Justin Wood (Callek) wrote: [snip]
We all want the same thing, SeaMonkey to Succeed! Remember that, and remember that we do read and care about your [regular users] thoughts. Sometimes tradeoffs are necessary, sometimes new features are necessary. Sometimes features "you" (and us) have come to love about the Suite are basically killed off in Core Gecko and we are unable to rectify those deficiencies easily.
OK, understood. But would it not help to prevent unjustified criticism if the rationale for each change were documented in the release notes ? All that would be needed would be to classify each change into one of three categories : A) Intentional : We, the Seamonkey Development Team, thought that this was something that most Seamonkey users would want and appreciate. We either engineered it ourselves or took a conscious decision to carry it over from the Gecko/Firefox projects. B) Collateral fallout : This was forced on us by a change in the Gecko engine and/or Firefox. We are by no means convinced that this is necessarily for the better, but it is something with which we will have to live for now. We will attempt to address it if we receive lots of negative feedback about this feature. C) Fait accompli. This is so deeply embedded in Gecko and/or Firefox that we can see no way to avoid it, either now or in the future. Sorry, chaps, but that's the way the biscuit crumbles. Philip Taylor _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
