This
-project is currently being used to host the writing for O'Reilly's upcoming Creating Applications with Mozilla book. The contents of the
-book will be made freely available to the community under an open license soon, but right now we are limiting access to just the authors, editors
-and reviewers. Check back soon for more information.
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This project hosts the ongoing development for O'Reilly's Creating Applications with +Mozilla book. In order to keep all of the information updated and current with the latest developments in the Mozilla community, the contents +of the book have been made freely available under the Open Public License. + +
Summary + +
Mozilla is not just a Web browser. Mozilla is also a framework for
+building cross-platform applications using standards such as CSS
+(Cascading Style Sheets), XML languages such as XUL (XML-based
+User-interface Language), XBL (eXtensible Binding Language), and RDF
+(Resource Description Framework), as well as Gecko, Mozilla's rendering
+engine, and other technologies.
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The Mozilla development framework also makes use of programming +languages such as JavaScript, C++, C, Python, and IDL (Interface +Definition Language), plus framework technologies such as XPConnect and +XPCOM, Mozilla's component model. + +
In addition to Netscape's Mozilla-based browsers (Netscape 6.x and +7.x), the Mozilla framework has been used to create other browsers such as +Galeon and Chimera, and chat clients such as ChatZilla and JabberZilla. +Developers have also used Mozilla to create development tools, browser +enhancements, and games, as well as many other types of add-ons and +applications. + +
This book explains how applications are created with Mozilla and +provides step-by-step information about how you can create your own +programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. +This book also includes examples of many different types of existing +applications to demonstrate some of the possibilities of Mozilla +development.