Here you'll find links to documentation about various Mozilla projects; these are often parts of Firefox or other products, but may also be used in other projects as well.
- Midas
- Midas is the code name for Gecko's built-in rich text editor. Midas can be enabled via JavaScript on an HTML document. When Midas is enabled, the document becomes editable by the user. Scripting for Midas is based on the DHTML commands supported by Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer supports the ability to make an entire document editable by setting the
designMode
property of thedocument
object; this is how Midas is invoked in Gecko. Internet Explorer also supports the ability to edit specific elements using thecontentEditable
attribute; Starting with Firefox 3, Gecko also supportscontentEditable
. Once Midas is invoked, a few more methods of thedocument
object become available.
- SpiderMonkey: The Mozilla JavaScript runtime
- Standalone source code releases can be found on the Releases page.