Al Rider wrote: > > MS is getting ready to release IE 7 and Moz is still "a work in > progress" and appears it will never be mature enough to be a solid > replaceement.
No kidding! And when will be that? 2003? We don't care about vaporware announcements from MS. ..If you believe that, your credibility has been reduced to minus X ;-) > > What's the current bug number? 114K + and counting. Doesn't take > much math skill to figure out the bugs will never be reduced to a > reasonable amount. Oh no! Another bug number obssessed indivvidual like Mike Angelo! In bugzilla, enhancements, feature requests are also listed as bugs. Small typos are also considered bugs. And almost every bug reported has other bugs reported as duplicates. Some bugs have been reported 20 times or more with diffeerent bug numbers. Go to bugzilla, Pick any bug you want and follow the follow up posts and you will be amazed about the number of duplicates. People report the same bug over and over again, assigning a different bug number every time. > > For every 100 bugs they fix, they introduce 80 new ones. Really? From where did you get that ratio? Can you point us to the source of that information? > > Bottom line is: it is a damn shame AOL/Sun won't support the effort. > I hope MS pulls the plug on AOL and doesn't let them use the IE > engine. Then we'll see real support. And how is Sun supposed to support the effort? They have been cooperating with the OJI/Java implementation. I am sure they can do more, but the same applies to any example you might pick. AOL does not support the effort? Netscape (therefore AOL) pays for many Mozilla developers, most hardware and office space. AOL is beta testing Gecko for Compuserve (over 2 million members) upcoming software. I am sure they will use Gecko when is stable enough for their flagship service (AOL 8?) and when it makes sense financially. They have a fiduciary responsibilty to their shareholders. The reason for their existence, like any other capitalist corporation, is to make money for thier owners (shareholders) RV
