John Welch wrote:
> On 11/29/00 3:04 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Asa Dotzler"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Mozilla (and Netscape 6) are NOT "doing the very same task" Mozilla
>> does many things that 4.x did not do (look at HTML4, CSS 1 and 2, DOM,
>> etc.) and Navigator did many things that Mozilla does not yet do. It is
>> a falacious argument to suggest that the two browsers, with very
>> different functionality, seperated in time by severtal years and more
>> lines of code than can be counted, should have identical memory
>> requirements.
>
>
> Here's the fundamental issue that the geek community really needs to
> understand. To the person using this, (and Mozilla is being pushed so hard
> by Netscape, and a lot of media outlets that a lot of folks are using it who
> shouldn't), they are the same thing with a different paint job.
>
> They're web browsers with email and IM stuff, and I can make it look
> different.
>
> That's the mindset of the general public folks.
>
> john
John, you are probably right. But my posts to these groups are not
about Netscape 6 and are not intended for that general public. I use
these groups as tools for my job which is to help make mozilla better.
I assume that most of the people in these groups are working on the same
thing and my comments are intended for those people.
If I was doing as much work on Mozilla as I am today but only had my old
machine with 16 MB RAM I would probably be doing a considerable amount
of my daily tasks with Navigator 4.x and not with Mozilla. If I had 32
MB RAM I would be trying really hard to use Mozilla fulltime (because of
some of it's really useful features) but it would be painful. I don't
have the same expectations for Mozilla as I do for 4.x. I find many of
Mozilla's features that 4.x does not have to be extremely valuable to my
work on Mozilla and I'm willing to sacrifice some performance for the
ability to do something like say type "bug 12345" in the addressbar and
have it load that bug report for me or to do a search in the sidebar
across Bugzilla, LXR and www.mozilla.org in one maneuver.
-Asa
