The Nanozilla project now has a new name, Nxzilla, and also a new website, nxzilla.tuxia.org. Nxzilla is part of a family of open source software projects related to adapting Mozilla for use in embedded systems, Internet appliances, and mobile devices. The projects are being sponsored (and hosted) by TUXIA, a provider of embedded Linux software targeting Internet appliances.

Projects under the Nxzilla umbrella currently include . . .

• goanna — a project to customize the Mozilla web browser for embedded Linux systems, including binary size reduction, memory usage reduction, and faster load times.

• rdesktop — a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client for Windows NT or Windows 2000 Terminal Server, originally written by Matt Chapman. RWin is an RDP client based on the rdesktop 1.0 release, integrating additional fixes and patches made by Tuxia Labs and other coders across the net. The official rdesktop website is at www.rdesktop.org.

• nxzilla — a set of libraries that allow Mozilla to be used with the Nano-X server from the Microwindows project

• xilla — a port of nanozilla which removes the need of third party toolkits (such as GTK) and reimplements the functionality with Xlib. Xlib is central to all Xservers, and thus is always supplied. By eliminating the need for third party toolkits, space saved can be used to implement other features that will enhance the browser. Most of the main features that appear in the “regular” GTK version of nanozilla also appear in the Xilla. These include mozilla and legacy plugins, drag and drop, multiple browser windows, etc. Overall Xilla will provide a full browsing experience for a smaller footprint, which is ideal for the embedded environment.

• mailcrypto — a plugin for mozilla that allows users to do various cryptographic functions that the GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) provides.

• oji — an Open Java Interface for mozilla which allows Kaffe to run applets that are embedded inside HTML pages. The goal is to create a fully open source browser solution without having to rely on 3rd party proprietary plugins to attain full functionality.

• xpdfplugin — xpdf plugin allows users to view Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents from within Mozilla. The plugin is based on xpdf which is an open source pdf viewer by Derek Noonburg.

• chromes — Teacup is a very simple chrome, so it makes a good example to use to learn about how to make chromes.

• rdesktop-nanox — a version of RWin that uses Nano-X for its drawing and keyboard/mouse input.

• rdesktop-xlib — a version of RWin that uses Xlib for drawing and keyboard/mouse input.

 
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