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Netscape's Gecko gets a big hand
News The firms have all agreed to develop technology using Netscape's enhanced core browser technology, Gecko. Gecko includes software, such as operating systems, as well as hardware in the form of set-top boxes and Web browsing appliances.
[March 20, 2000, 17:02]
Case: AOL in your kitchen
News Company CEO Steve Case rolled out two major announcements in his Internet World keynote here Wednesday morning: the official launch of the long-awaited Version 6.0 of the Netscape browser, powered on the open-source Gecko engine, and a deal with...
[April 6, 2000, 11:32]
Netscape 8.0 (beta) review
Reviews It's no surprise that the so-called Netscape prototype runs the Gecko engine that also powers the Firefox browser (Netscape owner AOL Time Warner spun off the Mozilla team as a non-profit last year). The Netscape beta allows you to browse most of...
[March 4, 2005, 12:55]
US Report: Open Source gathering steam
News On Monday, Netscape released the source code for its next-generation browser, code-named Gecko. Gecko includes essential contributions from open-source collaborators, including an XML parser designed by James Clark.
[December 8, 1998, 10:02]
Beta release moves a step closer to Firefox 3.5
News According to the Firefox 3.1b3 release notes, the new version includes better 'web worker' multitasking abilities, a faster Gecko rendering engine for showing web pages, and upgrades to the TraceMonkey engine for faster, more stable execution of...
[March 13, 2009, 7:29]
AOL 7.0 tests Netscape browser
News We've been testing Netscape's Gecko on CompuServe since fall, and AOL is just beginning to test now," AOL spokesman Jim Whitney said. In an email to software testers, AOL said it is trying out Netscape's rendering engine, dubbed "Gecko," on its...
[March 15, 2002, 11:39]
AOL unveils Mozilla-based Netscape 7.0
News The new browser, called Netscape 7.0, is the latest version developed around a technology called Gecko, which was created by the AOL-funded Mozilla open source browser movement. Over the past year, the online giant has been testing Gecko in preview...
[May 22, 2002, 16:38]
Camino
Downloads Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, Mozilla's...
[September 29, 2009, 23:14]
Firefox 3 gets a first run
News It uses version 1.9 of the Gecko rendering engine — which itself hasn't been released yet, but which includes the Cairo graphics engine. Gecko 1.9 has been in development since before the release of Firefox 2, and provides vector-based rendering on...
[December 12, 2006, 12:29]
Apple's browser move 'snubs' Mozilla
News Gecko's speedy crossplatform nature is important to maintaining a Web to which all users have access regardless of their platform," she added. I guess I'm supposed to be mortally offended -- or at least embarrassed -- that they went with KHTML...
[January 14, 2003, 12:19]
Firefox 3 Beta 1: a first look review
Reviews According to the release notes, the core Gecko rendering engine — the component that interprets web page instructions and draws text and graphics on your screen — has seen major changes in the upgrade to the new version 1.9 used in Firefox 3...
[November 21, 2007, 11:22]
Firefox 2 support to be cut off
News Support will also cease for the Gecko 1.8 layout engine that underlies both Firefox 2 and the Thunderbird 2 email client. The move will affect a range of third-party Gecko-based browsers, such as SeaMonkey, the Mac-only Camino and the Unix/Linux...
[November 17, 2008, 16:33]
Moblin on the Nettop - Part 2 (Overview)
Blog Comment The browser is based on the gecko-engine, so it is not google chrome: The new UI also includes an integrated Gecko engine web browser. I have bought a second-handed Asus 1000H and I have tested the live image yesterday on the Asus (the new beta...
[June 17, 2009, 8:12]
AOL turns up the heat in browser wars
News In an e-mail to software testers in March, AOL said it also is trying out Gecko on its latest software, AOL 7.0. Gecko technology allows Web pages to be displayed, serving as a foundation for Web browsers.
[May 17, 2002, 8:32]
Netscape browser left with skeleton staff
News Veditz said that the team working on Gecko, the engine behind the Netscape and Mozilla browsers, had been "dismantled", and the evangelism team "cut in half and dispersed". They are doing a few last things with the Gecko engine and they will be...
[July 17, 2003, 13:28]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News According to the release notes, the core Gecko rendering engine — the component that interprets web-page instructions and draws text and graphics on the screen — has seen major changes in the upgrade to Firefox 3.
[November 20, 2007, 16:10]
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News With Wednesday's release, Gecko supports World Wide Web Consortium recommendations including HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, the Resource Description Framework (RDF), Cascading Style Sheets level 1 (CSS1), and the Document Object Model level 1 (DOM1).
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
Firefox: Where it came from, and where it's heading
News The switch (from Mariner to Gecko) was 26 October, 1998. But as the product being developed (Communicator 5.0) neared completion, an activist group for Web developers known as the Web Standards Project lobbied Netscape to stop developing its older...
[October 14, 2004, 10:55]
Netscape, not IE, put on new CompuServe
News Nearly a year ago, AOL began testing versions of CompuServe that use Gecko, the underlying browser technology browser engine developed by open-source movement Mozilla.org and Netscape. Although AOL has not stated grand intentions for Gecko, the...
[April 16, 2002, 17:22]
What's next for Mozilla?
News With Gecko, our layout engine and related technologies.there's our cross-platform user interface, known as XUL, which is extraordinarily useful and allows Web developers to actually build applications.
[May 1, 2002, 15:08]
