Hi,

  Mathew McBride has released Jazilla NG Milestone
Two.

  Mathew writes in the change log:

  This release is not like the old releases which were
more like Mozilla Classic/Netscape 4.x. The NG
abbreviation denotes the fact that this is a next-gen
(NG) release, one that has a GUI mostly written in
eXtensible User Interface (XUL) which is scripted by
using Mozilla.org's Rhino JavaScript engine, which is
more like Mozilla.

  The Jazilla NG browser is based on work from the
jXUL and NetBrowser projects. It also uses DOM libs
from Xerces.

  jXUL was a project to intergrate the XUL markup into
Java. It is located at http://jxul.sourceforge.net.
Work hasn't been done on this project for a long time.

  NetBrowser is actually a descendant of Jazilla
"Classic". It used the JRenderer found in Jazilla
"Classic" release M2, and merged it with XBrowser. 

  The Renderer is architecturally the same as the old
JRendender. Old Jazilla developers should feel right
at home. It ISN'T COMPLETE. But is quite good for a
basic renderer.

  MozillaZine also runs a story about the Jazilla NG
Milestone Two release that includes a discussion with
answers from the man, that is, Mathew, himself. If I
may quote:

  Q: So the goal is to create a new XML/CSS rendering
engine in Java from scratch? Or maybe based on
JTextPane? Are you going to implement a XML+CSS XUL
rendering engine or are you just generating Swing
components from the XUL files?

  A: Its not completely from scratch. The XUL part is
forked off jXUL and cannot render HTML components.
(not yet anyway). All it does really is create Swing
components from XUL and allows the developer to
control them from JavaScript. But it is around ~60%
compatible with Mozilla.

  The HTML engine is from scratch, however. It goes
back to 2000 when Andy Trip and Matthew Schmidt
created it. It was later forked and refactored by the
NetBrowser project and now its back with us :). The
only problem is that it lays out tables as if it were
a Swing app.

   Full story @
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3519

   - Gerald

Links:

* Jazilla Project @ http://jazilla.sourceforge.net

* Jazilla M2 Release Notes/Change Log @
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=175642

* Jazilla M2 Download @ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=582

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