On 11/27/00 5:59 PM, in article 8vup1f$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Scott A.
Colcord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would you have them do, then? Netscape indicated that they didn't have
> the resources to do native UI on more than one platform; their only options
> were to do XPFE, go Win-only, or declare the browser a lost cause and drop
> it completely. Unless you've got a few tens of millions of dollars to throw
> their way to give them more options, try to recognize that deploying a
> product on a limited budget means that not everyone is going to get
> everything they want on the first try.
>
> Scott A. Colcord
> Software Engineer
Okay...you are *seriously* going to sit there and tell me that AOL can't
afford to do native UI FE's on more than one platform. That is *very* close
to insulting my intelligence. AOL is damn near bigger than Microsoft at this
point, heck they may BE bigger than MS, and MS has *zero* problems writing a
browser that runs natively on more than one platform...hell, they do it with
a browser, an email client, a PIM, an OFFICE SUITE, and games. And oddly
enough, the Mac version of IE and OE are *better*, more compliant, and more
capable than their windows counterparts, and windows has nothing from MS
that can touch Entourage.
Please, you want to tell me AOL is having a tough time finding coders, that
I'll believe. But don't try to tell me AOL *can't afford* it. That's just
crap.
And since Mozilla is theoretically paying none of the coders, then the only
limiting resource there is people.
john
>
> "John Welch" wrote:
>>>> And as far as the sometimes - voice threat of "without XUL, it would
> have
>>>> been windows - only"...riiiggght. Suuuuuure. Netscape is stupid enough
> to
>>>> ignore the platforms where they still have customers and a market share
> that
>>>> isn't a joke.
>>>
>>> We didn't say it. Mike Pinkerton, one of the head Mac weenies (his
>>> words, not mine) at Netscape, said it. No XUL, no Mac or Linux.
>>
>> Mozilla needs to really distance themselves from this crap then. And
>> Netscape as a group is majorly stupid if they think they could survive as
> a
>> windows-only product.
>
>
>
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