Interviewed by CNN on 24/12/2009 03:29, Rufus told the world:
SM 1.1.18 does what I need, and the way I need it done. And I've been
looking over alternatives left and right - Firefox...nogo. Camino,
Stainless, Chrome, and Safari all look like they have common roots.
Almost, but not quite.
MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 24/12/2009 03:29, Rufus told the world:
SM 1.1.18 does what I need, and the way I need it done. And I've been
looking over alternatives left and right - Firefox...nogo. Camino,
Stainless, Chrome, and Safari all look like they have common roots.
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Right, it is. And even maintaining al bunch of code you don't really
know and which is sometimes written in strange ways is a quite hard job,
have you ever tried that?
Unfortunately yes. And I looked at SM code briefly and decided it was the mutant
offspring of people
Benoit Renard wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Phil, in large measure, kept SM 1.1.x usable by his incredible work on
xSidebar and porting Firefox and Thunderbird extensions to work in
SeaMonkey. Without that, 1.1.x was really not a usable piece of work,
at least without Multizilla, which
MCBastos wrote:
Again, it's a matter of manpower. SM *was* going somewhat independently
from Firefox for the last few years, on the 1.1 branch -- and what was
the result? The rendering engine was looking more and more dated every
day, ditto for the Javascript engine and other core stuff.
That
On 12/21/2009 5:14 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
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Our only chance of keeping SeaMonkey alive at all was to reduce the
amount of unknown code we cannot maintain and replace it with code that
is being maintained by someone else - which meant switching to the newer
Mozilla platform, of which e.g.
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Phil, in large measure, kept SM 1.1.x usable by his incredible work on
xSidebar and porting Firefox and Thunderbird extensions to work in
SeaMonkey. Without that, 1.1.x was really not a usable piece of work,
at least without Multizilla, which basically converted it to
Phillip Jones wrote:
Rufus wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:25:37 -0500, Leonidas Jones wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
/snip/
Not an option, he's on a Mac.
Parellels, VMWare Fusion, probably Virtual Box.
Phil
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Rufus wrote:
So I really don't get why they've knuckled under and merely imported TB
and FF code instead of maintaining their own, based on that code...this
is all open source, right?
Right, it is. And even maintaining al bunch of code you don't really
know and which is
Benoit Renard wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Phil, in large measure, kept SM 1.1.x usable by his incredible work on
xSidebar and porting Firefox and Thunderbird extensions to work in
SeaMonkey. Without that, 1.1.x was really not a usable piece of work,
at least without Multizilla, which
Interviewed by CNN on 21/12/2009 03:32, Rufus told the world:
And I guess that's what I don't get...volunteers are generally more
dedicated and principled than paid hacks. Or at least the ones I've
encountered have been...so I'm not into coddling them.
They are, but since they aren't
MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 21/12/2009 03:32, Rufus told the world:
And I guess that's what I don't get...volunteers are generally more
dedicated and principled than paid hacks. Or at least the ones I've
encountered have been...so I'm not into coddling them.
They are, but since
Benoit Renard wrote:
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Phil, in large measure, kept SM 1.1.x usable by his incredible work on
xSidebar and porting Firefox and Thunderbird extensions to work in
SeaMonkey. Without that, 1.1.x was really not a usable piece of work,
at least without Multizilla, which basically
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:43 -0200, MCBastos wrote:
You have a boat. It has a wooden hull, it's old and leaky. You have
three guys to work on the boat. They spend all the time plugging leaks.
Then someone offers you a brand-new, fiberglass hull. You move your
engine, bunks, head, kitchen etc.
Philip Chee wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:43 -0200, MCBastos wrote:
You have a boat. It has a wooden hull, it's old and leaky. You have
three guys to work on the boat. They spend all the time plugging leaks.
Then someone offers you a brand-new, fiberglass hull. You move your
engine, bunks,
Philip Chee wrote:
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:25:37 -0500, Leonidas Jones wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
You don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of Open Source. Perhaps
you should just give up and install Maxthon.
Not an option, he's on a Mac.
Parellels, VMWare Fusion, probably Virtual
Leonidas Jones wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:25:37 -0500, Leonidas Jones wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
You don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of Open Source. Perhaps
you should just give up and install Maxthon.
Not an option, he's on a Mac.
Parellels, VMWare
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