tradervik wrote:
>
> My two cents on Mozilla 1.0:
>
> I think the discussion has prematurely focused more on the details
> rather than clarifying the
> big picture. In other words, I think it essential to come up with a
> succinct "vision statement" defining
> the general purpose of the 1.0 release. Examples:
True, although I think [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s vision, at any rate, is already
reasonably clear from documents on www.mozilla.org and what's been said in
the past - it's about standards support and a stable platform.
> "1.0 will be competitive with or surpass IE in terms of standards
> support and the user
> experience." (perhaps too ambitious)
Standards support, we're already there. User experience may be too
ambitious; it depends on how much UI cleanup we can do.
> "1.0 will replace Netscape 4.x" (still a stretch, IMO)
This won't be possible for 1.0 because we are missing features like
Roaming Profiles and Print Preview which we don't have the resources to
do.
> "1.0 will be a stable platform for further development involving greater
> participation from
> the open source community." (implies API freeze, massive documentation
> effort)
Yes. I think 1.0 should definitely be that.
> "1.0 will be sufficiently stable and functional for people to use as an
> every day browser, mail and news
> reader." (0.9.2 is practically there)
That's very fuzzy. People will just jump up and down, point to their
favourite bug, and say "Well, it's not _my_ every day browser until you
fix _this_!", and then go off in a huff when we don't.
Gerv
