The Mozilla Development Roadmap is quite interesting. I highly recommened the reading of it. A couple of interesting points.
1. Switching to seperating out the applications, rather than glomming them all together. "Phoenix":http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/ will be the new Mozilla browser. They will even provide Phoenix for us Mac Users. (Great. Another freaking browser. As if Safari and Camino weren't enough.)
2. Seperate out mail into it's own app. I don't care at all about this.
3. Switching over to a 1.4 trunk. This is somewhat cool. But only if Camino picks up this trunk, and I'm not sure how that will work.
4. Keeping XUL, and supporting "Camino":http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/.
Interesting stuff. I'm all for the Mozilla browser. I mean, I HATE browsers, and I HATE the glut of them. ( IE(Internet Explorer), NS(Netscape), Mozilla, Safari, Camino ) But the Mozilla project has spawned some really great stuff. Excellent standards support has become expected. Tabs. Fast opening and rendering. "XUL":http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/. So it somewhat balances out. I think. More info at "Mozilla.org":http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html, "MozillaZine":http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3042.html, and "Blogzilla":http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozillaorg_shifts_focus_to_phoenix_minotaur.html.
I'm pretty glad about the email.. I decided to give the moz email client another try two week ago, and I haven't switched back yet. I love how it works so well with IMAP (way better than Evolution or Outlook) and it is exactly the same in Linux or Windows. And it's much faster than I remember it being.
I'm also *very* happy about Phoenix. Beautiful, beautiful browser.
Mozilla developers understand that almost everyone in the US market (and a substantial percentage of the international market) receives Internet Explorer when they acquire a computer, and their job is to provide an alternative. The key goal of the Mozilla project is to help keep content on the web open and help keep access to that content from being controlled by a single source. Apple's decision to ship a browser based on an open source rendering engine, with a focus on standards compliance, is a good thing for the big picture goal
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eliot
I'm pretty glad about the email.. I decided to give the moz email client another try two week ago, and I haven't switched back yet. I love how it works so well with IMAP (way better than Evolution or Outlook) and it is exactly the same in Linux or Windows. And it's much faster than I remember it being.
I'm also *very* happy about Phoenix. Beautiful, beautiful browser.
Posted by: eliot | April 2, 2003 05:29 PM
Frieda Zonnenfeld
Mozilla developers understand that almost everyone in the US market (and a substantial percentage of the international market) receives Internet Explorer when they acquire a computer, and their job is to provide an alternative. The key goal of the Mozilla project is to help keep content on the web open and help keep access to that content from being controlled by a single source. Apple's decision to ship a browser based on an open source rendering engine, with a focus on standards compliance, is a good thing for the big picture goal
Posted by: Frieda Zonnenfeld | October 27, 2003 10:36 PM