September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 38m
English
book
Creating Applications with Mozilla
by David Boswell, Brian King, Ian Oeschger, Pete Collins, Eric Murphy
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Appendix A. Getting and Building the Mozilla Source
One of the best things about using Mozilla as an application development framework is that you don't need to get involved with the Mozilla source code to create a Mozilla application. A simple Mozilla binary that you download and install is the only development platform you need. You can create and use most procedures and samples described in this book with a precompiled version of the browser.
The best way to get a working version of Mozilla quickly is to download a precompiled binary for your platform. If you go to the mozilla.org homepage, you will find links to Mozilla's most recent stable milestone build for each platform and a link to the nightly development snapshot builds. These binaries come as compressed archives or with an installer, and you can use either to run Mozilla on your computer within a few minutes. These binaries don't include the source for Mozilla (unless you count the XUL, CSS, and JavaScript that made up the front end, which are always available), so read on if you want to obtain the code.
Under the relevant license terms, the Mozilla source code is freely available to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to explore. You may want to look at this code out of curiosity or dive into the code as you figure out how it works and can be improved. Whatever your reasons are for looking at the Mozilla source, it is not much more difficult to get the code and build it yourself than it is to download ...
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