Ray_Net wrote:
Ant wrote, On 14/05/2014 10:50:
On 5/13/2014 11:03 AM PT, A Williams typed:
But will this be forever? Will SM always be using the same design
forever? :P
I certainly hope not. I'm happy with the way things are now, but
"forever" is a long time. Circumstances do change, and I hope that
when
they change enough to require a new design, the dev team will be
able to
do the necessary modifications.
Any project that is not willing to adjust to new circumstances is
already dead. It just hasn't noticed it yet.
But they have no time and no money to modify drastically the product.
Didn't the original design come from Netscape Communicator days as the
suite product? My old memory is failing me. I have been using it since
then IIRC. I don't think Netscape Navigator was a suite (just a web
browser)?
http://sillydog.org/narchive/ still has the software, and the story.
ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/ still lives!
and you can install it and work with ? :-)
I posted that sillydog link because I found the version history comments
to be interesting, not because I thought it would be a good idea to
actually install that stuff.
Then again, it reminded me of the era when the Netscape Suite had a
working Calendar along with other useful programs.
I do some programming, but not on PCs and not in C. Me getting involved
in that side of things would be a recipe for disaster.
<rant>I just can't get my head around a situation where the main
language around has so many traps for the unwary (or wary) so that so
much software is crawling with security holes. There were languages in
development in the 70's which tried to make things safer, not all of
them were academic exercises unsuitable for the real world.</rant>
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