Augsburg, Germany — (press release excerpt) — TUXIA today announced the release of Nanozilla, the first commercial release of a Mozilla-based browser specifically optimized for Internet appliances and embedded devices. Nanozilla is offered as part of TUXIA's “TASTE” software suite, which is used for building Linux software configurations in support of various kinds of Internet appliances.

Nanozilla is based on the Mozilla open-source Web browser and has been engineered to meet the unique requirements of Internet appliances. Among the most important enhancements are dramatically reduced flash memory and RAM requirements, graphical user interfaces tailored for intuitive usage, and a built-in window manager optimized for low-resolution devices like set-top boxes, PDAs, and WebPADS.

Core features of the Nanozilla embedded browser include compliance with HTML 4, XML, CSS and JavaScript standards, and a Kaffee Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that allows Java applets to be run for a full Internet experience. Additional features provided by Nanozilla include Shockwave, Flash and MP3 playback, RealPlayer 8.0 compatibility, Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) readability, multilingual support, SmartMode graphical user interface (GUI), and picture-in-picture TV capability.

TUXIA's TASTE (TUXIA Appliance Synthesis Technology) software suite is based on the current Linux kernel 2.4 and consists of an embedded operating system, the Nanozilla browser, and a full complement of plug-ins and other functionalities that are configured according to the needs of an Internet appliance. Based on its block compression technology, TASTE can provide the smallest memory footprint of any media-rich embedded Linux system available today.

Nanozilla offers the following key features . . .

• fully compliant with HTML 4, XML, CSS, JavaScript standards, giving true desktop compatibility
  
• uses a fast layout engine Gecko
  
• uses an XML-based User Interface Language (XUL) for quick and flexible GUI development
  
• a smaller flash memory footprint (embedded device optimized)
  
• a smaller runtime memory consumption
  
• provides simpler GUIs, tailored for embedded devices
  
• a built-in window manager, which is useful on low-resolution devices such as set-top boxes, PDAs and WebPADs
  
• a much smaller footprint Java Virtual Machine (JVM), by using the open source Kaffee JVM
  
• the capability of running without (GTK) toolkits
  
• can run on a non-X environment
  
• support for PDF, Shockwave Flash, RealPlayer, MP3, wave, and AU audio
  
• built-in email client and address book, with support for encrypted mail
  
• language localization for English, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Turkish
  
• optimized chromes (GUIs) for set-top box, thin client, WebPAD and handheld devices
  
• a SmartMode GUI with retractable toolbar, enabling full-screen content display (important on small screens and low-resolution devices, including TVs)
  
• picture-in-picture on TV (video encoder support required)

 
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