Braden McDaniel wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Ennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Thank goodness for a voice from the world of average users. The
> > forgotten ones. The silent majority. Without them all of this is self
> > gratification, if you know what I mean...
>
> And you are apparently oblivious to the fact that *self gratification is
> what this is all about*. "Scratching an itch," as ESR put it. mozilla.org
> does not serve users. It serves developers. Mozilla is a
> developer-oriented product. Marketing browsers to the masses is left as
> an exercise to clients of the mozilla.org codebase.
>
What makes you think there will be any clients if you ignore the end users?
If the developers ignore the end user, then you'll wind up with an
unmarketable product that few clients will bother with and they will soon
give up on efforts to market a product that won't sell.
Then you will find that Mozilla is worthless even for those who developed it
because no one will bother with making W3C compliant pages. The only
standards that will matter are whatever cruft MS opts to make readable in
MSIE, and given thier past behavior, MS will not hesitate to put something in
the "standards" that will break Mozilla.
John
