S�ren Kuklau wrote:

> Mr. M.P. Thomas replies to it with an opposite opinion, called "Better 
> than MSIE? In a few more years, maybe" [2]. I don't certainly agree 
> with his post, but his points aren't really invalid either.

While I agree that mpt (if it has really been him - mpt, can you 
confirm?) is a bit extreme with his statement there, he has a point: The 
sidebar, cookie management etc. mean little to most users. They know 
cookies only from the grocery, and the sidebar looks overloaden and 
confusing to them, I guess.

Stability (e.g. not to take the Windows UI down with us) and security 
could mean something to them, but they are more abstract things.

I value mpt's opinions, because he sometimes gets me back to how the 
majority of the users out there sees us.

> The first reply [3], by Asa Dotzler, is just a nice one, as we all 
> know it from Asa.

IMO, even that is too cynical. What is Javascript? What do users need a 
JS console for? Many users would prefer, if Mozilla just looked and 
behaved like the rest of Windows(without the crashes :) )/Mac/GTK/KDE, 
rather than having skins that break with the next update.

> Now to the third one [4]. What the h*ll happened to Chris Nelson?

1) Compare [1]
2) He probably didn't know that mpt is such a valueable Mozilla 
contributor.


[1] <http://www.webstandards.org/mozillazine.html> 
<http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article1524.html>


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