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Mozilla Moves Into 2002? Maybe.
alanjstr writes "MozillaQuest reports that Mozilla 1.0 has been pushed back into 2002 (from Oct 2001) in its latest schedule update. Since the end of 2000, the rate of new bugs being submitted has doubled (according to the pretty graph)." However, the Mozilla guys, whom our own HeUnique talked to have said that they are still on target, and that the 2002 story is not true. So - you be the judge on this one. Or not. Whatever.
Gee, maybe they outht to throw away all that old, buggy code they've been building on and start from scratch - this time, using accepted coding practices? The quality of code in a project can be measured by the number of bug reports...
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Well, when confronted with a fact like 'bug submissions to Mozilla have doubled,' one shouldn't immediately go on apologetic flights of fancy which result in such ineptitudes as 'there's more users so there's twice as many bug submissions! DUH!.' when there's no evidence backing it up.
Go Kathryn Thurber!
Christ this is isn't getting through, is it? When confronted with a FACT that doesn't jive with your reality wish-list, YOU DONT START MAKING SHIT UP to explan it away.
Go Kathryn Thurber!
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today the mozilla group released 1.0 No one noticed. development of 1.0.1 will begin tomorrow. the expected completion date is 2075.
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I don't know what you are talking about. The scroll function ROCKS. I run W2K/XP with IE on a Sony picturebook and the mousepointer acts as a wheel when the middle button is clicked. It rocks on this 900 gram laptop!
Sorry but a unix with Kde/Gnome and Mozilla come nowhere compared to the usuability I get on my laptop with the software I have right now. For server uses, mail, etc I use my FreeBSD machine through an X-server. For browsing, multimedia, etc, an NT kernel based Windows (XP or W2K) with IE just ROCKS on my machine. Mozilla looks, feels and acts like a clunky joke. It's not something I want to waste my $2500 laptop on.
Guess I'm not idealistic enough, sorry. And that it finally has save dialogs that works is not reason enough to switch, it only says something about the abysmal state of user interface development in the free software movement, when this is considered an accomplishment. Also, not crashing? Been enjoying that for some while now, with IE. The couple of features that make it stand out from Netscape are, as I said, compensated by it incredible bloated- and clunkyness. You may have different priorities, but I like a smooth integrated, polished, working interface to work with, and I don't find it back in Mozilla.