Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:52:03 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/:
The problem is, the release notes do not provide any of this
background -- we the users have no way of knowing which features
were deliberately introduced by the Seamonkey team, which were
carried over from Firefox/Gecko because they appeared to the
Seamonkey team to be a good idea, and which were carried over
because although the Seamonkey team viewed them as deleterious,
they lacked the resources to replace them with something better
(or to omit them completely).
The release notes have noted every change introduced by the core
platform, also. It is quite possible ignorant users don't bother to
read and understand them extensively. It has also appeared to me
users which skip versions don't bother to read the notes about the
versions they skip. I admit to miss to read them often, too.
The SeaMonkey team also badly needs contributors to the
documentation. If you think you could help in that aspect - sign up
for it.
Another approach is, if you're an experienced user, to provide
support to questions regarding you area of expertise, e.g. how have
you managed to adapt the new bookmarks management (a.k.a. Places)
mapping your old habits to the new facilities. The problem is very
often there are no real support questions but random rants largely
driven by user ignorance.
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 14:52:03 +0100, /Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd)/:
Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
And finally, as Robert Kaiser have already pointed out,
innovation-resistance won't make SeaMonkey any better.
No, but it may help to make it less worse.
Could you elaborate on that? Do you think the SeaMonkey developers
could just learn the "nuclear physics" employed in the Mozilla
platform core, just to be able to fix few of your pet peeves, then
support largely outdated, unmaintained, having known security issues
platform? Do you think having a really outdated browser component,
in terms of features required by Web sites, will make SeaMonkey less
worse? Less worse than what? Again, if you feel really strong
you've once got a full featured and stable product - just revert to
the last version of it. However I think you realize it has never
been the case.
--
Stanimir
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