SeaMonkey is a Suite Internet (navigator Web, customer of email, diary, cat, editor of Web pages) Open source which is the continuation of the old continuation Mozilla (born from the release of the source code of Netscape Communicator 5.0 by Netscape Communications). SeaMonkey is developed by the community contrary with Mozilla whose stable branch 1.7 is directed by the Fondation Mozilla. The new group managing the project is the SeaMonkey Council.

History

March 10th, 2005, the Mozilla foundation announces that it will not deliver future official versions after the version 1.7.x, because it is now focused on the separate applications Firefox and Thunderbird. However, the foundation declares that it will provide the infrastructure necessary to the members of the community wishing to continue the development. In the facts, that means that the continuation continues to be developed, but maintaining by the SeaMonkey council instead of the Mozilla foundation. SeaMonkey 1.0 is appeared on January 31st, 2006.

Denomination

To avoid losing in confusions the organizations which wish to continue to use the original continuation Mozilla, the new product needed a new name. April 1st, 2005, it is announced that the new name would be Allizom (Mozilla spelled with back), but one learned the following day that it was acted in fact of a Poisson of April. July 2nd, 2005, it was announced officially that continuation Internet succeeding after Mozilla would be called SeaMonkey . In English, seamonkey is the vulgar name of the '' Artemia salina ''.

“SeaMonkey” was used formerly by the Mozilla foundation like Code name for the Mozilla continuation. The SeaMonkey Council is in the process of recording of the name with the assistance of the Mozilla foundation. It also will use a different number of version, the first version being called SeaMonkey 1.0 in fact is based on the code of Mozilla 1.8.

The choice of SeaMonkey as an official name of the new project saw to protest against him criticisms on behalf of former users and testers of the Mozilla continuation, because much wanted to continue to use this name. However, the Mozilla foundation declared that the name change was necessary in order to differentiate the new project, independent of the projects and official products of the foundation.

Personalities

The SeaMonkey council which is the team responsible for the project and the management of the versions is currently composed of the following people:

• Christian Biesinger

• Robert Kaiser
• Ian Neal
• Neil Rashbrook
• Christopher Thomas

External bonds

• Project SeaMonkey
• Wiki SeaMonkey
• SeaMonkey in French
• File on SeaMonkey
• Article on Webinterdit

Simple: SeaMonkey

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