On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> The Mozilla team was not working for Netscape, they were working for
> themselves, as a good Open Source project should. Supporting propriatary
> legacy code was pretty low on their list.
>
And should remain so! The Moz team shouldn't have to wipe Netscape's ass.
;)
> It is Netscape/AOL's responsibility to adapt their own branded product to
> support their existing customer base. They may still do that; there is
> nothing keeping them from adding support for the NS DOM.
>
;)
> I suspect that trying to support two DOMs at once is one of the things that
> made the Netscape V5 codebase unmaintainable.
>
Trying to write webpages for 2 DOMs is bad enough. I can only imagine. <g>
> If we are lucky, Mozilla will force a standards-compliance race, where each
> company tries to one-up the other with "We're even more standards compliant
> now!". Everyone wins, then.
>
Hear hear. Of course that didn't work for Java/Microsoft... we can hope
though. ;)
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