"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
>
> I am trying to get a foothold in the architecture of Mozilla. I have
> some understanding of what goes where, but I cannot seem to get a grasp
> of the fundamental core. If I stripped off every bell and every wistel
> and everything not needed to do this:
>
> hattons@hostname:~ > mozilla &
>
> and hit a page with
>
> <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><H1>hello world</H1></BODY><HTML>
>
> and see "hello world" in a window, what components of Mozilla would be
> remaining? I.e., what is the core of this beast? I know there is a NSPR
> sitting between the browser and the OS. What else is needed for the
> most basic functionality? Perhaps some of what I'm looking for is in
> the NSPR.
>
> This seems to be a barrier to entry into the wonderful world of hacking
> the Lizard. I suspect I'm not the only one who come to mozilla.org looks
> around and feels completely lost.
>
> Pictures! Show me pictures!
2 pages to start with:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/url_load.html
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/source-directories-overview.html
Both not 100% up to date, but most of it is still valid.
Clarence
