On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:23:37 -0500, JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Well, could you then clarify what this place _is_ right for? Is it
>maybe for postings *praising* such things as it taking over a year to
>get a minimize button on the download dialog?
This is, of course, one of the blatant displays of pig-ignorance that
makes your posts so amusing. It's not like there was someone sitting
around for a year saying "I could be fixing the download dialog, but
instead I'm going to twiddle my thumbs, and make interesting sculptures
from paperclips."
Fixing the bug was a non-trivial change, because it involved the creation
of a new class of window (transient, but minimizable) that did not exist.
Netscape decided that their resources were better spent elsewhere, because
it was a lot of work to just prevent a minor inconvenience, and other
things were more important. Anybody _not_ on Netscape's payroll could have
submitted a patch earlier than that, but it seems it wasn't that important
to anyone else, either.
In the end, when those more important things were out of the way, it was
fixed.
To put the three years of Mozilla development in perspective, look at the
competition. Internet Explorer was released in August 1995. This means
that current versions of IE are the product of six years of
development. In half that time (less if you take into consideration the
fruitless attempt to maintain the original Netscape Communicator
codebase), Mozilla has produced a browser that supports w3c standards
better, and runs on vastly more platforms.
Bravo.
Charles Miller
