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Toronto's Belus Technology Sprints Out Of The Gate With Its New Firefox Version of XStandard.

XStandard is an advanced, standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor used as a plug-in for content management systems. It permits non-technical authors to manage rich, multilingual content and ensures the markup they produce is always standards-compliant and accessible. Today's release of XStandard for Firefox extends the use of Firefox as the front-end to content management systems at the enterprise level.

Firefox is the new, nimble browser from the Mozilla Foundation. Its new scriptable plug-in API is designed to facilitate the development of applications that extend the browser's functionality, and is the result of collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera, and Sun Microsystems.

"We are very pleased to see our standards-compliant editor working in a standards-compliant browser," said Vlad Alexander, head of development at Belus Technology, "Thanks to the availability of pre-releases of the new API since June, and the exemplary cooperation of the Mozilla Foundation, we were able to develop XStandard for Firefox quickly and successfully."

"The release of XStandard confirms vendor support for our browser, and demonstrates that we are giving third-party vendors the help they need to make plug-ins that work with Firefox," said Mitchell Baker, President of the Mozilla Foundation. "It is very gratifying to see that software vendors not only recognize the value of the new API but are responding quickly to the business opportunities that it presents. Plug-ins are crucial components of the interactive Web experience and we are committed to making every effort to ensure they work well with our browser now and in the future."

XStandard is used in content management solutions that must meet rigorous Web standards and accessibility requirements. The editor generates clean XHTML Strict or 1.1, with no deprecated tags, uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and ensures the clean separation of content from formatting. Markup generated by XStandard is guaranteed to meet the most demanding accessibility requirements.

Contact:
Shelagh Nerney
Belus Technology Inc.
1-866-EASY-XML
416-466-4326
shelagh.nerney@xstandard.com

Bart Decrem
Mozilla Foundation
(650) 387-0625
bart@mozilla.org

About Belus Technology Inc.
BelusTechnology is a software development company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Belus produces high-performance products and components based on forward-looking industry standards such as XML, XHTML and Web Services. XStandard is a registered trademark of Belus Technology Inc.

About the Mozilla Foundation
Established in July 2003 with start-up support from America Online's Netscape division, the Mozilla Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Mozilla open source software project. The Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Mountain View, California and has affiliate Foundations in Europe and Japan. Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and their respective logos are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation.

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