I just got this message in another list...
I finished my testing and infrastructure goals early, and I'm not going to
makework for the rest of the day to dawdle until tomorrow. After all, it's
not supposed to be finished anyway, so now you get Classilla 9.0 while the
rest of the world in their ignorance gets Firefox 3.5. ;-)
www.classilla.org
It is offered as a Self-Mounting Image, wrapped in Binhex. Get it and the
release notes from
http://www.classilla.org/releases/
You will need any Power Mac, 8.6 (9.x preferred) and 64MB of RAM. I tested
it on my PowerBook 1400+G3 with 60MB of physical RAM (using Virtual Memory)
and while it wasn't happy, it did run. And, uh, on my 1.25GHz MDD G4 with
2GB of RAM, it screams like a bat out of a place bats don't like being.
Let me reiterate some of the key points: it's advised (unless you know what
you're doing) to start over with fresh profiles, and unless you're doing
testing, to not keep WaMCoM/Netscape 7/Mozilla on the same system since
I have
intentionally used the same creator code. Also notice NoScript, and the
CSS de-styler. Oh, and that you can finally scroll on every page (this drove
me nuts with WaMCoM on my G3 iBook).
Also let me remind you: it's not finished, and it's not Firefox. There are
plenty of bugs still (and security concerns) and plenty of pages that don't
render. But it's better. I think you'll notice that immediately. Plus,
NoScript
will help to mitigate many of the security concerns as long as you restrict
your white list to trusted, necessary sites.
How can you help?
If you can code, well, duh, code. You will need CodeWarrior 7.1 to
contribute
code, since that is the MCP level I have standardized on. It is, shall we
say, "widely available through a variety of official and unofficial
sources."
Thanks to Mozilla's clever XPFE system, you don't have to know much
about the
Mac toolbox, and if a relative clod like me can code, I know *you* can.
But even if you don't do enterprise C/C++, what I *really* need is an army
of distillers to look at bad sites, turn them into simplified,
single-problem
test cases and hand them off. A really great distiller will also browse
Bugzilla and find likely suspects that I can convert to Classilla. One of
the great things about piggybacking on Mozilla is that odds are most of the
bugs that would affect modern sites have already been found -- that means a
fix already exists -- and we can take advantage of it if we can just find
them and convert them. The more of us that comb through Bugzilla to get the
gold, the faster we can evolve Classilla.
For those interested, Classilla 9.0 does not correspond to a specific
Mozilla release. Although it is *roughly* Mozilla 1.6 in layout ability,
it nevertheless has some deficiencies that 1.6 does not (particularly
JavaScript, which is still relatively embryonic), and conversely it
incorporates some features that were not in Mozilla until 1.8. That's why
it's called Clecko instead of Gecko so people don't get confused, even
though
95% of the code in it is either direct Mozilla code or ported by me from
Mozilla code.
Source code will be put up by next week once I get it cleaned up. I meant to
do that earlier, but got hung up on last minute blockers.
--
Greg Slade
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells
us the truth about its author." - G. K. Chesterton
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