"Now all Britannica desktop products use WebRenderer for content display," said Encyclopaedia Britannica's Director of CD/DVD Technology today, as it was announced by Britannica and JadeLiquid Software that Encyclopaedia Britannica will in future utilize JadeLiquid's WebRenderer Java browser component within their desktop applications - a major coup for the Australian-based company, one of the leading Java browser component providers in the world.

"We chose WebRenderer because it allows us to embed the Mozilla browser in our products, and, being Java Swing compatible, it provides both standards compliance and a platform for a compelling user interface," said Luna Rajbhandari, Director, CD/DVD Technology, with Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Also we have found WebRenderer to be a high performance and stable component. Now all Britannica desktop products use WebRenderer for content display."

"We are thrilled to have Encyclopaedia Britannica standardizing on WebRenderer," Anthony Scotney (pictured), JadeLiquid's CEO, told JDJ News Desk.

"With the sheer volume of content displayed in Britannica's applications there is a real necessity for standards compliant web content display. WebRenderer does this to a very high standard," he added.

A key component of each of Encyclopaedia Britannica's desktop products will now be the built-in browser feature enabled by WebRenderer. Britannica's products allow its customers to access hundreds of thousands of articles, multi-media and many interactive tools on both Windows and Mac OSX desktops. An online update center allows users to view online the most recently updated articles by Britannica editors, all without having to leave the Encyclopaedia Britannica application.

"The WebRenderer Java browser component tightly integrates into any Java desktop or server application," Scotney explained, "and provides standards-compliant rendering of web content across multiple platforms."

Scotney said that WebRenderer is the most standards-compliant Java browser SDK on the market, supporting HTML 4.01, SSL, JavaScript, CSS 1 & 2, XSL, XSLT, XML, DOM, AJAX and so on.

"JadeLiquid continues to offer the most accurate, standards-compliant and robust Java browser SDK technology commercially available," Scotney declared.