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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>[NPL] Netscape Joins Web Standards Project</h1></div>
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<p>GRASSROOTS VICTORY FOR WEB STANDARDS PROJECT</p>
<p>October 27, 1998 -- The Web Standards Project<br />
(<a href="http://www.webstandards.org" title="http://www.webstandards.org">http://www.webstandards.org</a>), an international coalition of leading Web<br />
developers, today celebrated Netscape's agreement to include software in<br />
its next generation Web browser that could make Netscape the leader in Web<br />
Standards Support.</p>
<p>Netscape officials told WSP that due in no small part to pressure from Web<br />
developers, Navigator 5.0 will include the company's new NGLayout rendering<br />
engine - the part of a browser that determines how pages look and work.<br />
This action had been the focus of a month-old WSP petition drive.</p>
<p>In September, WSP launched a public campaign urging Netscape to include<br />
NGLayout, currently under development, after Netscape officials said it<br />
wouldn't be included in Navigator 5.0. Thousands of Web designers and Web<br />
users signed The Web Standards Project's "I Want My NGLayout!" petition in<br />
throughout October. This grassroots action helped Netscape's management<br />
realize that developers care about the company's future, and feel strongly<br />
about standards as a means to making Web sites that work.</p>
<p>"We're delighted! By including their new display engine, Netscape is laying<br />
a solid foundation for Web site development free of many of the problems<br />
that have plagued developers for years," said George Olsen, WSP Project<br />
Leader and Design Director/Web Architect at 2-Lane Media<br />
(<a href="http://www.2lm.com" title="http://www.2lm.com">http://www.2lm.com</a>) in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>"While WSP would like to be able to claim full credit for this victory, it<br />
could not have happened without the combined efforts of the NGLayout<br />
development team and the support of the Web development community," said<br />
Glenn Davis, WSP co-founder and CTO of Project Cool, Inc.<br />
(<a href="http://www.projectcool.com" title="http://www.projectcool.com">http://www.projectcool.com</a>), a leading resource for Web developers.</p>
<p>"Everywhere Netscape turned, they saw support for this issue," said WSP<br />
site designer Jeffrey Zeldman (<a href="http://www.zeldman.com/" title="http://www.zeldman.com/">http://www.zeldman.com/</a>). "They watched<br />
thousands of Web developers and users signing our petition at<br />
<a href="http://www.Webstandards.org/" title="http://www.Webstandards.org/">http://www.Webstandards.org/</a>. They turned to the trade press and heard the<br />
Web's most respected columnists telling them - and millions of users - how<br />
important this was. They called their friends in the business and heard it<br />
from them. Assaulted on all sides, they realized that the hard-working<br />
folks actually building their browser had been telling them the truth:<br />
NGLayout was needed now. I respect them for listening. This is a great<br />
thing for the Web."</p>
<p>The NGLayout engine takes HTML and other code describing a Web page's<br />
appearance and converts it into what the user actually sees. Currently,<br />
layout engines in both Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer fail to<br />
fully support standards created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and<br />
other standards bodies. The resulting incompatibilities among various<br />
browsers add at least 25 percent to the cost of building sites, and<br />
threaten to fragment the Web.</p>
<p>According to Netscape, NGLayout will be 100 percent compliant with the<br />
Document Object Model (DOM) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) level 1, and<br />
will also support features of the CSS level 2 standard.</p>
<p>CSS provides Web developers with precise control over the appearance of<br />
many pages at once. The DOM lets developers use scripting languages, such<br />
as JavaScript, to manipulate text, images and other parts of Web pages; for<br />
instance, dynamically changing their appearance over time, or moving them<br />
around inside the browser window.</p>
<p>WSP has been urging browser makers to fully support these core standards -<br />
as well as others, such as XML - developed by the W3C and other standards<br />
bodies.</p>
<p>Mozilla.org specifically says they're switching their efforts to NGLayout<br />
as part of their "Mozilla Roadmap," which outlines their development plans.</p>
<p>FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NGLAYOUT<br />
For information about Mozilla.org's plans to switch its development efforts<br />
to NGLayout, see (<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html" title="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html">http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html</a>), which also lists<br />
the reasons why the group is abandoning the previous layout engine in favor<br />
of NGLayout.</p>
<p>About The Web Standards Project:<br />
WSP is an international coalition of Web developers and Web experts who are<br />
urging browser makers to fully support Cascading Style Sheet Level 1<br />
(CSS-1), the Document Object Model (DOM) and XML in their browsers. Its<br />
effort to bring attention to the existing and potential problems involved<br />
with browser incompatibility does not mean that WSP is opposed to<br />
innovations by browser manufacturers. The coalition merely urges browser<br />
manufacturers to use open standards for enhancements and support existing<br />
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