Independent Status Reports

The independent status reports include news and updates from 
Mozilla application and extension projects hosted on mozdev.org 
and elsewhere in the Mozilla community.

The latest report was posted on January 18, 2004 and includes:

XUL Console - v1.2, an extension to ease XUL development work,
now supports evaluation of XUL code from files located not only in the local file system, 
but also in Mozilla chrome directory (for unrestricted XPCOM access) and remote server (HTTP).
Everything is running ahead of schedule. The new version should be out soon.
http://xulconsole.mozdev.org/

mozImage - v0.5, a simple image browser,
has some key feature including  a slide show, the ability to scale images to window size, and 
easy navigation through file system. It is now compatible with both Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Firebird.
http://mozimage.mozdev.org/

Mycroft, providing search plugins for Mozilla and Firebird,
has 300 new search plugins since September, now totaling 775. There is a top 10 of the most looked for 
search engines, a new category listing as well as an improved search algorithm.
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/

MozPHP - version 0.1.3, which embeds the PHP interpreter in Mozilla,
there is no need any more to assign MIME type text/php to extension .php.
This is now done internally by the cfh protocol handler.
http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPHP/

MozPython - version 0.1.0, which embeds the Python interpreter in Mozilla,
allows you to execute Python scripts in Mozilla. Script output to sys.stdout is
displayed in the browser window. It may, for example, be useful for you if you have written a Web
application with Python CGI scripts.
http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPython/

Archangel - v0.5.0, enabling you to browse RGTP bulletin boards with Mozilla,
is becoming useable as an RGTP client, however, and there are still many bugs. 
Support has been added for rgtp://... URLs (such as "rgtp://rgtp-serv.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk:1432/index").
http://archangel.mozdev.org/

Forumzilla v0.4.5, an extension to Mozilla and Thunderbird for reading RSS feeds,
has an added a "quick load" option that generates messages based on information in the feed 
file instead of downloading the story content; a link to the full story is provided; to use quick load for a 
feed, prepend a dollar sign ($) to its URL in subscriptions.txt.
http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/

MozManual - Final 1.0, an introduction to Mozilla - A Manual for First Time Users; a brief overview and feature guide,
the project web pages are being modified to better support the translation efforts. See the project Notes
page for details, and requests for translation help.
http://mozmanual.mozdev.org/

Mozilla-Delphi, resources for working with Mozilla in Borland Delphi and Kylix,
has a new owner. A basic tutorial on using the Mozilla ActiveX Control is online and bridge classes
for Mozilla's JavaScript engine will follow soon.
http://delphi.mozdev.org/

ConQuery - v0.8a, a context sensitive web query interface extention for Mz/Fb/Nc,
has many new features including improved plugin parser performance, a HotMenu, 
plus a new variable [:linkurl] that holds the target of rightclicked link.
http://conquery.mozdev.org/

Xprint, an advanced printing system which enables X11 applications to use devices like
printers, FAX or create documents in formats like PostScript, PDF, PCL, etc.,
The 009 gamma builds of Xprint include various fixes and TrueType/Opentype font support has now
been enabled by default for Solaris and AIX. Also notable is PDF output is now available.
http://xprint.mozdev.org/

TipBar - v0.8.0, a Tip of the Day Extension,
A complete rewrite sees access to the tipbar moved to the help menu, both local and remote 
databases for failover, and offline support.
http://tipbar.mozdev.org/

Enigmail - v0.83.0, OpenPGP messages for Mozilla,
the latest release has got a new user interface for message
composing and other features and improvements for better convenience
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Read more about each of these projects in the full report at
http://mozillazine.org/articles/article4186.html