The Mozilla 1.0 Definition

The Evil Beaver writes: "Here we go. Mozillazine is reporting that Brenden Eich, mozilla.org's Technical Bigshot, has released the criteria to what is to be the 1.0 milestone. The 'manifesto' also explains why 1.0 is so important to reach, and why it isn't just another milestone, either. The Mozillazine article is here and the definition document here.

Comments

Too little too late.

[Anonymous Coward]

The reason the 1.0 release has been so long coming is that making Mozilla into the browser promised has proved impossible. Now that the developers have realised that they can never make the light weight browser promised, they have decided they might as well just release v1.0.

However, the arrival of the v1 release is not going to encourage mass uptake of mozilla on the platform it really needs to make progress: Windows. Windows users already have a perfectly godd, OS integrated browser, why would they eun a bloated pig like mozilla? Which means that standards will still be chopped and changes by MS and incompatability problems will plague those on other platforms, and mozilla beocmes irrelivent, as do OSes that do not run MS browsers. THE END.

Expect Mozilla to beat IE

[HanzoSan]

When AOL comes with Mozilla instead of IE.
When ICQ.com Recommends MOzilla and not IE.
When Winamp is embeded or intergrated into MOzilla.
When AOL IM is intergrated into MOzilla.
When ICQ is intergrated into MOzilla.
When Mozilla is packed with computers as AOL is.
When AOL sends out CDs saying "install mozilla"
When Mozilla is recommmended by Slashdot.
When Mozilla is 100 percent compliant to all standards including IEs broken ones.
When Mozilla is turned into a AOL package which includes Netscape, AOLIM, ICQ, Winamp, all in one.

IE did this, Netscape did not, so IE won.

Mozilla now has support from AOL, and its a complete product, and a better product than IE, only a matter of time.