I think this project has a lot of potential. Kudos to those who are
giving of their time to participate.
I don't know if there is an intent to deploy it for Chrome, FF, Safari, etc,
I'm guessing there is an intent to have it usable in IE 8 at some point.
IE 6 & 7 are sunset. You may consider looking at the browser market
share stats by following the link below.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10303614-92.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware
That a piece of deployable software could be written by volunteers in
relatively short order is great. Even if I would rather see developers have
toolsets and frameworks that provide cross-browser support, that can be
quite expensive to write and support.
After reading some of the posts by those who are working on this project
it sounds like managing the project is the most difficult aspect. If
that is the case perhaps a lesson can be gleaned from the open source
community where developers from all over the world collaborate on a
project. A few specific projects that come to mind are:
-The linux kernel and various distributions (I use Ubuntu and Fedora).
-Mozilla (firefox & thunderbird)
-Netbeans (Java IDE)
-MySql
-Chromium (google chrome)
There also are the thousands of projects on sourceforge.net.
All of these have many developers working together with source code
control and formal bug reporting/assignment.
Best regards.
Jeff
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