Mark wrote: > I guess it's just frustration getting the better of me. When you > consider how long Mozilla has been in the works, it's pretty sad that > common, every day features and functions still don't work correctly. > > In the message pane, despite showing the date column as sorting in > descending order, it doesn't actually do it properly until I toggle > the sort to ascending and then back again. > > Mozilla still shows the first newsgroup in the list as having no new > messages when it updates subscribed groups. > > The sidebar shows as transparent (mail/news) until I re-size the > window, or switch back and forth between the address book and bookmarks. > > I don't want to start a war here, but I am seriously of the opinion > that 2 or 3 good programmers could have had this thing released as a > polished application *long* ago. The concept of an open source > development project is a good one, but I have a feeling that it hasn't > added much to the application itself, but instead has probably just > created a nightmare of red-tape and endless "development". Think > about it. Mozilla's pretty darn cool, but really . . . how much better > is it than Netscape 4.79? And it took how long to get it where it's > at? I'd have been thrilled to get multiple POP account support in > Netcape 4.x and an browser that was "updated". Has anyone noticed how > long it took Opera to bring their browser from 5.x to 6.02? The > changes and improvements are dramatic, and it was done *very* quickly. > By the time Mozilla reaches 1.0, what's next? A complete re-write for > Mozilla 2.0, and another 3+ years? > > Mark > Mozilla can afford to "never really be done", but Netscape needs to get a polished release out soon. People aren't exactly downloading N6 in droves. I believe they're still downloading 4.7+ at nearly the same rate... says a lot.
-- sid
