Jonas Jørgensen wrote:
> David Tenser wrote:
>  > Blake Ross wrote:
>  >>> Does this mean that they haven't had the time to add this feature in
>  >>> four years?
>  >>
>  >> No, it means that few of Mozilla's distributor's customers have been
>  >> clamoring for it, and thus it's not a priority.  Why would a feature
>  >> be added because a bug filer wanted it?  Do you think that's how
>  >> things work in other software projects?
>  >
> 
>> In other words, the only way to get a feature implemented is to keep 
>> on posting it as a bug, which will lead to more overhead work for the 
>> poor guys who have to wade through the duplicates every day.
> 
> 
> I think what he means is that it's up to each Mozilla contributor to 
> decide what they want to work on. The people who are payed by Netscape 
> to work on Mozilla works on whatever Netscape feels is important. 
> Netscape, apparently, does not feel that this feature is high priority, 
> so the Netscape people work on something else instead. If you want this 
> feature now, you'll have to write it yourself. Sorry, but that's just 
> the way things work.
> 

I guess. I'm a VB coder, so it would probably take more time for me to 
get familiar with the code than it would take for Netscape to implement 
this themselves :(

Man kan inte få allt...

/ David


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