Randall Parker wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 06:27:09 -0500 esteemed Greg Miller did hold forth
> thusly:
>
>>Yet the most important thing is to convince developers to ship
>>Mozilla-based browsers. Otherwise, very few users will ever see it.
>>
>
> NS6.x is Mozilla based and Netscape keeps releasing new versions of it.
> Netscape has a well known brand name. Well, where's the big flock of NS6.x
> users?
Again, almost nobody ships NS6.x with their OS/client software/etc.
People who use it almost invariably get it by downloading, so I suppose
NS6's users are in the same place as Opera's users :)
>>>If Moz can't pass this standard then its not worth releasing.
>>>
>>Why not?
>>
>
> Moz is already being released as part of Netscape. Its not exactly storming
> the markets or attracting critical acclaim.
That doesn't answer the question. Furthermore, the 6.1PR1 reviews were
not bad, although they weren't acclaim.
> Current contributors can use it already without calling it v1.0. The problem
> with calling something 1.0 prematurely is that a major release attracts a lot
> of people to try it who then get a bad impression and become far less likely
> to come back and try it again.
And we've already discussed the problems with *not* calling it 1.0 when
the time comes as well.
> So why does Moz have to come out as v1.0 in order to allow someone else to
> develop products on top of it?
It doesn't, but work has to be done on developer-oriented features like
stable APIs.
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