Hello,
Neil Deakin - of XUL Planet fame - has written up a
blog story titled "Ideas with nowhere to go" to warn
you not to bother about contributing to Mozilla unless
you want your work join Neil's canvas tag and Alex
Vincent's serverpost tag in the "Pit of Forgotten
Patches".
Neil writes:
People have asked recently if any of my ideas have
had any kind of influence over Mozilla developers.
Probably not, but it's hard to tell.
...
The more interesting question is that the various
people building XUL applications feel that they don't
have any way of expressing their opinions either. They
ask me if I have any contact into Mozilla rather than
just asking Mozilla folks directly. Mozilla doesn't
have any clear way for these voices to be heard. The
best idea Mozilla folks have come up with is Bugzilla
voting and mailing lists apparently about screen
savers. Are there other options? Probably. Does any
one know what they are? Unlikely.
...
I've posted many of them or hints about them over
the last year or so. Remote XUL, improved templates, a
canvas tag, and so forth. In some cases, I started an
implementation only to be blocked by some
non-implementation related issue. I actually started
implementing something so that chrome URLs could be
mapped onto http URLs but I stopped after it seemed
unlikely that it would ever make it into Mozilla. I
started working on some features for XUL templates,
but Axel said that "creating template enhancements [is
probably not] the right thing to do at the moment", so
I didn't continue. I did get to the point where I
posted a patch about the canvas tag, but then other
developers seemed to take over and the patch
disappeared into the Pit of Forgotten Patches. When
Alex Vincent created a serverpost tag, no one seemed
to want to accept it so it never got any where.
More @ http://www.xulplanet.com/ndeakin/article/267
What's your take? Do you think the Mozilla core
developers on the Mozilla Foundation payroll care
about anybody besides themselves?
- Gerald
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