> >Please _don't_ do this until we've finished it! :-) It will only create a
> >"negative user experience".
>
> Mozilla will never be finished. Says so on Mozilla.org. And, frankly,
> I'd bet money that the 1.0 release will still be intended to be used
> by developers.
Possibly. After all, what we are making here is code for OEMs to make
stuff out of. Netscape 6 is a first effort; but Nokia, Intel, Eazel and
others are all working with it. If you want a good distro of Mozilla, try
http://www.beonex.com.
> >This is a security feature, and very important. It should be a single
> >level of randomly-named subdirectory; if it's not, that's a bug.
>
> Sure wish I could turn it off, though.
If it was turn-offable, this would defeat the object.
> As I said, I would like to be
> able to synch my office and home computers daily, which means if I
> make any changes to my bookmarks file I'd like them to be uniform. Not
There's no problem here. Just copy the bookmarks file across.
> >> but unless Microsoft's
> >> effort to turn the Web into its private playground is stopped and W3C
> >> standards prevail over proprietary Microsoft garbage, Mozilla will
> >> have failed.
> >
> >Do you for one minute think that this needs repeating? Shouting "but you
> >_must_ finish it quicker! It's vital!" isn't going to get it finished
> >quicker.
>
> I didn't say that. What I said was that the support of end users will
> be required. With only the small minority of active developers
> involved, it's going to fall off the radar screen entirely, and
> nothing will work right in Mozilla when it finally emerges. Heck, much
> of the Web already doesn't. Yes, I know it's because of lack of
> standards compliance. But you need people out there *using* Mozilla,
> even at the 0.8 stage, to care.
Mozilla does not have the clout to get enough people using it. We need
people out there using releases of Netscape 6 to care.
Gerv
