On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Tim McNerney wrote:
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>> How can something run late if it had no target release date?
>
> You can hide your head in the sand and claim that it isn't late because
> it never had an official release date. But by any reasonable estimate,
> you are running years late.
We're doing better than any other browser, based on time from zero source.
Don't forget that Microsoft have been working on IE for longer than
we have been working on Mozilla.
> I think there is a good chance that Mozilla 1.0 will take the same
> amount of time that Netscape 1-4 took to release.
Probably longer, since we have to implement everything that 4.x had PLUS
MORE in order to be relevant.
> It's fine if you want to go on about how you can do whatever you want
> and release only when everyone is happy and no one can do anything about
> it. You're right. Just don't expect anyone to give a shit when it does
> happen. You'll have the most standards compliant browser (standards that
> have almost all been superceded) that no one in the world uses.
If when we release we're the best browser in the world, why would nobody
care? That makes no sense.
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