blessing for web developers who want to dabble in the latest and the newest in web technologies such as: SVG, XML, XSL, CSS, XHTML, DOM, and other W3C recommendations. Gecko also generates the user interface for Mozilla Suite, Firefox, and Thunderbird using XUL, the XML User-interface Language.

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