Interviewed by CNN on 4/2/2010 23:45, Rufus told the world: > In that between Mozilla, Fire Fox, Goggle Chrome, Camino, Safari, et. > al. there are SO many things that look the same and/or function the > same. Which leads to the thought that many of these people are > obviously cooperating and collaborating. > > My previous assumption was that only the Google and Apple teams were > "paid professionals" and that the SM team are all "volunteer > professionals" or "amateurs"...but if all pf these people are all > working together and following each other around...what's the big diff > between one set and the other then?
One reason you might see similarities between browsers is that they are products designed to do essentially the same thing and, frankly, people steal ideas back and forth all the time. Another reason is that, with IE's stranglehold on the browser market until a few years ago, none of the other players had the critical mass to introduce new standards. So they learned to collaborate heavily in standards. Even now, Microsoft is *still* bigger than all of them combined. So they keep collaborating. The big split for a webdesigner nowadays is IE/Non-IE, because all the other browsers pay a lot of attention to standards compliance -- and therefore render similarly in most cases. That is, unless you are doing something very fancy and cutting-edge, a page that renders well in Firefox should render fairly well in Chrome, Safari and Opera too -- but might break horribly in IE. And a third reason is that when Apple decided to create their own browsers, they hired people who previously worked on Mozilla -- being a volunteer project, there was a lot of expertise around not tied by contracts. Similarly, Google hired a number of Mozilla developers to work in Chrome. Some ex-Mozilla developers also found their way into Opera and even Microsoft. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #19: floating point processor overflow *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.2 * http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
