My mistake on mozilla 0.6, thats right, it was m18, and moz0.6 came later a
a parallel to NS6.0. I stand corrected in this area, but my previous
comment about doubting how many good end-user products will initially come
from Mozilla for a good while stands.
Call me pessimistic, but anyone wanting to put together an end product, that
has parity across all OS's and still "adds" to Mozilla, contributing to an
end-user product is either going to need a team of people to implement in a
timely fashion (ie development team of a company, or another open source
project which in itself takes time to set-up), or require a lot of time to
do so as a 1 man show.
There will be lots of projects using Gecko engine fairly quickly, but they
will mostly involve UI changes, and FE's written in libraries native to each
individual OS. What I want to see is a branch of Mozilla 1.0, that some
group or corporate entity takes further, implementing smallish bug-fixes to
nagging things Mozilla 1.0 is bound to have, every program has them and to
think otherwise would be naive, and I want it to be an alternative to
Netscape (again, my pessimism about there commitment to anything other then
pushing a rubberstamp of Mozilla out the door)
MJ
"Daniel Veditz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mike Jaques wrote:
> >
> > considering 6.0 was a rubber-stamp of moz0.6 with not much added but
> > marketing cruft,
>
> Not true. 6.0 shipped off quite a long branch while mozilla.org continued
> toward M18 adding features on the trunk. moz0.6 came later using the
> Netscape branch because people requested a mozilla equivalent to the
> Netscape build.
>
> Netscape 6.0 was not just some random Mozilla milestone thrown out the
door
> (which is not the same as saying it wasn't pre-mature).
>
> -Dan Veditz
