While not specifically embedded in orientation, any major release of Mozilla is potentially important to developers using — or embedding — the highly popular open source web browser and email suite.

What's new in Mozilla 1.3? First there was image blocking, then came pop-up blocking, and now we have junk-mail filtering (AKA “spam controls”). Mozilla 1.3 also offers image auto-sizing, an API for rich text editing in webpages, newsgroup filters, dynamic profile switching, nearly 2000 bug fixes, and much more.

Here's the list of major changes, direct from Mozilla.org . . .

• Mozilla Mail has junk-mail classification. With some initial “training” the client can identify and segregate spam messages from good messages. To see more about Mozilla's junk-mail classification, visit the Mozilla Spam Filtering page.
  
• Newsgroup filters have been implemented.
  
• An initial implementation of Mozilla Midas, rich text editing controls, has landed in Mozilla for 1.3. See the Midas page for more information.
  
• Image auto sizing allows a user to toggle between full-sized images and images sized to fit the browser window. To give it a try, load a large image into the browser window or size the window to be much smaller. Now clicking on the image will alternate between auto-sized and full-sized. The feature can be disabled (or enabled) from the Appearance panel in Preferences.
  
• Users can now “dynamically” switch profiles. To give it a try, from the tools menu select “Switch Profile…”
  
• Find as you type, formerly known as type ahead find, has a new preferences panel (Advanced: Keyboard Navigation).
  
• When installed, Chatzilla now has a normal Mozilla preferences panel.
  
• Mozilla 1.3 also includes fixes for performance, standards compliance and site compatibility.
  
• Mozilla has a new splash screen. We already know.
• The RPMS for Red Hat 8.x are compiled with GCC 3.2

For full details, visit Mozilla.org.

 
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