Having used to using Microsoft tools I'm amazed at low quality of Mozilla development environment (for writing Firefox plugins). If Microsoft gives you a programming language, they as a minimum provide debugger supporting that language. I would take it as given...not with Mozilla. How are we supposed to debug javascript code (as recommended for writing Firefox plugins)? Just with printf-like statements? Same goes for Mozilla documentation. The only reason I was able to go ahead with my plugin development: by digging through Mozilla source code. Documentation is very much insufficient.
I think it's understandable. You people got Netscape source code, which's probably OK. But where can you get quality developers willing to work for free? Nowhere. Having compared Firefox and latest IE, I found that claims of Firefox superiority are just hype. For one thing, Firefox is slower than IE. Unfortunately, I'll have to deal with your moz-crap for a while...just to finish up my plugin...but I will never deal with it after that. My advice to you opensource developers: hire 1000000 Russian drjunek (for $0.01 per week) and pray. I'm pretty sure IE will regain market share (very small, actually) it lost to your junk because of hype. Boris Dynin (proud to be an American programmer who works for a salary). _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list dev-tech-xpcom@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
