Gecko

See also: Web browser | Mozilla

Home Page: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/

An open-source, extensible Web browser framework. Several Web software projects are based on Gecko (listed below).

Taken from project FAQ:

The revolutionary next-generation browser engine most popularly used in the Mozilla and Netscape browsers. Gecko is designed to support open Internet standards such as HTML 4.0, CSS 1/2, the W3C DOM (Document Object Model), XML 1.0, RDF, and JavaScript. Gecko also includes a set of complementary browser components that work alongside the layout engine to form the founding platform for the Mozilla browser. Gecko is continously under development at mozilla.org. Gecko has been known previously by the code names “Raptor” and “NGLayout”; the new name was chosen following a trademark-infringement dispute.

Projects Which Use Gecko

Using the Gecko engine:

• Mozilla – the cross-platform, extensible, skinnable, pluggable, browser suite that won PC Magazine’s best browser.
• Mozilla Firefox (originally Phoenix) – Mozilla‘s eventual goal, breaking the browser into faster, individually downloadable pieces. This will eventually be incorporated into Mozilla’s suite and replace Mozilla’s current browser. Uses the Keep It Simple, Stupid principle for a smaller footprint and faster operation. Already has many more skins than Mozilla. Why switch to Firefox?
• Skipstone
• Galeon – A GTK+ spinoff. Based on Mozilla, same principle as Mozilla Firefox.
• K-Meleon
• Epiphany – GNOME‘s new webbrowser. Same principle as Mozilla Firefox.
• Camino – Stand-alone browser for the Macintosh, more stable than Apple’s Safari.
• GhostZilla – Ghostzilla can show Web pages discreetly within literally any application you work with.
• Salamander – for Linux (and possibly Unix) written in C, that uses the GNOME2/GTK2 libraries. It uses the Gecko for compatibilty with the internet standards.

Related

• NewZilla – Other Mozilla/Gecko-based projects

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