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edit] How is Netscape planning to use Gecko?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko lies at the heart of the Netscape 6 browser suite, powering all of the individual components including Navigator and Messenger. Gecko technologies will also power the display of the Netscape.com portal site, speedily delivering more exciting content and services. Gecko's architecture will serve Netscape well into the future, enabling faster time to market, more innovation, less costly development, easier distribution and updating, and better cross platform support.
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What is Netscape "Gecko" and how do I use it in TopStyle?

TopStyle FAQ
Gecko is the code-name of Mozilla's layout engine. Click here for details on using Gecko with TopStyle. Before moving TopStyle, go to the Options menu and select "Export Settings." This will create a small .REG file that contains your configuration (toolbars, mappings, etc.). After you move TopStyle, copy the .REG file to the second computer, then double-click on it. This will update the second computer's registry with your original TopStyle settings.
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What is Netscape Gecko?

Netscape 6 Frequently Asked Questions
Netscape 6.2 is based on Netscape Gecko, a small, fast, standards-compliant layout engine. The layout engine is at the heart of a browser -- it is the software that controls how a web page appears on your screen. Since the beginning of the Web, industry groups and web site developers have clamored for a browser that would support currently accepted standards for web content. Netscape 6.2 delivers the browser that developers and consumers have been asking for.
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edit] How can other companies and organizations use Gecko?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Because Gecko is small, lightweight, and open source, other companies and organizations can easily reuse it. Many hardware vendors are creating devices with network access and wish to include web browsing functionality. Likewise, many software developers want to include Web browsing capability in their applications, but don't want to independently develop browser software.
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How do I use Gecko or Mozilla with Gtk#?

FAQ: Gtk - Mono
You can use pkg-config to auto-detect whether the Mozilla development libraries are installed, the pkg-config module name is: gecko-sharp-2.0 To test it, you can write: if pkg-config gecko-sharp-2.0; then echo Gecko# is installed else echo Gecko# is not installed fi To run the applications, you should set the environment variable, run the application like this: export MOZILLA_HOME="'pkg-config --variable=libdir mozilla-gtkmozembed'" mono demo.
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edit] What is Gecko?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko is the open source browser engine designed to support open Internet standards such as HTML 4, CSS 1/2, the W3C DOM, XML, JavaScript, and others. Gecko is used in multiple browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, and others. Gecko is continuously under development at mozilla.org. Gecko has been known previously by the code names "Raptor" and "NGLayout"; the new name was chosen following a trademark infringement dispute.
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Who can use Gecko and how do you sign in to Gecko?

FAQ: Gecko - Gateway to Library Databases
Curtin University staff and students can sign in to Gecko with their Curtin ID and Password. This will allow you to access resources subscribed to by Curtin University Library.
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edit] How do I embed Gecko?

Mozilla Embedding FAQ:How do I... - MDC
Go back to the embedding project page and read how to roll your own browser. Take time to build, run and examine the various sample applications in mozilla/embedding/tests to see what functionality you might achieve in your own application.
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edit] How do I keep up with Gecko interface changes?

Mozilla Embedding FAQ:Embedding Gecko - MDC
If you want to be protected against changes in the Gecko, you should only use interfaces and API that are clearly marked FROZEN in their idl description. This query will find most of the frozen interfaces: Frozen Interface and APIs. Interfaces are being reviewed and frozen all the time and cover most things embedders will want to do. You can still use unfrozen interfaces (hey it's open source and we can't stop you!) and even reach into the guts of the code but you do so at your own risk.
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edit] How is mozilla.org using Gecko?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
mozilla.org will assemble the Gecko layout engine and other browser components into the Mozilla browser application.
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edit] What are the components of Gecko?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Copyright Information: Portions of this content are ?? 1998??"2006 by individual mozilla.org contributors; content available under a Creative Commons license
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edit] Who is using Gecko already?

Mozilla Embedding FAQ:Introduction to Gecko and Embedding - ...
Retrieved from "http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Embedding_FAQ:Introduction_to_Gecko_and_Embedding"
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What is Gecko?

Frequently Asked Questions
Gecko is the layout engine lying at the heart of the Mozilla application. It consists of those DLLs that take Internet content (such as HTML/XML/CSS etc.) and render it into a window. Typically, Gecko talks to Necko which is the network layer that fetches the content from remote servers.
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edit] How does my application communicate with Gecko?

Mozilla Embedding FAQ:Embedding Gecko - MDC
The Embedding API provides a set of interfaces and to control the embedded application, and another set of interfaces that the containing application must implement in order to receive asynchronous notifications from the embedded browser.
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edit] Which platforms does Gecko run on?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko runs today on Win32 (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4, Windows 2000, Windows XP), Mac, and Linux. OEMs and contributors from the Net participating in mozilla.org are porting Gecko to other platforms. Such porting efforts are underway for Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Irix, OS/2, OpenVMS, BeOS, and Amiga, among others.
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edit] What does it mean to "embed" Gecko?

Mozilla Embedding FAQ:Introduction to Gecko and Embedding - ...
Gecko allows third party developers to use the same technology as found in Mozilla. That means you can embed a web browser inside a 3rd party application, open channels and streams through the network backend, walk through the DOM and so on. You can even construct whole new applications using chrome.
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Can I use any SD Card in my Gecko?

SD Gecko - Secure Media adapter for Gamecube and Wii for loa...
You can use any Full size and Mini SD Card (adapter included). However branded media have faster speeds.
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Can I access and edit my site with Netscape?

FAQs about The Content Mill - Content Management System with...
this point you need to use Internet Explorer 5.5+ to use the content management tool. However, the resulting site can be seen by any user regardless of browser and platform.
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We have tried to compile a list of the most commonly asked questions that people have regarding the keeping and raising of superworms as a food source. If you have a question that you would like to ask and see here, please email it to us as we are always adding to this list!
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Mozilla Embedding FAQ
Gecko is the browser engine, networking, parsers, content models, chrome and the other technologies that Mozilla and other applications are built from. In other words, all the stuff which is not application specific.
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Why can I not then use Netscape 4.0 rather than 4.04?

FAQs
Netscape 4.0 through Netscape 4.03 have known JavaScript problems that will generate errors when trying to use the AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive.
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edit] How is a layout engine like Gecko different from a Web browser?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko provides the foundation needed to display content on the screen, including a layout engine and a complementary set of browser components. However, Gecko does not package all of these components alongside other interface modules in a coherent, user-friendly application (including menus, toolbars, etc.), such as Firefox. mozilla.org assembles the necessary components into its applications, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino, which are available for free download from mozilla.
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edit] How does Gecko format XML documents?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
For XML documents without associated CSS or XSLT, Gecko displays the pretty-printed source of the document.
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edit] How does Gecko help content developers?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Content developers are sick and tired of developing and testing every single web page multiple times in order to support the different, incompatible, proprietary DOMs of browsers from different vendors. They have been demanding that all vendors fully support the open standards listed above so that they can Gecko's robust support for these standards makes Gecko the platform of choice for web content and web application developers worldwide.
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edit] Are Gecko's APIs based on ActiveX? COM? JavaBeans?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko is reusable on all platforms thanks to XPCOM, a subset of COM that works across platforms. COM, developed by Digital and later adopted by Microsoft, is the de facto standard for modular interfaces on Windows platforms. Additionally, on the Windows platform, Gecko's XPCOM interfaces are wrapped in an ActiveX control that VB developers can utilize (ActiveX wrappers are not available on other platforms because ActiveX is a Windows-only technology).
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edit] Are Gecko's APIs compatible with Microsoft's Trident APIs?

Gecko FAQ - MDC
Gecko's XPCOM interfaces are different than Microsoft's. The most important differences between the two models involve reflection of the Document Object Model (DOM) in the interfaces. Microsoft's Trident interfaces reflect the DOM in a proprietary API, whereas Gecko exposes the DOM according to the W3C's recommended standard. Other incompatibilities exist.
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edit] What rendering engine do you use?

FAQ - Inkscape Wiki
Currently we use our own renderer called livarot. We plan to migrate to Cairo when it is mature enough. In 0.46, Cairo is already used for Outline mode.
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edit] Can I use this for non-US locations?

World Wind FAQ - World Wind Wiki
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has high resolution data available only for the United States. However, the Landsat data is available globally. The Landsat imagery has a lot less resolution than the USGS Ortho imagery. However, if you still don't believe the resolution is as good as it should be, click the sample images in Landsat and compare your results. If the images are of different quality it may be a downloading issue - see Issues Downloading Tiles.
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