On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Andreas Franke wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Andreas Franke wrote:
>>> Ian Hickson wrote:
>>>> we have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
>>>> us busy for a year at least (more, at the current rate). What's the
>>>> rush?
>
> And then, a year from now, we'll meet again, and then you'll say:
> we still have thousands of known bugs, certainly enough to keep
> us busy for another two years at least... rinse and repeat... ;-)
Not if we stop adding features.
> But one thing worries me:
> * From an end user point of view, the last few percent of _full_ standards
> support (for the promised standards) is not a very high priority. (This is
> supported by many, many comments on mozillazine and elsewhere.)
That's not the reason for doing it. The reason for doing it is to not
release a product that has bugs that will _prevent_ the adoption of a
standard. For example, if "foo" crashes in Mozilla 1.0, and Mozilla 1.0 is
used by a lot of embedders, then web authors won't be able to use "foo"
for as long as those devices and UAs are on the market -- even if we fix
the crasher in Mozilla 1.0.1.
> * When Netscape 6.0 was released, I read something like "it's based on
> Mozilla, and they are still only at version 0.6". (If you want a
> reference, see e.g.
> http://members.aol.com/G3AIOGuy/Archives/week130.html ) I think that
> some people used this to support their judgement that 6.0 was a
> premature release.
It was.
> For standards to be successful in the future, you need web developers
> writing to standards (as opposed to a certain browser), and for this
> you need companies paying them to do this, and for this you need
> mozilla-based browsers to gain some more market share, and _if_ there
> were sufficiently many users who say "I'm too lazy to try this new
> browser. After all, mozilla still isn't at 1.0" to effect this market
> share, then a missing 1.0 label could cause problems.
There aren't enough people who know what Mozilla _is_ for that to be a
problem even if all of them thought that (and most won't, since most of
the people who know of Mozilla are relatively intelligent...).
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