David Boswell, of the Mozilla Foundation, has been working on creating some guidelines to determine how the “Powered by Mozilla” logo can be used as part of projects and products. “Guidelines need to be specific since we don’t want someone to be able to check out just one file from our repositories and then claim that their application is Powered by Mozilla. The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be an existing list of reusable technologies that the Mozilla community creates.” This being the case, David has taken the time to put together draft lists of these technologies and criteria, but is unsure whether the lists are complete or entirely makes sense. He has posted the lists on his weblog, and if you have feedback or suggestions about these, he asks that you leave a comment on the blog post or edit the wiki page.

John Lilly, Mozilla’s CEO, writes, “Interesting developments in the browser world lately. Between the new beta of IE8 and Google releasing the beta of their new browser (called “Chrome”), not to mention interesting work by the Mozilla team here as well, there’s as much happening as I can ever remember. Let’s start from there: more smart people thinking about ways to make the Web good for normal human beings is good, absolutely. Competition often results in innovation of one sort of another — in the browser you can see that this is true in spades this year, with huge JavaScript performance increases, security process advances, and user interface breakthroughs. I’d expect that to continue now that Google has thrown their hat in the ring.” Lilly goes on to discuss how the release of Google’s “Chrome” project affects Mozilla, and what it means for Mozilla’s relationship with Google. Read the full post at Lilly’s blog.