In a move welcomed by the developer community, Netscape Communications confirmed that it will include the ngLayout engine in the 5.0 version of its Communicator Web-browsing software. [News.com]

Mozilla today launched an instant messaging and chat project with the stated goal of supporting a wide variety of chat protocols, including the venerable Internet Relay Chat.

About the release of neoplanet's browser including the gecko layout engine

About MozDev.org working to build Web-based applications with technology developed in an open-source environment.

The Chat proposal was removed on request of AOL

What, Mozilla worry? [News.com]

The release of the Communicator source code may not only let a thousand browsers bloom, but it also could make Netscape Communications' own browser significantly smaller. [News.com]

Jamie Zawinski's resignation

John Giannandrea also left AOL/Netscape

Article (May 13, 1999)