On Friday 08 March 2002 10:32, Matthew Langham wrote:
>. . .
> We're talking the Mozilla browser here - right? Looking at the
> current browser market share I fail to see why Mozilla is the
> platform to aim for. Surely we should be trying for a solution that
> works in IE as well.
>. . .

A while ago we had a discussion about this
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=100710398209305&w=2)

I wrote this at the time:
> ...IMHO a content editor could be seen and "marketed" as 
> a separate application - basing it on the Mozilla code base 
> (assuming it makes sense) would not necessarily mean saying 
> "Mozilla can now be used as a content editor" but could be "we 
> have a content editor, and the code is based on Mozilla, by the way".
>. . .

IE's market share today is no question, but I think many 
Open-Source folks resist (for good reasons, we want alternatives on the 
desktop, don't we?) to a solution that is locked to MS products. 

Also (I think it was Stefano who pointed this out), installing 
different versions of Mozilla side-by-side is no problem if needed, 
whereas it is impossible with IE. This can cause some administration 
fun if you need two different versions of IE (or even msxml I think) 
for different applications.

-- 
 Bertrand Delacrétaz (codeconsult.ch, jfor.org)

 buzzwords: XML, java, XSLT, cocoon, mentoring/teaching/coding.
 disclaimer: eternity is very long. mostly towards the end. get ready.






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