Interviewed by CNN on 17/03/2012 20:29, David E. Ross told the world: > And, no, extensions are not sufficient to solve a bug. An extension > should be considered only a temporary work-around when there is a report > of a software deficiency.
It depends on the "software deficiency." If only one in a thousand users, say, considers it a "deficiency," it makes more sense to provide this extra functionality as an extension, in order to keep from bloating the basic product. Generally speaking, all features cost /something/. There's a development cost, there's a support cost, there's a download size cost, there's a memory footprint cost, there's a performance cost, there's a UI bloat cost. Managing those costs is part of the product development. And sometimes users may have a disagreement with the dev team on whether the benefits of including a feature offset its costs. For instance, during my old BBS days, pre-Internet, I used a message reader called Blue Wave. It had a very nice built-in tagline management feature. When I moved to the Internet, I was surprised to find out that e-mail clients didn't include this feature. It wasn't a deal-breaker, but I really missed it. However, I came to realize that most users didn't care (even in my BBS days most users never fiddled with that feature). It didn't make sense to bloat the program and the UI with a seldom-used feature. Eventually, I found an extension that supplied the missing functionality. I have been using it since. It works for me and doesn't bloat the program for the 99+% other users who don't care for taglines. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Total Lack of Social Skills. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.8 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
